Glitching Game Boy Game

[gumbyandpals]

I was trying to play Zelda: Link's awakening for game boy when something weird happened.

The game will start up and go through the intro but after the title screen, where it should show the saved games, it just shows link on a blank screen. I don't mean blank as in my save files are gone, I mean completely void of anything but link. I can select the "invisible" save files and start the games. When I do so, I get link on a blank screen again. Enemies show up as well, but no walls or anything else.

I tried cleaning the contacts and I tried playing the game on three different systems. Same result.

My first thought was to open the game up and short out the battery to erase all the save information. Maybe a corrupt save is affecting everything. I don't have the bit to open the game though.

Any thoughts?



*Update* I blindly went through and deleted all the save files. This fixed the problem. So I guess I was right