Pokemon Gold and Silver - Changing the System Time

To reset the clock, at the title screen, press Select + Down + B. Select Yes, and enter a password. This generator will get a password for you. You'll need your trainer's name, the amount of money you have, and your trainer's ID number. To get this information, during play, press START, and select your name on the menu.

Password Generator

Trainer Name*:
ID:
Money**:

Your Password:

* Your trainer name is case sensitive, meaning if you used all CAPITALS in your name use all capitals here. You'll also need to input some special symbols for special characters:

• ^P_K -> {
• ^M_N -> }
• × -> *

** You only need to worry about what money you're carrying, not the money your mom has. Also, don't put commas in your money amount. If you don't have any money with you, enter 0.

How the Game Calculates the Password

First Calculation: Your Name

Each of the characters of your name is converted to its location in the character set:

A = 128 B = 129 C = 130 D = 131 E = 132 F = 133 G = 134 H = 135 I = 136 J = 137 K = 138 L = 139 M = 140

N = 141 O = 142 P = 143 Q = 144 R = 145 S = 146 T = 147 U = 148 V = 149 W = 150 X = 151 Y = 152 Z = 153

a = 160 b = 161 c = 162 d = 163 e = 164 f = 165 g = 166 h = 167 i = 168 j = 169 k = 170 l = 171 m = 172

n = 173 o = 174 p = 175 q = 176 r = 177 s = 178 t = 179 u = 180 v = 181 w = 182 x = 183 y = 184 z = 185

= 127 ( = 154 ) = 155 : = 156 ; = 157 [ = 158 ] = 159 PK= 225 MN= 226 - = 227 ? = 230 × = 241 / = 243 . = 232 , = 244

Ä = 192 Ö = 193 Ü = 194 ä = 195 ö = 196 ü = 197

Now, add up the numbers for the first five letters of your name. For example, Pokesam:

P = 143
o = 174
k = 170
e = 164
s = 178

The letters "a" and "m" are ignored here. Now we add up the numbers:
143 + 174 + 170 + 164 + 178 = 829

We'll call the sum (829) A.

Calculation 2

Take the total amount of your money, reduce the number by 65536 until the result is 65535 or less, and divide that result by 256. Then add the remainder to the answer.

Say you have 175115. Reduce the number by 65536 until the result is 65535 or less. The resulting number is 44043. Divide 44043 by 256.
44043 / 256 = 172 with a remainder of 11
We add these two numbers together 172 + 11 = 183 to get our second number, B.

Calculation 3

This is done the same way as the money but we use your ID number.

Say your ID is 21312 so I divide 21312 by 256
21312 / 256 = 83 with a remainder of 64
We add these two numbers 83 + 64 = 147 to get our third number, C.

Calculation 4

Add together the three numbers you got from the previous steps.
829 + 183 + 147 = 1159

Then, add zeros in front of the number to make it five digits long.
This number is only four digits long so we add a 0 to the front to make it five digits long. This makes our final number and password 01159.

Note

This password shortcut was removed from the Crystal version. Maybe the developers used this shortcut as a convenient way to debug the game's time-related features.