Working GB/GBC games.

[Luna]

Its a common problem to most GB/GBC games.
The battery just stops.

I myself dugged up some of my old GB/GBC games I bought when they game out! I was aware of this problem so I was curious if it still worked. I didnt expected it to work after 13 years and 9 Years respectively.

But they did work!

The games I'm referrig to are Pokémon Yellow and Crystal.

Can I be one of the few lucky ones whos game still works?

Tell me your story!

 

[thaddius]

My Pokemon Blue, Red, Yellow, Gold and Silver carts still have working batteries.

 

[gumgod]

My Metroid II and FF Legend II original Gameboy games still work

 

[Sop]

My Pokemon Blue, Red, Yellow, Gold and Silver carts still have working batteries.

What he said except I have crystal as well and that mario one.

 

[Pyrmon]

They all still worked perfectly when I dug mine up, but I got my soldering iron and change the batteries anyways, just in case. I didn't lose my saves too, because I used a mega memory pack to back them up.

 

[thaddius]

My Pokemon Blue, Red, Yellow, Gold and Silver carts still have working batteries.

What he said except I have crystal as well and that mario one.

Super Mario Bros. Deluxe? Mine still works.

 

[jalaneme]

my wario land 3 cartridge went dead a year ago, i brought another one on ebay though, was real mad cause i lot a lot of save progress, i almost complete the game and that game was tough too!

 

[Langin]

Crystal works as the hell.!

 

[Arithmatics]

My pokemon Gold. still kickin. haven't changed the battery yet.

 

[wolffangalchemist]

found my Pokemon Crystal cart recently still has a working sram battery.

 

[revron]

my wario land 3 cartridge went dead a year ago, i brought another one on ebay though, was real mad cause i lot a lot of save progress, i almost complete the game and that game was tough too!

You bought a new cartridge? You could have just bought the battery.

 

[Odnetnin46]

I still have my old cartridges,and they work great,despite being 8 years old.But now,if I play any GBC games,I just use Lameboy or No$GMB.
Retro rules!

 

[PeregrinFig]

My Pokemon Silver which I have owned for about 10 years still saves. Same for both of the Zelda Oracle games. (I bought both and played them to death)

 

[_Chaz_]

Every GB/GBC game I own still works and the Pokemon games still save.

 

[8BitWalugi]

All of my old Gameboy games still work. And I recently came into a few more (Yellow, Mario Land 1+2, Wario Land II) and they still work!

 

[Deleted-236924]

My Pokémon Red, Green and Blue carts still save.
So does my two Yellow carts (One US, one JP.)

 

[Clydefrosch]

usually, my games batteries ran out 2 years or so after buying them...
specially with pokemon.
i think its actually a thing of usage.
how many times you switch it on and off, how long you play etc.

Ive still got that Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest (the one thats like secret of mana on GBA) and its probably older than any of my other games and it still saves, but I never played that as much as dragon quest monsters or pokemon.


on another note... i've had quite a few games give up on me cause the contacts wore off. like with my crystal, after a year, i had to open the cart and put a little piece of paper behind the contacts to push them forward, but one day, it just became unreadable anyway.

something similar happened to my old xploder... oh how i loved that thing, for gbc as well.
you could actually find your own codes with that thing by checking values that changed between the last checks.
never saw that in any other cheat device outside of emulators..

 

[Deleted-236924]

something similar happened to my old xploder... oh how i loved that thing, for gbc as well.
you could actually find your own codes with that thing by checking values that changed between the last checks.
never saw that in any other cheat device outside of emulators..

I had a Gameshark for Gameboy/Color that let us do that as well, I believe.