HOW TO BACK UP YOUR POKÉMON GAMEBOY COLOR SAVES & REPLACE THE BATTERY (Gold, Silver, Crystal, etc)
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- Опубликовано: 30 дек 2016
- In today's episode we're discussing oldschool Gameboy Color Cartridges and what you need to do in order to keep your save file in tact. Specifically, How to Replace the Battery in Pokemon Game Boy Color Games to Fix the Save Feature. Certain Gameboy Color cartridges contain CR2025 batteries and help to create and hold your save file. What this means is ever since you bought the game the battery inside has been slowly but surely losing its charge. When it reaches whatever fated day it decides to run out of juice your save file is kaput. Gone forever. So in this episode we're walking through how to replace the CR2025 batteries in Gameboy Color Games (mostly Pokemon Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal) using a security screw bit to open the cartridge and a soldering iron to disconnect the original battery and establish new connections with your new battery. I'll also being showing off the Mega Memory Card--a device that stores your Gameboy Color save data in flash memory and is able to reload it to your cartridge in the event that your battery has died and you want your file back. You'll have to save updated save files there periodically so you don't lose any progress, but it's quick and painless. Let me know any horror stories about your lost save files and oldschool gameboy color nostalgia you may be experiencing in the comments!
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NEVER LOSE YOUR POKÉMON GAMEBOY COLOR SAVES & How to Replace the Battery 
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If you are watching this video, please remove the game from the shell completely before attempting to replace the battery. There is a very good chance that if you are newer to soldering then you will melt the back of the case doing the way it was shown in the video.
I came to the comments to say the same thing! ALWAYS remove the game from the shell before attempting to work on it! 😳
I was trying to desolder a power switch off my ds lite because I broke it, the whole hinge and back melted. been through this and it is not fun. So please do remove the plastic shell.
at 5:24 he does it...
Im holding back tears..............this video is too powerful. Thank you Leonardo Dicaprio for helping every man to ever own a Gameboy.
I remember things now..... It was that night, when my mother told me to sleep soon because its kinda late already.. And i said "let me just beat elite four and the champion mom, then I'll sleep".. My brother watching at my back told me that if I beat the pokemon league I can then continue my journey from jhoto to kanto... We couldn't barely sleep because of excitement... And until morning comes.... our pokemon silver was corrupted...
Perfect fucking time for it to die.
Oh rip dude
I’m sorry bro.
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Ouch
rip my pokemon red with my lv 100 ratata
You worked so hard on that Rattata.
Lucky Crit are there little battery's in the Nintendo 3ds? Because I might need the backup my sun and moon save file
Bunnygamerplays alot No. 3DS and DS Games don't have a battery. The saves are stored on flash memory and won't dissapear unless you delete them.
Youngster Joey had it coming...
xX_SpeedyScout_Xx aq
DONT SOLDER DIRECTLY TO BATTERY!!!!!!!! I had one blow up in my face. it was like having a firecracker go off in my hand. notice that the connections are NOT soldered to the battery?
holy shit dude
kinda normal it blows up. a battery that gets to hot wil react to that heat and explode. soldering iron gets a temp around 300-450 degrees to melt solder good so.......
The tabs are spot welding to the battery. I can't believe anyone would actually attempt to solder tabs on. Yikes.
well.....-_- you should've looked up how to solder and how batteries work man :/ lesson learned
My dad did it for me i looked at it and just blow in my face!
You had to be in lavender town
Lol ikr. Out of all the places he could have been in, he was chilling in the creepiest place in the game.
I remember my friend giving me Pokemon Yellow.
He said he had save problems so he gave it to me
it worked just fine until...
I was at the Elite 4
it was late
I had to sleep
I saved and quit
but the next day...
IT WAS GONE ;_;
Nooooooooooooooo
that happened to me with silver
Crystal and silver had this fate for me
FFFUCK BLUE DID THE SAME THING
AAAAAAH
I also just got Silver.
God help me.
1-UP Mushroom SAME
Before using the soldering iron for anything, consider removing the PCB from casing first, so that you don't accidentally melt or deform it ;). Other than that, very good job!
Just bought a GBC + Pokémon Gold. Thanks for making this video, now I'm no longer terrified of losing my save.
Good luck, friend!
Dove compro la mega memorycard😢
hey dude i love this video the content was amazing! you earned yourself a new subscriber!
This is an amazing video and super helpful. Well done!
when this happened to me like 10 years ago i just ripped out the old battery and used electrical tape to hold the new one in place. worked like a charm and was super fast.
