on my pokemon yellow it will not save at all and all the close sprites [ you know on the battle screen ] are all replaced by a big black box with lines on it

has this happened to you

only time something like that has happened to me was when i gamesharked it to get a wierd skarmory-looking pokemon, did you drop it or use a gameshark ever?

no it was like that when i got it from gamestop it was used but i don't know why it does this

Ugh.

This has happened to me on Crystal. I left my game out in the snow for a few weeks (I didn't know it was out there) and when I tried to play it, it wouldn't save, and alot of sprites were glitched up boxes that looked like Missingno.

Did you drop your game in water, or maybe just dropped it on a hard floor? My guess is internal damage.

Edit: I bought a Pokemon Silver version from Gamestop and it didn't save. You've been ripped off, I'd suggest trying to get a refund.

i bought it used and it was like that when i bought it


i would not ever try to get it wet

well gamestop has a 90 day return on all used games if they dont work right, just return it and get another one

Moonchild's suggestion is what I was going to say.

Also, your game may be just too old, the previous owner dropped it/ruined it then turned it in (Most likely, scamming Gamestop as well), or the internal battery's going dead.

well i think its been over 90 days

This exact same thing happened to my friend. He says it was sitting on his rug for a while and he thought static screwed it up. But my guess could've been a magnet was close to it... And when you try to save, does it say, "Error in the *something or other*"? Because it did in my friends...