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A Battery Replacement Success Story (SNES)
ShoothimNow:
I really want to do this, but I don't know how to solder and I have no free time. Thank you for the pictures! With no soldering experience, was this a pain in the ass?
Kriegspire:
--- Quote from: ShoothimNow on February 09, 2014, 01:41:54 PM ---I really want to do this, but I don't know how to solder and I have no free time. Thank you for the pictures! With no soldering experience, was this a pain in the ass?
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Trust me when I say to just give it a try.
Use a game that you don't really care about if it fails, or pick up a low price sports game with a battery (there's some) to try it.
The soldering isn't hard at all, I watched this video for the how-to's, and didn't really have a hard time :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYFXNEH_vvk
palmer6strings:
Or better yet, Just try to solder 2 wires together or a wire to a small piece of metal. Cheaper, more effective, and you will learn easier without the thought of maybe ruining something.
My first soldering experiment was on my truck. Had some break light issues. Come to find out someone that owned it before I did had done a horrible splicing job. So I soldered all the bad wires back together. Haven't had any issues since.
Since then, I've done many battery replacements in SNES, NES, GB, and GBA carts. A Sega CD fuse relocation mod, LED mods, ETC…..
e_brugal:
I have never try to solder something but in this case (video games) I think that the difficult part is desoldering, that's the part I think someone could damaged a game. Am I wrong?
Kriegspire:
--- Quote from: e_brugal on February 10, 2014, 08:51:23 AM ---I have never try to solder something but in this case (video games) I think that the difficult part is desoldering, that's the part I think someone could damaged a game. Am I wrong?
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I suppose you could say that. Probably the hardest part.
I used a knife to pry the tabs off the battery, then pulled the tabs (that are still connected to the board) while heating the other side.
Clean holes for the new holder, and I guess the easiest way.