Why am I unable to go to Kanto after beating the Elite Four in Gold?

Question

Playing Pokémon Gold, and I have beaten the elite four/champion but when the game restarts I'm not in my room. So I still can't get to Kanto. Do I have to complete a certain amount of the Pokedex or another task, or is my game broken?

Comments

Where do you appear after beating the E4?

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I appear wherever the last save was before the e4.

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Have you tried going to Olivine City and getting on the SS Aqua?

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Are you playing this game on a Gameboy cartridge or on an emulator?

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Do you actually wait out the credits? Id presume if you get to your last save point… you don’t get to the end of the credits.

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Mostly after defeating the E4, it shows this message "Saving, don't turn off the power". After it gets saved, the credits page shows up.

I had once thought that it was already been saved (duh who needs to see all those credits and pass the boring time?). But I had to restart the E4. Are you sure you didn't skip the credits part?

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I'm playing on gb cartridge. The credits do roll, but for some reason it returns me to the last save point. I tried to get on the ship but it acts like I haven't done the e4. It's really strange and very frustrating. I have done the e4 several times now increasing the dex each time to see if that's the issue. Getting to the point of giving up now.

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That's pretty neat NGL.

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You should post a comment unless your post really answers the question.

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do you let the entire credits roll or just log off in the middle?

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Could you record a video of what happens from when you defeat the elite four to where you respawn? This could give us a better idea. You can upload it to YouTube under unlisted and send us the link

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This might be that your battery glitched out and it took you where you last saved before the Hall of Fame

To prevent things like this from happening buy new batteries and replace the old battery that is inside the cartridge with the new one.

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@hatenna I’m 90% sure if you replace the battery in old gameboy games your save data is deleted so I’m also 100% sure you’re on crack or trolling

Op don’t listen to that person’s advice

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yes @smoothie i can you back you up with that if you change the battery the save does not carry over it will make you restart.This is true for all games so @angry ditto plz don't listen to hattena.

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I will try to get a video.
@loki and @smoothie i wouldn't know how to change the game battery anyway, so i wouldn't want to fiddle with it anyway.

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@loki In RSE, the battery is used to run a clock and nothing else, so changing that should not delete the save file. I have successfully done this once on a copy of Emerald. FRLG and all newer games have no battery, so changing the battery deletes the save file only in the first 2 generations.

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Sorry I haven't answered had some personal stuff to deal with.
Here is the link to the vid, I hope it works ect.
https://youtu.be/2rBEAtsAyKE

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This isn’t a common problem at all. In fact, it’s almost unheard of. It’s very likely that the following are reasons:

- your game is unauthentic
- the actual game cartridge has been damaged somehow during repair or development, unallowing it to process any further


I’m willing to place my bet that it’s an unauthentic copy of the game. In other words, someone placed a rom file onto a cartridge and called it a day. Rom files are very easily corrupted, especially when placed onto cartridges. If that’s the case, unfortunately, there’s nothing you can do.

OP, are you still having this issue? If so, it might not be something you can fix. If it were a common issue, you might get a better answer, but I think this is almost unheard of. Sorry

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Do you know any good ways to check whether a gen 2 cartridge is fake?

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Open up the cartridge and take a look at the motherboard.  There should be a Nintendo emblem in gold lettering.  You can look up videos on youtube on how to authenticate it.  There is a code on the sticker of the cartridge too.  I am not sure on what other ways to tell are.

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Does this count as not responding to a clarifying question?

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Which question did they not respond to?

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Is the cartridge fake?

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It is reasonable to give an answer with an explanation for both cases, so I don't think this question should be closed on those grounds.
With that said, the answer to this question is almost certainly "the cartridge is fake and saves corrupt data at that point in the game". We already know that this is not expected behaviour of an authentic cartridge.

Answer 1

There is no reference to a glitch of this caliber under Bulbapedia's list of glitches, and this behaviour has never been reported on an authentic cartridge. It is thus safe to assume this is a poorly made fake cartridge that simply can't allow you to go to Kanto. Sorry for the bad news.