8th July 2022, 10:29 PM
Thanks to archive.org containing numerous full copies of pretty much any ROM you care to ask for (seriously, it's amazing Nintendo haven't gone after them.... yet....) I've tried out each and every one of those Memory 128 backup managing games you listed. I also tried the ones you hadn't experimented with yet. Popful Mail, sadly, will SHOW you all your save files but it will only allow you to copy Popful Mail's own saves to various "banks". Thus, it doesn't work as a manager. Vasteel 2 has a much more robust system which, surprise surprise, is actually fully compatible with the same "banking" format that Private Eyedol uses. (A note, it's "Eye Dol" as in "idol" apparently. It's an adventure game about solving mysteries with a hologram sidekick which would honestly be right up my alley if it wasn't fully in Japanese and untranslated. A shame... I have no clue what the story's about beyond that.)
Between the two of them, Private Eye Dol (and now I'm thinking of Killer Instinct with that name...) has the best interface. Having tested them all, yep, that's the one for me. I managed to snag a copy for about $15 (including shipping) mere minutes ago online. That's so cheap I didn't even bother sniffing around other auction sites. I'd just use the ripped version I burned to a disc but I'd rather go easy on my CD-Rom times CD-Rom's laser if I can manage it.
Between the two of them, Private Eye Dol (and now I'm thinking of Killer Instinct with that name...) has the best interface. Having tested them all, yep, that's the one for me. I managed to snag a copy for about $15 (including shipping) mere minutes ago online. That's so cheap I didn't even bother sniffing around other auction sites. I'd just use the ripped version I burned to a disc but I'd rather go easy on my CD-Rom times CD-Rom's laser if I can manage it.
"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)