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Re: Using more than one Pokéwalker

Howdie, have you performed this yourself? Have you re-synced your original Pokéwalker and not have your watt count restored? When I performed this, I found that it restored my walk + watt count however not so sure if it will restore the counts > 7 days. Thanks! --Suffen 09:37, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Suffen,

I bought a copy of both Heart Gold and Soul Silver, and I had previously had one pokéwalker connected to each game. Because I've mainly been playing SS, I would load a pokémon from HG onto the HG pokéwalker and then transfer the watts earned to the SS game cartridge using the receive gift function. I used the SS game cartridge (which had ~ 100k steps and 10k watts) to reset the HG pokéwalker, which also reset the steps and watts to 0. I then connected the HG pokéwalker to the SS game cartridge, but the watts and steps were still at 0. When I connected the SS pokéwalker to my SS cartridge, the steps went back to ~100k but the watts remained at 0. I can still access all the routes I've unlocked, but the 10k watts haven't come back. It's been less than 24 hours since I've done this, so I'll wait a few more days and see what happens. --Rickem 11:15, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey Rickem, I see. Interesting! The way I did it was that I used a brand new OEM Pokéwalker from Nintendo that hasn't been synced, and cleared it off with my SS -- which did delete all of everything but the moment I returned my pokémon from stroll on the original Pokéwalker, things came back to normal which included the Watts from the previous strolls that I had (Had about 15k or so). Maybe the cleared watts was a result of having the pokéwalker previously synced to another game? I have not the ability to re-test this atm. --Suffen 17:10, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I have retested this with both pokéwalkers synced to SS, but the same thing happened. I had about 1k watts, and they disappeared again. The strange thing was that I had a pokémon in the old SS pokéwalker when I reset the new SS pokéwalker, and when I reset and synced the new one, the pokémon was still in the old pokéwalker AND had also been deposited into my PC. When I returned the pokémon from it's stroll on the old pokéwalker, it was released. I guess there must be something coded into the game to prevent cloning via this method.

As I said before, the step count is restored when I connect the old pokéwalker to the SS cartridge, but not the watt count. --Rickem 03:02, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

PS. I am happy to conduct some experiments with the pokéwalkers to see if I can't figure out what's going wrong. Any suggestions on what I might try doing differently?