So the right tools and skills made it work and my son's game works as it should, i.e. I work with electronics and have soldering irons with small tips for use on small printed circuit boards. Then you solder the new battery & clips onto the circuit.Īgain, not for the faint of heart. There is no "battery holder" per se one must unsolder the batter clips from the printed circuit board, then unsolder the clips from the dead battery and solder them again onto the new battery. But installing the new battery takes some work, especially soldering skills. The batteries can be picked up at any CVS, Walmart, Radio Shack, etc. It is possible to replace the battery, but it is not for the faint of heart. As this is a very old game (early 2000's), our battery must have been shot. The one I bed on had no such language.Īfter some google searching I found this game (and many others I guess) have small "button" style batteries in them to save small data like where they were in the game after power off. I looked again at the eBay searches and noticed that some of the postings said "still saves" or something along those lines. Great Game, But Watch Out for Old BatteriesĪfter working up some household chore credits, my son wanted this game and I searched eBay and vid on one I thought was reasonable, both from a price and shipping standpoint.Īfter the game arrived, it played OK, but my son noticed that it wouldn't save where he was in the game after powering the game off. We're all ready for the Advance version, guys. It's just that the mentality that the same game engine can be milked over and over and over, and we've been playing this game for almost three years now in English.and more than five years internationally.
No, this isn't a knock on the Pokemon license, since the game is still a great one on the handheld. I think it's time to say "enough's enough." Granted, there are very few games on the Game Boy Color as good as Nintendo's classic RPG, but it's time to pick up and move on. But there's not much in this edition that makes it a "must buy" for folks who already own a copy or two of the previous editions. The final (hopefully) Game Boy Color edition is definitely the version to get if you aren't already one of the upteenth billion owners of Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Gold, or Pokemon Silver, with Crystal's slight updates to the design and graphics. It's the last hurrah for the engine we've known and loved for almost three years in the US, and more than five years since it s inception overseas. To keep the Pokemon property going on the Game Boy Color, Nintendo has released Pokemon Crystal to US gamers, but without the element that Nintendo capitalized on in Japan. The updated title's existence was justified because it incorporated these new elements on top of a slightly updated quest and engine. In Crystal, kids can dial up to Nintendo's game server and trade/battle Pokemon with other users in remote locations, as well as attend set events by dialing in at a specific time. In Japan, Pokemon Crystal was released as the main reason to pick up a Mobile Adapter, the interface between the Game Boy Color/Advance and a Japanese cell-phone.