When you make a save state you also get a copy of the actual save file on the SD card, backup both the state and the savefile. Also remember that the sleep/wake function is actually a save and restore of a savestate and this can mess things up. Don’t use this function if you play on a different device as well because waking will restore the savefile that was taken when the device went to sleep.
appreciate the insight! What happens if I do not use an SD card or have one inserted while I play? Curious if you have any info on if this can happen if there is no SD inserted
@@nostalgicnighthawk sleep and wake works without an SD card, so there is internal memory set aside for at least 1 save state. This means that the same risks with sleep/wake are there. Normal save states/memories are disabled however.
Your videos, in specific the one you amde documenting your 1000+ hour save file of Fire Red, really reinvigorated my desire to spend some actual time in a Pokemon game. Sure, I have over 400 hours in Scarlet, but it isn't the same as picking up one of these older titles and just having some fun. Unfortunately, I cannot afford real copies of the GBA games right now, and I don't want to use an emulator because it doesn't feel as "genuine" to me, so I will be starting with Heart Gold on my 3DS console! Pokemon Soul Silver was my second-ever Pokemon game, after Platinum, and to this day remains a my absolute-favorite Pokemon game, so I guess there's no better place to start than there! While I have my Sould Silver cartridge lying around somewhere, it has my original save file on it, so I have decided to restart my Heart Gold copy instead. My first objective? Beat the game, was that obvious? After that I intend on completing the Johto dex, something I have not done in a long time. After that? Well, we'll have to wait and see. My lack o GBA titles might make getting Gen 1 & 3 Pokemon a pain, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Oh, and it should come as no surprise that you've earned my sub! I will be watching your progress with great interest, and intend on catching up on what I've missed while embarking on my own journey
glad you are playing the older gens! HGSS are a lot of fun too, i miss those games. Yea a few pokemon might be tricky to get without the older games but you can get far! HGSS have a lot of pokes in them especially with the safari zone. Good thing you got a bucket list of things to accomplish! Take your time and enjoy the adventure. Thanks for the sub!
Keep up the good work! Your dedication to the game is inspiring and makes me want to do the same. Love the hardware you have too!! (the analog pocket and SP) Looking forward to the gen 4 content too when u get around to it. :)
Yes this exact thing happened to my Fire Red save file with my silver Analogue Pocket, lost my full living dex and 3 shiny mons 😢 been using save states ever since to hopefully counter this. It never said “the save file has been deleted” . I just turned it on one day and it started up like starting a new game with no indication of a save file ever being on there. Be careful 👍
Happened to me while testing the save states but I was able to find a backup in my gba operator vault. It’s the save states that are what deletes the file in Pokémon games. Nobody has reported a deleted save without using a save state and save state includes turning on/off the pocket without quitting the Pokémon game first. Quit the Pokémon game first before turning the pocket off and turn the pocket on before you insert the cartridge to guarantee you avoid this problem.
Dude, my FireRed save just got deleted by the Analogue Pocket! I don’t know why or how, but it’s gone. I’ve tried everything a can recover the save, but to no avail. It was my childhood copy that I put at least 100 hours into. I remember buying the game and playing it on long road trips. My Charizard became my first level 100 in any game (it was also the Pokemon I was the most proud of). It took me 6 months to catch Zapdos because I only had 14 UltraBalls when I encountered it. My MasterBall was used on a Spearow for some reason. I spent way too much time in the Safari Zone trying to catch a Chaney because she was the last one I needed for the Pokédex. And I was even able to catch Suicune. I post this here to stand as a monument. Heed my warning, and do not let my sacrifice be in vain!
Yes !! Has been happening to me ! It happens when you create a save/load point ! It’s worded very weird it says something along the lines of the save files will be replaced by save points or something like that, basically it deletes your actual save and switches it to save points
Oh btw, little battle frontier tip for you; the difficulty for the Battle Factory is actually bugged and scales off your win streak at the Battle Tower instead of the Factory. So if you try to start a streak at the Factory right after getting a medal or working on a streak at the Tower your round 1 opponents will have Pokemon with really high IVs and it'll be way harder than it's supposed to be. So you need to be on a 0 win streak at the Tower BEFORE you try to do the Factory. Just a heads-up so you're aware, as doing the Factory with increased difficulty from the Tower can be infuriating.
thanks for the tips! I heard about this only briefly but didnt fully learn about it. Before I start any factory run, i will ensure the tower win streak is at 0. This is SUPER handy to know!
