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Keep in mind in the future if you don't want to lose your saves when changing batteries, just take the board out of the cart and plug it into a snes and turn it on. That will give the cart juice to keep the saves, and change the battery quick while it's running, then shut it off and put the cart back together.

How many degrees is the soldering iron heated to?

wait... super mario kart has a battery? I dont remember the game having any save function

Does putting battery holders lower the value of the game?

Dude! I was there! I looked up Thee Spivies on a whim and found this absolute gem. Lollapaloma was the highlight of my year for a few years there in the 90s

It's pretty easy to visually verify the positive and negative of these coin cells. The larger "outer" (or top) portion of the battery is the positive lead, while the smaller "inner" part is the negative. More often than not (unless the battery is extremely old) the positive is marked also, like the unmodified PCB shown in your video, so no need to verify with a multimeter. Though definitely wise to mark the PCB if it isn't already so you don't lose track of orientation if you're working several at once. Also as to your soldering technique, it helps immensely to tin the soldering iron first, then immediately before you touch it to your work surface apply a minuscule amount to the iron. This bit of liquid solder on the iron will greatly increase heat conduction into the pin and pad, resulting in less time needed with the hot iron against your surface. Hot and quick helps to prevent heat from spreading throughout the component or along the PCB traces. Though not necessarily CRITICAL with 99% of these cartridges, when soldering and desoldering components on ROHS boards with large ground planes and lead-free solder (my job working with emergency notification systems), it does become critical, and once you adapt to it, becomes an extremely easy and convenient soldering technique.

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Wow crazy to see this. My old band Dryve played at that show and I think P.O.D. headlined. Wish you had some footage of that!

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I remember peeing at that show

Wild. I was at this show. I was 12. I think the next year was the year with Dogwood and The W’s when swing got cool for a year?

Its a ok video

Love these guys!

Nice guide. I've been modding my Snes carts for years using similar a similar process, it doesn't matter which was round you put the NEGATIVE or the POSITIVE, my carts have been running and saving for years, and the ones I got this " wrong on" were right at the start of my massive refit project. Metroid, F-Zero and Chrono trigger. Those are still holding saves and making new saves just fine, even today, and they were refitted November 2015 . I write the date on a small sticker and put it on the inside of the cart. On one ) Megadrive) cart I experimented with wiring the batter holder to the outside of the cart at the back. The benefit is easy changing, the down side is of course, the battery is exposed and the cart if a very tight fit in the universal game case. I think the CR2032 batteries have a fair, not great, shelf life of 6-10 years temperature dependent. To be safe, I'd consider changing them every 5 years. Maybe make it a project, book a couple of days off work, have a few movies on in the background as you change the holders out for the first time, mark the date you changed them all, and after that, with the proper holders, changing batteries becomes a very fast, five yearly job. Of course as I type this, it occurs to me I did all the battery changes nearly 5 years ago, November 2020 will be a battery changing spree for me !

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These are super cheap to do now. As of this post there is a guy on Ebay from China that sells them in a pack of 10 for $1.23 shipped. If you get 10 or more it drops down to $1.19 each shipped. I just bought 150 of them ($17.10) and now I will go through my collection and just replace all the batteries with these holders for the future. Might as well do them all at once. Battery holders don't effect the value of the title, and some think it a plus. Great video!!!!

These lithium batteries can explode or leak if you apply too much heat. So it is better to put solder on the iron first and then put it to the connector. That is safer. Just a tip.

Is it possible to reuse the original tabs? Like glue a new battery in? While I might definitely invest in some of these for my more precious games, others i still want to keep but buying a bunch of these for my snes collection could get costly quick

Thanks for this. Just did 4 games today. I did lose two battery holders though, one because I bent the big one a bit too far and it snapped off, and another because my nippers suck, and they made the small one break off when I was trimming it. Used scissors after that. :/ The four games I did are all holding their saves though, and I bought ten of the holders just in case. I pretty much just want to do my SA-1 games along with one copy of Super Metroid (done) and maybe a copy of Sutte Hakkun.

Super fun show. Still have that drum set, but the kids play it more than me.

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what a gem! thank you for posting. I was at this show!! I was 12!! oh man. this video is a time machine!

Everything I found on your video is very useful and have used it. I don't recommend using the super glue to prevent the metal pins from popping out. I found that putting a battery in the holder first before bending the tabs works better. I used glue and some of the glue ran when I heated it up when I solder it on the board.

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Thank you

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But is it reliable? Does the battery not lose contact with the motherboard overtimes?? I was thinking, how about replacing the entire ram with rom instead sothat it will last 100 years. Those save files may require a conversion from and to rom format by an interpretter,but you never should wurry about battery lifespan anymore,

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Hi mr charloton

hi Mr.charlton 😃

Thanks for the nostalgia! Good stuff!

Lollapaloma was awesome!

i have a game that has a battery in it and wont work i have cleaned it and it still wont work if the battery is dead will the game still work.

The first time I used a soldering iron and it worked perfectly. Thanks for showing! Now my F-Zero saves lap records again. :)

I ran up to my radio shack right down the street and surprisingly, they actually had it! Super Mario land saves now. Repair complete. Thanks a lot for the video!!!

Awesome video! Do they sell these batteries and battery holders at radio shack do you know? Where can I find the specs? I bought super Mario land and I can't save so I'm gonna fix it 1019 LYNNHURST AVE, 40215

it might have taken a while to heat up those pads because that tip has a huge oxide layer on it

This was in 1996. Slim wasn't playing guitar with them in 1998...

whats the name of the first song dude???

I found your you tube mr Charlton 😂😂

I wonder if, in 10 years when you replace it, you could swap the batteries fast enough not to lose the save data on the cartridge. If not you'd need a Retrode 2 to back up the data first, and I think a Kazzo for NES.

Thx. Was the volume turned all the way up?

Can these battery holders fit in all SNES games? Also, can they also fit in N64 games? If not, are there holders that can? I really want to invest in doing this, but would also like to do all my games aswell.

What kind of soder do you use?