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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. John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
Some of the GBA carts have batteries.
Some are just EEPROMs EEPROMs only die after about...what, an extremely high amount of state changes. Like 10 to a 100 thousand times. So in the case of BOF, it's probably a battery powered unit, I would imagine. I can't think of it dieing otherwise this soon. GBA carts run on 3 volts, I believe, so a replacement, should you have the security screwdriver bit, should be simple. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Yeah, I figured it would be. Fucking BoF II. I was just about to go tear up some Witch's Tower, too.
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
My advice is to get a flashcart. It will allow you to play your games, but without being dependant on the physical cartridge. You can back up your save files and never run this risk again.
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Batteries will fail, regardless of usage. Replacements have to be done, regardless. Playing on a flashcart will not alleviate the problem, although it will prevent his save file from nuclear meltdown.
Alternatively, you could connect the cart to a 3 volt power source while you operate, and replace the battery on a regular basis, and as long as the power isn't interupted, your save file should exist forever. I was speaking idiomatically. |
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.
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
I'm interested in this too. I have a bunch of GB/GBC/GBA games I haven't gotten myself into sooner. And is there a listing somewhere that can tell you which games has EEPROMS or batteries?
FELIPE NO |
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. Edit: Heh. Either I did a piss poor job soldering it and destroyed the copper trace, or the heat killed the battery. But it didn't work. Oh well. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?
Last edited by Zephyrin; Mar 26, 2008 at 06:21 PM.
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Best of luck, and godspeed christian solder. (get it?) Jam it back in, in the dark. John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
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. Spoiler:
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Most amazing jew boots John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
You guys are brave souls to solder with lithium.
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
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 was speaking idiomatically. |
You might also want to check tosee if the wire to the battery got severed.
I have had a couple of games where they won't save. One game was the battery which was easily swapped. Another turned out that it was a wire or something inside that got messed up and hence couldn't be fixed. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
FELIPE NO John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
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.
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Also, I'd frame the Nintondo cart. That's awesome. Jam it back in, in the dark. John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
I tried, quite unsuccessfully, to solder tabs onto generic batteries, more than once. Whatever metal, probly stainless, the body is made of just won't connect to the solder.
But I finally found a place that sells the batteries. They are apparently the same for all GB, GBC, and GBA carts. Fairly cheap as well. I'll probably buy a handful of them. BATTERY LITHIUM COIN 3V W/TAB - CR1616-1F2 or... BATTERY LITHIUM COIN 3V W, BATTERY LITHIUM COIN 3V 12 How ya doing, buddy? |
You're a hero, Zeph.
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. John Mayer just asked me, personally, through an assistant, to sing backup on his new CD. |
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How ya doing, buddy?
Last edited by Soluzar; Apr 9, 2008 at 05:31 PM.
Reason: This member got a little too post happy.
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I've tried soldering to stainless steel before and found if I took some rough sandpaper and rubbed it over the surface to be soldered first it stuck a hell of a lot better. I think it's because there's not enough adhesion between the highly polished surface of the metal (in my case, a paperclip) but if it's roughed up, there's a lot more nooks and crannies for the solder to adhere to, so even though you've got a weak bond, you get a lot more surface doing the bonding.
I was speaking idiomatically. |