That’s what I did too since I didn’t have a smolder. I remember watching a video back in 2012 that showed both way to take out the battery. 8 years later I hope my Pokémon gold file is still safe
@@jessegordian2498 i also did the same
I actually had one of these when I was a kid, used it for my Pokemon Yellow saves.
I remember getting those memory cards years ago for my Poke'mon games, I remember doing the soldering way and it did work but clever to actually get the clips again. NIce video man
Thanks for watching :)
would I be able to just play the game with the memory card hooked up everytime if I did not want to change the battery or no?
I definitely needed this as a backup for Pokemon Stadium 2 in case of corruption.
Some original gameboy games use CR2025 batteries, and some use smaller CR1616 batteries. The circuit board near where the battery sits will tell you which one it takes.
You can also put some of your most cherished pokemon on Pokemon Stadium 2 if you have it. It's an n64 cartridge, so it doesn't use a battery, meaning your pokemon will be there forever unless the data corrupts or something.
This is an option I use, however it's worth noting that to transfer from stadium 2 to a new game there is an annoying restriction that the player must have 151 pokemon caught, otherwise the game won't let you transfer them. Idk why they did that.
Great vid! Just a few things I wanted to mention
1. Instead of using the tabbed battery, you can use a battery retainer ( a fancy word for battery holder) and switch your battery out from time to time while the cart is running in a gameboy, to not lose your save.
2. As many people pointed out, take the board of the cart out first before soldering.
3. Using flux is reccomended, to avoid burning, just make sure to clean off the excess.
4. Make sure that you solder the + to the + on the board and the same goes for the -.
You have a link for this retainer you speak of? Sounds like a much better option imo. Thanks!
I got 2 of these a couple years ago and they work great, got them just in time to save my crystal save, as it was already starting to lose the RTC.
Fantastic video!
Use a desoldering braid to remove solder from battery terminals and use new solder. Also do not solder directly to battery. That is how you get a explode game.
Thought I fixed my cartridge. Found a shiny Zubat. Caught it. Save file corrupted.
At least, I managed to save a few horrible quality pictures on my phone as well as a video of me sending it out in battle, so that she may be remembered.
Jonathan Evoy ah yes absolutely right!
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Yes quite easy
I felt that salute 😂 Thanks for the help bro
Nice video. Definitely gonna get myself one of those. 2 tips i could give about battery replacement is you can take a pen apart, heat the end up and press it into the screw until it is cooled and you have a bit to take the screw out. Also use some tweezers to hold the battery while removing from the solder. Pokemon GBA games use the smaller 2016 batteries. The 2025 work but are bigger and you struggle close the case properly.
Thanks for desenvolved this video.
just a thought but you look like leonardo dicaprio
I get that fairly often. I'll take it as a compliment, thank you! :) media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2013/june/130617/6c7911377-tdy-130617-leo-toasts-1.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg
Darren Zheng hardly even a little bit
You tried it
Ok he does a bit upon further inspection 😂👌🏼
Lucky Crit you are the man! I immediately went and bought a mega memory card. I knew about the whole battery thing but had no idea about the memory card!
Lost my level 100 blastoise I traded over onto my silver game 20 years ago. Will definitely get one of the save carts for next time. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for sharing. I can now back-up my original GB and GBC using this method.
Hey I'm wondering if I can still repair it if I made 3 new games I started them without knowing if they would delete the data of my original game.
I'm so happy this exists
Top you are the best dude!
Is it possible to copy the backups to a computer as a means to backup those backups and maybe even use them with an emulator?
I used this method for all my pokemon vintage carts (from childhood); it allowed me to restore red and gold, but surprisingly, Yellow lasted all the way til the Analogue Pocket came out and I used that to save my Pokemon Stadium event Mew. Putting new batteries and restoring the saves felt like curating a museum exhibit. I guess they will be good to go for another few decades.
I need help!!! I have Pokemon crystal on my gbc. I’m able to open the game to the last place I saved it but when I go to make an action it freezes. Example, if in a battle it works all the up to when I have to choose “fight”, “pack” etc. Same thing if I have to heal my Pokemon. The entire conversation is fine but when I have to choose to heal or not it freezes. I hope you can tell me how to fix this I really don’t want to lose my progress
I fixed my Crystal cart a few years back with plain ol' CR2032s from the store. Just broke the tabs off the old battery and used electrical tape to secure the new battery in place, no soldering needed.