Hi Nostalgic, great video! I’m glad you’re doing well with the Pokémon you like I’m still deciding my team at the moment. I had a question about if a Pokémon evolves with a stone or trading should I do that as early as possible when ev training a Pokémon? (Gengar, Archanine, eevee)
Some Pokémon don’t learn moves that their pre-evolutions learn, like how getting earthquake on Flygon either requires you to level Trapinch to !73! Or use your only earthquake TM. You might have to slap an EXP share on or throw them in the daycare.
@@jmorrison4863 you’re welcome!! I just trained up a naughty natured nincada to level 25 so I could have a shedinja with false swipe on my Japanese Ruby ^.^
Man I'm going through a hectic training process atm to get an umbreon on Emerald for the battle frontier. After hours of breeding, I went for a two perfect IV one with wonderful stats. I then ev trained it in emerald, only to remember that it doesn't evolve into umbreon because my clock battery is done and stuck on day time. So I transferred it to leafgreen to do the friendship grind all over again. As I was about to finish, I discovered that leafgreen doesn't have a clock at all, so it can't evolve eevee into umbreon there either. So now I had to restart my ruby copy (also with dead battery) just so I can fix the time needed to evolve Eevee into umbreon. But I need to play through the game, raising friendship a third time, hoping it'll evolve before reaching lvl 50 ... What a wild ride 😅
Umbreon going to be a beast! Jeez what a ride haha! I am posting a video soon on how to replace the battery. But it seems like its too late now since you are already too deep! Either way its still a fun adventure. Gota make it happen and work with what you have haha. Is this going to be a stall/beefy umbreon? I think those are the best IMO
@@nostalgicnighthawk Yeah, I am afraid of replacing the battery without backing up the save files though. And I don't have that thingy you need to backup save files. Anyway, I succeeded in evolving it into Umbreon before Lvl 50. I discovered it actually has a 30 IV in HP as well. So, he is practically perfect. Naturally, it is going to be a tanky build, but not with curse. I find rest more useful in the frontier. And I am going to run it with toxic, double team and batton pass to help set up my belly drum 4 iv Charizard. I always wanted to use a belly drum Charizard. I won't use it for every Frontier challenge, but definitely for some. Looking forward to a new video!
@@smigget3415 i understand i would want to back it up just in case too. Cant hurt to do it before! Sweet you evolved it. 30 IVS is great! I was actually looking into umbreon and charizard builds yesterday. I want to do a shiny run with those pokes since i have them! I cant do belly drum charizard but it looks strong! If you do use it let me know how it is. It does look funn
Regarding the lost save file thing. Same thing happened to me with my sapphire cartridge. when I was using the analogue pocket, I put it on sleep mode, came back a day later to turn it on and the screen was on but blank, after properly turning it on and off and restarting the game, my save was deleted. Luckily it was early game so it wasn’t a huge loss. I always make a save state after making lots of progress in any of my games now to make sure nothing happens. This issue may have been fixed in a recent update because it was only a 1 time thing
that poor, innocent Blissey 💀 walled into struggling behind a substitute?? shameful Goodluck with your journey and I am both excited and hopeful for you. I am on a journey similar now since I can no longer battle online with my personally bred teams on Alpha Sapphire. After getting Japanese Firered and Ruby cartridges for relatively cheap, I’m still saving for an English copy of Emerald and Heartgold. Hopefully soon!
I had heard of this issue with the Pocket deleting save files from sleep mode, but it seemed to be a rare occurrence? But to be safe I ended up backing my Emerald save file onto my PC with the GBA Operator just incase.
This is why I don’t use the save states for Pokémon games and I turn the pocket on before I insert the cartridge then I quit the game before I take the cartridge out and turn it off. Zero problems reported this way but I make backup saves to my laptop anyway
Awesome video, mate! This is a (very!) long term question, but with only Pokémon Emerald, Platinum and Soulsilver having a Battle Frontier (albeit Platinum shares it with SS), does it “worry” you that at some point you might not have any more content to complete? I know this sounds like a bit of an insane question, but when I look at the more recent games, it fills me with sadness knowing that there’s not an endgame challenge to complete (other than online play, but truth be told, I’ve moved on from it).
LONG term question but yes that is something that will inevitable happen. It doesnt worry me because there is so much time between now and then and a lot to enjoy. I am appreciating every step of the journey so I cannot be fearful of that. Once it does end, i just need to remind myself of the Dr Seuss quote, "dont cry because its over, smile because it happened" !
