have you ever spent a long time on an old game you haven't played on in a while only to find that the game can't save the day after! THAT KEEPS HAPPENING TO ME! Though I have noticed that many of the old GBC pokemon games do that, please tell me someone has had that happen to so I'm not the only one...
Yea that tends to happen with most game cartridges. I remember that I couldn't play my Pokemon Yellow Version anymore after 4 years of not playing it.
A lot of the old Pokemon cartridges are doing that. The common theory is that they've been fried out, as they were bought/made almost ten years ago (or more). Luckily, Heart Gold and Soul Silver are coming out in NA soon. :] My Silver cartridge still plays fine, I don't know about my Yellow, though.
I think it has something to do with the internal battery of the cartridge. I have a few friends who have told me they just replaces that internal battery and it worked fine. I think its one of those flat batteries that watches use but Im not too sure. I can look into it if you want.
That's what I've read, too. It'd make sense, since this is happening to so many people around the same time.
Huh. I have at least one Pokemon game from each generation, maybe I should check them to see if they still work. As for me, my saves usually work fine... I just forget to use them. Then I get killed or switch the game off.
Some of my Pokemon games are still saving, but I did have to bring a copy of Silver I had bought used back because it just wouldn't save anymore. It is one of those flat button-cell batteries like they use in watches, but I've never tried cracking open a cartridge and replacing it before. Too nervous about messing up something to try.
Alternatively, leave the game running for about 18 hours to recharge the save battery. Cartridge games are actually designed to recharge the battery as you play, but if you don't play it for a while, it will drain completely. Pokemon Gold and Silver were especially bad about this since the battery had to keep the internal clock running as well as keeping the saves alive.
yup it has to do with it since i always used to replace the batteries when my game didnt used to save ;)
It's probably like what that Cloud fella on the lst page said: Gold and Silver had the clock system going, so you had a battery that tracked the passage of time, night and day, and DST as well as saves. Red/Blue/Yellow didn't have any of that, so the battery was just focused on saves.
