I've been digging out stuff from places and buying again and came across Pokemon Gold and also Crystal. I went out today and found a GBC with a stack of games for it and oddly GBA. I really only bothered because the GBC was like new and I wanted it for my almost 5 year old girl as her first gaming system of her own and it cam ein a nice flip open pikachu branded carrier that holds the system to play inside it. I put a SMBDX and a Tarzan game from the lot in there for her, the rest was too advanced or mature (like Resident Evil Gaiden--score!) To be blunt I'd like to re-coup my purchase price today for the lot so Pokemon going to let someone else catch em all.
Gold itself is fine as is Crystal, at a superficial level well loved. Problem is that Gold is DOA inside battery wise-- no saves retained, RTC out obviously too. Crystal retains a save seemingly still but moans about having to reset the clock.
I don't see myself ever playing these, they're black sheep to me as I prefer my yellow cart for the 8bit stuff and firered on GBA. I was looking them up, kind of curious about it, but is it worth my time when getting rid of them to bother buying up some batteries and soldering them on there or not? I know I could get a pair of them for around $5 shipped so it's not a big deal, but is the time worth it? Also how long would a CR2025 vs a 2032 work in there (the lower being what it has now vs the other which fits but is higher capacity.)
RTC Battery woes -- Pokemon
Re: RTC Battery woes -- Pokemon
Bigger battery should last longer, since they have the same voltage output.
Re: RTC Battery woes -- Pokemon
Yeah, if it fits, it'll give you more juice. Pre-tabbed batteries are pretty cheap, too. I'd look to see what working copies go for versus dead battery ones. Some folks might be willing to pay a premium, but it might not be worth your time, either, depending on what that differential is.
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Re: RTC Battery woes -- Pokemon
Crystal shows signs of a dying battery. Clock resetting first then save will go shortly after.
As a person who's done my fair share of battery replacements I'd say replace them and do it with the larger 2032 battery. They will make the case bulge a tiny bit in Gold and even less in Crystal due to the bump used to remove the cart.
As a person who's done my fair share of battery replacements I'd say replace them and do it with the larger 2032 battery. They will make the case bulge a tiny bit in Gold and even less in Crystal due to the bump used to remove the cart.
Re: RTC Battery woes -- Pokemon
Well thanks for the replies, I actually went with my old friend from my NA days who also got pitched from that hole because of the stuff he sells on ebay. He has a very nice package of 10 mixed batteries I could use for $11 shipped so I went for that.
Pokemon Gold seems to sell at $20 dead, $30 alive
Pokemon Crystal seems to sell at $30-ish+ dead and tops about $50 alive.
Alive I mean new battery popped in, not the original and pray it's a survivor.
I don't much like having to sell crap off to break even on it so I could get my kid that GBC but I'm kind of waffling on the mess now. Crystal looks interesting, never had a shot at the Gen2 games other than the SoulSilver DS remaster. I might just keep that one around as my kid should be able to read it in a year I'd think enough to get by a least with help.
I also thought I had a working Resident Evil Gaiden battery, but it's crap too. There was some form of save on it when I used it yesterday, but then I wiped it and did my own game, hit the first save room last night. I came back today and it was gone so it's on the fringes of death or just realized it.
So when the batteries get here from Iowa I got some work to do. I may just swap out my Pokemon Yellow battery while I've got the iron hot just to play it safe, then keep 3 spares for the 2 types I picked up each.
Thanks for the advice. The battery looks even easier than the NES/SNES type stuff as it appears they're surface mounted. Just heat it up, pop the battery, clean the pad a little, slide the other in place and give it a fresh dot of solder and it'll live for years (decades on RE since no RTC vampire on there.)
Pokemon Gold seems to sell at $20 dead, $30 alive
Pokemon Crystal seems to sell at $30-ish+ dead and tops about $50 alive.
Alive I mean new battery popped in, not the original and pray it's a survivor.
I don't much like having to sell crap off to break even on it so I could get my kid that GBC but I'm kind of waffling on the mess now. Crystal looks interesting, never had a shot at the Gen2 games other than the SoulSilver DS remaster. I might just keep that one around as my kid should be able to read it in a year I'd think enough to get by a least with help.
I also thought I had a working Resident Evil Gaiden battery, but it's crap too. There was some form of save on it when I used it yesterday, but then I wiped it and did my own game, hit the first save room last night. I came back today and it was gone so it's on the fringes of death or just realized it.
So when the batteries get here from Iowa I got some work to do. I may just swap out my Pokemon Yellow battery while I've got the iron hot just to play it safe, then keep 3 spares for the 2 types I picked up each.
Thanks for the advice. The battery looks even easier than the NES/SNES type stuff as it appears they're surface mounted. Just heat it up, pop the battery, clean the pad a little, slide the other in place and give it a fresh dot of solder and it'll live for years (decades on RE since no RTC vampire on there.)
Re: RTC Battery woes -- Pokemon
Not to leave it hanging, batteries came early yesterday. I fixed all three and did Pokemon Yellow too. Was harder due to the smaller size than NES/SNES type stuff I have touched. Thankfully I have a cool very old cast iron base stand with metal jointed arms with 2 clips and a magnifier on it to free my hands up. Didn't take too long once I got the hang of it on the first one I did.