I didn't care about the Analogue Pocket in the first place because I already got the vibe that Analogue just cares about making money and didn't really care about fixing any of the issues or flaws with their device or listening to the consumers. But the fact the device can literally wipe saves and essentially ruin your games (deleting hours of progress is not a small thing) is inexcusable. Will never support this company
i was unaware that the company does not fix the issues/flaws with the devices. I would hope they would especially fix this issue in any future designs! Agreed it is not acceptable
Yeah people have been complaining about the build quality of the buttons especially the shoulder buttons since the device came out and instead of fixing these issues Analogue just keeps releasing limited drops of new colors @@nostalgicnighthawk
@@nostalgicnighthawk stuff like the buttons and the overall build quality have been pointed out as lacking in reviews since the device dropped and instead of fixing the quality of the product Analogue has just been dropping limited releases of new colors to drive sales based on FOMO hype.
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When you make a save state you also get a copy of the actual save file on the SD card, backup both the state and the savefile.
Also remember that the sleep/wake function is actually a save and restore of a savestate and this can mess things up. Don’t use this function if you play on a different device as well because waking will restore the savefile that was taken when the device went to sleep.
appreciate the insight! What happens if I do not use an SD card or have one inserted while I play? Curious if you have any info on if this can happen if there is no SD inserted
@@nostalgicnighthawk sleep and wake works without an SD card, so there is internal memory set aside for at least 1 save state. This means that the same risks with sleep/wake are there. Normal save states/memories are disabled however.
@@theseriousaccount understood, appreciate the info! How do you know about this?
@@nostalgicnighthawk i tested it on my own Analogue Pocket 😀.
I think this is the perfect time to make your playthrough. It feels like your really excited to replay your games.
Would love to enjoy the games again from the beginning. Even just up to the elite four, then resume back to battle frontier stuff
I will be buying a pokemon emerald with a new battery and trying to 100% this game eventually. Something I have always wanted to do
goodluck! have funnn
Great video. Currently working on my own team for emerald and the videos are great to watch while breeding and training.
good luck with you team!
Bro I love just being at work and listening to you it make me so chill and makes the game look so cool to play thank you man 🔥🎉
thanks for watching! Try to keep the chill vibes
Your videos, in specific the one you amde documenting your 1000+ hour save file of Fire Red, really reinvigorated my desire to spend some actual time in a Pokemon game. Sure, I have over 400 hours in Scarlet, but it isn't the same as picking up one of these older titles and just having some fun. Unfortunately, I cannot afford real copies of the GBA games right now, and I don't want to use an emulator because it doesn't feel as "genuine" to me, so I will be starting with Heart Gold on my 3DS console!
Pokemon Soul Silver was my second-ever Pokemon game, after Platinum, and to this day remains a my absolute-favorite Pokemon game, so I guess there's no better place to start than there! While I have my Sould Silver cartridge lying around somewhere, it has my original save file on it, so I have decided to restart my Heart Gold copy instead. My first objective? Beat the game, was that obvious? After that I intend on completing the Johto dex, something I have not done in a long time. After that? Well, we'll have to wait and see. My lack o GBA titles might make getting Gen 1 & 3 Pokemon a pain, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
Oh, and it should come as no surprise that you've earned my sub! I will be watching your progress with great interest, and intend on catching up on what I've missed while embarking on my own journey
glad you are playing the older gens! HGSS are a lot of fun too, i miss those games. Yea a few pokemon might be tricky to get without the older games but you can get far! HGSS have a lot of pokes in them especially with the safari zone. Good thing you got a bucket list of things to accomplish! Take your time and enjoy the adventure. Thanks for the sub!
Keep up the good work! Your dedication to the game is inspiring and makes me want to do the same. Love the hardware you have too!! (the analog pocket and SP) Looking forward to the gen 4 content too when u get around to it. :)
Yes this exact thing happened to my Fire Red save file with my silver Analogue Pocket, lost my full living dex and 3 shiny mons 😢 been using save states ever since to hopefully counter this.
It never said “the save file has been deleted” .
I just turned it on one day and it started up like starting a new game with no indication of a save file ever being on there.
Be careful 👍
MAN that is terrible... really scary stuff. Thank you for letting everyone know!
