Hacking Replacing 3-in-1 Battery

[DrCereal]

After some serious tinkering and toying around I'm almost certain that the battery on my 3-in-1 arrived dead. Seeing how I ordered from dealextreme in Hong Kong, I have little hope to get a replacement/refund.

How easy/hard is it to replace the battery on a 3-in-1? Has anyone done it? Is it even possible?

Thanks,

C

 

[gigermunit]

Just recharge it man, by playing a gba game that uses the battery like pokemon ruby and leave the game running for a bit.

 

[Sinkhead]

DealExtreme are actually really good with refunds and returns. You shp it to them (either Florida or Hong Kong address) and they'll even refund your postage!

- Sam

 

[haruk]

Just wondering..how would you know when the battery is dead?

 

[4saken]

Doesn't copy saves/make saves when you've tried all conventional techniques

 

[aZnXrAvEr]

Just recharge it man, by playing a gba game that uses the battery like pokemon ruby and leave the game running for a bit.

When I play Pokemon Sapphire on the 3-in-1, it says something like, "battery has gone dry, clock-based events won't happen." So I tried what you said by leaving the game running... I left pokemon running the whole night but it still says that battery message when I start it up!

 

[science]

Sapphire, Ruby and Emerald will always give you that error when played on the 3 in 1 because the battery is only for saves, etc. There is no RTC (Real Time Clock) which allows for time based events in the Pokemon series to occur.

 

[Destructobot]

You can patch Sapphire and Ruby with GBATA to fix the clock thing.

 

[aZnXrAvEr]

Thanks Destructobot

Sadly, I play Emerald version. My brother plays Sapphire, and my sister plays Ruby. So.. they get to have the clock fix and I don't. xD

 

[.::5pYd3r::.]

u can also use GBATA to patch pokemon emerald

 

[iwakura]

DealExtreme are actually really good with refunds and returns. You shp it to them (either Florida or Hong Kong address) and they'll even refund your postage!

- Sam

They're good the first time

I got a broken R4, then i returned it, waited a month, got a second R4 with the same problem. emailed them and they're ignoring me.