Exploring Pokemon Save Files 

Finding a copy with an actual save file that has completed the game with tons of Pokémon is a rare goldmine sometimes

Something tells me the ruby cartridge was trying to do the regis event and couldn't be bothered to level up the wailmer to a wailord. Also I'm kinda sad you didn't check the PC in that game...

I own a game store and our policy is to swap batteries in every game that has them, as they come in. We also do it for customers for a fee. I guarantee those blues were just a previous seller testing after a swap. What I usually do is set the text speed to fast first thing, mash A, choose default names or just AAAAA and hit start, get to the bedroom and save and shut it off. If anything, I'm just surprised that they both walked to that one square lol, I usually don't even move. Also, a little hard to tell because it was on screen so shortly and moving so much, but I'm pretty sure that Diamond was a fake. I'd have to see it better to tell though.

Honestly kinda disappointing to see most was just early in the game. I thought we were gonna see some hard work in the files overall but best guess is a hard worker would keep his game rather than sell it

On the subject though, we just took in a copy of Pearl last week that had 380 hours of gametime, a dex over 400, all the legendaries, almost all the promo pokes, and from what I could tell it all seemed legitimately obtained. No shinies either, so that lends credence to that someone made a ton of effort on this file rather than cheating. Jacob, if you're out there, know that your hard-earned pokes are now sitting safe and snug in my Pokemon Home lol

I remember when I bought Pokemon Pearl off Ebay last year there was a huge save file on it. They completed the game, the Pokedex, everything. All of their Pokemon were from 2007, clearly a childhood cartridge (with over 248 hours), and even had a shiny Ledian in there. I was so awed that somebody would sell their childhood Pokemon game like this with all of their data still on it, I transferred as many Pokemon and items as I could to my Diamond out of respect. LEE, whoever you were, wherever you are, all your Pokemon are safe and sound and I have no plans to get rid of them, especially that special Ledian and that champion team you loved so much.

I bought my black file used, and I didn’t know that when I bought it- but when I opened the game up it had a Continue, and this dude who owned it before me had 100% completed the game, and had SEVERAL LEGENDARIES in his box, as well as a lot of actual Pokémon. It was really cool knowing that this game I was playing had been played by at least one other before me who definitely cherished their game before selling it.

A couple of years ago I bought a used Platinum. The previous owner must have used a game shark, as it had master balls, sacred ash, and a level 100 Arceus. Needless to say I had fun using their save file!

16:50 That Onyx is most likely the in-game trade Onyx, since that one is also called Rocky.

I work for a second hand media/games company and we constantly have copies of Pokemon games come in and it's always fun having a look at people's save games. Some of the more notable ones have been full game completions with hundreds of hours played and what appear to be legit shiny Pokemon. It's always bittersweet as you know that you're holding hundreds of hours of someone else's enjoyment in your hands. It's nice knowing that someone else will end up enjoying that game though.

Bro this video is nine months old and I randomly stumbled upon it to find that you have my brothers ruby version I still have the action replay used to get the master balls lol

I like to look through the save files when I get games from eBay. I always back them up on my computer just in case, like a couple months ago when I found a legit event genesect in Black 2 from 2011. Cart dumpers are especially valuable for the gbc games, since every now and then I’ll save my progress and turn the console back on a couple hours later to my cart pretending it’s never been played before

I love how you get so enthusiastic about 22 minutes playtime, 1 pokémon and a town map

bro if you don't clean that 3ds i'm going to throw up

Watching this reminds me of when I had to sell my copy of Pokemon Yellow. I hope whoever bought it enjoyed what I left for them. I left them a Mew, Pikachu, Vaporeon and other cool Pokemon and plenty of money so whoever got it after me would have a good spot to pick up from. I miss that game and I miss my old GBA SP.

Something so somber about old save files. It's like a lost world

Great stuff! A cpl years ago I was snagging copies of Sun/Moon when I could find em for $10 or less on ebay. I found a few decent save files--nothing crazy but it IS fun to see what other players were up to!

