The downside of a lot of those "password" save systems was that you lost your lives, and sometimes more. The password sometimes just wasn't long enough to store

The downside of a lot of those "password" save systems was that you lost your lives, and sometimes more. The password sometimes just wasn't long enough to store enough information. For example, Driver[0] (at least on the Game Boy) is an icon-based one with eight(?) symbols per field and four fields. That's only 12 bits. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_(video_game)