Cartridge-based consoles have often been celebrated for their robust and reliable media. You put a simple ROM chip in a tough plastic housing, make sure the contacts are fit for purpose, and you sh…
Lots of electronics instructions tell you to leave it on, so you don’t lose your data when removing the CMOS, no one reads documentation or want to educate themselves on how batteries and circuits work.
IIRC this was scheduled maintenance in documentation for some MBs. Literally “every x years replace the battery while machine is running to avoid data loss” or some such. I could just be crazy though.
How exactly are you going to get at the battery while the cartridge is inside the Game Boy, with the PCB facing inwards?
If you claim this is doable, let alone easy, I’d like to see a video of it.
As I said customized, you take your gameboy apart if needed, but usually that’s not even needed.
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Don’t worry buddy. A coworker flipped out on me once for replacing a cmos battery while a machine was on. 🤷
There’s a bit of difference doing it on a gameboy, and doing it in a running PC with spinning fans and such.
If you know how to replace a CMOS battery, you know how to disable a fan. And even if you don’t, it’s not gonna bite your finger off 😂
Fair point. I was more concerned about dropping it in, and then catapulting a small metal disc into some very expensive electronics.
Lots of electronics instructions tell you to leave it on, so you don’t lose your data when removing the CMOS, no one reads documentation or want to educate themselves on how batteries and circuits work.
IIRC this was scheduled maintenance in documentation for some MBs. Literally “every x years replace the battery while machine is running to avoid data loss” or some such. I could just be crazy though.