The tape, and the added pressure because it makes the interior a bit taller and so the back of the case presses it to the front, keeps the battery nicely secured and easy enough to replace in future.
Still better to solder because if you drop the game or something battery with tape can move just a tiny bit out of place then you lose game files happen to me 12 years ago when I didn’t have a soldering iron
I know this is late and your probably not redding this but thank you so much
+Emmanuel Gonzalez I am reading! And I'm super glad you found it helpful. Good luck :)
Lucky Crit
thanks keep up the good work
very helpful. gonna be getting one
Good luck, friend!
This kind of stuff is fasinating for me. I always wondered if there was a way to install flash memory chips into NES, Gameboy, and Gameboy Color games. Installing flash memory chips into SNES, N64, and GBA games is possible (Most GBA games have them, some have the battery methods), but installing them on these kind of carts is unkown to me.
There is, google it
Thank you for the info I recently got all gen 1 an gen 2 games and after seeing this definitely gonna get one never knew I could actually save gameboy data
there is a faster, easier, zero expense way to change battery and not lose save file >>> open the cartridge and with battery exposed stick it back into gameboy, turn the gameboy on and open your save file, turn around the gameboy and place it back on the table - make sure its in stable position, replace the battery while the game is powered on. after replacement just save the game, power gameboy off, remove the cartridge and place the back cover back on the cartridge, there its done! .....However there are 2 ways this can fail : 1) if batteries in gameboy die during the time battery in game cartridge is removed --- solution -- --> use fresh batteries in gameboy before you start this operation. 2) if you move gameboy a lot, to the point game cartridge loses pin connection with gameboy and thus the game powers off >>> solution >>> during the whole process keep gameboy as stable as possible
I had one of these! Also had a cheat device made specifically for Pokemon that let you edit your Pokemon files. I miss my level 100 shiny Tauros with all beam attacks lol. I think it was called a Monster Brain by Pelican. I believe it could also back up game saves.
hey, i have a question i don't know if you can help me. I have an old Pokémon crystal game but the save file is corrupted, do you know if there is any way to recover it? Someone can help me?
Question for lucky crit though. When you use the mega memory card games like Pokemon gold have an internal clock and calendar so is there any way to dump the save, swap batteries, reload the save, AND have it set to the correct date and time? I have swapped batteries and did all the soldering while the game was powered on with a gba but that only works if the battery still has enough to still hold the save on it.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Is there no way in gold to set the clock again in the game? I can't remember
@@lucky_crit your mother has the settings
Good video, thank you for the salute!
I just started up my old Pokémon games, Yellow works perfectly and I was astonished it did.
Amazing video
I still have my original Mega Memory Card (original owner) as well as a second one I picked up decades ago. Earlier today I found that one had a mangled pin in the cartridge slot. I desoldered the slot and removed to pin but it broke when I tried to straighten it. I decided to take the “Audio In” pin, which the Mega Memory Card does not use, and moved it to the place where the broken pin was. It worked like a charm! If there is any game that uses the “Audio In” pin, I don’t know what game that might be… and it certainly doesn’t need it for the Mega Memory Card to do its thing. Only thing I can think of that might use it is perhaps the Bung Enterprises “Pocket Voice” but perhaps not because that actually has a built-in speaker.
I have a remade cartridge of pokemon red so I need a triwing one if I replace pkm red but gold same
this memory card would help me save my Pokemon red game thanks lucky crit
Of course, David Carlos! Good luck with the game!
and yes absolutely right
So jelly of the shiny hitmontop but I'm glad that you showed that shiny Pokémon retain shininess, thanks for the video
Hah! I think you're the first to notice. I kept resetting until the first daycare egg they give you was a Hitmontop! Unfortunately the special attackers are better to get out of the egg though as the IVs of these Pokemon are set to have 0 attack so I don't think my Hitmontop will be that great!
What is with Dragon Warrior III for gbc Release year 2000 so it could still work?
You could duplicate Pokémon with the memory card. All you have to do is save all of your legendary Pokémon on the memory card, then trade it to another gb, then load the save to when you had the Pokémon and BOOM! You have duplicates of your Pokémon!
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Wittlebirdy Rhyyeees!
I got a copy of Pokemon Crystal with a dead battery, so this will help. Thanks!
This made me subscribe
+Fluoncho Joe Welcome aboard. I hope you like our other stuff, too :)
So if I still have my 80+ hours of pokemon silver and back it up in a Mega Memory Card. Then when the day comes that my Silver version no longer saves. I can replace the old battery with a new one and then upload the old file from the memory card. I still get my saved file and the new battery continue will resume saving?
