If you've been keeping to safer, indoor regions of Pokémon X and Y's Lumiose City for fear of saving your game and losing all progress and podket monsters as the result of a glitch, worry not. Nintendo has issued a patch for the glitch resulted from saving in certain areas of the game's Parisian style city, so it's time to get back out there.
What's more, for those affected by the glitch that also happened to keep the corrupted file, the patch also sees the data uncorrupted and completely recovered. For those of you who didn't keep your saved game, well, don't say we didn't warn you.
Affected players can grab 1.1 update from the eShop now to fix the glitch.
The glitch started small enough, reports originating from a GameFaqs and a Tumblr page. Nintendo later determined that the the glitch would only activate when players saved their games in very specific parts of the city. A map was issued labeling the areas, and Nintendo insisted players would do well to avoid those spots and save their game at the city's Pokémon center until the glitch was addressed.
Those who found themselves the victim of the glitch reported loading up a recently saved game only to discover that it would freeze immediately. As one player described, "...whenever I try to restart my game it immediately freezes. It loads my trainer and all of my clothes as well as the buildings and their lighting effects, but none of the objects in the streets or the textures on the buildings show up. Pokémon-Amie is also frozen on my bottom-screen without loading anything and the game won't return to the Home menu when I push my button. I can hard-shutoff, but the 3DS internal software is completely frozen."
Hard resets will at least get the player unfrozen, but subsequent re-loadings are met with the same freezing problem, rendering all progress in that file lost.
The patch also fixed another bug that would cause crashes from trading pokémon found using filters.
Pokémon X and Y released earlier this month to rave reviews as well as great sales numbers. Nintendo even held a special release party at its World Store in Manhattan to celebrate the game's launch.
The games represent a radical change for the franchise, the top down perspective having been replaced with more of a three quarter perspective, and battles look radically different. As per usual, players will see several new pokémon, 5 of which were teased in the game's trailer at the time of the announcement. There's the usual array of new starter Pokémon, and each game will play host its own type of new, legendary Pokémon. And what's more, a number of classic Pokémon have earned mega-evolutions they can transform into during battle.
No DLC is planned for the games.
