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>Change the battery of my memory pak after years of not saving.
>Play toy story 2 and try to 100%
>Advance so much
>save file dies next day.

Fuck this shit, is just a battery thing or this things could get fucked up in other ways? Like EEPROM?
Do you really have to use a specific type of battery? (For example 2032 battery). I'm using a ED64 Plus Enhanced, could it be the N64 flashcart?

>> No.6740509

>>6740504
>Do you really have to use a specific type of battery? (For example 2032 battery).
Did you just stick some random battery in there?

>> No.6740517

>>6740509
No, it was a 2032.

>> No.6740547

It’s highly likely that it was a bad soldering job, de-solder and try again, make sure battery is 100% lined up correctly with positive and negative, and also make sure to not use Chinese batteries, only name brand.

>> No.6740558

>>6740504
Jesus fucking christ, do not try anything other than the correct battery, unless you're trying to break the thing of course.

No, the EEPROM (if that's what it's using, would be wried, EEPROMS are erasable and cost more, they usually stick with EPROMS, the non-erasable cheaper kind) should outlive you by a long stretch unless you peel back the UV cover (UV light erases the contents of the chip, so there's a sticker looking thing over that, if you take off the sticker you done proper fucked yourself)

>> No.6740570

>>6740504
... no, no you can not just solder a AAA battery on there and call it a day.

>> No.6740619

>>6740504
Trash it and the console and get an actually good system.

>> No.6740620

>>6740619
You rascal!

>> No.6740628

In my experience, third party memory paks are not reliable at all. I had one of those 4 in 1 ones, and it just stopped working altogether, lost the save data prior to that and couldn't save.
Got an official one and so far (like almost 15 years now) it still works fine.

>> No.6740781

>>6740619
Fuck off nigger. Nintendo 64 for life.

>> No.6740796

Nintendo was fucking retarded sticking to cartridges and extra mongoloid by sticking to battery-backed SRAM on top of that.

>> No.6741004

Find a FRAM modified card or do the mod yourself. Batteries are bullshit.

>> No.6741071

>>6740547
>make sure to not use Chinese batteries, only name brand.
This, Nintendo used Maxell and I do too.

>> No.6741092

>>6740517
thats the problem, you needed to wait 12 more years for use it well.

>> No.6741189

>>6740504
Watch "my life in gaming" on youtube about the saves and such subject

>> No.6741841

>>6740504
... what? n64 games are saved on batteries like on gameboy? so my stadium 2 save i spent so much time transferring shit from blue and crystal will be lost in a few years?...

>> No.6742057

>>6741841
probably

>> No.6742061

>>6741841
>>6742057
I think it uses flash, not a battery, unlike the Controller Pak.

>> No.6742172

>>6741841
First party N64 games generally save on the cartridge itself. Some N64 games had optional data that could be saved to the controller pak, like ghosts in Mario Kart 64. Tons of third party games saved to controller pak exclusively though. Controller paks require a battery in order for the save files to persist after shutting off the console, and about a dozen games that save to the cartridge also require a battery. However, Stadium 2 is not among these so your old save should be safe.

>>6740504
Try replacing the battery again, maybe the first battery was a dud, or you messed something up in the replacement process. Make sure the battery is from a reliable brand.
If you have an Everdrive 64 one trick you can use to keep your save file despite not having a functional battery in your controller pak is to reset the console to return to the Everdrive menu and back up the controller pak to the SD card every time when you are done playing, and then restore the backup to your controller pak every time you want to continue your game. It's a bit of a bother but it should work, since the controller pak will be powered by the console itself while it is running. This works on a legitimate Everdrive 64, I don't know if the ED64 Plus Enhanced's functionality is identical since it's a clone, but if it has a feature to backup your controller pak I don't see why it wouldn't work.
All that said the simpler solution in the long run is doing what >>6741004 suggests, as it will ensure your controller pak won't lose its saves in the first place for the foreseeable future and you never have to worry about accidentally forgetting or messing up the controller pak backup process with the Everdrive.

>> No.6742179

>>6741841
http://micro-64.com/database/gamesave.shtml
Full list of N64 save types, including 14 games using SRAM on cartridge.