Copy Save From Reproduction Pokemon Red Blue or Yellow Cartridge

Hi, just finished doing a little surgery cartridge surgery for my wife and I thought I'd share my notes on how to do it. She started playing on a repro copy of pokemon yellow, realized it wouldn't work with stadium and wanted to buy a real one and move her save to it

This procedure only works for reading a save off the cartridge, and not writing one to it due to how these bootlegs are designed

Note: Don't follow this guide if the inside of your cart doesn't look the same as mine. If you can find 3 volts and ground somewhere on your pcb you could probably modify my instructions to work.

Also the soldering can be a little tricky. Do this at your own risk. Personally I practiced on a spare game I had and didn't care about.

Wire. Alligator Clips. Gameboy-game replacement battery. Cartridge dumper. Gameboy. Soldering equipment

Solder wires to 3v and ground, found on the voltage regulator and the left side of this capacitor. Tape the wires down so they don't get pulled off.

I used alligator clips and the exact same kind of battery you'd use to replace one in an official game, but any 3v battery should likely work. (NOTE: To put the cartridge shell all the way back on you will need to cut a hole for the wires somewhere.)

Put the cart in a gameboy, being careful not to disturb the wires too much. Load the game and then save it. Power the gameboy off

Put the cartridge in your cart dumper of choice (I used the gb operator, I'm sure others would work fine though). Dump the save file as normal.

Upload your save to a legitimate cartridge as normal. All done! Unclip the battery when you're finished