If you are watching this video, please remove the game from the shell completely before attempting to replace the battery. There is a very good chance that if you are newer to soldering then you will melt the back of the case doing the way it was shown in the video.
I was trying to desolder a power switch off my ds lite because I broke it, the whole hinge and back melted. been through this and it is not fun. So please do remove the plastic shell.
I remember things now..... It was that night, when my mother told me to sleep soon because its kinda late already.. And i said "let me just beat elite four and the champion mom, then I'll sleep".. My brother watching at my back told me that if I beat the pokemon league I can then continue my journey from jhoto to kanto... We couldn't barely sleep because of excitement... And until morning comes.... our pokemon silver was corrupted...
DONT SOLDER DIRECTLY TO BATTERY!!!!!!!! I had one blow up in my face. it was like having a firecracker go off in my hand. notice that the connections are NOT soldered to the battery?
kinda normal it blows up. a battery that gets to hot wil react to that heat and explode. soldering iron gets a temp around 300-450 degrees to melt solder good so.......
when this happened to me like 10 years ago i just ripped out the old battery and used electrical tape to hold the new one in place. worked like a charm and was super fast.
That’s what I did too since I didn’t have a smolder. I remember watching a video back in 2012 that showed both way to take out the battery. 8 years later I hope my Pokémon gold file is still safe
Before using the soldering iron for anything, consider removing the PCB from casing first, so that you don't accidentally melt or deform it ;). Other than that, very good job!
I remember my friend giving me Pokemon Yellow. He said he had save problems so he gave it to me it worked just fine until... I was at the Elite 4 it was late I had to sleep I saved and quit but the next day... IT WAS GONE ;_;
You can also put some of your most cherished pokemon on Pokemon Stadium 2 if you have it. It's an n64 cartridge, so it doesn't use a battery, meaning your pokemon will be there forever unless the data corrupts or something.
This is an option I use, however it's worth noting that to transfer from stadium 2 to a new game there is an annoying restriction that the player must have 151 pokemon caught, otherwise the game won't let you transfer them. Idk why they did that.
I get that fairly often. I'll take it as a compliment, thank you! :) media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/june/130617/6c7911377-tdy-130617-leo-toasts-1.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg
Great vid! Just a few things I wanted to mention 1. Instead of using the tabbed battery, you can use a battery retainer ( a fancy word for battery holder) and switch your battery out from time to time while the cart is running in a gameboy, to not lose your save. 2. As many people pointed out, take the board of the cart out first before soldering. 3. Using flux is reccomended, to avoid burning, just make sure to clean off the excess. 4. Make sure that you solder the + to the + on the board and the same goes for the -.
Thought I fixed my cartridge. Found a shiny Zubat. Caught it. Save file corrupted. At least, I managed to save a few horrible quality pictures on my phone as well as a video of me sending it out in battle, so that she may be remembered.
Some original gameboy games use CR2025 batteries, and some use smaller CR1616 batteries. The circuit board near where the battery sits will tell you which one it takes.
Use a desoldering braid to remove solder from battery terminals and use new solder. Also do not solder directly to battery. That is how you get a explode game.
Nice video. Definitely gonna get myself one of those. 2 tips i could give about battery replacement is you can take a pen apart, heat the end up and press it into the screw until it is cooled and you have a bit to take the screw out. Also use some tweezers to hold the battery while removing from the solder. Pokemon GBA games use the smaller 2016 batteries. The 2025 work but are bigger and you struggle close the case properly.
I remember getting those memory cards years ago for my Poke'mon games, I remember doing the soldering way and it did work but clever to actually get the clips again. NIce video man
I used this method for all my pokemon vintage carts (from childhood); it allowed me to restore red and gold, but surprisingly, Yellow lasted all the way til the Analogue Pocket came out and I used that to save my Pokemon Stadium event Mew. Putting new batteries and restoring the saves felt like curating a museum exhibit. I guess they will be good to go for another few decades.
This kind of stuff is fasinating for me. I always wondered if there was a way to install flash memory chips into NES, Gameboy, and Gameboy Color games. Installing flash memory chips into SNES, N64, and GBA games is possible (Most GBA games have them, some have the battery methods), but installing them on these kind of carts is unkown to me.
Lost my level 100 blastoise I traded over onto my silver game 20 years ago. Will definitely get one of the save carts for next time. Thanks for the tip!
Sorry to hear that :( I know that feeling. On the bright side, if you emulate, get it for 3DS or get the mega memory card you can play through again and relive some of those memories
@@lucky_crit Today i bought the mega memory card from ebay. Since in Germany there is no offer whatsoever, i paid 35$ incl. shipping. Damn nostalgia is so expensive XD. I will spend again a lot of time with my GBC :) In Germany it is not legal to download the game an play it on a SD-Card for the DS :(((. And I don´t want a Virus from a shady website, since I don´t know any good ones. So unfortunately there was only the option with the MMC.
