Intriguing. Maybe you'd be better off removing the charging resistor (470ohm), installing a coin cell holder and just use non rechargable ones. They can live for a pretty long time.
If you're referring to a battery leaking all over the board, it would cause the connections on the board to become weak and eventually fail.Maybe a silly question here but if you have faulty battery of some kind, What are the repercussions? No power?, improper function etc??
Does this battery also keep the game settings? Like the difficulty level and other settings like auto-fire with C button in Strikers?
It keeps settings and some scores, don't know about auto-fire, isn't that Unibios enabled?
It will sometimes have residual charge left in the RAM so if you power off for 45 minutes then it should be clear and back to level 4.
True. The 108 in 1 Multicart I have, that saves its game settings on the cart I guess. I put it in last night after the cab was off for a few hours. All the game settings were still set. I didn't realize the multicarts did that.
I was wondering if it is possible to use a rechargeable 3.6V coin cell battery and fitting holder to replace the stock battery. This way you could leave the charging circuit intact and have a new, easily serviceable battery. It can be done with the Dreamcast and there should be quite a few 3.6V coin cells out there... what am I missing?
Afaik the Neo puts out 3.6V through the recharge circuit, so you should be using a 3.6V rechargeable coin cell as well. In most cases you will loose the bios settings (including high scores) when you remove the battery. Sometimes if you're fast and a charge is kept on the bios, you will not, but that has only happened to me once and I find it kind of scary.i want to replace the stock button cell with a new 3 volt lithium rechargeable with a coin cell holder. Do I need to worry about losing bios when I remove old and install new?
Hi All,
Sorry if this has already been answered before but my home internet connection is currently down so I couldn’t make a proper search, anyhow in a nutshell: a while ago my 4 slot MVS’s battery died so I removed it to avoid any leakage (it was a 3.6V 50mAh Ni-Cd battery).
Recently I start looking for a replacement but the only available battery my local store has in stock is a 3.6V 250mAh Ni-Mh. Will this battery work as well? Thanks in advance
Yes, it will. It also has a higher capacity which is a plus.
desoldering the battery and putting a new one in is something easily done. Honestly, if you can solder at all you should be able to do it ok.
As to the capacitor thing, that's actually an interesting idea. I guess supercabs should work to some degree and have some advantages (faster loading, super long lifespan, more resistant to temperatures, ecological). But they usually don't hold a charge as long as batteries (leakage current too) - so you'll need to recharge them like every 22-26 hours if I figured this out correctly... got any links?