TC, what actually caused this complete save file meltdown was that cheat devices were used on the actual copies of the game have were save along with the progress and Monster Medal counts. This caused the coding in the game cartridge to be permanently altered, thus causing the corrupted save data and glitchy Monster Medal lists.

Personally, I'm very fortunate to have my save data intact.

Rej72380

While that can (and all too often does) happen, it is far, far more likely that your internal battery is failing. Have you ever left the lights on in the car? You try to start, and every once in a while, it surges and seems like it'll start? The internal battery here does the same thing, surging and corrupting your data, which it then (under the new-found strength of the surge) saves. Now, you can't reverse it with an opposite pulse, because the battery can't randomly fire in the perfect opposite way. There is a sticky on one of the Pokemon boards about changing the battery. I hope that all helps you. Let me know if you can't find it; I might know a guy who saved it on hard drive.

I know, that's the odd part. I've checked google, wiki, everything, nothing ever comes up, no forum posts, not a single person has mentioned it. Again it was on his Game boy color, not the NES. I myself never saw anything on medals from 4 being in the game either, I had every single medal in gold and beat the grand dragon to get that sword that lets you use thordain when it's used as an item. Also, he could trade the messed up medals to me, and it added the glitched out option on the medal menu to view them, so the data is definitely in the game, it's just incompleted. I'll work on getting him to go find his copy and post some screen shots, I'm eager to learn more about this, it would be pretty cool to know they were thinking of putting DR4 on the gameboy color and nobody ever released the information.Matt-Porter

Greetings. I stumbled into this board, but I hope I can be of some help. Enix had planned to make a compilation of 3 + 4, just like 1 + 2. This (sadly) never came to fruition, since 4 was (as previously mentioned) being ported to the SNES, making an inferior version a poor decision. The old vets (now long gone/gone to other boards) used to answer this question about once every 2 months. I just lurked here back then; didn't even know it ws free to join, or I would've. There's actually a code to cause this beneficially, and I was trying to find it again. That's how I landed here. Hope it was helpful.