I picked up my (Japanese) Pokemon Fire Red for the first time in ages the other day and started thumbing through my Pokedex. When I got to Latios it played its cry and it just came out as this long garbled piece of interference, and I couldn't do anything and it just kept playing until I turned my game off. I turned it back on and it seemed fine (I even checked Latios's entry again, and the cry played fine), but I cycled about a bit and the same thing happened (same interference sound, I think it was prompted by an egg hatching this time.) I haven't played since, because I was worried that I might be damaging my game by doing so (I don't even know if the save is intact right now.)

Does anyone know what the problem is, how dangerous it is, and what the remedy is? I have a compatable copy of Box, so if I had to restart I could put all my pokemon on that, providing the game doesn't crash before or during that.

Thanks for readin'.