Maintenance guides, tips, and reference charts for retro games and consoles.
Many older cartridges and accessories use a small 3V coin-cell battery to hold on to save data, keep a real-time clock ticking, or store settings when the console is off. When one of those batteries fails, the saves disappear. The battery number is only half the story. For cartridge repair, the tab style matters just…
Have a Japanese Nintendo 64 game but only have a North American N64 console? Good news, you don’t need an expensive modification or a special adapter to play it. There are a couple of easy ways to play Japanese N64 games on a North American console. The easiest option is simply to swap the back…
A complete battery list for Game Boy cartridges: CR1616, CR2025, and CR2032 by game title. Compiled from our own cartridge repairs and community sources.