Yep!
yes
ValorOni Yeah, New battery, new life
I didn't realize my mom had kept my two copies of Silver from my childhood, I was certain they got tossed out with half our stuff from moving so much. She gave them back to me a couple years ago when I came back to visit. I tried to find my SoulSilver game this weekend after cleaning and finding my Japanese 3DS, sadly I think I must've lost it permanently, now it's worth $150 to $250 when I had bought it back in the day for only like $30. But I found those Silver games along with my old GBA SP. This video has given me hope I can finally live my nostalgia! Thank you for the tutorial! Lugia, Typhlosion, Entei, I'll see you soon my old friends!
I somehow still have SoulSilver and the PokéWalker that came with it at the time. I saw what people were selling it for and was shocked bc I remember it was like $30 something at Walmart when I bought it.
@@lynetteriddle2002 they were 40 bucks new never 30 I remember buying it brand new when I was 14
I had that memory cart sense i was a kid and never knew what it did thank you
I have a problem with my cystal. idk if its the battery, but the file corrupts numerous amounts of times. Now its to the point whenever i tunr the game off.
Thanks for the vid! Kinda old video but any ideas how long one battery lasts?
thanks you are a life saver
my soldering iron is not melting the solder off the battery is it have to be a specific soldering iron or the watts?
I have to plug my soldering iron in for a little while for it to get hot enough. Did you do that? Don't leave it on and walk away though, really bad idea. Watch it at all times.
I dropped my gameboy today and had to shut it off. When I did it said new game. Do you think the battery somehow got disconnected? I bought new batteriea
Legend!! Thx
If I put my Pokemon team on the Stadium 1/2 cartriges, is there a chance for the Stadium save to eventually become lost/corrupted too?
there is a faster, easier, zero expense way to change battery and not lose save file >>> open the cartridge and with battery exposed stick it back into gameboy, turn the gameboy on and open your save file, turn around the gameboy and place it back on the table - make sure its in stable position, replace the battery while the game is powered on. after replacement just save the game, power gameboy off, remove the cartridge and place the back cover back on the cartridge, there its done! .....However there are 2 ways this can fail : 1) if batteries in gameboy die during the time battery in game cartridge is removed --- solution -- --> use fresh batteries in gameboy before you start this operation. 2) if you move gameboy a lot, to the point game cartridge loses pin connection with gameboy and thus the game powers off >>> solution >>> during the whole process keep gameboy as stable as possible
If you have two copies of Pokémon silver, can you save the data from one and upload it onto the other? Also, can you upload a save file to a cartridge that already has a save file?
Hey man, my Crystal Cartrigde says it has a save file, but it is corrupted. If I do this will it be recovered? If not, is there a way to not lose it? It seems that the Cartrigde still has the file, even though is corrupted.
How many saved games does the Mega Memory Card hold? Does it also have a battery that will run out?
My Pokemon Gold still saves...sometimes. when its not moving after the game boy turns off, the game is still saved, but once the cart moves, the save data is lost. Do I still do thos, er what?
anyone know where to get a mega memory card in europe? for not too much of a price...
Hm... Maybe I could pick up one of those Mega Memory Cards and replace the battery? A copy of Pokemon Gold that my older brother has had for years has a wonky battery; when saved it will sometimes still have the save file even after turning off the system but other times it won't still have have the save file.
ok but that also has a battery as well so what happens when its battery i by by
Is it possible for Pokemon Red for the Gameboy. My Pokemon Red game is the battery little bit hitted by an tube on the bus. So I lost the data. I hope that Mega Memory Card can repair this game to restore the data. I have also an Mew on this game and an Venusaur too.
Does the mega memory card use flash memory or a battery to store game save data?
Ben3299 flash. But i use monster brain. I found mine on ebay
Hello, is there away to save/back up GBA games like for Emerald etc?
Hey at 6:12 where the little two metal parts where you connect the new battery, I sorta broke one off removing the old battery, will this method still work for me? please and thanks for the helpful video.
+Alain Gonzalez You mean the solder points on the board? Or the handles that connect the battery to those spots? I think if you take the chunk of solder that came off and carefully heat it and put it back in that spot and ensure it fills the spot correctly and thus completes the circuit it should be okay. Let me know how it goes!
Lucky Crit Thanks! one last question does the type of soldering iron or solder material used matter? If so can you recommend a good quality cheap soldering iron I checked Walmart online and saw a few but I have no idea. Thanks a million.