So if I still have my 80+ hours of pokemon silver and back it up in a Mega Memory Card. Then when the day comes that my Silver version no longer saves. I can replace the old battery with a new one and then upload the old file from the memory card. I still get my saved file and the new battery continue will resume saving?
I had one of these! Also had a cheat device made specifically for Pokemon that let you edit your Pokemon files. I miss my level 100 shiny Tauros with all beam attacks lol. I think it was called a Monster Brain by Pelican. I believe it could also back up game saves.
I still have my original Mega Memory Card (original owner) as well as a second one I picked up decades ago. Earlier today I found that one had a mangled pin in the cartridge slot. I desoldered the slot and removed to pin but it broke when I tried to straighten it. I decided to take the “Audio In” pin, which the Mega Memory Card does not use, and moved it to the place where the broken pin was. It worked like a charm! If there is any game that uses the “Audio In” pin, I don’t know what game that might be… and it certainly doesn’t need it for the Mega Memory Card to do its thing. Only thing I can think of that might use it is perhaps the Bung Enterprises “Pocket Voice” but perhaps not because that actually has a built-in speaker.
I didn't realize my mom had kept my two copies of Silver from my childhood, I was certain they got tossed out with half our stuff from moving so much. She gave them back to me a couple years ago when I came back to visit. I tried to find my SoulSilver game this weekend after cleaning and finding my Japanese 3DS, sadly I think I must've lost it permanently, now it's worth $150 to $250 when I had bought it back in the day for only like $30. But I found those Silver games along with my old GBA SP. This video has given me hope I can finally live my nostalgia! Thank you for the tutorial! Lugia, Typhlosion, Entei, I'll see you soon my old friends!
I somehow still have SoulSilver and the PokéWalker that came with it at the time. I saw what people were selling it for and was shocked bc I remember it was like $30 something at Walmart when I bought it.
I fixed my Crystal cart a few years back with plain ol' CR2032s from the store. Just broke the tabs off the old battery and used electrical tape to secure the new battery in place, no soldering needed. The tape, and the added pressure because it makes the interior a bit taller and so the back of the case presses it to the front, keeps the battery nicely secured and easy enough to replace in future.
Still better to solder because if you drop the game or something battery with tape can move just a tiny bit out of place then you lose game files happen to me 12 years ago when I didn’t have a soldering iron
Hah! I think you're the first to notice. I kept resetting until the first daycare egg they give you was a Hitmontop! Unfortunately the special attackers are better to get out of the egg though as the IVs of these Pokemon are set to have 0 attack so I don't think my Hitmontop will be that great!
I lost my Silver version. Played all teenage years :'( My aunt got the game for me when I was around like 9 or 10 for Christmas in NYC..And I lost the data when I was around 28 or so . Still hurts. I had around 233 or so Pokemon. :'( I miss my Suicune, Ninetails and Raichu
My save data sorry tore my heart up. It was my older brothers who had cancer and had passed away at 9. He had beat both gold and silver and both cant save and lost their saves. I cant wait to do this and re-complete this game
I'm really sorry to hear that. I have a watch from a friend that passed away and after he did, the battery died within it and the time has been way off ever since.
Lucky Crit you are the man! I immediately went and bought a mega memory card. I knew about the whole battery thing but had no idea about the memory card!
if you're really careful, you actually dont need use a soldering iron, if you can remove the battery without breaking the little tab on it off, you can put the new battery on it and use electrical tape to hold it in place. did this with my yellow 3 years ago. if you break the tab tho....gg time to get that soldering iron
You can get a cheap soldering iron for $15 online or at a hobby store, just don't use it for too long. Those cheap ones often cheap out on the heat shield. I recommend a small pen iron. You might have to buy a holding stand and sponge separate.
i got a copy of crystal back in eighth grade and the save battery was dead so i replaced the battery... oddly enough, my copy of blue (which is likely older than i am) still works just fine, and it's had to have been seventeen years at the least.
I know this a year old but anyways... it is because gen 1 only used the battery for saves, but gen 2 also used it for a real time clock, which was constantly running, so gen 2 games tend to use up the battery quicker.
This is probably better than what I do. I don't back up my save files, rather, I immortalize my Pokemon by depositing them in a Stadium 1/2 box. When a battery dies, I pay a local retro game store to replace it, and I just re-play the game. I have a full, battle-ready set of all the Gen 1 OU Pokemon sitting in a Stadium box, and a shiny Golbat sitting in a Stadium 2 box, so I'm fine with losing save files every couple of years. Granted, my method requires more hardware (and doesn't actually protect my save files).
Gon a buy myself a Mega Memory Card to back up my save files - I highly recommend this to many people who wish to keep their save data for a long term basis.
