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It's for keeping save data =)
by tapland 6y ago
It's for keeping save data =)
- willis936 6y agoAnd losing it. I’m sure many people are surprised to come back to their GB, NES, and SNES games after a few decades to find that their save files are gone.
- HeckFeck 6y agoI've plugged in SNES cartridges that are 30 years old and the save data still persists. I'm guessing they got the same man who designed the everlasting Casio digital watch battery to design those.
- lacavao 6y agoI've heard about this for years, but I've never had it happen, and I don't know anyone else who's experienced it. I don't doubt it happens, but what could cause such a discrepancy in the time it takes to degrade?
- NegativeLatency 6y agoDifferent battery manufacturers? Batteries stored in different conditions?
- NortySpock 6y agoAnecdata
- stickmangallows 6y agoI was surprised last year to find my saves on Zelda 2 and others were still intact. Zelda 1 had been dead for years though.
- aidenn0 6y agoMy 33 year old final fantasy cart still holds saves; other newer ones have died. There's a huge variance there.
- armadsen 6y agoI recently got my old Game Boy games out so my son could play them. They've been in a box in storage for 20+ years. My saved games from the 90s are still there on all the ones I've checked.
- piyh 6y agoBack them up on a old gameshark or something. I lost all my gamesaves and wish I still could revisit them.