2nd Gen Does Crystal EVER die?

Started by Dunsparce April 9th, 2008 1:42 PM
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There's actually been reports on the 'net that, yes, it does eventually go bad. (Mine has yet to do so, personally, but then again, my copy of Silver lasted pretty much until last year, and even after it deleted its own save file, it still saves without a problem for one weird reason or another.) Crystal uses the same type of internal battery that Gold and Silver use, so it's logical that it might actually happen. It's just that it's difficult to say, as there's no specific set time for a battery to expire -- just an estimated time.
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Yeah, it goes bad. Mine went bad in '06. Of course my Crystal Version was primary GSC game (actually my favorite of the entire series!), so I'd upload your save file while you can and download a ROM so that you don't lose all that data you worked so hard to get.

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Never died on me. I had it ever since 2000 and still have the exact same save file. So 8 years now, I guess.
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Lol, Crystal dies so easily. Gold never died on me. For 9 years, in the washer, in a pool, not once did it die.
Watch you drop it on your bed and it dies. xP

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My ruby died before my gold\silver did, and my friend's gold died soon after he gave it to me.


>How do you fix the internal battery problem in ruby? I have an emerald and have tried the glitch fix using link cable, with no success.

My red died 2 and i restarted (have had it on for 224 hours on sp plugged in)
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My Crystal seems to have died. I found it the other day and it has no save file. So I started again, played for an hour and saved. I turned it back on the next day and it was gone again. -_-

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No. My Crystal, Silver and Gold versions haven't got their saves erased since I got them back in two thousand or two thousand and one. I'd say that Crystal can get its file wiped as it runs on the same internal battery.
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Watch you drop it on your bed and it dies. xP

Crystal, Gold, and Silver all all dead. Silver unnaturally; the washer. Ash for the other two, they just died. Never saw a point in restarting them.
Uh......no. I had it on my bed and it never gone dead.

Mine silver hasnt dies on me yet. Its been like 8-9 years sense i got it. I play it once in a while.
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Lol, Crystal dies so easily. Gold never died on me. For 9 years, in the washer, in a pool, not once did it die.
Really? My silver died after I spilled Mountain Dew on it. Curse pepsi products
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Well, think. Gold and Silver came out somewhere around '00-'01 and the batteries last seven years. Crystal was realeased later, so it still has some juice left.

But I restarted crystal last night and set my clock. Turned it on this morning and 20 minutes had passed in the game when in real life 12 hours had gone by. That just tells me that my battery is running down. Oh well.

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Silver too. I bought it used with 300 hrs gameplay and it still works after I played a total of 607 hrs.
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There's actually been reports on the 'net that, yes, it does eventually go bad. (Mine has yet to do so, personally, but then again, my copy of Silver lasted pretty much until last year, and even after it deleted its own save file, it still saves without a problem for one weird reason or another.) Crystal uses the same type of internal battery that Gold and Silver use, so it's logical that it might actually happen. It's just that it's difficult to say, as there's no specific set time for a battery to expire -- just an estimated time.
Yes i have read reports like this as well,


There is no way to tell, you'll just have to wait and find out, me personally has played for 700 hours and the game is fine.

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