Save batteries?

[Missingno mystery]

I need to know the answer to this! I've heard that Nintendo stopped using the (save my data) batteries when the GBC came out and I've also heard that it was when they made there first GBC Only game, in place of a (never go bad) permeant solution. Did this really occur or are my gold and silver game cartridges in danger :eek: ?! (Nobody knows how important the information on jest those to games really are to me!)

[Agent Orange]

Im not sure...the battery on my red version recently crapped out...I'll go research this, see if I can get you an answer.

[gold]

The games are permanent and don't mould or whatever 'cos I've had Gold for 5 years.

[Missingno mystery]

The games are permanent and don't mould or whatever 'cos I've had Gold for 5 years.
I've had both my Gold(inherited-02) and Silver(Chistmas present) for about 5 years but they say that the Pokemon red and blue can hold information for up to 10 years which might explain why (at last look about 8 months ago) my inherited blue is still going, but I think its Missingno that might of preserved the game :oops: . My older bro's red reset its self mid this year :frown: .

[gold]

I've had both my Gold(inherited-02) and Silver(Chistmas present) for about 5 years but they say that the Pokemon red and blue can hold information for up to 10 years which might explain why (at last look about 8 months ago) my inherited blue is still going, but I think its Missingno that might of preserved the game :oops: . My older bro's red reset its self mid this year :frown: .


Nah, Nintendo/game freak wouldn't be that cruel.

[The End]

Yes they would.

[Missingno mystery]

You know what I jest thought of? I have "clear" color'd GB cartridges, so I look'd closely at them and was horribly frightened! All three, Pokemon puzzle challenge, Ruby, Leaf, all have a battery looking thing inside them :eek: ! Could those be for saving or are they something else? (note: the one in PC is bigger than the GBA ones)

[ashkelon]

The battery is, if I remember right, an L-Ion button that should recharge every time you use the cart. Just stick it in your old GBC for awhile every so often and it should be OK.

check gameboy developers (http://www.devrs.com/gb/)

which I'm pretty sure has that info or a link to it.

I have red, silver, gold and Yellow carts that were played and finished from right when they came out. The only one I had a problem with was the silver cart (which is glitchy anyway), and as long as I "warm it up" every couple months it's fine. I lost the correct time on it, and couldn't reset that, but it doesn't loose data.

That silver cart morphed some of my mons, and I ended up with lvl 100's holding things like bicycles(!) :confused: and a "teru sama" (which is worth a bunch of money, but useless as far as I can tell).

[gold]

']Yes they would.

I really highly doubt it. :confused:

[Missingno mystery]

The battery is, if I remember right, an L-Ion button that should recharge every time you use the cart. Just stick it in your old GBC for awhile every so often and it should be OK.

check gameboy developers (http://www.devrs.com/gb/)

which I'm pretty sure has that info or a link to it.

I have red, silver, gold and Yellow carts that were played and finished from right when they came out. The only one I had a problem with was the silver cart (which is glitchy anyway), and as long as I "warm it up" every couple months it's fine. I lost the correct time on it, and couldn't reset that, but it doesn't loose data.

That silver cart morphed some of my mons, and I ended up with lvl 100's holding things like bicycles(!) :confused: and a "teru sama" (which is worth a bunch of money, but useless as far as I can tell).
Well thats nice to hear but, I like to put my two games in Pokemon Stadium 2, will that be the same as turning it on in the GBC? I haven't put them in there for a while (like 2 months) cause I need a new paddle (the blue one no longer registers that something has been put in it, and the gray one, if you jiggle it a bit what has been plug'd in it pops out). Also, I heard of the teru sama before, and its part of a GSC version of Missingno type glitch. Its something that if you do the wrong thing (trying stupid things ppl tell you about) it will pop up and the only way to get rid of it is to reset your game. If you buy used games you have a grater chance that someone got rid of it because it had a glitch problem and even though the deleted the file, sometime that doesn't work.

[ashkelon]

I'd figure the batteries would get charged in the *thingy you attach to the bottom of the controllers* for the N64. That's where my gold and silver mostly get exercized too. The rooms I've got, after all these years of mystery gifting are really awesome, and I'd hate to loose them, if nothing else. And of course I'm bloody awful rich in both games by now :biggrin: Most of the pokemon are on the stadium II cart anyway, now.

My glitchy silver cart was never hacked. I bought it new, and don't own a shark (but I do have a homemade downloader, cartwriter, and some other stuff for game building). There was a thin thread of some stuff like hardened glue across the contacts. I don't know why it waited until 150 or so hours into the game to act up. I had to use a magnifier to see to clean it off. I'm still not 100% that's what the problem really was.

A few years ago I was told the teru sama was the clear bell from crystal. I moved that and the weird, mutant pokemon off on stadium II, and have never used them. There was a whole box of mons that changed from one pokemon to another, have doubled moves (2 sets of same move), impossible held items, etc.

Yeah, you are right. I've never done the missingno thing, so it never occured to me, but the results sound real similar. Never thought of that.

Also, I just thought of something. I have a "java ring" from the Java One convention a few years back. It's got an ibutton processor on the top that runs a java machine in the ring (theres a reader to xfer data between it and a PC). Anyway, the company that makes them says the L-Ion battery in them (which you can't get to and can't recharge) is good for a minimum of 20 years.

[gold]

My glitchy silver cart was never hacked. I bought it new, and don't own a shark (but I do have a homemade downloader, cartwriter, and some other stuff for game building). There was a thin thread of some stuff like hardened glue across the contacts. I don't know why it waited until 150 or so hours into the game to act up. I had to use a magnifier to see to clean it off. I'm still not 100% that's what the problem really was.



Well, so's my yellow version.
I just restarted the game, but in my action replay for the GBA, somehow linked it up with the Thrustmaster cheatcode one for the GBC and typed in the code 33333333333333333333
Ity let me do it and so far I've had no problems :biggrin: :shifty: that anyone knows off.