Internal battery?

[ChaoticInverse]

I just got the message that "my internal battery has died." Since last August I've been trying to get a shiny Torchic (I'm a shiny hunter) does this mean that I've just wasted all that time?

So can I still sr for torchic or no? What exactly does this mean about my game?

I really hope I can still use it, as there's been 13,615 sr's and two shiny uncatachble poocheyna's put into this.

 

[Weez1990]

This happened to me- my Sapphire's internal battery died. You can still play the game but time based events will not occur (such as events happening on certain days of the week).

You could replace the battery if you really wanted to.

 

[Nebbio]

I don't think you can really SR with a dry battery. You need a new one. Replacing it can be a bit annoying.

 

[Porygon tamer]

Probably not. But, if you really want to replace the internal battery, you'll have to sacrifice your save file for it.

 

[Derp]

Has not happened to me yet and Iv had my Ruby since 2004.

 

[pokedexg]

Ya ya.can.still.sr but beware probaly 20 more srs and ya done

 

[hawkmbl]

This just happened to me recently. I think you can still Soft reset but the chances of it working may not be high. I am not sure about that 100% as normally SR is not a time event. Luckily a dry battery doesn't mean your file is gone like G/S/C. It just stops the battery to prevent that from happening.

Seeing how you SR'd to get a torchic however from the beginning of the game I would think it would be fine to replace the battery, though that would delete the data inside of it.

 

[DasBoot]

My Ruby died out 1 year ago. But I have tried to SR for a shiny Torchic, and I can still SR if that's what you were wondering.
And if you really want time based events to happen, just get a watch battery (I think that's what's in it) and replace it. Altough, you would need to get a special screw driver to get to the battery.

 

[Alex048]

Yeah, you'll need a tri-wing screwdriver to open up that bad boy. They're kind of hard to find in hardware stores because I've only needed them for Nintendo products.

 

[Nirron]

They are pretty cheap to get. I got mine for 1 dollar with free shipment. Just look on ebay
Also if you replace the battery the data will be whiped unless you make sure the board never looses power.

There are guides arround about how to do this.

 

[lucarioisawesome]

thats what happened to my emrald but it restarted itself after i had 100 hours logged on it

 

[castlewars]

That's a negative to trying to get a shiny starter, isn't it?

 

[Battlestar]

Yeah thats really pathetic. But its kinda like groundhog day. Your playing the same day over and over again. lol

 

[TheBluePorygon]

It won't affect it u just need a new battery

 

[kuzronk]

if it deletes your game
you should send some pokemon to another GBA game and trade it back when your game is fixed

 

[Ammako]

Probably not. But, if you really want to replace the internal battery, you'll have to sacrifice your save file for it.

Why should he need to delete his save file to replace the battery?

 

[Alex048]

He doesn't need to delete his save file. His save file will be deleted from replacing the battery.

 

[bobandbill]

And this has been answered many times already...so I'll just close.