Replace the Battery in your Game Cartridge! **56k warning**

[AdventureSerum]

So, will the battery of first-generation games give out eventually, too? How long will it take for the battery in those to die?

[Aquanistic]

I registered just to thank you for your guide, and thank everyone else for their guiding wisdom. I ordered Pokémon Red (because I had stupidly sold my Pokémon Yellow when I was a kid) from an online retailer, and they sent it to me, and it wouldn't hold a freaking save! Ugh! But I'm definetely going to try this and use this.

Thanks for all of the time you all put into this!

[chriswyatt]

For those of you who couldn't possibly bear losing all of your saved data once the battery dies in your Gameboy games, I recommend getting a device to backup the saved game data to your PC. That way you can keep your Pokemon forever!!! I know there're devices that can backup the ROM and SRAM from games.

Something like this:

http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/shop/copiers/copiers.htm

But there might be better devices out there.

[SupremeChampion]

hey guys, i just heard of an alternative way to possibly fix your battery. someone IM'ed it to me, and this is the first time i ever heard of it, so i dunno how well it works, but i thought it would be worth a post. apparently, if you have an SP, put your game in the SP and turn it on, then plug your SP into the wall and leave it on for a few days. Apparently it should charge your internal battery. i dunno how true it is, but i guess it would be worth a look. if someone could get back to me, maybe verify or test it out yourself that would be amazing.

~The Italian Stallion

[mr_pikachu]

...I was going to check this, but all of my GSC games seem to have magically regained their ability to hold a save file. Not that I'm complaining; it's just really odd.

I'll look through my stuff tomorrow and see if any of my other games are still screwed up. If so, I'll be sure to test them using this method.