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In the event that battery corrosion has damaged your Game Boy contacts so much that it cannot be cleaned with a solution, the contact terminals can be replaced with clean ones. The Game Boy Advance has two terminals soldered to the PCB wit…

1 min readUpdated Oct 9, 2026

In the event that battery corrosion has damaged your Game Boy contacts so much that it cannot be cleaned with a solution, the contact terminals can be replaced with clean ones.

The Game Boy Advance has two terminals soldered to the PCB with one more terminal that slides into the shell housing.

Game Boy Advance (AGB)

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