i finished silver and crystal and my silver game file got ruined, now i cant save anything because the save battery expired, and i still got my crystal working lol, i have finished the game and done about 270 hours of game play ever since, i haven't played it in about a year now, but it still works like a charm, no problems with save file here.
id say the game play i have is a record, lol i wanna make it hit 300 hrs haha
*sigh* those were the days haha
i know a couple of uni students who play pokemon on there phone during lectures hahaha, classic