Happened to me while testing the save states but I was able to find a backup in my gba operator vault. It’s the save states that are what deletes the file in Pokémon games. Nobody has reported a deleted save without using a save state and save state includes turning on/off the pocket without quitting the Pokémon game first. Quit the Pokémon game first before turning the pocket off and turn the pocket on before you insert the cartridge to guarantee you avoid this problem.
Dude, my FireRed save just got deleted by the Analogue Pocket! I don’t know why or how, but it’s gone. I’ve tried everything a can recover the save, but to no avail.
It was my childhood copy that I put at least 100 hours into. I remember buying the game and playing it on long road trips. My Charizard became my first level 100 in any game (it was also the Pokemon I was the most proud of). It took me 6 months to catch Zapdos because I only had 14 UltraBalls when I encountered it. My MasterBall was used on a Spearow for some reason. I spent way too much time in the Safari Zone trying to catch a Chaney because she was the last one I needed for the Pokédex. And I was even able to catch Suicune. I post this here to stand as a monument.
Heed my warning, and do not let my sacrifice be in vain!
that is so sad :'( ....thank you for sharing so others can see!
Yes !! Has been happening to me ! It happens when you create a save/load point ! It’s worded very weird it says something along the lines of the save files will be replaced by save points or something like that, basically it deletes your actual save and switches it to save points
that is terrible to hear! :(
Love your videos
Oh btw, little battle frontier tip for you; the difficulty for the Battle Factory is actually bugged and scales off your win streak at the Battle Tower instead of the Factory. So if you try to start a streak at the Factory right after getting a medal or working on a streak at the Tower your round 1 opponents will have Pokemon with really high IVs and it'll be way harder than it's supposed to be. So you need to be on a 0 win streak at the Tower BEFORE you try to do the Factory. Just a heads-up so you're aware, as doing the Factory with increased difficulty from the Tower can be infuriating.
thanks for the tips! I heard about this only briefly but didnt fully learn about it. Before I start any factory run, i will ensure the tower win streak is at 0. This is SUPER handy to know!
Babe wake up! Nostalgic nighthawk just uploaded!
XD lmao
Hi Nostalgic, great video! I’m glad you’re doing well with the Pokémon you like I’m still deciding my team at the moment. I had a question about if a Pokémon evolves with a stone or trading should I do that as early as possible when ev training a Pokémon? (Gengar, Archanine, eevee)
Some Pokémon don’t learn moves that their pre-evolutions learn, like how getting earthquake on Flygon either requires you to level Trapinch to !73! Or use your only earthquake TM.
You might have to slap an EXP share on or throw them in the daycare.
@@hibbs1712 i appreciate the reply! So if I leveled up the Pokémon as the first evolution then evolved it later it wouldn’t make the stats worse?
@@jmorrison4863 that is correct!
@@hibbs1712 great, thank you! I’m wanting to do an umbreon and gengar for potential Pokémon on my team.
@@jmorrison4863 you’re welcome!! I just trained up a naughty natured nincada to level 25 so I could have a shedinja with false swipe on my Japanese Ruby ^.^
Really glad to see you're still enjoying gaming gen 3! Are you thinking of participating in safari week coming up??
yes! I am going to try and do a livestream one day.
Man I'm going through a hectic training process atm to get an umbreon on Emerald for the battle frontier. After hours of breeding, I went for a two perfect IV one with wonderful stats. I then ev trained it in emerald, only to remember that it doesn't evolve into umbreon because my clock battery is done and stuck on day time. So I transferred it to leafgreen to do the friendship grind all over again. As I was about to finish, I discovered that leafgreen doesn't have a clock at all, so it can't evolve eevee into umbreon there either. So now I had to restart my ruby copy (also with dead battery) just so I can fix the time needed to evolve Eevee into umbreon. But I need to play through the game, raising friendship a third time, hoping it'll evolve before reaching lvl 50 ... What a wild ride 😅
Umbreon going to be a beast! Jeez what a ride haha! I am posting a video soon on how to replace the battery. But it seems like its too late now since you are already too deep! Either way its still a fun adventure. Gota make it happen and work with what you have haha. Is this going to be a stall/beefy umbreon? I think those are the best IMO
@@nostalgicnighthawk Yeah, I am afraid of replacing the battery without backing up the save files though. And I don't have that thingy you need to backup save files. Anyway, I succeeded in evolving it into Umbreon before Lvl 50. I discovered it actually has a 30 IV in HP as well. So, he is practically perfect. Naturally, it is going to be a tanky build, but not with curse. I find rest more useful in the frontier. And I am going to run it with toxic, double team and batton pass to help set up my belly drum 4 iv Charizard. I always wanted to use a belly drum Charizard. I won't use it for every Frontier challenge, but definitely for some. Looking forward to a new video!
