Well have you ever heard of the battery in a N64 game cart dying? As far as video game carts go, they're still pretty new, so we haven't seen a lot of dead batteries yet. While I had it open, I tested the voltage of the battery in my first party memory card, it was 3.09v, which tells me it should still have a lot of life left. Hell, I sometimes get "brand new" CR2032's with less voltage.BoringSupreez wrote:Well, I just figured they weren't battery powered, because I've never heard of a card's battery dying. I figured they were whatever later N64 carts used to save, after they stopped using batteries.
If you have a philipshead screwdriver you can open the controller up and clean the memory card port easier. You'll also wanna clean the memory card pins, too, naturally. If it's a third party memory card, it will probably only have philiphead screws. You could take the memory card apart to clean the pins easier too. If you have a volt meter, and you take the card apart, you can test the battery and see if it's dead or not. It's a 3 volt battery, so naturally anything under 3 volts and the battery can be considered dead. But I'll usually change them out if they're under 3.02v, I deem those as dying.kingmohd84 wrote:how can I clean the contacts?
Its very hardy to get to them
i tried use the credit card to clean it, its just hard to get to it
But like I said earlier, if you have a third party card I recommend picking up a first party Nintendo brand card to replace it. From my experience, third party memory cards aren't worth the trouble.