Thank you for the info I recently got all gen 1 an gen 2 games and after seeing this definitely gonna get one never knew I could actually save gameboy data
there is a faster, easier, zero expense way to change battery and not lose save file >>> open the cartridge and with battery exposed stick it back into gameboy, turn the gameboy on and open your save file, turn around the gameboy and place it back on the table - make sure its in stable position, replace the battery while the game is powered on. after replacement just save the game, power gameboy off, remove the cartridge and place the back cover back on the cartridge, there its done! .....However there are 2 ways this can fail : 1) if batteries in gameboy die during the time battery in game cartridge is removed --- solution -- --> use fresh batteries in gameboy before you start this operation. 2) if you move gameboy a lot, to the point game cartridge loses pin connection with gameboy and thus the game powers off >>> solution >>> during the whole process keep gameboy as stable as possible
If you don't have a gamebit driver to open the cart you can melt the tip of a bic pen cap and while it's melted jam it onto the screw and hold it until it cools then unscrew.
Like most N64 games with built-in save, Mario Kart 64 is an EEPROM save title… no battery. Titles like Ocarina of Time, and WCW nWo Revenge use SRAM batteries, and Animal Forest used a battery for an RTC (Real-Time Clock), but the vast majority of N64 games with cartridge save used 4k or 16k EEPROM. There were a few with FlashRAM too.
I bought a used Pokemon gold MANY years ago, but it could never save. Gen 2 is the only Pokemon generation I've never played, so with this, I can finally experience the second generation! As soon as I find that gold cartridge...
if you dont have the screwdriver you can try taking the insides out of a bic pen, melting the point of it and pressing it against the screw and let it dry, it will take the shape of the screw and kinda glue to it
You could duplicate Pokémon with the memory card. All you have to do is save all of your legendary Pokémon on the memory card, then trade it to another gb, then load the save to when you had the Pokémon and BOOM! You have duplicates of your Pokémon!
By the way, i used electrical tape instead of solder to use standard batteries in the cartridges. Just pry off the metal soldered bits from the old battery, slide a piece of electrical tape under the metal bracket thingy's, but in the new battery, put on the top metal bracket and wrap the whole thing in the electrical tape. Works greta so far, however i did bust a pokemon gold cartridge once because i accidentally cut a trace in a hurry so you do have to take your time prying the metal brackets loose from the old battery
The good thing is that if it was the red Gyarados from the story, it's a guaranteed shiny and always has the same IVs. So basically you will get another next time you play :)
there is another way of backing up your pokemon saves. and any saves for that matter. if you have a transfer pak and an everdrive for the n64 you can download a program to your everdrive and you can backup the save to the SD. just insert the cartridge and run the program. its pretty neat.
If you don't have a security bit to remove the screw then use a pen. Heat up the tip with a lighter and then firmly press it against the screw. Let it cool off for a few seconds and voila, your own security bit.
I’m sorry: you have to save the game first that the batteries dead, or you can save the game also when the batteries don’t work anymore? A real good video!
Only yesterday I was cursing the in built timer for gold and silver but was surprised that my yellow ,blue and red haven’t faced this problem yet... but that game saver sounds good 👍, side note I dropped my game boy Color and now a bump to the top right corner will completely destroy the save file? Have you come across this problem before?
If you're still interested in hearing horror stories about losing save data, a few years ago, I got a Mega Memory Card to preemptively backup my files, but it's apparently really easy to accidentally DELETE your save data if you don't use the memory card exactly right, and it didn't come with instructions, so I did it wrong right off the bat. Lost my childhood Silver file and an Blue file I was trying to 100%.
Two things my man. Question one? This will work for any gameboy cartridge? Question two. Is there room for trial and error or If you screw up it's done and probably scrap? Great video by the way. Answered alot of questions.
Question for lucky crit though. When you use the mega memory card games like Pokemon gold have an internal clock and calendar so is there any way to dump the save, swap batteries, reload the save, AND have it set to the correct date and time? I have swapped batteries and did all the soldering while the game was powered on with a gba but that only works if the battery still has enough to still hold the save on it.
I'd say that this is a great tutorial except for one MAJOR flaw. You backup the save BEFORE you replace the battery. If you replace the battery without backing up the save, you will lose the data.
