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Zelda: Link's Awakening: Kennel Glitch

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Re: Zelda: Link's Awakening: Kennel Glitch

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> This glitch can permanently ruin a game file and, in the extreme case, possibly even erase or damage your cartridge. How can this glitch erase the ROM in a cartridge?

I doubt it's implying that. It's maybe possible that you could glitch the save data in a way that the game would crash or misbehave just from trying to read it, though, with no way to fix it short of discharging the save data somehow (I don't recall if gameboy games used battery backup or some kind of flash).

Re: Zelda: Link's Awakening: Kennel Glitch

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> This glitch can permanently ruin a game file and, in the extreme case, possibly even erase or damage your cartridge. How can this glitch erase the ROM in a cartridge?

I doubt it's implying that. It's maybe possible that you could glitch the save data in a way that the game would crash or misbehave just from trying to read it, though, with no way to fix it short of discharging the save data somehow (I don't recall if gameboy games used battery backup or some kind of flash).

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Re: Zelda: Link's Awakening: Kennel Glitch

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post #2

> This glitch can permanently ruin a game file and, in the extreme case, possibly even erase or damage your cartridge. How can this glitch erase the ROM in a cartridge?

I doubt it's implying that. It's maybe possible that you could glitch the save data in a way that the game would crash or misbehave just from trying to read it, though, with no way to fix it short of discharging the save data somehow (I don't recall if gameboy games used battery backup or some kind of flash).

Game Boy games used a CR2016 or (later on) a CR2025 battery to maintain save data.

These are soldered in place, which makes replacing batteries rather annoying, though they're replaceable if you put in the effort.

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