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Game Boy games used a CR2016 or (later on) a CR2025 battery to maintain save data. These are soldered in place, which makes replacing batteries rather annoying
by MrFoof 10y ago
Game Boy games used a CR2016 or (later on) a CR2025 battery to maintain save data.
These are soldered in place, which makes replacing batteries rather annoying, though they're replaceable if you put in the effort.
- leggomylibro 10y agoUnfortunately that trend didn't continue with the GBA, whose games tended to use semi-volatile memory chips that will die after enough time or read/writes. Many of my old GBA games won't hold a save longer than a day or two anymore, without any viable way to repair them. Too bad, so sad.
- wazanator 10y agoBut hey on the bright side emulators for GBA and GBC are seemingly perfect and run on anything. If someone makes a Gameboy advance micro clone for emulators that is decent I would buy that in a heartbeat.
- ihartley 10y agoIf you already have a GBA Micro, or other GBA, you can just get a Everdrive GBA: http://krikzz.com/store/home/42-everdrive-gba-x5.html http://krikzz.com/store/home/42-everdrive-gba-x5.html
- TD-Linux 10y agoIIRC many of them use SPI flash or EEPROM, which you should just be able to pop off and replace with a similar part.
- alex_duf 10y agoI actually did replace the battery of a zelda cartridge on GameBoy when I was a kid. The battery wasn't even the right size and barely fitted inside it, so I had to use some tape to hold it together. That day my older brother treated me like a genius. (That day only)