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#1 2011-05-01 07:44:12
- Scratchthatguys
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- Registered: 2010-07-16
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Creepy. This actually happened!
My friend Preston gave me a Super Mario Bros 3 cartridge for my GBA. It didn't work, so I popped it into my DS GBA slot and started up the game.
Your save file has been corrupted.
The screen froze. I pressed every button- nothing happened. I reset my DS, and it happened again. The third time, it went through. All was normal until I lost on level 1.
High low low high high high
Put that into this rhythm:
Dun dun dun dun dun dun!
That's what I heard, with static and static crackles littering it.
That tune kept playing, and my ears hurt. I freaked out, and I unplugged my DS, reset it, and threw it down. Later I opened it up to find the save file missing. I tried again, and beat it- uh oh. Same music, but louder and more high pitched. So my heart started beating, and... I reset it, and completed it again, no music, no problem. I played my friend's save file, Preston's, and beat one level, no music. I kept playing, beat another, and another, and then...
The music came back.
I haven't touched that cartridge since.
BTW, it's probably because the music's corrupted, but I think it's haunted.
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#2 2011-05-01 08:37:56
Re: Creepy. This actually happened!
I think I might have a solution for you. Yesterday, I was messing around with the circuit boards of GBA cartridges, and found something that causes what you just described.
Follow these instructions:
1: Unscrew the tri-wing screw on the back. (If you don't have a tri-wing screwdriver, just use a tiny flat head screwdriver.)
2: Once the screw is removed, slide the back side of the cartridge up, and lift.
3: Grab the circuit board, and flip it over.
4: In the top left corner, there are two blank spaces labeled "C5" and C4". Check to see if there is anything connecting them. (Connecting them appears to cause the crackling sound you described)
5: If there is anything connecting them, get rid of it, and follow these instructions in reverse to reassemble.
This may not work on your SMB3 cartridge, and there may not even be a C4 and C5, but there is on all of my cartridges I have tested.
EDIT: Thanks thecrazyguy. The first time around, I thought I read Pokemon (version here), not Super Mario Bros 3. 
Last edited by fire219 (2011-05-01 08:48:31)
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#3 2011-05-01 08:44:41
- thecrazyguy
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- Registered: 2010-07-22
- Posts: 100+
Re: Creepy. This actually happened!
fire219 wrote:
I think I might have a solution for you. Yesterday, I was messing around with the circuit boards of GBA cartridges, and found something that causes what you just described.
Follow these instructions:
1: Unscrew the tri-wing screw on the back. (If you don't have a tri-wing screwdriver, just use a tiny flat head screwdriver.)
2: Once the screw is removed, slide the back side of the cartridge up, and lift.
3: Grab the circuit board, and flip it over.
4: In the top left corner, there are two blank spaces labeled "C5" and C4". Check to see if there is anything connecting them. (Connecting them appears to cause the crackling sound you described)
5: If there is anything connecting them, get rid of it, and follow these instructions in reverse to reassemble.
This may not work on your SMB3 cartridge, and there may not even be a C4 and C5, but there is on all of my cartridges I have tested.
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#4 2011-05-01 08:50:03
Re: Creepy. This actually happened!
thecrazyguy wrote:
fire219 wrote:
I think I might have a solution for you. Yesterday, I was messing around with the circuit boards of GBA cartridges, and found something that causes what you just described.
Follow these instructions:
1: Unscrew the tri-wing screw on the back. (If you don't have a tri-wing screwdriver, just use a tiny flat head screwdriver.)
2: Once the screw is removed, slide the back side of the cartridge up, and lift.
3: Grab the circuit board, and flip it over.
4: In the top left corner, there are two blank spaces labeled "C5" and C4". Check to see if there is anything connecting them. (Connecting them appears to cause the crackling sound you described)
5: If there is anything connecting them, get rid of it, and follow these instructions in reverse to reassemble.
This may not work on your SMB3 cartridge, and there may not even be a C4 and C5, but there is on all of my cartridges I have tested.
Fixed.
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#5 2011-05-01 09:19:09
- Scratchthatguys
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- Registered: 2010-07-16
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Re: Creepy. This actually happened!
But the game froze and it also displayed a song. And it had a looong ckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk in the song like static. It's an old game, but it seems fairly new.
It still happens...
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#6 2011-05-01 11:19:41
- bananaman114
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- Registered: 2010-03-15
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Re: Creepy. This actually happened!
Scratchthatguys wrote:
But the game froze and it also displayed a song. And it had a looong ckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk in the song like static. It's an old game, but it seems fairly new.
It still happens...
Some-one hacked it just so that s/he could read a creepypasta about it.
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