SNES cartridge assistance requested

[smbu2000]

fillet said:

smbu2000 said:

noname2200 said:
Thanks for the confirmation, Rath. And holy crap, I did not know that the SNES used CR2032's. That's surprisingly convenient!

Oh they use those? I just replaced the battery on my Sega Saturn the other day and it uses the same CR2032 battery as well! Admittedly it's a lot easier replacing that one than cracking open my SNES carts.

No need for the exclamation mark, it's common knowledge. Also common knowledge that CR2032 batteries are used in cartridges from the 90s.

 

What exactly did people expect them to use? A pair of AAs?

 

sigh...Honestly!

Maybe it's common knowledge for you, but I've never had to crack open one of my NES/SNES games as the battery hasn't died on any of them as far as I know. In other words, I've never had to/bothered to check what battery is in them. All of my Super Famicom games I bought when I came to Japan, but they still save fine as well.

One thing I was surprised to find out was that the Japanese version of Dragon Quest 1 (Dragon Warrior 1) used passwords instead of a battery back-up for the game. I didn't know that they added the battery back-up for the western release of DW1/DQ1.