Final Fantasy III & Touch Detective went missing...never to be found...

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Super Mario Land 2 has been missing for years now. I want to play through it again, too. No idea where it could have gone since it's either in the cinder block game boy, or in the case with all my other GB games. Why couldn't it have been Kirby's Dream Land?

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I accidentally lost my copy of Tales of Phantasia. It fell out of my game case on my way to a car. A buddy of mine found it several days later and told me where it was.

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If it doesn't want to be found, call Ed and have him send Hyde over. :P Side business and all that.

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I lost my R4DS cart, but I've lost tons of games and end up finding them somewhere obscure, like the fridge!

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I lost 200+ hours of hard work when Final Fantasy III, Mario Kart, Pokemon Pearl, and AW:DS fell out of my case on an airplane.
Now I have a much better case and only travel with an M3 DS Real and backup my saves religiously (and YES I own everything I play).

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I bought my gf a DS (actually I went to Canada and bought myself a crimson DS and let her have my old one). She lost my copy of Brain Age some where in our room. I'm hoping it will show up sooner or later :(

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I just picked up a R4 from a friend who had two, and I've moved all my games over to it instead -- sure beats carrying 40 DS games around with me all the time.

I really hope that Nintendo gets around to offering a better way to distribute games on their handheld systems for the next generation -- considering that a 2G microSD can hold 40 DS games along with the saves, the carts certainly have no technical reason to be as large they are -- only that they would be easier to lose if they were smaller. If the successor to the DS had 4GB or more of built in storage with a way to buy games online, it would go a long way to solving the lost game problem, and probably a good chunk of the piracy problem too.

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I accidentally left 9 of my favorite games on a plane when frantically trying to make connections over the holidays. To replace them i wound up buying an R4, so that i'll never loose my games again.

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I lost 3 games at once, still haven't found them.

I had them in once of those 3 game snap-close DS cases.

The games I lost are:

ELECTROPLANKTON
MegaMan ZX
Elite Beat Agents

I'm most upset about losing ELECTROPLANKTON b/c I can't find that game anywhere now, unless I want to pay $70 & up, which I don't.

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I haven't lost any games because I keep them in their case or in the DS.

But I have fallen asleep with my DS and lost my stylus for a couple days in/around my bed.

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Want to trade for my Hotel Dusk? Got any games you WANT to lose? :)

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I've lost actual cartridges, as well as several of those grey "sticks" that they make that hold 3 cartridges. It usually takes me a few days, but I inevitably find them after much frantic searching and panic. However, I've gotten more anal retentive about keeping my games in one safe little spot. I found the perfect little box to stash them in when I'm not keeping them in my purse, thankfully.

Good luck finding Hotel Dusk. I'm sure you'll find it soon.

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I learned my lesson after losing my GBA games for about 3 years (I had put them in an old box for "safekeeping" and completely forgotten). After that nightmare, I bought a DS game case that holds all of my games, and which I keep in the same place in my room. Haven't lost a game since!

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I lost my copy of Pokemon Pearl...I really hope it turns up soon...

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Maybe you've lend it to someone?
My flatmate thought he had lost his Yoshi's Universal Gravitation. We were searching everywhere but couldn't find it.
Then I remembered that he had lend it to a friend over a year ago and she just forgot about it, because she had put it into a case to protect it while she wasn't playing it.
So yay, we got it back. :-)

A friend of mine was playing with his DS on my old black couch. He paused and took a sip of his coke, and when he wanted to start playing again (like, 30 seconds later) his black stylus was gone. We were looking for it everywhere, removed all the pillows of the couch, looked under it, on the floor, the table - EVERYWHERE - and we couldn't find it. I tried it again a few days later and some weeks afterwards for several times, but it was no use. The stylus had disappeared...

Two months ago I wanted to get rid of the couch eventually (it stood in my room for months, side upwards, all pillows removed, because I got a new one) and I brought it downstairs. I decided to look for the stylus one last time, and tadaaaaa, there it was, pressed into the stuffing I had checked almost 20 times before...

So, ask your friends if maybe you have lend it to one of them, and if they don't have it neither maybe you should check all the nice, cozy places you sit when playing the DS.
Friends don't forget games on purpose, but I'm sure couches do - they're all evil. ;-)

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Ever since you guys mentioned the C.A.G cart case, I haven't lost one! Not that I did before, mind you, I keep my games in my DS, the case my DS is always in, or their game cases. It's my BROTHER who leaves his ds carts lying around...heck, he doesn't use his DS anymore, really. D:

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I'm with the previous poster on the R4. Until such time as Nintendo gives us a portable with a hard drive, I'm going to continue using 3rd party "questionable" solutions like this. The convenience -cannot- be beat, and you get easy-to-run homebrew in the bargain.

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