+Crossed Mike Of course, maybe I failed to really drill that in. But in this case the battery was already dead like I assumed most people finding this video's batteries would be
i felt a lot of anxiety as you removed the battery sticking the soldering iron with the board inside the the shell, please, do not do that, remove the board completely first or you are going to melt the shell with the soldering iron
I had that mega memory card device. I had a DMG gameboy at the time and had to cut the notch out of the power switch to make it work. I remember i was big mad when for some reason the flash chip was starting to wear out and would boot up blank with no saves in it at all! 😱Fortunately a couple reboots and reinsertions later I got it to come back but my 11 year old self could never trust it again
can you please do a tutorial on how to use a soldering iron in full detail and what brand to recommend for beginners, i want to learn how but a lot of tutorial videos kinda half ass on showing and rush the tutorial. again if yea can that be great thaks
+QuetzalToonart005 For the most part it's very simple. Any soldering iron from the store is fine. Plug it and let it heat up (don't leave and forget. Very dangerous) and then just touch the tip of it to the silver solder and after a few seconds it will liquefy. It's tricky to not have the solder harden before moving the battery though, as you may see in the video. It hardens again very quickly
Hm... Maybe I could pick up one of those Mega Memory Cards and replace the battery? A copy of Pokemon Gold that my older brother has had for years has a wonky battery; when saved it will sometimes still have the save file even after turning off the system but other times it won't still have have the save file.
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If you are watching this video, please remove the game from the shell completely before attempting to replace the battery. There is a very good chance that if you are newer to soldering then you will melt the back of the case doing the way it was shown in the video.
I came to the comments to say the same thing! ALWAYS remove the game from the shell before attempting to work on it! 😳
I was trying to desolder a power switch off my ds lite because I broke it, the whole hinge and back melted. been through this and it is not fun. So please do remove the plastic shell.
at 5:24 he does it...
Im holding back tears..............this video is too powerful. Thank you Leonardo Dicaprio for helping every man to ever own a Gameboy.
I remember things now..... It was that night, when my mother told me to sleep soon because its kinda late already.. And i said "let me just beat elite four and the champion mom, then I'll sleep".. My brother watching at my back told me that if I beat the pokemon league I can then continue my journey from jhoto to kanto... We couldn't barely sleep because of excitement... And until morning comes.... our pokemon silver was corrupted...
Perfect fucking time for it to die.
Oh rip dude
I’m sorry bro.
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Ouch
rip my pokemon red with my lv 100 ratata
You worked so hard on that Rattata.
Lucky Crit are there little battery's in the Nintendo 3ds? Because I might need the backup my sun and moon save file
Bunnygamerplays alot No. 3DS and DS Games don't have a battery. The saves are stored on flash memory and won't dissapear unless you delete them.
Youngster Joey had it coming...
xX_SpeedyScout_Xx aq
DONT SOLDER DIRECTLY TO BATTERY!!!!!!!! I had one blow up in my face. it was like having a firecracker go off in my hand. notice that the connections are NOT soldered to the battery?
holy shit dude
kinda normal it blows up. a battery that gets to hot wil react to that heat and explode. soldering iron gets a temp around 300-450 degrees to melt solder good so.......
The tabs are spot welding to the battery. I can't believe anyone would actually attempt to solder tabs on. Yikes.
well.....-_- you should've looked up how to solder and how batteries work man :/ lesson learned
My dad did it for me i looked at it and just blow in my face!
You had to be in lavender town
Lol ikr. Out of all the places he could have been in, he was chilling in the creepiest place in the game.
when this happened to me like 10 years ago i just ripped out the old battery and used electrical tape to hold the new one in place. worked like a charm and was super fast.
That’s what I did too since I didn’t have a smolder. I remember watching a video back in 2012 that showed both way to take out the battery. 8 years later I hope my Pokémon gold file is still safe
@@Donovanmcdab41 i also did the same
Just bought a GBC + Pokémon Gold. Thanks for making this video, now I'm no longer terrified of losing my save.
Good luck, friend!
Dove compro la mega memorycard😢
Before using the soldering iron for anything, consider removing the PCB from casing first, so that you don't accidentally melt or deform it ;). Other than that, very good job!
I remember my friend giving me Pokemon Yellow.
He said he had save problems so he gave it to me
it worked just fine until...
I was at the Elite 4
it was late
I had to sleep
I saved and quit
but the next day...
IT WAS GONE ;_;
Nooooooooooooooo
that happened to me with silver
Crystal and silver had this fate for me
FFFUCK BLUE DID THE SAME THING
AAAAAAH
I also just got Silver.
God help me.
1-UP Mushroom SAME
You can also put some of your most cherished pokemon on Pokemon Stadium 2 if you have it. It's an n64 cartridge, so it doesn't use a battery, meaning your pokemon will be there forever unless the data corrupts or something.
This is an option I use, however it's worth noting that to transfer from stadium 2 to a new game there is an annoying restriction that the player must have 151 pokemon caught, otherwise the game won't let you transfer them. Idk why they did that.
just a thought but you look like leonardo dicaprio
I get that fairly often. I'll take it as a compliment, thank you! :) media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/june/130617/6c7911377-tdy-130617-leo-toasts-1.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg
Darren Zheng hardly even a little bit
You tried it
Ok he does a bit upon further inspection 😂👌🏼
Great vid! Just a few things I wanted to mention
1. Instead of using the tabbed battery, you can use a battery retainer ( a fancy word for battery holder) and switch your battery out from time to time while the cart is running in a gameboy, to not lose your save.
