In some GBA Pokemon games, you'll get a notice like "The Save File is Ruined" if the battery backup savegame RAM fails a checksum/sanity check. Then the file will be erased and you'll have to start again.
On pirated/bootleg versions of the game they just changed the message to "The Save File is OK" and added a jump to skip the save file erasure. Sure fire way to spot a fake even if you know nothing about the PCB.
chrwei on May 23rd, 2017 at 20:43 UTC »
error: program exited successfully
s-mores on May 23rd, 2017 at 20:51 UTC »
If you can fake it, ship it.
WhensDinner on May 24th, 2017 at 00:15 UTC »
In some GBA Pokemon games, you'll get a notice like "The Save File is Ruined" if the battery backup savegame RAM fails a checksum/sanity check. Then the file will be erased and you'll have to start again.
On pirated/bootleg versions of the game they just changed the message to "The Save File is OK" and added a jump to skip the save file erasure. Sure fire way to spot a fake even if you know nothing about the PCB.