emerald Getting /date/-based events to work again in Emerald

[Gigadweeb]

Hey there, I'm wondering if anybody has had luck with getting their savefile to have TV events and the Berry Master and such work again. I can get berry growing and the Shoal Cave moving, but that's about it. The RTC fix option in PKHeX doesn't seem to function correctly when it comes to fixing this.

[theSLAYER]

The Berry Glitch only affected Ruby and Sapphire, not Emerald.

Just to check, how what and where are you getting your Emerald save from?

[Gigadweeb]

7 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

The Berry Glitch only affected Ruby and Sapphire, not Emerald.

Just to check, how what and where are you getting your Emerald save from?

I know, it's a separate issue related to the internal battery running out.

The save is from my own copy of Emerald.

[theSLAYER]

So it's a dump from your Emerald cart then, okay.

Are you able to do the last line? Does that help?

[Gigadweeb]

1 minute ago, theSLAYER said:

So it's a dump from your Emerald cart then, okay.

Are you able to do the last line? Does that help?

Okay, here's the thing. As far as I know, I have done that last line.

This is the result of me hitting the Berry Fix button a... fair while ago. Like, a year? I tried resetting the RTC entirely before that, but that gave me nothing working whatsoever. So what am I missing? If the regular stuff like berries are growing, than the TV events, lottery and such should work, but they don't. That's my issue.

[theSLAYER]

"by altering the timestamp stored in the save, so it is lower than the RTC values"

I wonder if that is this portion:

 

Or maybe it means this, the Time Elapsed I have has been lower than my Initial Time. Give this a try.

[Gigadweeb]

I think I might've tried changing Initial Time higher at some point, and I don't recall that working. The Adventure values are definitely lower than the Time Elapsed portion already, too. 200 hours played versus 807 days passed on the RTC.

Ugh, I wish there was more documentation on this, it seems like the furthest people get through documenting this is replacing the battery, not knowing what to do and then just resetting their save anyway, which I really don't want to do because I've already poured a ton of hours into grinding through stuff like the Battle Frontier, let alone Pokémon like my Shiny Rayquaza and Geodude which are too precious to lose, and I'd rather not spend hours moving everything to FR.

[theSLAYER]

1 minute ago, Gigadweeb said:

I think I might've tried changing Initial Time higher at some point, and I don't recall that working. The Adventure values are definitely lower than the Time Elapsed portion already, too. 200 hours played versus 807 days passed on the RTC.

Ugh, I wish there was more documentation on this, it seems like the furthest people get through documenting this is replacing the battery, not knowing what to do and then just resetting their save anyway, which I really don't want to do because I've already poured a ton of hours into grinding through stuff like the Battle Frontier, let alone Pokémon like my Shiny Rayquaza and Geodude which are too precious to lose, and I'd rather not spend hours moving everything to FR.

Hmm what you could do is to create a separate save file
Have a safe unedited copy of your save file, then restart the game on a different copy, then check the values of the RTC. Maybe it'll hold some clues.

 

[Gigadweeb]

So I managed to find the RTC editor that everyone recommends for RSE:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180811045454if_/http://furlocks-forest.net/wiki/uploadedfiles/rtcread.zip

Only problem is I'm not sure how to locate the timestamp of the save file. As per a reddit user's suggestion I'm just setting the RTC to my local time and date and hoping that's later than the timestamp stored.

 

[Speedy77]

On 4/10/2020 at 1:35 AM, Gigadweeb said:

So I managed to find the RTC editor that everyone recommends for RSE:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180811045454if_/http://furlocks-forest.net/wiki/uploadedfiles/rtcread.zip

Only problem is I'm not sure how to locate the timestamp of the save file. As per a reddit user's suggestion I'm just setting the RTC to my local time and date and hoping that's later than the timestamp stored.

 

Hey Gigadweeb, any luck with this solution? Having the same problem myself with no solution in sight.