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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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A cartridge that forgets its saves, or a console that loses the date, has often run its backup cell flat. Replacing it is a soldering job, and the dead cell may have leaked, so look for residue on the board first.
Where the cell is soldered in, buy one with tabs already fitted. Solder only the tabs and never put an iron on the cell itself. A shorted lithium cell can get hot. The iron burns, flux fumes need a window open, and old solder holds lead.
For cartridges, the Game Boy battery replacement lists a CR2025, flux and tweezers, and the Mega Drive save fix checks the joints with a multimeter. A Sega CD gets a new cell in part two of a repair series. The Dreamcast is built for a rechargeable clock cell and charges it, so a plain CR2032 must not be fitted. The Dreamcast teardown includes a battery swap, and the console has mains voltage inside.
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Sega CD Refurbish - Sega CD Won't Turn On - Fixing eBay Junk
Why will a Sega CD not turn on? The maker refurbishes one with a new power fuse, save battery, capacitors and drive belt, and repairs a few other faults too.
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Fixing eBay Junk - Sega CD Model 1 - Part 2 Replacing Save Battery
The save battery in a Sega CD Model 1 is replaced in part 2 of a three-part series, a job the maker says needs soldering.
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N64 Controller Pak Battery Replacement
Why has an N64 Controller Pak stopped holding saved games? The video goes through changing its battery, and the maker adds a notice that the work is done at the viewer's own risk.
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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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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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Sega Dreamcast Teardown + VGA Mod + Battery Replacement + LED Mod + Common Faults
Dreamcast common faults come up as the maker takes one apart and rebuilds it, with a VGA socket, a blue LED, a battery replacement and a fix for it powering off.
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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.
