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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€“] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Digikey and mouser are the main places to get tabbed batteries. I don't worry about soldering a holder in as it takes 20 seconds to solder in a new tabbed battery and it's cheaper.