http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXqDT8dftZ0
Best tutorial ever.

I drank a lot of coffee.

why are you talking about this

Yeah, I think it's funny how a lot of strange game conventions carried over into new forms or got lost.

High Scores that go unrecorded in home video games to emulate the Arcade experience is one example.

Another example would be the convention of the "SELECT" button being used for menu functions, but these functions eventually being done by the directional input. Yet it's still called the "SELECT" button…

Was not trying to correct you again, was just saying its a common misconception. it was basically like all nes games that had high scores. Only there until you stop playing

Well, thanks for correcting me dudes. It's good to know the truth.

I have had to explain to countless people that tetris does not save. "collectors" especially hate to hear they are wrong as well as store owners.

If you do not have the bit to open games or the spare battery with tabs and soldering skills. I recommend just trying to find one with a working battery

Oh. Weird. I've been wrong about that for 20 years!

I was just messing with it for a second ago, it will preserve scores through a soft reset.

EDIT: That's cool, that means I can go back to leaving Tetris on my EMS page 2.

EDIT 2: This isn't even the dumbest thing I've done or said today, if you can believe it.

You don't even have to solder anything. You don't even need a special tool to open cart.
When my Zelda ran dead, I searched for a fitting pair of tongs, and got it open. Then I took a knife and slowly cut through the bolts on the batterie. After cutting them, I just removed the batterie, placed a fresh one between the two contactors and taped it tight (by simply wrapping sticky tape one time around the inside parts of the cartridge). Et voilà! Works perfectly!

I guess here is the part where i tell you not to blame me if you destroy something on the chip with the knife

No it didn't. Not when powering off the Gameboy.

It had a way of preserving the high scores. I'm curious how it did that now.

Open, desolder, take battery off, replace with new battery, solder, close.

I asked months ago and was ignored. I just had my first .sav scare (just a corrupted .sng, which I had backed up). I was gonna make a thread but since this is about cart batteries I'll just ask here.

What's the average lifespan of t3h EMS batteries?

Also when I replaced my pokemanz silver battery, I didn't use heat because I was scared of the whole exploding battery acid thing. I just used an exacto knife to lift and pry the tabs off the battery. It was hard and probably dangerous. But it worked well enough!

before i opened this i said to myself "what are the odds this is about pokemon"

pretty sure the og tetris didnt have sram.