Ok, I bought Pokemon Silver CIB from NAVA yesterday. It works but the battery is dead. I know nothing on how to use a soldering iron, so does anyone here do battery replacements?
Game Boy save battery replacement
Ok, I bought Pokemon Silver CIB from NAVA yesterday. It works but the battery is dead. I know nothing on how to use a soldering iron, so does anyone here do battery replacements?
Check out this. As long as you can remove the battery without removing the metal prongs you don't have to do any soldering. This tutorial shows using regular tape but I would reccomend using electrical tape:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...mon-goldsilve/
I'd still want to solder it in though unless there was a tight hold without the tape. One wrong bump and your data could be gone. As far as removing the screw if you don't have the right security bit, I found that using a small pair of scissors works well.
"Game programmers are generally lazy individuals. That's right. It's true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Since the dawn of computer games, game programmers have looked for shortcuts to coolness." Kurt Arnlund - Game programmer for Activision, Accolade...
You can order the battery with the metal prongs already on it online. Then all you have to do is solder in the prongs without risking blowing the battery. And I also open them using scissors/pliers.Originally Posted by jb143
Soldering the prongs certainly would be better and easier than soldering directly to the battery. I just cringe when I hear about someone only using tape in place of solder.
"Game programmers are generally lazy individuals. That's right. It's true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Since the dawn of computer games, game programmers have looked for shortcuts to coolness." Kurt Arnlund - Game programmer for Activision, Accolade...
Suggesting that you can rip the old battery out and tape a new one in is irresponsible because someone could damage the game's circuit board or stab themselves with a slip of the screwdriver. Spend 5 bucks on a hobbyist soldering iron and another 5 bucks on a spool of solder, practice on some scrap junk and you're set for life. If that's beyond your abilities there are people here perfectly capable of doing it for you.
Gary Shandling
Where have you seen a soldering iron for 5 bucks? Seriously.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
Are we splitting hairs? Technically... Radioshack has them for 8.75. If you were to pick up a small amount of solder for 3 bucks that would put you in at under $12 before tax. $12 is only a $2 difference between the $10 of the original solder/iron price quote brand new.
Or you could find one in a family member's box of old junk with solder, like I did. Putting me in at right about, $FREE.
Deal Extreme's got one with free shipping for 4.79 USD.
Barring that, you can find one on sale from any online electronics supplier from time to time. But the moral of this story Jorpho is you don't sass me son, I will chew you up and spit you out.
Oh, I genuinely wanted to know. I thought I checked DealExtreme a while ago and came up empty. I might just order one now.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
Oh no he d'dnt!
Damnation, I was prepared for fisticuffs.Oh, I genuinely wanted to know. I thought I checked DealExtreme a while ago and came up empty. I might just order one now.
I know this thread is from forever ago, but if it's of any use to anyone, a tri wing bit is useful for getting carts open to anyone uneasy of damaging screws, like the one here: http://www.projectgameboy.com/index....=index&cPath=4
The tri-wing driver is used for opening the Game Boy itself. The 3.8mm security game bit is what you're after (found within your same link). I'm sure that's what you were thinking of, but I didn't want to see anyone order the wrong thing (though everyone that wants to tinker with GB stuff -- or various other Nintendo products -- should rightly have both).
The above post is right about a tri-wing not opening a gb cart. See my earlier post for if you don't have a security bit handy.
But bumping the post up did do one thing. Now everyone can be aware that Garry Shandling does gameboy battery replacements.
"Game programmers are generally lazy individuals. That's right. It's true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Since the dawn of computer games, game programmers have looked for shortcuts to coolness." Kurt Arnlund - Game programmer for Activision, Accolade...
A tri-wing bit will open Game Boy Advance games, however.
Well good thing you guys know about that stuff. Glad to be of accidental assistance
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