Randomosity

Which one? The Litwick one, or the Keckleon one?

Sorry for the late reply but I was sorting it out with some other members already. Didn't notice your post. To sate any curiosity though, it turned out it a rather simple quest from Sheridan. The one where a rare pokemon from route 2 was requested. The person I was talking to mixed up the requests and told me I needed an Aipom. As a result, I spent hours headbutting trees not only to find out that there was an easier way to get aipoms, but that Teddiusra was the desired mon. Frustration c...

did you check your other savefiles? 15 makes like a bizzion copies now

Yeah, no luck. I was in the middle of the fight with the fighting type gym leader (don't remember her name) when the game stopped responding. After a minute or so of waiting for something to happen, it said the script was running for too long and that the game would close, reverting to a black screen. It then asked if I wanted to save. I, being a silly person, did so. Whenever I went to play my file from then on, I'd always get the "map corrupted" screen.