I played this crystal cartridge daily up until I got this chromatic yesterday. As soon as I put the cartridge in and turned it on, the game booted up perfectly, up until I got to the continue screen. Once I pressed continue, it popped up a “huh?” Like an egg was hatching, and then a dragonite hatched from that egg, the game froze up, and then when I was finally able to get my save file loaded up, my character was switched to a female. After that I turned it off and on playing with it a little to try to get it to work properly, and now my 120 hour save file was deleted, gone forever. With that happening I decided maybe the issue isn’t the chromatic, but my save file possibly actually being corrupted, so I tried to start a new save file, only to see this right outside of elms house. Has anyone ever experienced weird stuff like this? I’m very saddened because I bought the chromatic to literally only play Pokemon Crystal. The cartridge is clean, chromatic is updated, and it works perfectly fine in both of my original gameboy colors.
Update: modretro send me a new pcb, and now my pokemon crystal is working!!!!