2. As many people pointed out, take the board of the cart out first before soldering.
3. Using flux is reccomended, to avoid burning, just make sure to clean off the excess.
4. Make sure that you solder the + to the + on the board and the same goes for the -.
You have a link for this retainer you speak of? Sounds like a much better option imo. Thanks!
I definitely needed this as a backup for Pokemon Stadium 2 in case of corruption.
Thought I fixed my cartridge. Found a shiny Zubat. Caught it. Save file corrupted.
At least, I managed to save a few horrible quality pictures on my phone as well as a video of me sending it out in battle, so that she may be remembered.
Jonathan Evoy ah yes absolutely right!
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Yes quite easy
Some original gameboy games use CR2025 batteries, and some use smaller CR1616 batteries. The circuit board near where the battery sits will tell you which one it takes.
I actually had one of these when I was a kid, used it for my Pokemon Yellow saves.
Use a desoldering braid to remove solder from battery terminals and use new solder. Also do not solder directly to battery. That is how you get a explode game.
this memory card would help me save my Pokemon red game thanks lucky crit
Of course, David Carlos! Good luck with the game!
and yes absolutely right
I got 2 of these a couple years ago and they work great, got them just in time to save my crystal save, as it was already starting to lose the RTC.
Nice video. Definitely gonna get myself one of those. 2 tips i could give about battery replacement is you can take a pen apart, heat the end up and press it into the screw until it is cooled and you have a bit to take the screw out. Also use some tweezers to hold the battery while removing from the solder. Pokemon GBA games use the smaller 2016 batteries. The 2025 work but are bigger and you struggle close the case properly.
first of all, i am the dad. its my tool kit, and yes i have all the bits you could imagine. its also my gameboy cart. we ARE the dads now.
I remember getting those memory cards years ago for my Poke'mon games, I remember doing the soldering way and it did work but clever to actually get the clips again. NIce video man
Thanks for watching :)
I used this method for all my pokemon vintage carts (from childhood); it allowed me to restore red and gold, but surprisingly, Yellow lasted all the way til the Analogue Pocket came out and I used that to save my Pokemon Stadium event Mew. Putting new batteries and restoring the saves felt like curating a museum exhibit. I guess they will be good to go for another few decades.
This kind of stuff is fasinating for me. I always wondered if there was a way to install flash memory chips into NES, Gameboy, and Gameboy Color games. Installing flash memory chips into SNES, N64, and GBA games is possible (Most GBA games have them, some have the battery methods), but installing them on these kind of carts is unkown to me.
There is, google it
I know this is late and your probably not redding this but thank you so much
+Emmanuel Gonzalez I am reading! And I'm super glad you found it helpful. Good luck :)
Lucky Crit
thanks keep up the good work
would I be able to just play the game with the memory card hooked up everytime if I did not want to change the battery or no?
Lost my level 100 blastoise I traded over onto my silver game 20 years ago. Will definitely get one of the save carts for next time. Thanks for the tip!
Saw this video, ran to my old Gameboy color and tried my pokemon gold an silver with all the pokemon...........my heart never broke so hard.
Sorry to hear that :( I know that feeling. On the bright side, if you emulate, get it for 3DS or get the mega memory card you can play through again and relive some of those memories
@@lucky_crit Today i bought the mega memory card from ebay. Since in Germany there is no offer whatsoever, i paid 35$ incl. shipping. Damn nostalgia is so expensive XD. I will spend again a lot of time with my GBC :)
In Germany it is not legal to download the game an play it on a SD-Card for the DS :(((. And I don´t want a Virus from a shady website, since I don´t know any good ones. So unfortunately there was only the option with the MMC.
@@asasasa1009 some trustworthy sites include vimmlair, romsdepot, and the eye eu
So if I still have my 80+ hours of pokemon silver and back it up in a Mega Memory Card. Then when the day comes that my Silver version no longer saves. I can replace the old battery with a new one and then upload the old file from the memory card. I still get my saved file and the new battery continue will resume saving?
Yep!
yes
ValorOni Yeah, New battery, new life
I had one of these! Also had a cheat device made specifically for Pokemon that let you edit your Pokemon files. I miss my level 100 shiny Tauros with all beam attacks lol. I think it was called a Monster Brain by Pelican. I believe it could also back up game saves.
