Gentlegamer | 172 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) I recently reconfirmed my Zelda II cart has my original save game... from 1989. I had finished the game and the save file was at the beginning of the second quest. Since the battery hasn't died yet, I decided to play the second quest. I encountered no issues until getting to the Great Palace: the force field didn't go away! I checked my number of crystals and saw a weird glyph in place of the number. Curse you, Glitch Gremlin! Now this save is forever stuck. Edited November 22, 2020 by Gentlegamer 1 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,705 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I wonder if there’s a way to dump it with your save, fix the glitch and reapply the save file? If it really has sentimental value to you.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code Monkey | 2,005 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 There is, it's just a flipped bit. You can do a bit comparison, find where it is and flip it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 519 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 You shouldn't have tried playing it in 2020. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Hopefully you'll be able to dump it and repair it, as others have suggested. Whatever you do, don't make the same mistake I did as a kid--don't hook it up to a Game Genie, as that's how I managed to wipe my maxed out, just needed to actually beat the game save while fooling around on a different save spot at a friend's house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Maybe borrow a retron5 off someone? You copy the save data from the cart into the console memory, then you can take that file to a SD card, pop that on a PC, do the update, then reverse the order and put the save back onto the Zelda game. No data loss, no threat, no touchy touchy other than 1 read and 1 write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostLevel83 | 85 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Get some Domino’s pizza. See if that fixes it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austin532 | 467 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Reading the topic name I thought the battery had exploded or something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlegamer | 172 Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 15 hours ago, Tanooki said: Maybe borrow a retron5 off someone? You copy the save data from the cart into the console memory, then you can take that file to a SD card, pop that on a PC, do the update, then reverse the order and put the save back onto the Zelda game. No data loss, no threat, no touchy touchy other than 1 read and 1 write. Would that really work? You can put the save back into the battery memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,708 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Did you ever notice how many crystals it said before finishing all of the other palaces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 1 hour ago, Gentlegamer said: Would that really work? You can put the save back into the battery memory? Yeah, so long as the system is updated properly, you can reload locally backed up saves onto original carts. I don't remember you being able to move saves off of the internal memory to the SD, but I believe you can change where it saves them when you tell it to back up. Been forever since I've had mine hooked up, but I did back up all the old saves I still had on old/childhood carts that I used to play when I still bothered with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,930 Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Yes it's nothing crazy, it's just a bypass to the same result. Like if you wanted it, BennVenn sells the JOEY (a GB GBC GBA kit) for under $30. It reads/writes both any form of save chip, but also can re-write flash kits or even break into after market bootleg carts and nuke them for your own flashing purposes too. It even recently added the official Nintendo Nintendo Power GB Memory flash kits they sold in Japan. As long as you have the proper tool to suck the file off, and then pop it back on there, you're golden. It's why I suggested having or borrowing a retron 5. IT sucks, but it's great if you want to do a bit of video game surgery at no cost of lost data. The system has large internal storage and you from the menu click the choice to copy SRAM to Retron5 and it's saved, that's it. Then you work on your hacking of your save on your PC copying it off the R5 onto the SD card you can pop in the rear. After that just re-insert, copy save from SD to R5, then R5 to game cart. Done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,261 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Is there a cheaper way to do this besides the Retron 5? And how has the Retron 5's accuracy improved since its release...as least it better have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Given that you can get a used Retron 5 dirt cheap, not really. Without that system, you'll either have to send it off to somebody who already has a setup and have them do it for you or buy a cart dumper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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