+Alain Gonzalez Any should be fine. I just use the old one we have lying around the house. The tip isn't even sharp anymore so I'd imagine a brand new one would work much better. I don't think the type of solder matters!
thanks! now i have my original pokemon crystal and silver working and saving all thanks to you thanks again!
My save data sorry tore my heart up. It was my older brothers who had cancer and had passed away at 9. He had beat both gold and silver and both cant save and lost their saves. I cant wait to do this and re-complete this game
I'm really sorry to hear that. I have a watch from a friend that passed away and after he did, the battery died within it and the time has been way off ever since.
By the way, i used electrical tape instead of solder to use standard batteries in the cartridges. Just pry off the metal soldered bits from the old battery, slide a piece of electrical tape under the metal bracket thingy's, but in the new battery, put on the top metal bracket and wrap the whole thing in the electrical tape.
Works greta so far, however i did bust a pokemon gold cartridge once because i accidentally cut a trace in a hurry so you do have to take your time prying the metal brackets loose from the old battery
first of all, i am the dad. its my tool kit, and yes i have all the bits you could imagine. its also my gameboy cart. we ARE the dads now.
Very helpful, i wqs trying to recover the save data from my zelda oracle of ages, i got the backup, but i can't restore it, i dunno why... Coul you help me ?
If you don't have a gamebit driver to open the cart you can melt the tip of a bic pen cap and while it's melted jam it onto the screw and hold it until it cools then unscrew.
I lost my Silver version. Played all teenage years :'( My aunt got the game for me when I was around like 9 or 10 for Christmas in NYC..And I lost the data when I was around 28 or so . Still hurts. I had around 233 or so Pokemon. :'( I miss my Suicune, Ninetails and Raichu
Can it work on Gameboy Advance consoles? I don’t have a gameboy color
Thank god for gold and silver coming to virtual console!
Just had my silver file corrupted after putting so many hours in. Thanks for the tips and suggestions
Can you use your memory card if you dont have a save data anymore?
Does a cr 2016 also work?
i customized a cover's cartdrige so i can use a very big cr2450 battery on pokemon silver, and it works!
A cr2032 battery will still fit and is bigger so it will last longer.
Good. I was actually about to ask. Sorry if this is 10 months late btw
Are the mega memory cards available on Amazon? I don't use Ebay.
My pokemon blue file is still alive which I'm holding onto, but my crystal file is gone. I'm sad about that since I did a hack to get all the johto starters now and I got a shiny tyrogue at first chance. I also had two shiny nidorinos from me looking for a Chaney in the grass and encountering so much nidorinos shinys appeared. I thought my game was broken but I just caught it anyway because it looked different. That was my first shiny encounter.
@8:18 what game/area is that track from?
Hey, someone else who chose chikorita over having an easier time with the first gym or 2. Respect
Shit real quick I pop my old Pokémon blue which still had my old save file should change the batter to keep that save file in tact ?
i got a copy of crystal back in eighth grade and the save battery was dead so i replaced the battery... oddly enough, my copy of blue (which is likely older than i am) still works just fine, and it's had to have been seventeen years at the least.
my blue yellow and red still all work my crystal n silver died. -_-'
I know this a year old but anyways... it is because gen 1 only used the battery for saves, but gen 2 also used it for a real time clock, which was constantly running, so gen 2 games tend to use up the battery quicker.
Does mario kart super curcuit saves his data on the battery
Me compré una batería CR 2025 en Home Center y no tenía esas patas. Me tocó comprar removedor de estaño y soldé las puntas ya que eso es cobre. Y lijé un poco la batería por arriba y por debajo (sin tocarse para evitar un corto) para que pegara la pasta de estaño. Quedó duro y guarda las partidas
So heres what happened I got a copy of Pokemon gold at my main gamestore and when I play through it and when I saved and turned it off and turned it off again it said the save file is corrupted and I looked at how to videos and their more like homemade versions of how to replace your battery so I might do it that way
I'm doing this but with Mario tennis gbc. I got the correct battery (1616). I did it without soldering. I used tape. But every time I turn the game off then back on, everything gets erased again. Why?
you seriously asking the obvious?
I had a copy of Fire red that had all of the gen 1 pokemon and the cartridge was in my gba sp and i set it on my couch and i fell through the cushions and being 7 years old I forgot my dad lost his flip phone and he thought it was under the couch so we moved it and set it down on my gameboy advance sp with fire red still in it and it was crushed never going to work again crushed