3rd Gen Wow, really

I booted up my Sapphire to see what was on it, and it said the internal battery died. I haven't played it that much, and I haven't touched it in years. I'm pretty dissapointed. Has this happened to any of you? I thought it only happened to gold and silver versions....

It sounds more like the berry glitch than the internal battery actually dying.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Berry_glitch

The game can still be played. My Sapphire's internal battery is dead and it plays just fine

I'm not sure what it means but I've read about it and hear you can still play the game but some time based thing in the game might not work I think... Hope I helped.

What I forgot to say was the R/S/E game cartridges don't use the internal battery to save. They only use the battery for keeping track of the time. Saving is done on FlashRom (if I remember right), so you can still play the game. The time based stuff like berry growing, etc won't work anymore unless you 1) get a patch if the cause is the glitch or 2) get a fresh battery in if battery really died (I doubt it).

Yeah, you're fine to play to your heart's content.

Also connecting to the Pokemon Colosseum or XD to trade or battle will fix the glitch.

after 100 hours sometimes it dies

Oh wow. Hmm I think I might have a link cable, but its at my gmas house if I do so who knows if I can even DL the patch. xD I'll at least play it to get some of the pokemon I want on my SS or something.

I believe any FR, LG, Colloseum or XD game can patch it. :P

Good luck!

I kept getting that on my ruby but it doesn't really matter. SO, play on :).