I love the Pokémon trading card game music. Brings back memories

My brother doesn't have it anymore but something weird happened to a pidgey he left in the day care in i think red version. He left it before heading off to get the cut tm from the boat captain and he forgot he left it there and went on to beat the game and caught some other pokemon he wanted to train then he randomly remembered he left a pidgey in the day care and we all thought it was funny and tried to guess what lvl it could be since we were kids and never beat any pokemon game fast and so we chose a lvl and when he got it back it only went up 2 lvls and we were confused about it. He looked at its stats and the way the pidgey coloring looked was off. It seemed like it was a different color we knew about shinies which we called scaled from the red gyrados scale thing from silver version. But we knew shiny didn't exist in the old games and so we told him he should train it so it can evolve into a pidgeotto and we can see how it'll look with its new color. Thats where we saw the insane number of exp it needed to level up. I don't remember how much the level numbers are when you get a 100 lvl pokemon you know how it says its max exp it ever earned to reach that? It was that long BUT with one extra number and we were shocked. He tried but after a few days he was like he'll just keep it. I don't remember if we traded it over to silver to see if it followed its weird condition, but even to this day we laugh about it and how weird it was

I stopped playing after x and y so I guess I'll look back in mine eventually for memories. Funny enough I do see the save files before I delete them and useally they are pretty bad compared to when I play the game myself

"Just started the game there" *Has 7 badges*

You know whats really creepy is the gameboy camera save files

The Onix in the SoulSilver one is most likely the one you get in a trade.

Why would you upload this?

I've always wondered what people would think if they booted up one of my games, particularly my pokemon Y. It's got over 700 hrs played on it, a completed national dex, and a bunch of awesome pokemon. All my shines have been traded to moon but still, that cartridge has a long story.

15:28 It's a very small chance it actually is my copy that made it out of a Northern Californian GameStop and onto eBay, but the error code is the same as my former cart would throw up after a while of showing nothing but a black screen. I still have no idea what happened there, I apparently just played it so much it broke or something like that. Sorry if you did get it; I was at that age where my parents forced me to sell most of my old belongings for money and GameStop assured me they were going to dispose of it when they saw it didn't work.

I remember having a Pokemon Y digital game on my old 3DS. But I had pawned it, and forgot that I even had it on the system. Til it was too late. I had lost the pawn and someone already had bought it. I had HELLA GOOD pokemon that I raised. I was sick for days over that.

I REALLY should get into the pokemon series..

On November 21, 2021; Me And My Asian Fiancée (Maya) Are Finally Getting Married, We’re Getting Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Pokémon Shining Pearl For Our Wedding Presents.

every time i see a video exploring a soulsilver save file i check to see if its the copy someone stole from me in high school... it never is, but maybe one day i'll find it. i miss you spiky eared pichu

I got a Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and it had a save file of over 300 hours. I’ve always wondered who played it that much. They must have absolutely loved it.

most unbelievably underwhelming one of these i’ve seen

Closest I got to a save file being worth exploring was on a copy of Pearl. Dude's name was 'Bitch' and he had next to no playtime (:

Dude!!!? I swear that’s my old Ruby!!! I used to use TOM when I played when I was younger I used to use all caps because that’s how the games would name the Pokémon I remember selling it to get emerald

" oh that was uhh exsesive " * casually shows a nintendo 3DS XL pokemon game *

“Dozens” that’s such a big understatement I can’t even explain how big of an understatement it is

Don’t forget that people with those early saves could have restarted the game out of boredom.

I put this video while playing trough my own Blue Version. 6:21 “they get the got the Town Map! A lot of people miss that.” well, back to pallet town

My bootleg versions of FRLG saved just fine (I even played a Nuzlocke for LeafGreen!) but the same can't be said of the ones for Ruby and SoulSilver I got.

