Video: Get The Most Out Of Your Game Boy With This Exhaustive Guide

Game Boy: A gift that keeps on giving.

Actually I want to play 1 favorite GBA game, K-1 World GP 2. But i'm afraid if the cartridge suddenly can't save because of died battery inside the cartridge. I know every single electronic stuffs can die someday. Any methods to make GBA cartridge long lived ?

@Anti-Matter I wouldn't worry too much about it. I haven't had a single GBA cart battery die on me yet.

The cart itself will last a long while, and the battery can be replaced for cheap. You'll need to solder the new one, however. And if you like the game that much, I'd buy a second cartridge, just in case.

@Anti-Matter don't worry. If you worry too much your hair will all fall

I grew up with the Gameboy, but I can't play it now... The screen has fallen off, I lost the battery cover and the sellotape holding the charger pack together is wearing thin.

Might stick a Pi in there.

Save batteries can last a very long time. I'm not familiar with the K1 game mentioned here, but I wonder if it even has a battery. Some GBA games used save batteries, but most used flash memory as far as I can tell. I've experienced and have heard of other people experiencing games that don't save. Perhaps they had defective save memory. Luckily, there are ways to preserve and keep playing games even if carts malfunction, including ways to play on original hardware.

@Anti-Matter I've heard there are carts you can buy to backup your GB save games if that's what you're worried about losing, but yeah, I've never heard of GBA batteries dying. Not yet, anyway.

@sdelfin
Um...maybe the year release of game and the publisher can tell if the GBA games still used battery or flash memory. My favorite GBA games that i'm looking for are K-1 Pocket GP and K-1 Pocket GP 2. Those are Kickboxing games published by Konami on year 2002. Based on year release, are those games usually already use flash memory instead battery ? Also, I found playasia.com still have K-1 Pocket GP 1 and still in Brand New condition (So the games already 14 years ago).

Exhaustive AND exhausting, even for a man who knows something of specs and mods and what-have-you.

@Anti-Matter unfortunately, there is no way to be sure without opening a cart. Save batteries were common in 2002, but I know of some games that didn't use batteries to save from that year. There are only incomplete lists for GBA. So far, both K-1 games aren't on any lists I've seen of games with batteries, but you'd still be taking a chance if you buy since this is not certain. If I find out any more information soon, I'll post it.

@Anti-Matter Dude! K-1 Pocket GP 2 is one of the best fighting games ever made. Absolutely fantastic game that almost nobody has ever played (outside of Japan, anyway). I have a physical copy and it still saves, no problem.