I still cannot forget that day, I spent all year catching all the Blue Pokemon and my friend had caught all the Red versions. All I needed was the ones he had so we planned on meeting the next day for a trading session, turn on the GBPocket and whamo! My game was gone, all those hours of work for naught. eee….I still get chills thinking about it. That's why I'm such a firm believer in backing up any save file if possible.

As for the save battery dying, I had my Emerald version give me a warning that the save battery died. But, I can still play it normally; Do save batteries recharge when you play them? I've always wondered about that.

Well, here's the thing about new Pkmn versions: I cannot expect Nintendo to make another generation of pokemon games. I seriously think that it should stop with Diamond..

No offense, I like the Pokemon games (I've got every game released since red + blue + yellow) but it's getting pretty old. Though, they are keeping pokemon alive by adding more concepts (Wifi communication and the like) but eventually, they'll hit a brick wall and the Pokemon series will have to stop there.