N64 saved games

The battery is located on the same side of the cartridge as the microchips. My battery is from ! That's over 20 years old. As always, assembly is the reverse of disassembly. You're ready to play! Jamie Nov 22, Take the positive post and solder that in.

The post should grasp firmly to the top of the battery. Do any necessary cleaning to the pieces as you see fit. For the plastic and metal pieces, I scrubbed them with some Comet cleaner to remove most of the rust. Put everything back together and test it out. After putting the game back together, I was able to save my progress successfully.

This was a very happy ending for me: I have my favorite game to play and enjoy now. Yeah, this didnt help. The battery i had in it before was not dead and my game still doesn't save. I am going to try and replace the memory chip itself and see is that works. Finding it is proving to be a problem though. Reply 8 years ago on Introduction. I'm concerned with how feasible changing that IC will be. It may be proprietary or out-dated and no longer available on the market; that is, assuming you can remove the IC through hot-air or brute force.

Unfortunately it may be necessary to buy another game. More by the author:. I love working with projects on lower levels to design them from the ground up. Working in the lower levels also gives me a greater underst… More About N. Did you make this project? Share it with us! I Made It! Reply Upvote. They function basically the same to the end user. There also exists one unique N64 game, Dezaemon 3D. NOTE: Sometimes a game uses both on-cart memory and the controller pak. Such games will be placed in each of the relevant lists.

Also known as a memory card. Most 3rd party games used this to save.