DaltonSR20DET

eek, yeah looks like this is probably a total loss... I'll swap the battery just so it has a good one but again, thanks so much for even taking the time to look inside the file to find out whats going on.

Not sure what caused the corruption in the first place but very discouraged to dump the time back into a new game file after loosing this one with somewhere between 200-300 hours put in.

Eevee and Vaporeon were likely but don't remember the exact party of 6. I know i trained all 6 Eevee evolutions to lvl 100.

I thought maybe they would be my current party
EEVEE
VAPOREON
JOLTEON
FLAREON
ESPEON
UMBREON

not sure if I gave them nicknames at all
but I know I raised all 6 to to level 100
all from level 5 (eggs)

Hey, thanks soooo much for lookin' into this. The Trainer Name should be "PHILL" (in all caps) but I don't know nor remember what the trainer id or money in the wallet, its been way too long.

Hey all, I'm new here but found this forum trying to research if my Pokemon Crystal save file is salvageable.

So I have an original/official Crystal cart back from 2001 and it still has the original button battery in it and has only been played using an official gameboy color.  2 years ago, I turned the game on and tried to load my save file to which it says is corrupted and the bottom says "TIME NOT SET".  The game sat on my shelf since.  I finally got myself a Epilogue Game Operator which allowed me to create a .sav file straight from the game, however, PKHex doesn't open the .sav saying its corrupted but my other pokemon .sav files (Ruby, Red & Green) does open in PKHex.

Looks like I will have to change the battery no matter what but after I change the battery and wipe my game, will my .sav transfer back and be functional with the RTC fixed or is my .sav totally screwed?

Pokemon - Crystal Version (USA, Europe) (Rev A).sav