/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.8522605]

how hard is it to replace the battery in a game boy cartridge if you've never soldered anything before? anyone done it?

[Anonymous No.8522609]

It's pretty easy. I did it for the first time last year with zero solder experience and the cheapest tools I could buy.

Just don't have Parkinson and make sure you don't accidentally put the battery in backwards and there will be no problems.

[Anonymous No.8522613]

Unless you have parkinsons, easy as shit. Just get a cheap gun, some solder, and practice on a piece of junk first. You will see how easy it is.

[Anonymous No.8522618]

It's not hard but you might want to practice on something you don't care if you damage if you've never soldered before. Remember that you want to melt out contacts, not pull them out. You can damage traces otherwise.

[Anonymous No.8522659]

>>8522605
If the game is valuable, definitely practice on "throwaway" carts first (ie 720 for GBC or Chinese bootlegs).

[Anonymous No.8522730]

>>8522605
https://youtu.be/nC79VHZR2ns

[Anonymous No.8522734]

Make sure to buy the batteries with the toggles on them already

[Anonymous No.8522785]

It's literally baby's first solder job but I would still recommend practicing soldering on something else first. You can buy soldering practice kits on ebay exactly for that.

[Anonymous No.8522803]

>every soldering guide ever made:
>Practice on old broken shit you don't care about, so if you fuck it up it doesn't matter.
>every retard looking to be spoonfed info:
>Hey, this thing that means a lot to me, I should learn how to solder on it, right?
Why are retards like this? You have no excuse, you are on the internet to post this shit in the first place. You can google up guides and learn like everyone else, so why the retarded act? "WAAAAAH, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE GOOGLE!" Fucking children can figure it out, I'm sure you can too.

[Anonymous No.8522824]

A chimpanzee with one eye could do it within a few attempts, you should be ok

[Anonymous No.8522835]

I briefly worked at a used game store and one of my jobs was replacing batteries in Pokemon games. They literally just showed me how to do it once and handed me the soldier iron. I remember the GBA games being slightly more annoying to do, but for the original GB you just had to melt the metal blob in the corner of the battery, swap the battery once it was melted, then put a bit of extra soldier on to secure it.

[Anonymous No.8522839]

>>8522835
bruh if you're smart enough to solder you are smart enough to spell the word correctly

[Anonymous No.8522849]

>>8522839
I have a similar problem where I can't type the word "peace" without accidentally typing "peach". Or any word that starts with "arc" will be typed as "arcade". It's something that only happens when I'm typing and not writing.

[Anonymous No.8522978]

>>8522605
Pretty much every second-hand video game store offers battery replacement as a service.

[Anonymous No.8523071]

>>8522605
For someone like you who feels the need to ask on an imageboard - impossible and a likely a waste of time, money, and effort.
Some people will say it's so easy, but these people tend to have had first-hand experience or tutelage, with tools, a workplace, and boards provided to learn on.
Ask them for more specific advice and you'll discover there's a requirement to practise on another board before you work on your cart, despite it being such an easy job, and as if you have spare boards just hanging around, you'll need a laundry list of tools to buy that you will rarely use after this task, and then their cunty egos kick in and suddenly there's a fine art to it.
Just send it off for someone else to do.

[Anonymous No.8523135]

>>8523071
For more complicated soldering you absolutely need practice, but changing a battery in a Gameboy game is about as simple as using a glue gun. Unlike more advanced soldering, there's a LOT of room for error and it's pretty difficult to fuck up.

[Anonymous No.8523149]

>>8523071
Everything you need to replace a battery in a gameboy cart will run you like 30$ on ebay, including the battery and a practice board if you want one. Just watch a video and then fucking do it.

[Anonymous No.8523157]

>>8523149
Still cheaper, less risk, and less effort to have someone else do it.

[Anonymous No.8523613]

>>8522605
For something that needs to ask the question?
Nigh on impossible.

[Anonymous No.8523627]

>>8523613
What?

[Anonymous No.8523709]

>>8522803
fucking this.
I swear people just make these threads because they are starved for attention or something.

[Anonymous No.8523716]

>>8522605
This is how I taught myself to solder 12 years ago

[Anonymous No.8523728]

>>8522605
Did fixed my Silver edition using a piece of duct tap.

[Anonymous No.8524082]

>>8523728
Assume you meant Dad, i'd recommend you fix that up properly. At least you didnt pay for it. Seriously had a someone tell me he went to a bloke that would charge for this kind of botch job. Do people not understand that adhesives in tape fail over time? Also believed that it was the correct way to do it because soldering could 'wreck the pcb' over time. How many times are you expecting to be soldering new batteries in? Gonna be a lot less than it takes for tape to fail thats for sure. Dump your save and fix it before you lose it.

[Anonymous No.8524087]

i did one on pokemon crystal, my first solder job, and i managed to do it right my first time. just watch a couple tutorial vids and you should be fine

[Anonymous No.8524228]

>>8523627

[Anonymous No.8524246]

Definitely wear protective goggles, or better yet a welder's mask and a thick pair of leathery gloves before you start anon. Might want to make sure you have a decent apron as well. There are going to be a lot of sparks. I make sure to put up a large plastic sheet between me, and the magnifying lens with holes cut out for me to slip my arms through for maximum safety.

[Anonymous No.8524387]

>>8522839
Not if auto correct has anything to say about it. My bad.

[Anonymous No.8525875]

Any good tutorials to learn how to solder ?

[Anonymous No.8525910]

>>8525875
If you're just changing a battery, you do it like this:
>heat up the soldering iron
>lightly touch it up against the two metal blobs holding the battery in place (they're square in OP's image)
>the blobs will liquefy, then you can just pick the battery up since they're basically just glue holding the battery in place
>put a new battery in where the old one used to be (make sure the - is on top and you get the type of battery that has the same metal tabs as the one your removed)
>gently touch the soldering iron against the very tip of your solder (the spool of metal wire) until a tiny bit melts onto your soldering iron
>use the soldering iron to "carry" that drop of liquid metal and place it exactly where the blobs you removed were (try to get them roughly the same size)
That's it. It's not like soldering a microchip where you have to be extremely careful how you do it so you don't accidentally bridge some connections. Hell, you don't even really need flux since the surface area is so big.

[Anonymous No.8525941]

>>8522605
I did it when I was 16 without any soldering and just used electric tape. It's still like that today.

[Anonymous No.8526084]

>>8525941
Same here. Got Pokemon Blue at the height of the craze for 10 bucks used because it somehow had a fucked battery

[Anonymous No.8526095]

>>8525941
>without any soldering and just used electric tape

[Anonymous No.8526190]

>>8526095
Yup. And I shaved down the plastic around the screw so I could remove it with pliers because I didn't have a triwing back then. Does this upset you anon?