When I was young my dad bought me leafgreen and when I loaded it up it still had a save and it started right in front of zapdos

My 3ds and my copy of Pokemon diamond have the exact same issue in that it won't register that the game is in there most of the time. I think it's just age

im just watching this channel again, last time i watched it was years ago when you always made splatoon videos

Blowing on a DS game will usually get it to show on the home screen, in my experience.

"Didn't waste the master ball on groudon" Me: I think they just couldn't find it. In ruby and sapphire the master ball is in the evil team leaders office in the hideout. In emerald it's in the aqua hideout. I don't think many people know about this so I just wanted to say it (Edit: lol the ruby is hacked)

My first 3ds was actually the Red X and Y one

I also bought a fake copy of emerald. Reading “the game can be played” after turning the game on kinda ruined the rest of my day

The music in the background is the tutorial battle music from pokemon TCG 1 for the GBC. I loved that game so much. The sequel too, but you can only play it with a translation patch.

.... The Gameboy color Pokemon Trading Card game music sent me waaaaaaaaay back.... I had completely forgotten about it

nice to hear the OSTs from the trading card version here

I had Pokémon crystal when I was young I loved it

I have all my pokemon games in a safe with the keys hidden away. I can't afford for them to be destroyed

The ones named blue were probably just the seller testing if the save function was still working

How unlucky only one game was actually played. Although you should of checked that save's box and day care it would be interesting seeing something other than baby saves

Haven't watched him since the pokemon red for the 3ds

My first pokemon game was fire red and then I went back and played Blue and Gold. Of these Gold was my favorite early game for the longest time. From gen 1 to as late as Gen 5 I didnt really completely understand how types worked and I would build my team on the first 3 routes and though I tried to keep up on training my team, I always gave up on training everyone and used my top 3 strongest pokemon with me always defaulting to my starter. Needless to say I often found myself stonewalled at a gym leader or the elite 4 and rather than training my team to try to overcome the obstacle I started a new game and hoped my luck would be better in the new run. My first pokemon game I ever beat was Omega Ruby when I was 19. I always wondered how many new pokemon players just gave up at a gym leader or the elite 4 and how many powered through and beat it...

Dumps nearly a grand on the table My brain: that's a beautiful sound lol

I feel like whoever played the pokemon fire red was playing while looking at a walkthrough.

Just got a copy of Platinum that had the set of shiny dogs from the gamestop event that allow you to get Zoroark legitimately in Gen 5.

Not what I was expecting but still a fun video. I came across this while looking at people downloading save files onto a PC and looking at the contents that way. Got there from someone showing how to fix the clock in gen 3 games after the battery has died and been replaced, without starting a new save file.

It’s always fun getting preowned Pokémon games it’s always fun to know what Pokémon might be on it

I've bought lots of these from people, and the copy of Platinum I got from a 10 or 11 year old girl was by far the most advanced. She had everything, some shinies, a few dozen eggs. I bought a lime green DS with it and it was in immaculate condition.

That fake game reminded me of 2 fake games my dad got me from China while he was there, completely clueless about how they'd be fake since he is pretty clueless about Pokemon in general. Shining Gold and Shattered Crystal. Haven't even looked at them for years because I know it would be pointless.

That music is from the Pokemon trading card game.

You wouldve loved exploring my Omega Ruby cart. I did a 100% completion, with 300 HOURS sunk into the game, and had started shiny hunting. Definitely was fun, wish I had kept it.

Too bad that save files are now saved on the console, we’ll never be able to do this with the switch

God damn man, the amount of beautiful gameboy Pokémon games you have is amazing.

Forgot to check the Pokemon boxes, that kyriuge could have been on the cart still

My Yellow cartridge still holds save file very well after all those years im impressed

They're so lucky to have lights on their Gameboy. My Gameboy doesn't have it... I remember my mother buy one that has external lights to plugging it in my Gameboy but I prefer not to plugging it because the battery is so expensive for me as a kid and it drains so fast.

