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How To Replace a Gameboy Cartridge Battery
How do you replace a Game Boy cartridge battery? The maker solders in a fresh CR2025 cell, using flux, a 3.8mm bit, tweezers and isopropyl alcohol for tidying the joints.
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Games that no longer start often have dirty contacts or a broken track, and one that forgets its saves usually has a flat battery. Opening a cartridge usually needs a special security bit, and cleaning the edge connector is the usual first check.
In the NES cleaning tutorial, RetroRepairs opens a cartridge and reckons that most dead NES games want nothing more than a clean, a claim that is the maker's own. Replacing the CR2025 battery in a Game Boy cartridge uses flux and tweezers. When an N64 game shows no sign of life, the Mario Party 2 video traces it to a damaged track.
Keep isopropyl away from flames and open a window while it dries. Where a coin cell is replaced, choose one that comes with tabs fitted, solder to the tabs only and keep the iron off the cell body. A lithium cell must not be shorted or charged, and leaked residue is corrosive. The iron burns, its flux smokes and old solder is leaded.
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I Saved & Upgraded a Pokémon Blue Chewed by a Dog
A dog has chewed a Pokémon Blue cartridge, and The Retro Future sets out to save it and make it better than before, with an outside helper credited.
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Can We Rescue a Fire Damaged Game Cartridge from 1982? I don't know... #retrogaming #nostalgia #80s
Soot and heat have fused a ColecoVision Carnival cartridge after a house fire. The shell is opened, the board freed and the pitted contacts cleaned using isopropyl, and a printed replacement shell is planned.
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Can I Fix This DESTROYED Pokémon Red ?!
Dog chewing has wrecked a Pokemon Red Game Boy cartridge, and TronicsFix examines the damage to see whether it can be made to work again.
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This SNES Game is Worth Around $400 IF I Can Fix It!
Several approaches are tried on a SNES cartridge with a badly damaged circuit board, sold on after someone else tried and failed to repair it. A linked article covers cartridge cleaning.
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This N64 Zelda Game was LIQUID DAMAGED - Let's Try to Save it!
A liquid damaged Ocarina of Time cartridge for the Nintendo 64, sent in by a viewer, looks fine outside, and TronicsFix opens it to try to bring it back.
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N64 Game Won't Boot - Trace Repair - Mario Party 2 - Fixing eBay Junk
Why does a Mario Party 2 N64 cartridge give no sign of life, not even a blank screen? The maker finds a bad trace, repairs it and cleans up the board.
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I Bought 9 BROKEN POKEMON Gameboy Games - Let's Try to Fix Them!
TronicsFix takes on nine Pokemon Game Boy games that have board faults, corrosion and one earlier repair that went wrong, trying to get each one loading again.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Game Boy Cartridge Battery Replacement
Replacing the save battery in a Game Boy cartridge takes a CR2025 with tabs, and the maker says the same job suits NES, SNES, Sega and some N64 games.
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Get Your Old NES Games Working Again - Tutorial - How to Clean NES Games
Most NES games that will not start only need cleaning, according to this video, which opens a cartridge and works through getting it going again.
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Sega Saturn Memory Backup Cart Teardown & Clean
A pair of Sega Saturn memory backup cartridges described as faulty are opened and cleaned, and the maker says both worked afterwards.
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Game Cart Won't Save? Replace Sega Megadrive Genesis cartridge battery easy 2020
Shining Force on a Mega Drive cartridge no longer keeps saves, so the maker opens it, desolders the dead battery, fits a new one and checks the joints with a multimeter.
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Secrets To Fixing Faulty Game Boy Games!
Dead Game Boy cartridges are the subject here, with the techniques the maker has shared with game shops and a lesson on replacing the failed save batteries.
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NES Game Battery Replacement and Cleaning
NES save battery replacement is the job here, along with cleaning the cartridge contacts. The channel also mentions cells with solder tabs for anyone who prefers to solder the battery in.
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How to Clean/Repair Nintendo N64 Games
How do you clean and repair N64 game cartridges? Retro Video Game Repair goes through the job in a guide from a channel whose shop sells a cartridge cleaning kit.
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How to Clean/Repair NES Games
NES game cartridges are opened, cleaned and repaired in a guide from Retro Video Game Repair, whose shop also sells a game cleaning kit.
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How to Repair Nintendo NES System
Retro Video Game Repair swaps the 72 pin cartridge connector in an NES system for a new one, the part sold in the channel's NES repair kit.