I still have my original Mega Memory Card (original owner) as well as a second one I picked up decades ago. Earlier today I found that one had a mangled pin in the cartridge slot. I desoldered the slot and removed to pin but it broke when I tried to straighten it. I decided to take the “Audio In” pin, which the Mega Memory Card does not use, and moved it to the place where the broken pin was. It worked like a charm! If there is any game that uses the “Audio In” pin, I don’t know what game that might be… and it certainly doesn’t need it for the Mega Memory Card to do its thing. Only thing I can think of that might use it is perhaps the Bung Enterprises “Pocket Voice” but perhaps not because that actually has a built-in speaker.
I didn't realize my mom had kept my two copies of Silver from my childhood, I was certain they got tossed out with half our stuff from moving so much. She gave them back to me a couple years ago when I came back to visit. I tried to find my SoulSilver game this weekend after cleaning and finding my Japanese 3DS, sadly I think I must've lost it permanently, now it's worth $150 to $250 when I had bought it back in the day for only like $30. But I found those Silver games along with my old GBA SP. This video has given me hope I can finally live my nostalgia! Thank you for the tutorial! Lugia, Typhlosion, Entei, I'll see you soon my old friends!
I somehow still have SoulSilver and the PokéWalker that came with it at the time. I saw what people were selling it for and was shocked bc I remember it was like $30 something at Walmart when I bought it.
@@lynetteriddle2002 they were 40 bucks new never 30 I remember buying it brand new when I was 14
I just started up my old Pokémon games, Yellow works perfectly and I was astonished it did.
Dude has anyone told you that you sorta look like Leonardo DiCaprio?
Yeah I get that sometimes lol! It's a good thing I guess!
Thank god for gold and silver coming to virtual console!
Hey, someone else who chose chikorita over having an easier time with the first gym or 2. Respect
I fixed my Crystal cart a few years back with plain ol' CR2032s from the store. Just broke the tabs off the old battery and used electrical tape to secure the new battery in place, no soldering needed.
The tape, and the added pressure because it makes the interior a bit taller and so the back of the case presses it to the front, keeps the battery nicely secured and easy enough to replace in future.
Still better to solder because if you drop the game or something battery with tape can move just a tiny bit out of place then you lose game files happen to me 12 years ago when I didn’t have a soldering iron
I lost my level 100 shiny Lugia without even noticing this but when I started over again it saved my level 100 shiny mewtwo thanks lucky crit
So jelly of the shiny hitmontop but I'm glad that you showed that shiny Pokémon retain shininess, thanks for the video
Hah! I think you're the first to notice. I kept resetting until the first daycare egg they give you was a Hitmontop! Unfortunately the special attackers are better to get out of the egg though as the IVs of these Pokemon are set to have 0 attack so I don't think my Hitmontop will be that great!
Safety tip: ALWAYS remove the circuit board from the plastic enclosure before getting a soldering iron anywhere near it.
I have since learned this lesson lol. Thanks
I lost my Silver version. Played all teenage years :'( My aunt got the game for me when I was around like 9 or 10 for Christmas in NYC..And I lost the data when I was around 28 or so . Still hurts. I had around 233 or so Pokemon. :'( I miss my Suicune, Ninetails and Raichu
My save data sorry tore my heart up. It was my older brothers who had cancer and had passed away at 9. He had beat both gold and silver and both cant save and lost their saves. I cant wait to do this and re-complete this game
I'm really sorry to hear that. I have a watch from a friend that passed away and after he did, the battery died within it and the time has been way off ever since.
i used to solder alot at my job. I was soldering tabs onto a battery and it pretty much exploded in my face. 10/10
Why is the Pokémon Gold Cover in the background in German?
Vinnay The Sylveon dude is german? didnt u watch his first video
Daniel Finley-Pesti No, I didn't
I'm not german? Lol! It was a picture of someone's collection. Not sure.
Germany, France and Italy have their own localized versions due to being major Pokemon markets at the time.
Lucky Crit you are the man! I immediately went and bought a mega memory card. I knew about the whole battery thing but had no idea about the memory card!
A cr2032 battery will still fit and is bigger so it will last longer.
Good. I was actually about to ask. Sorry if this is 10 months late btw
if you're really careful, you actually dont need use a soldering iron, if you can remove the battery without breaking the little tab on it off, you can put the new battery on it and use electrical tape to hold it in place. did this with my yellow 3 years ago.
if you break the tab tho....gg time to get that soldering iron
I don't have a soldering iron, but maybe if I ask nicely by system and tech techer might allow me to use the one at school?
Yeah I'm sure they'd let you try after school or during break or something
You can get a cheap soldering iron for $15 online or at a hobby store, just don't use it for too long. Those cheap ones often cheap out on the heat shield. I recommend a small pen iron. You might have to buy a holding stand and sponge separate.
i got a copy of crystal back in eighth grade and the save battery was dead so i replaced the battery... oddly enough, my copy of blue (which is likely older than i am) still works just fine, and it's had to have been seventeen years at the least.
my blue yellow and red still all work my crystal n silver died. -_-'
I know this a year old but anyways... it is because gen 1 only used the battery for saves, but gen 2 also used it for a real time clock, which was constantly running, so gen 2 games tend to use up the battery quicker.
