Comments on: I Hate It When This Happens (Leaky Battery Blues) https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/600/i-hate-it-when-this-happens The Retrogaming and Retrocomputing Blogazine Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:16:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.18 By: Matt https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/600/i-hate-it-when-this-happens#comment-17289 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:30:32 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/?p=600#comment-17289 Guys, there are a lot of available retrofit kits to remove the batteries from the board (particularly for arcade games). In the related field of arcade collecting, these are pretty common, particularly for old machines that used 9V backups of score. Non-permanent mods... definitely worth the money.

]]> By: orsty3001 https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/600/i-hate-it-when-this-happens#comment-17288 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:32:10 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/?p=600#comment-17288 I pull the batteries out of all my old electronics now. I had a few things die because of that.

Also I just ordered a Dreamcast memory card and it wouldn't work because the batteries had corroded. Apparently it doesn't take that long for something to become f***ed because of old batteries.

]]> By: Moondog https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/600/i-hate-it-when-this-happens#comment-17287 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:15:41 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/?p=600#comment-17287 This picture reminded me of a few Maglites I owned over the years, and had to toss because batteries swelled up or leaked.

]]> By: Brian Hanifin https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/600/i-hate-it-when-this-happens#comment-17285 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:42:29 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/?p=600#comment-17285 This is one of the saddest things to see in an old pinball machine. For this reason it is common practice to move the batteries off the circuit board into a new remote battery pack.

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