Pokemon White 2 Problem

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Hi. I hope you can help me with this. There's this Pokémon White game I have and one day when I tried to play it, it shows a message that said, "Saved data cannot be accessed." I tried many times to get it working again, but it keeps showing the same message. Is there any way get it fixed? Should I send it to Nintendo to have it fixed? I would like to hear from all of you to give me some useful advices to take care of this problem. Thank you.

Either a dead battery or corrupt saved file (from improper storage, handling, and/or bad game card).

If you've owned the game more than 3 months, then you are SOL warranty wise.
It is probably cheaper to buy a new copy than sending it to Nintendo.

Buy a new copy? Considering Nintendo doesn't lower the prices on their games, it may just be best to play it on an emulator.

That's actually not true, they don't lower the prices on games that are still selling.
Right now you can buy the Nintendo's newest SRPG a Code Name: S.T.E.A.M (3DS) at retail at decent mark down and the game released in 4 months ago.
Obviously the game bombed and retailers are liquidating them.
You can many Nintendo Wii U games at mark down at retailers, including The Wonderful 101 (less than $20 in most places), Bayonetta 2 and others that failed to sell well.

So yeah you can buy Nintendo games on liquidation and regularly on sale too.

I've bought plenty of 1st and 2nd party Nintendo games at discount since DS launched.

Though Nintendo and The Pokemon Company go to great lengths to prevent ROM and Emulator downloads, so it isn't worth the trouble (most gaming companies are doing it now).
You can find new and used copies of White 2 ranging from $15 - $35 (full price).

Just to chip in, since ROMs were mentioned, one thing to keep in mind is that most ROM sites are.... well, not the safest places around. And dont expect to be totally safe just because you have anti-virus and all that; that's a mistake, to assume that.

I've had to fix machines corrupted from going to those places (which I was able to identify as the source), and... yeah. It's not pretty.

The newer the games, the worse it is, too. If you just want older games, it's not as bad, and often that's literally the only way to get them (particularly if they're arcade games!). But for newer ones... yeah. Stay away. Just dont do it. I guarantee, it's not worth the risk. And yes, there IS a risk, even if someone else says something like "Oh but *I* went there and had no problems, obviously it's totally fine". Just... dont. The machines I've had to fix? The complaints were always along the line of "Well my friend recommended this site and said he never got anything bad from it, but it destroyed half my machine when I went there! HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN?!?", which was followed by a facepalm from me.


Besides, dont forget that with something like Pokemon, you really cant do the multiplayer aspect of the game (which is half the point of it) with an emulated version.

That's not to say that I'm against emulators and such... I have basically every arcade game there ever was in a giant bloated archive on my own PC here. So I'm definitely not against the idea. But I got that through... unique means, not using one of the rom sites (no way in hell to get something like that at those), and the whole reason I went after it was that I love alot of arcade games, particularly older ones, but they're often *literally* impossible to play without an emulator and a rom of the game in question. But other games on older consoles and such can simply be bought, and for many that might be the best option.

Either way, just be careful and aware of the risks if anyone here should try that.


I personally though prefer to just buy the games when it's possible to do so. There's something about playing a physical copy of something that a ROM just doesnt give off.... hard to explain.

Can I ask what you mean by SOL?

It's a military acronym for s**t Out Of Luck