How to change a SNES battery

There comes a time when every gamer brings out their favorite SNES RPG and plugs it in only to find out that their saved game was deleted! I turned on my FC Twin the other day and plugged in Arcana one of my all time favorite RPG’s for the SNES and was greatly disappointed.

I knew the battery was dying because this has happened before in the past, but I went ahead anyway and turned on the game only to find my saved game gone. Other games in my library have also had this problem: Final Fantasy 2(4), Mystic Quest, Arcana and Super Mario World have all succumbed to this.

I wanted to do some work on the games myself but was afraid incase I damaged the game itself, so I started to research on how to repair this myself without having to send my game away to a repair tech.

Here’s some useful links I’ve found on the web that might be of help when it comes to changing a battery.

You can get replacement battery’s at the Nintendorepairshop.com or eBay.com

http://www.nintendorepairshop.com/shopexd.asp?id=191

Both Cheapassgamer.com and Racketboy.com have instructions on how to go about changing the battery.

Please note that if you are unsure of what your doing take the game to a professional and ask him/her to do the work for you. You might ruin the game by accident and not be able to have it repaired at all.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65757

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/11/how-to-change-snes-game-save-battery.html