This is probably better than what I do. I don't back up my save files, rather, I immortalize my Pokemon by depositing them in a Stadium 1/2 box. When a battery dies, I pay a local retro game store to replace it, and I just re-play the game. I have a full, battle-ready set of all the Gen 1 OU Pokemon sitting in a Stadium box, and a shiny Golbat sitting in a Stadium 2 box, so I'm fine with losing save files every couple of years. Granted, my method requires more hardware (and doesn't actually protect my save files).
I added a Micro SSD to mine and its literally the fastest Pokemon Gold ever made.
I got a copy of Pokemon Crystal with a dead battery, so this will help. Thanks!
Gon a buy myself a Mega Memory Card to back up my save files - I highly recommend this to many people who wish to keep their save data for a long term basis.
Thank you for the info I recently got all gen 1 an gen 2 games and after seeing this definitely gonna get one never knew I could actually save gameboy data
there is a faster, easier, zero expense way to change battery and not lose save file >>> open the cartridge and with battery exposed stick it back into gameboy, turn the gameboy on and open your save file, turn around the gameboy and place it back on the table - make sure its in stable position, replace the battery while the game is powered on. after replacement just save the game, power gameboy off, remove the cartridge and place the back cover back on the cartridge, there its done! .....However there are 2 ways this can fail : 1) if batteries in gameboy die during the time battery in game cartridge is removed --- solution -- --> use fresh batteries in gameboy before you start this operation. 2) if you move gameboy a lot, to the point game cartridge loses pin connection with gameboy and thus the game powers off >>> solution >>> during the whole process keep gameboy as stable as possible
Rip my charmanders,squirtles,pidgys,nidorans, etc you will be missed
I had that memory cart sense i was a kid and never knew what it did thank you
If you don't have a gamebit driver to open the cart you can melt the tip of a bic pen cap and while it's melted jam it onto the screw and hold it until it cools then unscrew.
Thanks for the vid! Kinda old video but any ideas how long one battery lasts?
rip pokemon yellow save file, 2003-2019, i wish i saw the video earlier. Goodbye childhood memories
😯😯😯😯😯wooooow
Oh my
Like most N64 games with built-in save, Mario Kart 64 is an EEPROM save title… no battery. Titles like Ocarina of Time, and WCW nWo Revenge use SRAM batteries, and Animal Forest used a battery for an RTC (Real-Time Clock), but the vast majority of N64 games with cartridge save used 4k or 16k EEPROM. There were a few with FlashRAM too.
Just had my silver file corrupted after putting so many hours in. Thanks for the tips and suggestions
hey dude i love this video the content was amazing! you earned yourself a new subscriber!
He left the circuit board on the plastic...
*DON’T DO THAT* it gets HOT!
I bought a used Pokemon gold MANY years ago, but it could never save. Gen 2 is the only Pokemon generation I've never played, so with this, I can finally experience the second generation! As soon as I find that gold cartridge...
To the people who brag about using tape instead of soldering, your save is literally living on a prayer
I'm so happy this exists
if you dont have the screwdriver you can try taking the insides out of a bic pen, melting the point of it and pressing it against the screw and let it dry, it will take the shape of the screw and kinda glue to it
man you can't beat the look of the crystal cartridge.
You could duplicate Pokémon with the memory card. All you have to do is save all of your legendary Pokémon on the memory card, then trade it to another gb, then load the save to when you had the Pokémon and BOOM! You have duplicates of your Pokémon!
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Wittlebirdy Rhyyeees!
Best to remove the board from the case and use wick and remove the old and drain we new sauder.
I mean while you are in there why not
By the way, i used electrical tape instead of solder to use standard batteries in the cartridges. Just pry off the metal soldered bits from the old battery, slide a piece of electrical tape under the metal bracket thingy's, but in the new battery, put on the top metal bracket and wrap the whole thing in the electrical tape.
Works greta so far, however i did bust a pokemon gold cartridge once because i accidentally cut a trace in a hurry so you do have to take your time prying the metal brackets loose from the old battery
Thanks for sharing. I can now back-up my original GB and GBC using this method.
This is an amazing video and super helpful. Well done!
Wish I knew before my Pokemon silver battery died and I lost my beloved red gyarados
The good thing is that if it was the red Gyarados from the story, it's a guaranteed shiny and always has the same IVs. So basically you will get another next time you play :)
there is another way of backing up your pokemon saves. and any saves for that matter. if you have a transfer pak and an everdrive for the n64 you can download a program to your everdrive and you can backup the save to the SD. just insert the cartridge and run the program. its pretty neat.
