The Arcade community has made some good strides in reviving boards with suicide batteries. Recently I found a few non-volatile RAM replacements for battery backed RAM on non-suicide battery backed PCBs, so I thought it might be useful to start compiling a list of PCBs that use battery backups so that maybe we can start identifying ways to rid ourselves of these time-bombs while retaining full original functionality of the PCB...
The ultimate goal is to "move the needle" from left further right on the chart below without sacrificing functionality...
Soldered Battery -> Sealed Battery -> Removable Battery -> No Battery
For Suicide Batteries I'd like to include any and All known arcade boards that suicide. However to keep the list manageable I'd like to stick to just JAMMA boards for the non-suicide batteries.
SUICIDE BATTERIES
Capcom
Konami
Sega
Seibu
Gaelco
NON-SUICIDE BATTERIES
Atari
Electronic Arts
IGS
Incredible Technologies
Jaleco
Kaneko
Konami
Sammy
Sega
Seibu
Seta
SNK
Visco
If you know of other PCBs with batteries not listed above, please post.
Also if you know resources for getting rid of the battery while retaining original functionality please post that as well.
The ultimate goal is to "move the needle" from left further right on the chart below without sacrificing functionality...
Soldered Battery -> Sealed Battery -> Removable Battery -> No Battery
For Suicide Batteries I'd like to include any and All known arcade boards that suicide. However to keep the list manageable I'd like to stick to just JAMMA boards for the non-suicide batteries.
SUICIDE BATTERIES
Capcom
- Pang (soldered)
- Super Pang (soldered)
- Block Block (soldered)
- Adventure Quiz: Capcom World 2 (C-Board, Soldered)
- Captain Commando (C-Board, Soldered)
- King of Dragons (C-Board, Soldered)
- Knights of Round (C-Board, Soldered)
- Quiz & Dragons: Capcom Quiz Game (C-Board, Soldered)
- Three Wonders (C-Board, Soldered)
- Varth: Operation Thunderstorm (Japan Version) (C-Board, Soldered)
- ALL Capcom CPS Q-Sound (C-Board and D-Board, Soldered)
- ALL Capcom CPS2 (B-Board, Soldered)
- ALL Capcom CPS3 (Bios Cart, Soldered)
- eX-Board (Removable Coin Cell)
Konami
- System 573 (Time Keeper Chip)
- M2 (Time Keeper Chip)
Sega
- MOST Sega System 16 (Built Into CPU)
- ALL Sega System 18 (Built Into CPU)
Seibu
- Zero Team Original Version (Plugged In and Zip-Tied)
Gaelco
- World Rally
- Alligator Hunt
- World Rally 2
- Touch & Go
- Maniac Square
- Play 2000
- Thunder Hoop 2
- Strikes Back
- Glass
- Target Hits
- Salter
- Super roller
NON-SUICIDE BATTERIES
Atari
- ALL Denver Hardware (Time Keeper Chip)
- ALL Flagstaff Hardware (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL Seattle Hardware (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL Vegas Hardware (Time Keeper Chip)
- ALL MEDIA GX Hardware (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL CV1000 (Removalbe Coin Cell)
- ALL PGM Single Board Games (soldered)
Electronic Arts
- Battletoads (Removable Coin Cell)
IGS
- PGM System V0-V12 (Main Board, Soldered)
- PGM System V14 (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL PGM Single Board Games (soldered)
Incredible Technologies
- Golden Tee Golf (Soldered)
- Golden Tee 3D (Main Board, Removable Coin Cell)
- Street Fighter The Movie (Main Board, Removable Coin Cell)
- Time Killers (Main Board, Soldered)
Jaleco
- Mega System 32 (Main Board, Removalble Coin Cell)
Kaneko
- SuperNova System (Main Board, Removable Coin Cell)
Konami
- Cue brick (Soldered)
- Golfing Greats (Soldered)
- Hyper Sports special / Konami88 (Soldered)
- ALL Y-Unit (Main Board, Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL T-Unit (Main Board, Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL V-Unit (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL Wolf Unit (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL Seattle Hardware (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL Zeus Hardware (Removable Coin Cell)
- ALL Zeus II Hardware (2x TimeKeeper Chips)
Sammy
- Atomiswave Hardware (mobo)
- Zombie Raid (Soldered)
Sega
- ALL System 32 (Main Board, Removable Coin Cell)
- ST-V (Main Board Removable Coin Cell)
- DIMM Board (plug-in battery pack)
- Chihiro (Removalbe Coin Cell)
Seibu
- SPI (main board, Soldered)
- Raiden II Original Version (Plugged In and Zip-Tied)
- Raiden DX Original Version (Plugged In and Zip-Tied)
Seta
- Caliber .50 (Soldered)
- Pachinko Sexy Reaction (ROM Board, Soldered)
- Pachinko Sexy Reaction 2 (ROM Board, Soldered)
SNK
- MVS (Main Board Soldered)
Visco
- Drift Out '94 (ROM Board, Soldered)
- Storm Blade (ROM Board, Soldered)
If you know of other PCBs with batteries not listed above, please post.
Also if you know resources for getting rid of the battery while retaining original functionality please post that as well.