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 loose 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 :)