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SNES Battery Backed Games
YamiNoSenshi
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My girlfriend got me a SNES for Xmas, and I found all my old games. But when I went to play some games, I found my saves were gone. Turns out the battery that backed the saves died.
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I already found a way to replace the battery. Does anyone know of a site that had a list of games that have battery backed saves? Or do they all? Or do I have to test every game independently? Thanks.
My girlfriend got me a SNES for Xmas, and I found all my old games. But when I went to play some games, I found my saves were gone. Turns out the battery that backed the saves died.
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I already found a way to replace the battery. Does anyone know of a site that had a list of games that have battery backed saves? Or do they all? Or do I have to test every game independently? Thanks.
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Just out of curiosity, what method are you using to replace the batteries? Be careful if you're soldering the contacts onto the new battery, because if they get too hot they can explode on you.
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Sorry, that's correct. I goofed.
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My Pokémon Gold and Silver cartridges' batteries stopped working, are they the same batteries SNES games use?
It's been awhile since I worked on a GBC cart, but I do think they use the same batteries, yes.
Yeah, I've had some CR2032s explode on my hands while soldering them. Painful as hell. I recommend just using electrical tape and securing i with multiple strips. Trust me, it's so much more worth it and it will work just as well. If you're adamant about soldering it on, just remember to use proper soldering techniques - heat he rosin THEN apply it to the battery, don't directly heat the battery.
We kind of shy away from the emulator talk around here, just as a heads up.
Also, replaceing a battery means you will have to start over from the beginning. Once your battery dies, or you remove it from it's contacts, the data is gone.
Also RockinX a CR-2032 battery is easy to find at most department stores like WalMart or whatever. You can also get them from any electronics store, or at Radio Shack if you get desparate. Look in the electronics section, CR-2032s are usually in the same place they keep hearing aid batteries.
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I thought I remembered hearing about someone using some kind of superglue and that working well, since you could could just pry the battery out of the old contacts (assuming the spot welds don't force you to mangle them to shit) and glue the new ones in. I know pretty much nothing about what is electroconductive and what isn't, though, so who knows.
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You wouldn't want to do that because when the new battery dies, taking it out will pull off pieces of the PCB.
Even with hot glue, you risk the battery exploding. You're not really supposed to heat a battery every. Like I said, electrical tape works very well. Just tape it around the PCB several times like you were bandaging a wound, then use a small screw driver or knife to cut notches into the tape where the mounting screws go.
Just so you know, the battery is soldered onto a small metal contact point when you get to it. You can try to pry it off, but honestly, the easiest way to go about it is to have a pair of snipping pliers handy and just snip the contact point as close to the battery as possible. As long as the metal is touching the positive contact on the battery, it'll work. It's not worth pulling the contact point off.
uh, who agreed to that? It's damn easy to replace batteries - I do it all the time. Most people do, in fact.
If the battery dies, your saves are gone, and nothing else you save to the cart will actually be saved? If so, aside from unscrewing anything, is there another way to keep my original games working?
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