Dry battery or not Pokémon Gold/Crystal?

Question

So yesterday I acquired Pokemon Gold and Crystal (CIB) for very cheap but I’m not sure if the internal battery is dry.

I’ve looked everywhere on where to see if it has run dry or not but I can’t find it anywhere.
I know gen 3 has the “internal battery has run dry” message but idk if gen 2 had something similar.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Hi!

If the battery is dry, you won’t retain a save file. You can check if the battery is dry or not by saving the game. If you boot it back up and the save is gone, it’s dead. If you wait a day and the save file vanishes, then the battery is going.

If it has a preexisting save file on it, you’re good, but you should change it anyways as you’ll lose the save file when it dies, and you don’t know when it was last changed.

Source: I own many, many, many gen 2 games.

Hope this helps!

Comments

Hi!
The game(s) currently has no save so I will try it out when I’m back home! If it’s dry I’ll just have to do my first ever battery replacement.

Thanks for your answer!

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Best of luck! Happy to help :)

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the answer says “if the save file vanishes, the battery is going”. Good answer otherwise tho

Also,
*lose

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Yes, I mean what I said. I had a low-battery that would retain a save file for a little bit, and then the save file would vanish after about a day or two. It would do this for a while, where it would hold a save and then in a day it would be gone, until it eventually wouldn’t hold a save at all.

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Oh, you mean “going” as in starting to die. Okay yeah that makes sense then