Advice for cleaning Game Boy Advance games?

[Gazea2]

One of my games (Pokemon Emerald) for my Game Boy Advance has stopped working. The game plays fine but when I save it, it deletes the save.

I've heard of lots of different methods for cleaning them out but I was wondering whether anyone has tried them and has any advice? Thanks.

[Sparkey98]

Blow into it.

[NFX]

I don't think it's dirty, when it's dirty it normally doesn't get past the GAME BOY screen when you turn it on. I reckon you've done something with the game's ROM chip, because exactly the same thing happened to me with my copy of Pokemon Gold.

[Thyrus]

the battery is empty. The older gameboy games (Super Mario, Tetris, ...)don`t have batteries. That`s the reason why you canot save those games. later the games (Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening, Pokemon RBY, ...) got those batts.

you will have to replace the old one with a new one and it will work again.


hope this video explains it, havn`t watched it.

[Gazea2]

@NFX - The ROM chip.... That reminds me, my older brother did a lot of cheats on it... Maybe that's why.

@Thyrus - That video is for Game Boy Colour games. Are Game Boy Advance games the same or will I have to do something different?

[Stagfish]

My pokemon emeralds time battery has run out but it still saves :S

[Thyrus]

I`m not sure but I think the use either the same battery or an accumulator to save the games.

[FOTEPX]

Qtip and a bit of cleaning solution on said Qtip should do the trick.