The Tale of the Creepy Pokemon Hack!

If you know about this story already, then I don't need to talk about it. If you need some insight on this here's a link for all the details!

As far as you know, this story could be a fake. Fake or not, it's still a scary story! Heck, even my sister got scared of this story! But it wasn't from the Tiny Cartridge post. It was from the DS homebrew that was released today! This homebrew pretty much tells the story about the Pokemon Black hack WITH an extra ending. And trust me on this that IT WILL BE SCARY. Unless you're like me... I wasn't too frightened, but golly it was creepy! If you want to get the ROM for this then here's a link! If you don't have a flash cart or an emulator (which isn't that hard to download) then google for a DS emulator... If you're too lazy, then here's a recording so you don't have to do anything! Yay for being lazy!




Sorry for the nightmares!
~VGMaster64

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn- Preview

Like I've mentioned before, I can't wait! I'm struggling a bit in the first game, but I think I'll finish the first 2 games before this one comes out.

I'm Getting Serious! + I Feel...G...A...B...B...E...R...(Giygas Remix)

My gosh! And I thought Furries in a Blender was only good at the John Freeman remix. Hands down this is a amazing remix for EarthBound.

Fixing Silver Verion's Battery! Part 1- The Operation!

I decided to open up the cartridge so that once I get the battery, I can just put it in and do the rest from there, but since I don't have the battery, I can't finish it just yet. So here's the progress of the work I've done so far.

Here's the tools I used the get this game open. Since I don't have the fancy Nintendo screwdriver to open this up, I did the next best thing.

Melt the tip of a regular pen (don't catch it on fire) and sink it in, in the back of the Gameboy cartridge where the screw is and let it cool down. If it get stuck in the cartridge then that's fine. It's cooling down to the mold on the cart. Don't make it too hot, or it'll melt some for the plastic on the cartridge! This almost happen to me, but I took it out in time.

Once you unscrew the back with your pen, slide the front part of the cart, down and pop it out. Take out the motherboard and put it on a clean surface. As you'll see in the picture, there's the battery in the yellow. You don't want to get rid of the metal strip on top of the battery and on the bottom of the battery. You'll need them later. Use some tweezers or a small screwdriver to take off the sawder on the bottom of the strip until it looks like the picture up above.

The harest part will be the bottom strip. It's sawdered on well and it's a pain to get out. Well it was for me anyway...

If you're lucky, the congrats! You've removed the dead Gameboy battery!

Here's what the battery looks like. Since you really don't need the dead battery anymore, you can just throw it away.

And as a bonus picture here's the game runing without a save battery. Though it still works, you won't be able to save and all that. Be sure to check out the next post where I'll install the new battery and test it to see if it'll save!

~VGMaster64

Combo Deal! I love Goodwill!

Well, it was a Saturday afternoon and I thought it would be a good idea to go to Goodwill, because of all the electronics that people seem to have thrown away. Like the good old nerd I am, I went down there to see what they got. I was having my hopes up to find a copy of EarthBound, but instead I found something that my inner childhood would love to have. 2 Gameboys for $10! One Gameboy Pocket and one Gameboy Color! Since I'm really into handheld gaming, I couldn't just let these treasures go to waste, so made my purchase and I was out the door! I never had a Gameboy in my life until I got a Gameboy Advance for Chirstmas years ago. So I was sort of making up the childhood I never had... sort of. Here's a picture of the 2 Gameboys I got.

It was a pretty sweet find! That was until I looked in the back of the Gameboy Color...

It was a copy of Pokemon Silver! I was pretty happy since I've only played this game for a bit as a kid. Now I had my own copy to play. Without delay I got some batteries and I started playing. But there was a problem...

They save battery in the game was dead and I couldn't keep my saved data. :( I was quite upset, but after looking up info on this problem, I could just replace the save data battery. So after teaching myself how to fix this problem, I'm planning to buy a new CR2025 Lithium battery to replace the dead one inside. I have most of the tools, I just need the battery and maybe some electrical tape (clear tape works as well). I'll show some of the step by step progress tomorrow, or whenever I get the new battery, but for now I just got to play some Mother 3 for the Funfest over at Starmen.net and play Pokemon Red on my DS Flashcart. Hope to see you guys again! If I find a interesting RPG/ Gaming related thing at Goodwill again, I'll let ya know!

~VGMaster64