Save Game Battery

Replacement Service

 

This is a repair service where we replace the flat battery in your game cart. You send them in, we fix them up. Yes, we also supply the battery! We recommend sending in a few at a time.

 

When you save the game progress in some old retro video game carts, they use an internal battery to keep the save on a chip. This chip will erase itself if the battery goes flat and dies. We can replace this battery and restore the save game functionality of your favourite game, however the saves themselves will be lost.

The type of battery does vary quite a lot, so see the dropdown menu for your game type. We recommend ordering a few games to be restored at a time to maximise your shipping.

Systems with save battery cartridges:

• Game Boy
• Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Famicom
• NES
• Super Famicom
• Super Nintendo
• Nintendo 64
• Sega Master System
• Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
• Sega Game Gear
• Sega 32X

If you have a cartridge with a save battery from a system not listed here, please contact us to ensure we can help you.

 

CR2032 tabbed

Nintendo NES, Super Nintendo SNES, Nintendo 64, Sega Master System, Mega Drive and 32X games use a CR2032 battery with solder tabs.

CR1616 tabbed

These are tiny batteries used only for Game Boy Advance games. They are typically used in Pokémon Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby, Puzzle Challenge, Yellow, and Trading Card Edition plus many other Game Boy games.

CR2025 tabbed

These batteries are used only for Game Boy Color/Original Game Boy Games.

 

Which games have batteries?

Take a look at our blogs on this topic for a list of game that use batteries.

 

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Game System Blog article Nintendo 64 List of N64 games with batteries Nintendo NES List of NES games with batteries Game Boy Advance GBA List of GBA games with batteries Super Nintendo SNES List of SNES games with batteries SEGA Mega Drive List of MegaDrive games with batteries SEGA Master System List of Master System games with batteries SEGA Game Gear List of Game Gear games with batteries SEGA 32X List of 32X games with batteries More coming

More lists coming soon – GB, GBC, etc

Non battery save problems

If you have a game cartridge that doesn’t save and it doesn’t use a battery, then there’s something else going on that needs a deeper investigation. For this instance buy the option labelled “Other non-battery problem”

 

How does the process work?

1. Buy this repair service (return shipping is calculated at checkout).
2. Print our address from the “Print Address” button on screen.
3. Post in your game.
4. We repair your game.
5. We post your game back to you with the prepaid shipping costs from checkout.

 

Who pays for postage?

• You organise postage and ship your game in.
• We calculate the return postage at checkout and this is how we get it back to you.

 

Clone games

• We do not work on clone games, only original games from Nintendo, etc