Did I damage my Pokemon Emerald copy when changing the battery? The game works, but I noticed an error with the font. Some pixels seem to be missing. The sound is also unclean as you can hear on the attached audio. In wild battles there was no winning music. When removing the bottom contact from the original battery, I might have touched the area below the battery (red rectangle) with my knife and pliers. Is it possible that this could cause this kind of damage? I just bought it on ebay and am not sure whether the damage was present before. The copy is very very likely legit btw.https://vocaroo.com/1hJkcg3y8rQB
>>56881470dumbass
>>56881470>GermanGelobt sei die überlegene arische Menschheit!
>>56881470Obviously retard, I can’t even read the text on the screeb
>>56881470It's possible. Inspect it carefully.
>>56881603heh.
>>56881470payback for the holocaust you nazi scumbag
>>56881470LMAOOOOOO
>>56881657Fuck off jew, this is a Japanese board
>>56881470no one here is skilled enough to help youcheck with a magnifying glass every single point along the chip on both sides(look for slightly broken traces, as they are likely only partially connected in a couple areas)>fat solder mess>using fucking pliers anon what the FUCK
>>56882099i would advise to gently clean the teeth on the edge connector as welli use acetone but must advise to be CAREFUL with it and not go crazyapply it ONLY to the teeth in a vertical\updown direction if you messed up something so simple as a battery swapit is highly unlikely you will be able to repair\reflow the specific trace on the chip itselfor you used too much heat for too long & fried\damaged the data contained on it
Nothing seems obviously wrong from your picture. I would desolder the battery again, test and see if the corruption still occurs even without a battery (could be it's just in weird somehow), and then take a close look at the area surrounding the battery contacts. Look for any dirt or debris or anything like loose solder balls or solder bridges that you might have put there while replacing the battery. Shit can be really small and still potentially short out pins on the chip.If you say you hit the rom chip in that area it's possible you may have damaged the pins somehow, but unless you did the classic "peel the battery off with a butter knife like a retard" technique I don't think you would have hit it hard enough to do that. At any rate, if a gameboy cartridge is working well enough to get into the game like that, whatever's wrong with it is likely something fixable.
>>56881657Based
>>56881470>he fell for the change battery memeanon even after changing the batteries the game is still fucked
>>56882301it's fixable post-swap but you need a save editor i think
>>56882590OP's at the start of the game, I think he'll be able to cope with losing 3 minutes of progress to fix the RTC reset glitch by starting a new save.
>Playing pre gen 4 on real hardwareYou're just asking for it
>>56881657based
>>56881866>japanese boardyet hiro removed the nazi banner when he took control.
>>56882696if op can fuck up this badly opening a cart, he can get an acekard and GBA_RTCRead and fix the rtc properly
>>56882721It's doable with care. Put in a new battery, do what >>56883096 I just said here to fix RTC issues (happens to fix the berry glitch in most cases) and play on something sturdier like an Analogue Pocket (don't use states) and you can have a pretty good legit experience.List of hardware I have to make GenIII more tolerable. A lot of this is easy to get, some of it is stupid hard and not worth it.1 (or more) Analogue Pockets. For playing and link stuff. I have about 4 for my group's Foursword and Crystal Chronicles get togethers1 Epilogue GB Operater. Kind of a GB/GBC/GBA slot for your PC. You can play directly on PC or just back up your saves for peace of mind. Or more. I'm not your mom. Has an emulator built in but YMMV cause I've had it desync the RTC before.1 DS lite + Acekard2i with GBA_RTCRead. nds-savegame-manager might be useful too if you don't have the Epilogue.The rest of this stuff isn't necessary but it's fun for all the extended Pokemon nonsense you can do in GenIIIGamecube + GBA-GCN cables. You have to remove this metal bit to make it work with the Analogue Pocket but it interfaces like a dream. NO compatibility issues. That means you get access to Colo and XD, Pokemon BOX (practically required for living dex), Jirachi Bonus disk, and Celebi disk, if you have access to JP Colo and either an AR or Japanese hardware.Another Gameboy. You can do link stuff with multiple Pockets, but they don't have the right form factor for the eReader. There's lots of neat eReader stuff to collect, more than I can type here.
>>56881470This is why you buy the ezflash omega de and be done with it. Forever. The thing even supports pal park.
>>56882271I actually did the butter knife retard method and no soldering at all, which is why I think something has gone wrong there.I've been playing for 2 hours and nothing seems to be broken except the font and music quality. If nothing else happens I'll likely just accept my fate.
>>56883599That sucks. Hope you learned your lesson (to be clear the lesson is that you don't have the toolset). If I was in your situation I would try really hard to find someone who knows what they are doing and sell it to them at a discount and buy another one. Hopefully they can repair it. Anons gave good advice in this thread but it's important to know when you don't have the aptitude for something. My limit is a battery change and a Hail Mary where I scrubbed a Sapphire cart that was water damaged with a toothbrush and some isopropyl alcohol bringing it back to life. Marshtomp is waiting at Slateport for his trainer Sean to continue their journey, he's almost a Swampert.
>>56883599Well there's your problem, could be you hit the chip hard enough to loosen the solder joints and an unstable connection with the board is causing corruptions. That's easy enough to fix by reflowing the solder on the pins but that takes specialist tools or good skills with a solder iron, I'd try and get someone to look at it for you.
>>56883187>1 Epilogue GB Operater. Kind of a GB/GBC/GBA slot for your PC. You can play directly on PC or just back up your saves for peace of mind. Or more. I'm not your mom. Has an emulator built in but YMMV cause I've had it desync the RTC before.>1 DS lite + Acekard2i with GBA_RTCRead. nds-savegame-manager might be useful too if you don't have the Epilogue.Which of these is cheaper and/or easier? I've got a GBA and a DS Lite so I wanna know what is best
