25th October 2005, 12:09 PM
Uh, DJ, as I said, SOME GBA games -- the ones I listed and others (that I didn't think of looking up on that page) are indeed battery-backed. As I said, the GBA and N64 have three different oncart save methods they can use: two solid-state and one battery-backed. That page says all of the ones that I listed as as battery-backed are; the only one I have absolute confirmation of is F-Zero Maximum Velocity, since once in the IGN GB mailbox they showed pictures of the insides of three carts, one that used flash memory, one that used EEPROM, and one (F-Zero) that used a battery, though, and that makes me think very strongly that the rest of that list is true as well.
As for N64 memory cards, what I've heard is what I said: first-party cards may well be flash memory; some are, from what I've heard (ones made after some point in 1999 or something? Not sure if that's true.). But third-party ones... I don't have pictures, since the site is partially dead (and very frusteratingly the entry for the first-party card seems gone forever (and yes I tried yahoo/google cache and archive.org), but there are images from two third-party cards on this mirror of the site (on the real site, a lot of the images are dead... even the mirror doesn't have the first-party-N64-memcard page available, though. :()... go here.
'Cartridge Scans'. There are also images of some of the N64 games that use batteries, proving me correct. There isn't just one N64 and GBA save method, unlike popular opinion.
Anyway... in the Interact and Preformance cards here they do have scanned, the battery is on the back of the card. Again, I don't know about Nintendo's, because I can't find any scans or details of what people who opened them found or tech specs for the controller pak or anything (though if Nintendo made some with batteries and some without, I'm not sure if just one set of scans would prove anything... but it'd help. Especially if it was one without a battery.)...
http://n64.icequake.net/mirror/tcsr2001.tripod.com/
As for N64 memory cards, what I've heard is what I said: first-party cards may well be flash memory; some are, from what I've heard (ones made after some point in 1999 or something? Not sure if that's true.). But third-party ones... I don't have pictures, since the site is partially dead (and very frusteratingly the entry for the first-party card seems gone forever (and yes I tried yahoo/google cache and archive.org), but there are images from two third-party cards on this mirror of the site (on the real site, a lot of the images are dead... even the mirror doesn't have the first-party-N64-memcard page available, though. :()... go here.
'Cartridge Scans'. There are also images of some of the N64 games that use batteries, proving me correct. There isn't just one N64 and GBA save method, unlike popular opinion.
Anyway... in the Interact and Preformance cards here they do have scanned, the battery is on the back of the card. Again, I don't know about Nintendo's, because I can't find any scans or details of what people who opened them found or tech specs for the controller pak or anything (though if Nintendo made some with batteries and some without, I'm not sure if just one set of scans would prove anything... but it'd help. Especially if it was one without a battery.)...
http://n64.icequake.net/mirror/tcsr2001.tripod.com/
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