courtesi Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 Once the battery gives up the ghost, how is it replaced? Or is it even possible to replace? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I believe GBA & DS carts use flash memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGQuarterly Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 I think you are right. In the GB/GBC carts, you just need to open up the cart, remove the old battery and attach a new one. Kinda sucks though because the batteries aren't really meant to be replaced, so you have to kind of pry them out of there and then solder a new one in place, which is dangerous because you shouldn't really be holding a soldering iron to a battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted December 18, 2006 Share Posted December 18, 2006 The GBA is a per-game issue As I understand things, GBA carts can use static RAM, flash RAM, or EEPROM. SRAM needs a battery, the others don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadow460 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 I think you are right. In the GB/GBC carts, you just need to open up the cart, remove the old battery and attach a new one. Kinda sucks though because the batteries aren't really meant to be replaced, so you have to kind of pry them out of there and then solder a new one in place, which is dangerous because you shouldn't really be holding a soldering iron to a battery. Actually, you gotta desolder the old battery's tabs from the board, then they come right off. You don't need to solder directly to the battery--that's either a spot welder (I've watched this be done) or a "stapler" of sorts that attatches the tabs. From there, you solder the tabs back to the board (with the new battery attatched to 'em) and you're good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uzumaki Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 You can order batteries that has solder tabs prefastened on. And it'd be a lot better to get those than to get a plain battery and try to solder tabs on it. Don't solder it long enough, the solder and tab will come off. Do it too long, the battery goes boom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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