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Replacing GBC Cart Battery (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Hey All,

So I haven't soldered in over 10 years but just recently I dug out my old GB/GBC/GBA games and I found a number of them have dead batteries so all of my saves are gone for those games. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

I'm bought all the stuff I need to replace the batteries but the batteries themselves. Does anyone have a good place to get tabbed batteries? I was going to get them from amazon but wanted to see if there was a better place. I think most of the games I need to replace are CR2025's but there may be a few CR1616's too.

Hopefully this is the right community to ask this in.

Thanks!

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[โ€“] ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I do have a micro center kind of near me but when I looked on their website they didn't have any tabbed batteries available. However, as someone else pointed out, I need to look into getting a bracket instead so I can swap the batteries more easily of necessary. Maybe micro center has those, I haven't looked yet.

[โ€“] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In my experience, microcenter doesn't have much in the way of component level stuff. All I've ever seen at my local store and on their website all seems like stuff just meant for breadboarding small circuits, usually for working with an RPi or Arduino. I've never seen them carry surface mount components, but you may have better luck than me.

There are plenty of sites which carry plenty of retro game repair components which should include those battery slots.