*I have a more horrible fake emerald that says “The save file will be loaded” every time it boots, i got a real ruby game now.*

The ruby version around 13 min, the relicanth and wailmer was probably to get the regis

Recently purchased a ton of the old games I used to have. Y, OR, SM, Emerald, FR. All had some progress. Y has a legit Shiny Xerneas, OR has two shiny Pokémon as well. Was really stoked to see the treasures in the games😁

The second blue file was played on????? They had the Pokémon option and when you opened the trainer card it looked like they had all 8 badges????

Wow, the display quality seems awesome.

I just love the music! Great way to honor the Pokémon Trading Card game!!

Somewhere out there is my copy of pokemon moon with almost every legendary and mythical both in their regular and shiny forms. No clue what convinced me to sell it.

i bought a second copy of emerald awhile back and the previous owner had HUNDREDS of freshly hatched torchics and a single shiny torchic. i coulnt believe someone went through all that trouble only to get rid of it after

Bought a copy of SS and Platinum off ebay, SS had 105 hours with a legit completion of both regions. Platinum had 300 hours with multiple shiny Pokemon and plenty of hacked in ones. Deleted the SS save, kinda felt bad but dude completed what he wanted to do.

I remember going to block buster and seeing pokemon diamond and just wanting the game so badly and now that I think about it I’m sure it wouldn’t even be able to save

That blue X 3ds is still my favourite of the DS family!!

I've had to sadly sell most of my pokemon collection over the years just to survive. I hope whomever got my games after me enjoyed their pick of prime pokemon to snag before restarting the adventure.❤

Can't seem to find anything that looks similar to his Gameboy pocket, where can I find this product?

The reason the ds game probably is failing is because of the way Nintendo decided to store the game files, instead of saving it on similar chips like on gba games, they decided to store them on another type of chip that stores a very small amount of electricity to keep the data semi active. But over time of the games not being played that little bit of stored power fades and data just vanishes.

“Played 1:40 hours”” wow that’s crazy” meanwhile me with 10k+ hours in siege

That SoulSilver copy though. It said a pokemon was caught in 2011??? That's a relic if true

that sceptile's good,I'd move that to emerald,another ruby or sapphire etc.

They probably replaced the batteries and made sure it saved. Bummer but makes sense lol it’s always exciting to see what Pokémon people had.

idk why but this vid makes me want tell everyone about my first playthrough of a pokemon game ever! my first game was pokemon y for the 3ds and this my team going into the champion fight and beating her. Greninja Charizard Vileplume Krookodile Heliolisk Reuniclus

dude should transfer those pokemon off the genuine ruby cartridge

2:40 greetings back from good old deutschland o/

What were all the question marks about on the last game boy game

watching the ruby part of this video gave me legit flashbacks. I remember naming my character tom even though thats not my name on my brothers ruby bc i had sapphire. i wasnt shy to a gameshark either back then. wonder if mine ended up in this video many many years later LOL!

There’s a copy of Yellow out there saved as Josh about halfway through the game that has a NidoKing in the line up that I played when I was younger. It wasn’t mine, I borrowed the game for a while and by now it’s probably been sold.

For the Diamond, you may need to lightly sand/scratch down the contacts or polish it with a qtip+IPA

How did that Ruby cart have well over the max money cap?

I'm pretty sure the pokemon diamond cart is a reproduction copy. That's probably why the save doesn't work.

Ags101 brings me back at least 13 years+

interesting with Skarmory since it could be found in Route 113 which is the route that has the ash in it that takes you to Fallarbor Town of course I don’t know the rarity for it there that’s assuming that they traded for the Kyogre and didn’t cheat to get it yes Level 2 Zubat is only possible in SoulSilver via the Dark Cave and it’s via the Route 31 area so that would be legit if that’s what you see interesting info

love how you use the pokemon trading card game soundtrack :+1

You should take one of the started games and mane videos playing... finish Cindy's story!