YouTuber Purple Thunder has spent years creating videos about Pokemon save file archeology – buying up old, used cartridges and seeing what kinds of discoveries these old save files hold. The latest find is perhaps the most heartwarming, though, as Purple Thunder has just reunited a 17-year-old, 300-hour Pokemon Diamond save file with its original owner, who never wanted to part with it in the first place.
As Purple Thunder explains in a recent video, he picked up a copy of Pokemon Diamond on eBay which was somewhat discounted from its usual second-hand price. While the game was complete, it was also full of holes. Literally, there were a bunch of holes punched through the DS cart. But the cartridge was advertised as working, and sure enough, despite looking like a mess the cart booted on Purple Thunder's DS. Eventually.