@@smigget3415 i understand i would want to back it up just in case too. Cant hurt to do it before!
Sweet you evolved it. 30 IVS is great! I was actually looking into umbreon and charizard builds yesterday. I want to do a shiny run with those pokes since i have them! I cant do belly drum charizard but it looks strong! If you do use it let me know how it is. It does look funn
Gen 3 battle tower is the best. So much content
Regarding the lost save file thing. Same thing happened to me with my sapphire cartridge. when I was using the analogue pocket, I put it on sleep mode, came back a day later to turn it on and the screen was on but blank, after properly turning it on and off and restarting the game, my save was deleted. Luckily it was early game so it wasn’t a huge loss. I always make a save state after making lots of progress in any of my games now to make sure nothing happens. This issue may have been fixed in a recent update because it was only a 1 time thing
jeez! thanks for your input and experience. I will be careful with sleep mode. Maybe I will just turn it off always and unplug the game
that poor, innocent Blissey 💀 walled into struggling behind a substitute?? shameful
Goodluck with your journey and I am both excited and hopeful for you. I am on a journey similar now since I can no longer battle online with my personally bred teams on Alpha Sapphire. After getting Japanese Firered and Ruby cartridges for relatively cheap, I’m still saving for an English copy of Emerald and Heartgold. Hopefully soon!
blissey so annoying! Hope you get a copy soon and enjoy the adventures as well!
I understand playing the game for fun . that how you're supposed to play the game
I had heard of this issue with the Pocket deleting save files from sleep mode, but it seemed to be a rare occurrence? But to be safe I ended up backing my Emerald save file onto my PC with the GBA Operator just incase.
seems rare however there are few people in the comments that mentioned this happened! Quite concerning there is a possibility.
This is why I don’t use the save states for Pokémon games and I turn the pocket on before I insert the cartridge then I quit the game before I take the cartridge out and turn it off. Zero problems reported this way but I make backup saves to my laptop anyway
I have been doing the same to make sure that it doesnt mess with the save states. I also make back ups. I like the device but its still concerning!
Awesome video, mate! This is a (very!) long term question, but with only Pokémon Emerald, Platinum and Soulsilver having a Battle Frontier (albeit Platinum shares it with SS), does it “worry” you that at some point you might not have any more content to complete?
I know this sounds like a bit of an insane question, but when I look at the more recent games, it fills me with sadness knowing that there’s not an endgame challenge to complete (other than online play, but truth be told, I’ve moved on from it).
LONG term question but yes that is something that will inevitable happen. It doesnt worry me because there is so much time between now and then and a lot to enjoy. I am appreciating every step of the journey so I cannot be fearful of that. Once it does end, i just need to remind myself of the Dr Seuss quote, "dont cry because its over, smile because it happened" !
@@nostalgicnighthawk Ah good response haha! There’s truly still a long time between now and then, so maybe I shouldn’t worry, but I can’t help it.
Miss the asmr pokemon content on ur other channel
It's such a shame Dusclops can't get eviolite until next gen.
Yea lol just get the gameboy sp and get the Pokémon emerald best experience that way 🔥🔥😆
i can agree. SP is my favorite way to play
@@nostalgicnighthawk 🔥🔥🔥🔥and with the gameboy micro 🔥
I didn't care about the Analogue Pocket in the first place because I already got the vibe that Analogue just cares about making money and didn't really care about fixing any of the issues or flaws with their device or listening to the consumers. But the fact the device can literally wipe saves and essentially ruin your games (deleting hours of progress is not a small thing) is inexcusable. Will never support this company
i was unaware that the company does not fix the issues/flaws with the devices. I would hope they would especially fix this issue in any future designs! Agreed it is not acceptable
Yeah people have been complaining about the build quality of the buttons especially the shoulder buttons since the device came out and instead of fixing these issues Analogue just keeps releasing limited drops of new colors @@nostalgicnighthawk
@@nostalgicnighthawk stuff like the buttons and the overall build quality have been pointed out as lacking in reviews since the device dropped and instead of fixing the quality of the product Analogue has just been dropping limited releases of new colors to drive sales based on FOMO hype.