24th October 2005, 9:11 PM
What were they to do? EEPROM really was not an option back then. They only switched around the time of the PS1 when Sony (and everyone else soon after) realized very quickly that a memory card really needs to last a long time. Now, that said, GB and GBC games still used batteries.
But hey, they moved on with the GBA. The tech is "up to date" now.
As for the internal clocks... I really have no idea how that works. If they just make internal batteries of the rechargeble sort, then wall power will keep that thing charged for a long long time.
Oh and, yes it is VERY frustrating to know my older gen games will eventually lose all their data if I don't take some sort of action. That is why I have every intention of finding a "hot swap" method of swapping the batteries so I can keep the data for another 5+ years.
But hey, they moved on with the GBA. The tech is "up to date" now.
As for the internal clocks... I really have no idea how that works. If they just make internal batteries of the rechargeble sort, then wall power will keep that thing charged for a long long time.
Oh and, yes it is VERY frustrating to know my older gen games will eventually lose all their data if I don't take some sort of action. That is why I have every intention of finding a "hot swap" method of swapping the batteries so I can keep the data for another 5+ years.
"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)