Comment on I can now save my game in Pokemon Yellow again after 25 years.

• charizardcharz@piefed.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald only use the battery to power the onboard clock, the saves are on flash. If you loot at the PCB you can see the flash chip on the left, it’s the one that’s not under the battery.

  It’s safe to replace the battery, but since the RTC will be starting from 0 again you won’t see time based events happen until the it catches up to the time stored in the save. If you’re not planning on starting a new game or fixing the save file using a cart reader and save editor (alternatively a DS with GBA slot and a flash cart) there’s no point in replacing the battery.

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  • ifmu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks, that cleared things up.

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• early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The only thing I can tell you is my save survived the battery replacement, which tells me it’s flash and not SRAM.

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