*Cartridge pops out*

Started by インフェルノの津波 March 14th, 2011 10:04 PM
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Age 34
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British Columbia, Canada
Seen June 16th, 2013
Posted December 28th, 2012
23 posts
12.3 Years
Well, it happened to me twice now.

The first time happened when I dropped my gameboy after finally beating the Elite Four for the first time and I had not saved since I *started* my way through Victory Road. I was at a loss for words and my friend ribbed me about the face I made.

The second time was when I ground out the levels to get two of my pokemon to level 100, starting from when I last trained them at level 36 each. When I stood up, as the gameboy was on my lap, and the cartridge came out, I was too tired to even try to deny it happened.

I never want to see another Hypno or Nidoking for as long as I play this game now, though....

Kirbychu

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Seen August 20th, 2021
Posted July 28th, 2020
2,347 posts
13.9 Years
This happened to me during my nuzlocke runs in HeartGold and Platinum. I didn't want to lose all that hard work, so I started a new game without deleting the old one. The cartridges popped out while I was halfway through the games. I lost all of that data... ;_;

Happy_Hereford

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Seen January 31st, 2020
Posted August 7th, 2011
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12.6 Years
After I defeated the E4 in Emerald, I stood up and waved my arms in celebration, when I'd realized I'd dropped my GBA on the floor. I hadn't saved for ages, either. And then the file corrupted :/
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Posted July 31st, 2020
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14.7 Years
I've only ever had this happen on a file I didn't care about (a blue version file I was playing through to get some exclusive Pokemon for my Gold Version Pokedex). I wasn't paying that much attention and grabbed another cartridge to put into my GBA, and I yanked the Blue game out of the system while it was saving (so it wasn't like the cartridge just "popped out" spontaneously). I think my save file corrupted, but I was only at Viridian Forest, so it wasn't a big deal.

I generally save pretty frequently, so I don't have too many problems. I should probably try to save less frequently than I do, actually.
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Seen December 4th, 2011
Posted August 22nd, 2011
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I'm a frequent saver so rarely does it ever bother me that much. Usually the most progress I'll have made is a few levels or maybe gone through a whole route. But it does bother me with EV training, though I don't do serious EV training, I still like to get it as exact as possible. A sudden cut of the power (or as someone else said, dropping the console and having the cartridge come loose or jammed) can totally mess it up.

I've never had a cartridge just 'pop out' though!

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Posted May 27th, 2014
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12.7 Years
If I have done a lot of stuff I will just snap and go on a huge anger wave consisting of stamping the ground, breaking something cheep nearby and swearing. If it is nothing I would just sigh or maybe let out a little swear.

ShinyMeowth

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Seen March 23rd, 2012
Posted May 14th, 2011
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12.4 Years
I forgot to save after beating the electric type gym in White. I forgot my DS turned on next to the computer, and its battery ran out. I had to do the gym all over again, which I hate due to its cheap paralyzing tricks.

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Posted February 23rd, 2016
2,551 posts
13.7 Years
Stop dreaming such random things and wake up.
If I accidentally click on the top right X or press Alt+F4 while playing a rom* however...


By the way, I think I never ever had a cartridge popping out in my maybe 10 or 11 years of cartridge gaming. Never.



* Actually this happens quite often to me, since I have a tendency to play a while, then do some random stuff such as browsing something or overloading my laptop by opening up another game temporarily, and when I close them, sometimes they're not the only thing I close. I learned from it and am saving far more frequently than in earlier times though. So it's not even that much of an issue... most of the time.
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Seen June 29th, 2012
Posted June 20th, 2012
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15 Years
This hasn't happened to me in ages, but if it does, it won't bother me because I save the game frequently. (I think I save this much because I have slight OCD).




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Seen September 4th, 2016
Posted June 25th, 2016
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12.5 Years
My mother threw my GBA after I had trained my Exeggutor 15+ levels. Much rage was accumulated that day. On the subject of the cartridge ever
popping out, I may have hit the cartridge once or twice, while it was in the DS, but I don't think anything significant was lost.

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Posted October 17th, 2013
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18.2 Years
This happened to me during my nuzlocke runs in HeartGold and Platinum. I didn't want to lose all that hard work, so I started a new game without deleting the old one. The cartridges popped out while I was halfway through the games. I lost all of that data... ;_;
Ouch! That is one of the worst horror stories I have ever heard! RIP to your Nuzlocke team. ):

This only happened to me while I was playing mystery dungeon years ago, and I totally freaked out because it was just after an automatic save after Celebi. Luckily, my data was unharmed, and everything was okay. (Lame story, I know..)
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