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[–] pasdechance@jlai.lu 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Back in the Nintendo era we picked up a copy of Final Fantasy I when the local rental shop went out of business... The battery in it was 100% dead. So my brother would just leave the Nintendo on.

I don't think I've had a console affected by this though.

Recently I had an Evercade cart die. It was the flash memory that gave up, though. Not the battery.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

I remember I had NHL 95 on the Genesis brand new and could never figure out why it would never save my season. Years later I realized "damn battery was dead, why didn't I just return it?" still played the hell out of the game though.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 3 points 6 days ago

I did this around 2012 or so when I was working through some of the harder NES titles on cartridge and didn't want to lose my progress at night if I was close. Ninja Gaiden, Contra, Castlevania, Mega Man.