GunSmoke Guy
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I'm slightly confused, so I bought a Q*Bert recently and read that the battery leaks etc.. My game was intermittently saving... So I took it upon myself to remove the battery from my PCB. I don't really need the game to have a save feature. Any ways after desoldering, I turned on my game and noticed my High Score remained. Is that because once it saves to NVRAM? Will it will be there permanently until another high score is achieved ? Did I remove the correct problematic battery in question so that acid damage shouldn't occur in the future? I heard about some rechargeable house phone batteries as a replacement but again I'm not sure I even necessarily need to / want to even replace it as I don't really need a high score save feature.


I saw this : http://www.interstatebatteries.com/...+Type|101|1|&Title=3.6V+180mAh+NIMH+4+PC+PINS
Not sure if it's compatible etc.. was the GE battery I removed the original one that came from Gottlieb ? Or did a prior owner replace it at some point. I understand the convience of using a battery holder as opposed to keep having to solder / desolder new 4 pin batteries but I don't mind either way.


I saw this : http://www.interstatebatteries.com/...+Type|101|1|&Title=3.6V+180mAh+NIMH+4+PC+PINS
Not sure if it's compatible etc.. was the GE battery I removed the original one that came from Gottlieb ? Or did a prior owner replace it at some point. I understand the convience of using a battery holder as opposed to keep having to solder / desolder new 4 pin batteries but I don't mind either way.
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