game breaking bugs

Can't continue past first town thanks to a bug. You are supposed to use the "AR Device" to find an Elf in the grass but when turned on your joystick stops working correctly and nothing happens other than beeping and flashing around the edges of the screen. I guess it was too difficult to just let you run through the grass and catch pok... Oops I mean cube monsters, and instead it was a better choice over complicate it with a broken feature.