15th February 2004, 6:15 PM
Having only a few GBC games (and yes, they do use batteries, and yes it IS very obvious), I wasn't aware that even with GBC they weren't using batteries in many carts. Well, not that big a suprise I suppose. It took until the N64 for console carts to have save that often (I remember many SNES games lacked save with the exception of RPGs and SOME 1st party games, and even then I've played one RPG on SNES that used passwords, PASSWORDS). Actually, even with N64, now that I think about it, it WAS just 1st and 2nd party games that had save, but at least they had it on ALL of those. Most 3rd party games still didn't have on cart save, but at least used a memory card.
Yeah, I believe GBA IS the first time all companies try using save data on the cart on most if not all of their games. If I'm wrong about N64 carts and they too use batteries, then the reason is likely due to flash ROM being cheap enough to easily put it on every cart.
Yeah, I believe GBA IS the first time all companies try using save data on the cart on most if not all of their games. If I'm wrong about N64 carts and they too use batteries, then the reason is likely due to flash ROM being cheap enough to easily put it on every cart.
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