:doomer: the worst part of all of this is the battery died in my Pokémon Gold that I transferred all of my first pokémon over from Red and I'll never get them back
Persistent storage used to be really expensive, so the Pokemon games have some RAM connected to a little button cell, which was much cheaper to make but when the battery dies your save goes with it. It's not as big of a deal for Gen 1 because they don't use much power, but gen 2 has the clock feature that guzzled the battery. If you have an original cartridge it is definitely dead, I would use an emulator or change the battery if you want to play it again
might not save the data though if the battery is necessary to keep whatever media in the same state. idk how cartridges work though but it might fix it
wtf is a "galar"
after looking it up wtf they give his evolution a fuckin' knife
:doomer: the worst part of all of this is the battery died in my Pokémon Gold that I transferred all of my first pokémon over from Red and I'll never get them back
Wait...the cartridges have batteries in th?
All old cartridge-based games use battery-backed RAM for saves.
In Gold, I think it's for the internal clock
Persistent storage used to be really expensive, so the Pokemon games have some RAM connected to a little button cell, which was much cheaper to make but when the battery dies your save goes with it. It's not as big of a deal for Gen 1 because they don't use much power, but gen 2 has the clock feature that guzzled the battery. If you have an original cartridge it is definitely dead, I would use an emulator or change the battery if you want to play it again
You might be able to change the battery
might not save the data though if the battery is necessary to keep whatever media in the same state. idk how cartridges work though but it might fix it
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