For the replacement battery you'll need a CR battery with pre-soldered tabs. This is a direct replacement for your old battery. Nintendo was serious about not letting people easily disassemble their hardware! To open your cartridge, you'll need a 3.
These are inexpensive and will let you access a wide variety of Nintendo games and systems. Remove the single screw from the back of the cartridge and remove the circuit board from its plastic housing. The Game Boy game battery is soldered to the circuit board via two tabs. Heat up each tab and then use your solder sucker to remove the old solder. If one stops making contact for a second or two say goodbye to your save file.
If you want to you can even put one more layer or two of tape but make sure you can close the cartridge afterward. Now, you can close the cartridge but before screwing it make sure the battery is well placed by playing the game and see if it saves. If yes, congrats, you can screw it and enjoy the game. If not, repeat Step 4 again. And that's how to change a Game Boy game cartridge without soldering, it's pretty easy and anyone can do it. Just be careful with the box cutter please, if you're a kid ask your parents for help!
Also, if you 're interested, here are a couple of links on this topic:. Newer Post Older Post Home. You might also like. If it won't load at first, jiggle it a little. It shouldn't be an issue though, and if it is, you may be in for a really tough time trying to save that savestate.
The reason for this part is because the battery in the cartridge is what keeps the savestate and in the Pokemon games the clock going.
If the battery is unplugged or dies, the savestate stored in the SRAM which is the game's memory will be deleted. To circumvent that, we plug the game into the system and turn it on. This gives power to the board and allows us to remove the battery without the SRAM turning off and thus destroying the save file. I'd recommend booting up the save or going to a place in the game where there is constant music playing without a break.
In my game Pokemon Crystal , I loaded my save and went to the Pokemon Center which has constant music playing. The reason for this is so you know if the game freezes during working on the battery. When it freezes, the music stops or plays a continuous note.
The reason on Pokemon Crystal I didn't just leave it on the title screen was because there's lots of pauses and fades, which would be unuseful in this case. Through this whole procedure, make sure to have a steady grip on the cartridge; making sure it moves as little as possible. Okay, so the manufacturer's battery has about a total of five solder points. Some older games may have more or less; just be prepared to do some yanking! To remove the battery there's several options.
You can try to de-solder the battery if you're confident in your abilities; or you can as gently as possible break the solder with various tools. I did the latter because mine wouldn't de-solder.
I used a very small flathead to pry up the top prong so I could get a better grip with the pliers. Several tips: When dealing with the battery and no other piece of the board you can use un-covered tools.
However, when you start working on the bottom prong of the battery, use covered tools. When I say covered, I mean putting a layer of tape over the section of the tool that could come in contact with any other part of the board. The reason being that if at any point you accidentally slip and touch any of the circuits on the board it will short the game and cause it to freeze.
Now it won't destroy the game unless you actually destroyed the circuit , but if the game does freeze before you removed the battery you should be able to just restart it up and continue working. Just in case you were unaware, the point of this step is to remove the battery with as little destruction as possible.
I can't really say what to do exactly because each game is different or so I am told , so try to do what you can without injuring the game. Make sure to continually listen to the game while working to see if it froze.
When you finally remove the battery, give it a quick double-check and make sure the game is still on and working. Also, take note as to where the positive and negative go , as you'll need to put the new battery in the same way. Get out the new battery and pop it in there the way the old one went in mine was positive side down.
You can either solder it in or use tape if you're afraid to mess things up or are afraid of having to wrestle with the solder the next time you change it. That shouldn't be a problem though if you use a soft solder which would be easy to break. You just need something to be able to keep it from moving and keep the contacts on the battery at all times. If you do solder it in, solder the prongs to the battery, bottom first and then the top.
Let the solder cool just in case it might burn something. As a side note, these things are pretty resilient. I accidentally dropped some solder on one of the larger chips on the cartridge thinking I ruined it; but it ended up just falling off after it cooled and didn't affect the game at all. Once you have the battery secured and are sure that it is , turn off the system and unplug the game. You did it! You just changed the battery and kept the save all by yourself and without troubles!
Take a moment to step back and admire your handy work. Bask in the glory, and gloat about your electronics prowess to your fellow cubicle dwellers! The battery is new. Is it possible that the cartridge can no longer be repaired??? Reply 3 years ago. Probably the battery either isn't making proper contact, or the battery is upside down, reversing the polarity.
I would say buy a battery with tabs already installed, and solder it securely to the board with the tabs, making sure you have the correct tab on the correct pad. I expect you'll find it works then. Tip 3 years ago. Instead of keeping the tab that's on the original battery and soldered to the board, just buy batteries with tabs already attached.
They're commonly available on eBay, and are fairly inexpensive. Desolder the original tabs, and solder the new battery's tabs to the board. Just make sure you pay attention and solder the correct tab to the correct pad.
This will be far more reliable than pressing it down with tape. You don't want to lose your save game you went to all this trouble to keep just because the tape gives up the ghost. It's a very clever idea to keep the saved game active in memory by running it on a GBA.
If I still had my childhood copies of any games, I might do this to preserve my saves. If you're paranoid about the tape not holding, you could add a piece of plastic, or in my case, a non-conductive coin on top of the battery and contact so that the case fits snugly and makes sure the battery doesn't move.
Hey I have a question lol, I have seen many articles about how to replace the save battery but idk which is the safest way to do it. I read on your that soldering could melt the battery, but I also saw if you use tape it might not always stay. What do you think would be the best way to fix my Pokemon silver game. Reply 5 years ago. Apparently they actually sell pre-soldered game batteries for gameboy games. These have the prongs and everything already soldered on to them.
So all you need to do is buy a battery like this:. And then de-solder the previous prongs form the other battery, and then solder on the new battery. This may severely damage the cartridge and the battery if done improperly especially letting the solder run over onto other circuits on the board or touching the metal of the iron to the circuits while following the method of leaving the gameboy on whilst running the game.
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