Capcom CPS-2 Suicide Battery

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:50 pm

Holy cow that's it??? That's WAY cheaper than I was expecting. I think I'll be sending him some mail very very soon....

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:09 am

Phoenix mod also appeal to me too, but as long as my board is not dead yet. I would keep swopping bettery, since once swoped a bettery could laset several years.

And I have just successfully swopped the bettery of my Progear yesterday.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:50 am

Just in case you want a step by step instruction on how to do a CPS2 battery swap with a battery holder here is a step by step guide.

http://home.online.no/~tjaberg/cps2_battery/index.htm

rtw

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:17 am

rtw wrote:Just in case you want a step by step instruction on how to do a CPS2 battery swap with a battery holder here is a step by step guide.

http://home.online.no/~tjaberg/cps2_battery/index.htm

rtw

Great idea, I would cosider a bettery holder on my next bettery swop three years later.

bigbadboaz · Post by **bigbadboaz** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:23 am

Can anyone explain why boards are designed to eventually fail? I understand the need for encryption, but why tie it to a finite power source?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:15 pm

bigbadboaz wrote:Can anyone explain why boards are designed to eventually fail? I understand the need for encryption, but why tie it to a finite power source?

Because it means you will eventually have to send the board back to capcom for service, and they charge a handsome price to restore the rom and give you a new battery.

thchardcore · Post by **thchardcore** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:00 pm

Actually it's to stop bootlegging, something that diluted the NEO share of the arcade markte by a fair bit. I don't really think the battery was designed to make capcom profit, it's more these boards weren't meant to live beyond the arcades into homelife (where they aren't powered 24/7).

Nice try though.