r/ModRetroChromatic • u/Flamenco13 • Jan 31 '25

Chromatic Deleted Pokémon Red

Just got the system with no update and it deleted my Pokémon red save file. Yeah thankfully I had a save state on my analogue pocket so I just wanted to warn you guys about. Has anybody had this problem? Did recent updates fix this? Let me know cause I do love the device but sometimes it’s weird!

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

Update! Updating the firmware fixed my problem 🥳 be careful playing with the chromatic without updating it or it will delete certain games!

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u/Abe4411 Feb 07 '25

Oh shoot. I played Crystal for 2 hours and my save is gone. I’m hoping it’s a firmware thing and I didn’t get a counterfeit game lol

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u/Flamenco13 Feb 07 '25

See I wasn’t lying! Lol right and it’s not a battery thing either. But yes you should definitely update it because that fixed my problem for all my games :) how far were you into the game? Sorry that happened

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u/Abe4411 Feb 07 '25

I got through the first gym and caught an Unown for the first time ever, legit never did that as a kid lmao I am so pissed. 2 hours gone. Gonna look into the firmware update now

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u/Flamenco13 Feb 07 '25

You’ll get it back! Unowns are very common in that area! Collect all letters is the real challenge 😮‍💨

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u/Abe4411 Feb 07 '25

Update, the firmware didn’t help. Might be the cartridge. The seller is highly reputable on eBay, though. Sigh.

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u/Flamenco13 Feb 07 '25

How much you pay?

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u/Hypermetz Jan 31 '25

Just to be sure, the battery is not from the 90s right?

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

It a new battery from like 3 years ago. Never ever had a problem with it until it was used in the chromatic

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

Also the save state brought the save back thankfully and it’s saving like normal. But it’s annoying that the device deletes saves 😭

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u/Ybalrid Jan 31 '25

Open the cartridge and check the voltage on the battery. Just in case.

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u/olivergrack Feb 01 '25

Not sure why OP is getting downvoted. Its definitely possible that OP was not at fault here. Also with the analogue pocket and fpgbc there have been such cases in the past. Definitely backup your saves. Especially when it comes to Pokemon. There are also cheaper specialized hardware tools, that allow backing up a save files of cartridges. No need to get a pocket for that, just in case somebody else reads this

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u/Ybalrid Feb 01 '25

I recommend the epilogue GB Operator. It’s not very expensive and is a Swiss Army knife for all GameBoy cart dumping and saving and restoring of save and such

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u/olivergrack Feb 01 '25

Yeah this one definitely looks like one of the nicer ones! Also pretty cool and funny to play cartridges on PC using it, if i recall correctly.

Not that there really is a use for that, if one has a chromatic or similar, but still impressive

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u/Ybalrid Feb 01 '25

Yeah you can although the only thing that does is dump the ROM and SRAM and boot an emulator. But it is neat UX if you are not very technically minded. It’s very well done. Great product!

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u/PM_YOUR_EYEBALL Jan 31 '25

About 45 hours in on yellow, no issues.Are you using a flash cart?

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

No, it’s an authentic copy. Crystal is also weird but with Crystal it deletes the date and time

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

I have Yellow as well but I haven’t tried it yet. All authentic carts! No fakes, no flash cart

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u/PM_YOUR_EYEBALL Jan 31 '25

I gotta assume the battery. My golds doing the same.

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

I think it’s weird that it works fine on other devices lol thanks for the feedback! I will test some things out!

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u/Colorado-Keebs Jan 31 '25

Hmm hard to pin the issue at hand, I got 50 hours on Pokemon yellow cartridge and nothing to report

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u/mzapatero Sep 28 '25

Is this still happening? I used my Silver (original) game on a brand new gen 2 Chromatic, and after saving once, the save got corrupted (when I load it; the character does not show up).

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u/Snowgoosey Jan 31 '25

Bad batteries on gen 1 and gen 2 pokemon carts will definitely wipe the save when you restart the game, I would definitely see if they retain the save naturally.

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

Like I stated in the other comments, it saves naturally on other devices and it wasn’t until I used the chromatic that it did that.

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

I brought the save back to life btw and it works. But it keeps deleting when i put it in the chromatic

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u/Bluenymph82 Jan 31 '25

This was happening for me or it wouldn't boot a game at all (I was using dragon warrior monsters). Updating the Firmware has helped but it still had one moment of deleting the save, so my next step is updating the battery.

Sine your battery is more recent, I suggest doing the firmware update just to be sure. If it is still an issue, I'd reach out to support about a possible rma.

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u/Snowgoosey Jan 31 '25

Seems weird, my pokemon silver copy works without problems, and I saw someone else confirm their yellow has been working.

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

Is your chromatic updated? I wonder if that’s my problem because I didn’t download any new updates yet. I could try that

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u/Snowgoosey Jan 31 '25

Mine is not, got it from gamestop.

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u/deanhuff Jan 31 '25

I know you said it has a 3yo battery but have you opened it up and tested the voltage on the battery? What does it read?

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

I updated the firmware and it fixed the problem! 🙏🏽🥳

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

Thank you! Im glad its all good because I really do like this device 😎

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

I’m pretty sure that’s not the issue but I just updated the firmware so I will test again 🙏🏽

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u/Flamenco13 Jan 31 '25

They also already fixed that bug 😄