mbruno Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 A while ago I decided to pull out my Pokemon Silver for old times' sake and when I went to play the a been erased. Guess it was a weak battery, how annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phreen Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Wait I don't understand how a weak battery can erase a file, and this has also happened to be only it says file corrupted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencat Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 I think the old cartridges used a battery inside of it to retain the memory and keep clock based events going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phreen Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Ah I see, is there a way to replace it, and how does modern day cartridges save memory w/o the battery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbruno Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 I think the old cartridges used a battery inside of it to retain the memory and keep clock based events going. I think you're right, however I think on the GBA games it uses flash memory for the save, though it still has a battery for the time based events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 That's probably correct. The internal battery just ran out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencat Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 And as for DS, I think it saves it normally, but Clock-Based events look at the save's last point in time, compares it with the current time and adjusts accordingly. ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azelf322 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Somehow my friend manged to fix my old silver, but then the next week it did the same as described above again. So I know it is a fixable problem. (Even if only temporarily) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HottSushiz Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Yeah mine was like that, except i was checking by PC boxes, admiring my hard earned Pokemon, and you know how it goes, you must save to view each box, so i closed the game, switched it back on, then boom, no more save, all my Pokemon, i practically broke down crying, but that was years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KazoWAR Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 I remember like 7-5 years ago having a gold that had a dead battery. At the time i didint have a game boy anymore but a super game boy thing for the snes. I remember playing for hours, and having my game erased. I finally pinned it to that my save file was lost every time I removed the game from the super game boy cartridge. so i ended up playing through pretty much the whole game with out playing any other snes game for a time length of months, but some how the snes recharged the internal battery of my gold. I one day didnt care about it any more and took it out to play somthing else, and later i put it back in just to see if it my save was still there, and it was. I even later got a GBA and was able to play it on that for a year or 2 untill i got rid of the game, no save file erased at all. I think prolonged usesage of playing a game slowly recharges the internal battery, i think most dead batteries come from a game that has not been played for years and then popped back in to be played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraith89 Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 A while ago I decided to pull out my Pokemon Silver for old times' sake and when I went to play the a been erased. Guess it was a weak battery, how annoying. The internal battery dies out eventually. My Gold version did the same thing. Now it cannot save anymore. You can get it replaced somewhere if you would like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archanfel Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 you can replace the internal battery your self thats what i did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Concorde105 Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 Yeah, same thing happened with my Crystal. Pop open the case, rip the contacts off the old battery, solder and tape on the new one, put on the case, and play! Too bad I traded in my GBA SP for a DSi... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear831 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I lost both my crystal and silver but silver's battery died before I lost it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Yes, It is the Internal Battery in the Cartridges keeping the Clock based events alive So when you get that error it means that the Internal Battery has run dry and clock based events will no longer work in that game. It dosent mean that the game is not playable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4evil Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 phew, im glad my battery in my crystal still works. i spent hours playing it to get all legends in the game. excluding celebi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyndaquil Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 I think you can still play the game, but can't save. My Gold still have enough juice to play, but I don't know when the battery is going to die x_x. All I need is a Gameboy/Gameboy Pocket/Gameboy Light/Gameboy Color and I'm good to go for nostalgia effect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arandomproduction1 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 A while ago I decided to pull out my Pokemon Silver for old times' sake and when I went to play the a been erased. Guess it was a weak battery, how annoying. I think its only because of that Realtime thing, since it never happened to my Red or Blue. But yeah, it happened to my Gold and Silver :[, but now since I have an R4 to play GBC games I have no worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathWatch Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 The game card is corrupted that happened to both my Gold and Silver versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123venom3 Posted May 20, 2010 Share Posted May 20, 2010 okay what about on emerald, saphire, and ruby when the internal batery runs dry any way to fix that? I read about silver you can actually go to walgreens and buy a batery for your silver version if that dies but i'm not sure about the gen 2 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtwig Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 There's a battery inside the cartilage, you must repair it, that had happened to my Pokemon Gold, but someone fixed it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mewtwo Ex Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Old thread. ------------- Closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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