Hello! I'm having some trouble with emerald's RTC. For some reason the tide in shoal cave and the clock itself works just fine but I can't grow berries, talk to the berry master and take the lottery. I've never replaced the battery. I've only dumped my save into an emulator so I could get the event tickets but I don't think I emulated a battery as well - so it would've changed the time. I've messed with the RTC in PKHeX but not with much luck... Does anyone have a solution? I've provided my save file as well if anyone is interested to check it. Thanks in advance!
Hardware RTC behaving weird in Emerald
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You must have emulated a RTC while playing on an emulator (VBA has this in Options -> Emulator -> Real Time Clock). This feature will just take the time from Windows and forward it to the game. It's impossible that your Emerald Cartridge's RTC could have run for almost 23 years when the game was produced around 2004. The internal RTC always starts at 1. Januray 2000. The elapsed time is now almost 23 years while the internal RTC is few years short. That is why the "glitch" is happening.
I'm not exactly sure but maybe if you go into PKHeX's RTC editor and set the days of the elapsed time to 0 it will fix the problem.
I'm not exactly sure but maybe if you go into PKHeX's RTC editor and set the days of the elapsed time to 0 it will fix the problem.
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I thought that as well. I tried tweaking both times in PKHeX but the lady in the mall keeps yelling me that I have to come back tommorow no matter how what I do. I even advanced time to the limit - 65,535 and it keeps having the same issue
My suspicion is that the emulator messed with the NPC's timestamps and set it to max, but I could be wrong
edit: I forgot to mention, I even used the in-game clock editor but not with much luck either...
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If I rememeber correctly you also have to set the event constant (Event Flags->Event Constants) Days Passed to 0. This constant is for daily events. If the number is lower than the current time then it will reset all daily events and update the number to the current time.
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Sicklyboy:
@TwoSpikedHands, I'll preface this with the fact that I know nothing about the game, but, I think it depends on what your goals are. Are you trying to make a definitive version of the game? You may want to refocus your efforts on the EU version then. Or, are you trying to make a better US version? In which case, the only way to make a better US version is to keep on plugging away at that one
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Sicklyboy:
I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the differences between the two versions, but I'm wondering if at least some of those differences are things that you could port over to the US version in your patch without having to include copyrighted assets from the EU version
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TwoSpikedHands:
@Sicklyboy I am wanting to fully change the game and bend it to my will lol. I would like to eventually have the ability to add more characters, enemies, even have a completely different story if i wanted. I already have the ability to change the tilemaps in the US version, so I can basically make my own map and warp to it in game - so I'm pretty far into it! -
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TwoSpikedHands:
I really would like to make a hack that I would enjoy playing, and maybe other people would too. swapping to the EU version would also mean my US friends could not legally play it
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TwoSpikedHands:
I am definitely considering porting over some of the EU features without using the actual ROM itself, tbh that would probably be the best way to go about it... but i'm sad that the voice acting is so.... not good on the US version. May not be a way around that though
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The Real Jdbye:
@TwoSpikedHands just switch, all the knowledge you learned still applies and most of the code and assets should be the same anyway -
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The Real Jdbye:
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be able to play it legally anyway since they need a ROM and they probably don't have the means to dump it themselves -
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Karma177:
do y'all think having an sd card that has a write speed of 700kb/s is a bad idea?
trying to restore emunand rn but it's taking ages... (also when I finished the first time hekate decided to delete all my fucking files
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Karma177:
@The Real Jdbye it hasn't given me any error trying to write things on it so I don't really think it's faulty (pasted 40/50gb+ folders and no write errors)
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DinohScene:
when SD cards/microSD write speeds drop below a meg a sec, they're usually on the verge of dying+1 -
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TwoSpikedHands:
@The Real Jdbye, I considered that, but i'll have to wait until i can get the eu version in the mail lol
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