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[snes] The owner of a game store up by my bf has offered to change the battery in my copy of Super Mario All-Stars for like $8 so I don't have to hunt down a wii copy ;;
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partly so we can record for youtube stuff but also because that cartridge holds some serious sentimental value for me
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my brothers and I played all the time when I was little and they came up to visit us
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and I was always so jealous of how good they were but they were like 9 years older than me so 
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but this is that same cartidge, I never got rid of it and now it won't erase my games anymore.
RussianKlingon
nice. I have Super Mario All Stars on SNES too
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It's SUCH a good bundle of great Mario games
RussianKlingon
It is
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I haven't touched it since I realized the battery was failing, I almost cried happy tears when he offered
RussianKlingon
ah yeah. those old cartridge batteries do degrade after a few years. happened to a lot of my old game boy games
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I didn't realize there were batteries in the catridges
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but I am so glad they offered
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Yup! I only found out a few years ago but there are batteries in NES, SNES, N64, and gameboy cartridges. Probably in GBA too? I never paid a lot of attention to GBA though 
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WELP, I guess I will find out if my GBA ones start failing
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he was so nice, he asked if there was anything we were looking for and I commented that I was looking for All-Stars since my SNES one was on its last legs and he just "Oh, I can replace that."
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GBA and N64 were the first ones we owned
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my nana bought my brothers and I a NES when I was a baby so I started early
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*nanny
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My parents were worried I would never get anything done if I had a system when I was little
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which, in hindsight..... fair
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It's kind of like them worring that I would set things on fire with an easy bake oven. I thought this was dumb until as an adult I remembered that I caught my sheets on fire with a reading lamp.
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My parents Know.
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Luckily, my reading ability wasn't good enough to keep me playing games constantly. And when nanny taught me to read, I spent more time with books than games.
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excellent
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... my parents wished I was hooked to games then. They had to ban me from book stores because I always found something new
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LMAO
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games would last longer than my books XD
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Mom had to make a 'no books at the dinner table' rule for me
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so cruel
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right? I had to actually talk to people
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