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As many of you know the first three generations of games ran on an internal battery. For r/b/g/y and g/s/c it meant complete removal of all save data. in R/Sa/eme/fr/lg
merely an inconvenience. Share your expirnces with the internal battery running dry here.

My emeralds internal battery ran dry last year luckly this meant unlimited pokerus but i reset my game again later. But it sucks because the rematch system and the lilycove sale won't happen so i'll never get my favorite items for my secert base.
 
Yeah at this day of age it's hard finding a copy that doesn't have it's internal battery drained.


It actually made my Silver unplayable :'(
 
I was actually on the lucky side. Actually only about 6 months ago did my Emerald's battery dry out. FR has yet to do so.
 
This happened once to my Emerald version. It's been unplayable since.
 
Yep. This happened to my copies of R/S/E, but not to my copy of LeafGreen possibly due to it being a slightly newer cartridge. It hasn't happened to any of my older games, either.
 
Peeko said:
BlackOsprey said:
This happened once to my Emerald version. It's been unplayable since.
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How is it unplayable? The only things you can't do are Mirage Island, rematches, and sales. Other than that, nothing's changed.
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I don't know... I remember something went wrong while I was playing it. That screen that show's the professor's bag (y'know, when you choose your starter) showed up, along with some text... can't remember what it said. I freaked out and turned it off. Ever since, whenever I put it into a system, the thing acts like it's not there.
 
My Pokemon Crystal was the first to run completely out of battery. The timing was terrible since I had not saved and stored my party onto Stadium 2 before it went down. After that the remainder of my Gen. I and II games ran out of battery. I have no idea if R/S/E have dead batteries. It's been a long time since I touched those.
 
The batteries can be fixed and saves saved (before they are deleted before the battery goes bad on RBY and GSC. It just takes some work, and money.

I'm starting over from the beginning and bought RBY with new batteries. I'm going to buy GSC with new batteries. I was able to acquire Ruby and Emerald so far and Ruby works but the Emerald battery has run dry. I have yet to decide if I'm going to replace it myself or have another do it.
DynamoRox4Sure said:
Yep. This happened to my copies of R/S/E, but not to my copy of LeafGreen possibly due to it being a slightly newer cartridge. It hasn't happened to any of my older games, either.
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From what I understand about LeafGreen and FireRed, they are just new enough not to contain batteries, while their counterparts from the same generation, released before them, contain batteries.
 
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I was actually on the lucky side. Actually only about 6 months ago did my Emerald's battery dry out. FR has yet to do so.
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same but to be fair fire red battery running dry will affect nothing...maybe i could do a switcharoo >.>. i remeber before my emerald battery dryed out i reset the games a couple times trying to get a shiny mudkip i guess that was the final nail in the coffin.
 
After finishing up a playthrough of Gold a while ago, I transferred everything from my file to the Pokemon Stadium 2 boxes. Luckily, that uses flash memory.
 
I unfortunately never had a copy of Pokémon Stadium, so anything that I wanted to save from my Gen I & II games ended up in my copy of Silver version.. which was the first to die. The internal clocks have also run dry on my Gen III games..
Though perhaps I'm in the minority in the regard that my Pokémon Blue and Yellow versions are currently still completely operable. Anybody else?
 
As someone who replaces batteries in these games, I can confirm that FireRed and LeafGreen do not have batteries. Time doesn't exist in FR/LG, as they're based on Gen 1, so they didn't include a battery. Which, of course, means no Espeon and Umbreon, no growing of berries [which there wouldn't have been anyway, because again, Gen 1]. There are no tides and no sales, and so on.

That said, even replacing a battery in R/S/E is not enough to restore all the battery-related functions. Time passing is weird in Gen III. It looks at the time on the battery [how many ticks have elapsed since the battery began] and the time on the save file and compares the two. In order for passage-of-time-based events to occur, the time on the battery has to be *higher* than the time on the save. If you replace the battery, its time is reset to 0, meaning it will never be higher than the time on your saved game. So no berries, no sales, no illusory islands that don't really exist [*coughs*] and so on; but things that concern themselves solely with the *time of day* still function: namely, Espeon and Umbreon, and the rising and falling tides.

Fixing that requires one of two things. Starting a whole new game [sucks to be us who have the game more-or-less beat], or use saved-game editors to reset the elapsed time in your save file. Provided, of course, that you *have* such a thing.
 
Oh man, that happened to my copy of Gold in 2006. But by that time, I've already moved on, so attempting my own playthrough for nostalgic purposes was a no-no.
 
Ugh this happened to my Emerald and (I think?) Sapphire. I also wonder if this is what happened to my Silver save file, because that was just gone last time I looked. I wonder if it's because I never really played Gen. 1, but my Yellow and Red are still fine.
 
I checked my Crystal a few months ago, and the battery is still running. Every time I do check, it feels like my heart skips a beat. Not going to lie, when it finally does happen, I'll probably shed a tear or two. It was my first Pokemon game ever. So much of my childhood in that small cartridge.
 
I gave my Ruby to one of my nephews some years ago. He said that some time afterwards the battery went dry :(
 
The first time one of them went dry I thought my game was broken xD
 
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