If you don't have a security bit to remove the screw then use a pen.
Heat up the tip with a lighter and then firmly press it against the screw. Let it cool off for a few seconds and voila, your own security bit.
I’m sorry: you have to save the game first that the batteries dead, or you can save the game also when the batteries don’t work anymore?
A real good video!
Only yesterday I was cursing the in built timer for gold and silver but was surprised that my yellow
,blue and red haven’t faced this problem yet... but that game saver sounds good 👍, side note I dropped my game boy Color and now a bump to the top right corner will completely destroy the save file? Have you come across this problem before?
If you're still interested in hearing horror stories about losing save data, a few years ago, I got a Mega Memory Card to preemptively backup my files, but it's apparently really easy to accidentally DELETE your save data if you don't use the memory card exactly right, and it didn't come with instructions, so I did it wrong right off the bat. Lost my childhood Silver file and an Blue file I was trying to 100%.
Cool vid. You should get a cheap teleprompter for your phone to take it up a notch.
Two things my man. Question one? This will work for any gameboy cartridge?
Question two. Is there room for trial and error or If you screw up it's done and probably scrap?
Great video by the way. Answered alot of questions.
Question for lucky crit though. When you use the mega memory card games like Pokemon gold have an internal clock and calendar so is there any way to dump the save, swap batteries, reload the save, AND have it set to the correct date and time? I have swapped batteries and did all the soldering while the game was powered on with a gba but that only works if the battery still has enough to still hold the save on it.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Is there no way in gold to set the clock again in the game? I can't remember
@@lucky_crit your mother has the settings
I'd say that this is a great tutorial except for one MAJOR flaw.
You backup the save BEFORE you replace the battery.
If you replace the battery without backing up the save, you will lose the data.
+Crossed Mike Of course, maybe I failed to really drill that in. But in this case the battery was already dead like I assumed most people finding this video's batteries would be
Or you can replace the battery with the game running in the GBA/GBA SP, you must be careful but the data its temporaly loaded in the GB RAM
I felt that salute 😂 Thanks for the help bro
Does the mega memory card use flash memory or a battery to store game save data?
Ben3299 flash. But i use monster brain. I found mine on ebay
i customized a cover's cartdrige so i can use a very big cr2450 battery on pokemon silver, and it works!
The start of that Music reminds of Dawn of the Dead.
Is it possible to copy the backups to a computer as a means to backup those backups and maybe even use them with an emulator?
You should make it a bit easier by soldering a small button cell battery clip to it to replace the battery.
My Pokemon blue has lasted over 2 years of play. I know now how to save it
Yeah, that's odd. Most batteries lasted a long time before they started dying. Good luck!
+DPlex HD Are you sure? Where did you hear about that?
DPlex HD my battery only lasted a few months
my pokemon crystal which is over 12 years old still works, maybe because i haven't played for over years?
Dude I miss my Pokemon blue I miss it
I had blue and yellow and it disappeared
you can use a melted ink pen to take out the screw, works with gamecube too
i felt a lot of anxiety as you removed the battery sticking the soldering iron with the board inside the the shell, please, do not do that, remove the board completely first or you are going to melt the shell with the soldering iron
He actually melted the case 2 times 😭
I had that mega memory card device. I had a DMG gameboy at the time and had to cut the notch out of the power switch to make it work. I remember i was big mad when for some reason the flash chip was starting to wear out and would boot up blank with no saves in it at all! 😱Fortunately a couple reboots and reinsertions later I got it to come back but my 11 year old self could never trust it again
can you please do a tutorial on how to use a soldering iron in full detail and what brand to recommend for beginners, i want to learn how but a lot of tutorial videos kinda half ass on showing and rush the tutorial. again if yea can that be great thaks
+QuetzalToonart005 For the most part it's very simple. Any soldering iron from the store is fine. Plug it and let it heat up (don't leave and forget. Very dangerous) and then just touch the tip of it to the silver solder and after a few seconds it will liquefy. It's tricky to not have the solder harden before moving the battery though, as you may see in the video. It hardens again very quickly
I used a 2032 because I had a spare one laying around and it still worked.
Hm... Maybe I could pick up one of those Mega Memory Cards and replace the battery? A copy of Pokemon Gold that my older brother has had for years has a wonky battery; when saved it will sometimes still have the save file even after turning off the system but other times it won't still have have the save file.
well this is this guys FIRST time using a soldering iron lol
Did you mean me? Or you? Good luck, if so! Also, LOST is awesome.
you !! lol
and yes lost IS awesome
+Lyndon Lucier Wasn't my first time, but I'm certainly no expert. Doesn't help that this is an old iron and the tip is kinda gunked up
back in the day i used a melted ball point pen tube to mold around the screw
I have a 20 year old cartridge and it still works