6th November 2003, 7:22 PM
I'd say not, considering that Metroid didn't use battery save, remember? That's why the password was there. In Japan it saved, but it was on diskette and didn't need battery. There was a decent number of games that used it, but all were large quests that really needed save slots, like Final Fantasy, the two Zeldas, Ultima Exodus, Crystalis, and so on. Well, as far as I know.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)