[Attention] Replacing the infernal battery on a GTA fart.

So, the internal battery went to hell on my GBA cart of BoF II. So there is much sad, as my save file is kaput, but now I want to fix it. Anyone out there know if it's the same approach as the old gameboy games? Remove screw, solder battery in place? Or am I going to royally fuck everything up if I'm that casual with it?

Poor, poor save file. You were so impressive while you lasted. Oh well, there goes my desire to play through all the BoF's in sequence.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, I figured it would be. Fucking BoF II. I was just about to go tear up some Witch's Tower, too.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I just need it to exist long enough for me to mess up some guys in BoF II. Forget forever. I realise my SNES has numbered days. My Saturn even more so. But damnit, I will give those days as high a number as possible.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

The thing is the tabs on those batteries are stamped on. Soldering may or may not stick to the generic battery surface, but I wouldn't know because I haven't tried. Irregardless, unless you're really skilled, the heat will probably severely damage the battery.

I was going to replace the battery in my Pokemon Silver cart, but haven't done so because I'm too timid.

BUT since I work in an electronics plant, there's gotta be some cold solder material or SOMETHING lying around that I can steal. I will snoop around for you, but I'm off till Monday. Can you wait till then?

I'm gonna try and solder my pokemon silver battery right now and see how it goes, I'll edit in a bit.

Yeah, of course I can, Zeph. I'm only just about to order the triwing screwdriver.

Best of luck, and godspeed christian solder. (get it?)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Meia

Okay, yeah BoF II is SRAM. Battery.

I found a great site that covers internal information especially the save types. Use the search feature for this.

I'll just spoiler/quote someone covering all sorts of info on this kind of saving data thing.

Yeah, I figured it was battery. Game boots and plays fine, can save and reload, just can't shut off and boot up or save disappear. Classic battery issue. Thanks for that site though, Meia. Helpful as always.

Most amazing jew boots

Originally Posted by Meia

I know how it feels to lose that save. I was playing some bomberman gba game for a while and suddenly my save is just all gone when I got back to it the next day. I was more than half way through it. So I was more than worried about my other games I haven't played and really searched for this. One thing though, I'm just so damn happy that the Golden Suns are FLASH saved. Whew. I was going to head into that after Superstar Saga.

Oh yeah another thing, pirated games will have shitty batteries.

But yeah, I saw that I need to get into Drill Dozer, Harvest Moon (More Friends), Amazing Mirror, Shining Force(!), Riviera(!) (of course there's that PSP port too...) soon and a bunch of FF ports but you know me, I hardly replay games as is when I'm backlogged with the rest.

Now to find out about those GB/GBC games... ;\ I suppose that's more of a reason why I should be grateful for roms. Thankfully there's not a lot of those that I should had played besides Zelda's Ages and Seasons and Lufia.

I don't think it was a pirated copy. Came sealed in box with full manual etc.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Meia

Oh I trust you know what you're buying. Its stuff like that are sold on online we just cannot tell til we physically have it. We learned that valuable lesson soon when we got one gba cart online and you can tell by looking the cart on the back saying "Nintondo". Pwned already, and we never buy gba games online ever again.

Yeah, when I buy GBA games off ebay, I always, ALWAYS double check to make sure they're full box and manual'd. Most forgeries don't bother to include the complete set.

Also, I'd frame the Nintondo cart. That's awesome.

FELIPE NO

You're a hero, Zeph.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?