chococoke Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Well, after almost 11 full years of life, my FE7 cartridge finally wiped itself blank. This will unfortunately mark the end of my days playing this game, mostly because Lyn mode can lick my grundle. I know Red Fox has mentioned she still has a working cartridge. Does anyone else out there still have one, or do people mainly use emulators now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocolate Kitty Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I have fe7/fe8/fe9/fe10/fe11 somewhere and fe13 in physical form and they all work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book of Ereshkigal Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 My only game that eats its save file sometimes is FE6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celice Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Well, after almost 11 full years of life, my FE7 cartridge finally wiped itself blank. This will unfortunately mark the end of my days playing this game, mostly because Lyn mode can lick my grundle. I know Red Fox has mentioned she still has a working cartridge. Does anyone else out there still have one, or do people mainly use emulators now? Why not just replace the battery in the cart? Or did the GBA stop that way of saving stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceBrand Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Every game I own is physical copy. So yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinalArcadia Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 My GBA FE games still save fine, as do all of my GBA cartridges... to my knowledge anyway, some I haven't played in a long time. GBC games are another story though, sadly. But yeah, that sucks to have that happen to a game, especially one like FE. Does it happen to more "save-intensive" games first maybe, with things like the suspend feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricaofRenais Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I have Fe 7,8,9,10 and 11 in physical form. The only one that I have digital is FE 13 because I bought the FE 3DS bundle and they all work perfectly. I have slow internet and a shared computer so emulated games are not an option for me at this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Horace Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I still have working copies of FE7/8 but I never use them since emulating is much more convienent. Actually now that I think about it I don't actually have a way to play any of my GBA games since I lost my DS charger... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Refa Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 (edited) I still have working copies of FE7/8 but I never use them since emulating is much more convienent. Yeah, same here (well, just FE7; I traded my copy of FE8 in like forever ago). Edited December 1, 2014 by Refa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magical Glace Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 My copy of FE7 still works, I mainly play 8 on my ambassador 3DS though. Tbh I've never had a GBA game quit on me, but finding good copies of DQIII.... Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renne Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I don't like playing emulators unless it's FE12. So yeah, still have FE7 cartridge and it runs fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkhead Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 That's so sad. ): I, on the other hand, have only bought my FE7 cartridge, used, and it seems to be working rather impeccably. I've played FE on emulator for years, have started on FE8 myself. And buying the actual games felt like my way of 'repaying' them for being worthwhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Laufeyson Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 All my FE games work fine. I actually found my GBASP charger not terribly long ago. That had been missing for eons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 FE7 died on me. I should change the battery. FE8 still works, though~! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirie Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 My cartridges for FE7 and FE8 and still working just fine, thankfully. Though I do emulate when I play those games now because of my poor eyesight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Book of Ereshkigal Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Do the FE games even use batteries for saves? Google says a lot of GBA games don't use batteries for saving. More googling says FE6 has a battery for saving, but not FE7? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendor Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Yeah they do Why do you think they call it "battery save"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentacotus Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 A sad day indeed we'll have a candle vigil tonight. Be happy you still at least have the cartridge I lost mine ages ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Sad days. My cart I have from 03 still works amazingly. As do my FE6,8,9,10,11,13 copies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paper Jam Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 (edited) What's the difference, I wonder? How much use do you have to get out of a cart before it craps out? I don't suppose that all of the carts that crapped out were bootlegs, were they? I've heard that bootlegs have worse batteries than official carts. Edited December 4, 2014 by Paper Jam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirmola Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 (edited) Yeah they do Why do you think they call it "battery save"? Some GBA games, like pokemon, use flash memory exclusively (they have batteries, but only use them for the internal clock). The only gba game that i had die on me was a copy of pokemon emerald that I latter discovered was a fake. The battery of my ruby copy is dead, but it still holds a save (you can't grow berries or do other time dependent things though). I have a copy of pokemon silver that someone gave me because the batteries died, and it can't hold a save. All ds and 3ds game carts use flash memory, and wiis and 3dss use standard sd cards, which are also flash memory (gamecube memory cards are essentualy sd cards in a proprietary case so that you have to buy it from nintendo.), so save failure is a lot less likely in any system newer than the gameboy advance. Edited December 4, 2014 by sirmola Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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