Dark Jaguar
02-28-2004, 09:20 PM
Okay, this is a rather odd problem I've recently found in one of my original FF1 carts. I happen to have 2, for you see at a certain point I thought it would be smart to get a second game so I could have two save files. Cheap enough I suppose, and I don't really regret it, but back to the point.
You see, while the first cart always has worked perfectly when I can get my NES to cooperate, the second cart, just recently, has been screwing up the names of my characters. Basically, whenever I try naming a character anything that makes sense, the very last character is always corrupted. So, if I named my white mage "Sori", it would come up "SorC", or if I name my thief "Cid ", it would come out "Cid(insert that symbol for the shirt items here)". Now, it corrupts in a very predictable pattern, and I could probably make a table of how it corrups if I felt like it. Also, it ONLY corrupts the LAST character in the name, so a character with nothing but spaces in the name would only have the last character become that shirt symbol.
This is very annoying because I enjoy playing FF with decent names on my characters. My style isn't to just name everyone "AAAA", "BBBB" and so on. Also, even though I HAVE origins (very nice game I might add), I enjoy playing the original game now and again, and I ALSO enjoy being able to keep a perfect save file around while playing a new game (hence having two copies).
What I'm asking is if anyone has any idea what is wrong with my cart, and if so, if anyone knows how to fix it or if I'll just have to replace the game. What I'm NOT asking for is people to say "Just use an emulator and a ROM" or "Just stick with Origins or the working game". I am just wanting this particular copy of one of my fave classic games to work like it should really.
I imagine it might be corrupted save data, so I'd just have to open the game up and temporarily remove the battery to delete the old data completely. I would need to get that security bit to do this though. I've tried deleting it via repeatedly turning my NES on and off as fast as possible (which has worked for some SNES games I've wanted to completely wipe clean), but that didn't work, and I'm afraid of accidently REALLY screwing something up. What I'm really afraid of is that the game itself is somehow faulty, in which case I'd need to replace it.
At any rate, thank you in advance to anyone who has any advice on this problem.
You see, while the first cart always has worked perfectly when I can get my NES to cooperate, the second cart, just recently, has been screwing up the names of my characters. Basically, whenever I try naming a character anything that makes sense, the very last character is always corrupted. So, if I named my white mage "Sori", it would come up "SorC", or if I name my thief "Cid ", it would come out "Cid(insert that symbol for the shirt items here)". Now, it corrupts in a very predictable pattern, and I could probably make a table of how it corrups if I felt like it. Also, it ONLY corrupts the LAST character in the name, so a character with nothing but spaces in the name would only have the last character become that shirt symbol.
This is very annoying because I enjoy playing FF with decent names on my characters. My style isn't to just name everyone "AAAA", "BBBB" and so on. Also, even though I HAVE origins (very nice game I might add), I enjoy playing the original game now and again, and I ALSO enjoy being able to keep a perfect save file around while playing a new game (hence having two copies).
What I'm asking is if anyone has any idea what is wrong with my cart, and if so, if anyone knows how to fix it or if I'll just have to replace the game. What I'm NOT asking for is people to say "Just use an emulator and a ROM" or "Just stick with Origins or the working game". I am just wanting this particular copy of one of my fave classic games to work like it should really.
I imagine it might be corrupted save data, so I'd just have to open the game up and temporarily remove the battery to delete the old data completely. I would need to get that security bit to do this though. I've tried deleting it via repeatedly turning my NES on and off as fast as possible (which has worked for some SNES games I've wanted to completely wipe clean), but that didn't work, and I'm afraid of accidently REALLY screwing something up. What I'm really afraid of is that the game itself is somehow faulty, in which case I'd need to replace it.
At any rate, thank you in advance to anyone who has any advice on this problem.