Is my Pokemon Gold cartridge dying?
Today while playing Gold and Silver, while soft resetting for a shiny Eevee, I noticed that all the sudden, my Gold version’s clock was off by a whole day!
I started both games at the same time about a year ago, so they both should say Monday, but Gold says it’s Sunday, and it’s a complete half hour ahead of Silver’s clock. (Silver has the correct time)
I tried to reset the clock using the password I was given, but it wouldn’t read or accept it. I’m very concerned about this, I have some shiny Pokemon I don’t want to lose on here! At least not yet…
EDIT: I made a video concerning my problems with Gold Version. You can see it here:https://youtu.be/K1E-bTddPAE
EDIT AGAIN: It turns out that the password to reset the clock wasn’t working because I had too much money on the game… the time and date are set back to normal, but that doesn’t explain the random change in the time, or the random freezing…
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So…http://www.psypokes.com/gsc/timechange.phpsays 00731.http://www.filb.de/pwf/says 00732.http://pkmn.net/?action=content&page=viewpage&id=130#says 00645.http://www.oocities.org/thelegendarydogs/faqs/gsc/time/timereset.htmsays 00812.
The latter link explains the formula in-depth and says the password is only generated based off the first five characters of the trainer name, with empty characters being worth a value of 80. This is interesting because 00812 - 80 = 00732, which was the resulting password of the first two password generators. Considering the game’s age, I’m not surprised that there’s so much ambiguity surrounding the formula.
How to fix your game permanently? It might have just had a huge glitchfest one day. Fixing the time might fix it permanently until it has another glitchfest. If it continues lagging behind after multiple time changes, a permanent solution would be to change the battery, although that procedure requires a lot of caution, so I think you should only do it if it becomes a real inconvenience.
Hope I helped. :)Sources: Above links and experience
