Re:Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console
by mikejmoffitt on Thursday July 14, 2016 @01:59PM
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Replacing the battery takes a couple minutes. Many of those carts are still running. The number of decent NES games that used battery saving can be counted on your hands, so to call it a LOT of pain might be exaggerating a little.
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Re:Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console
by msbarnett on Thursday July 14, 2016 @03:26PM
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A "couple of minutes" for a confident, competent solderer, which excludes about 99% of the target market for this thing. (Here's how to do it, if anyone's curious: http://www.retronintendoreviews.com/nes-cartridge-battery-re...)
And while overall most NES games didn't use a battery, many of the most popular ones (many of the ones included in this thing, in fact) do need a working battery. Final Fantasy, both zeldas, startropics, tecmo bowl, crystallis, kirby's adventure...
If Crystalis has a battery-backed save system it's news to me. And I've beaten the game on the original hardware.
Re:Nintendo re-releases NES as mini console
by msbarnett on Sunday July 17, 2016 @03:54PM
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Crystalis absolutely has a save/continue system. You can see some guy demonstrating the save system in crystalis in this video, complete with save functionality: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=73za3LHWzwk
Are you thinking of some other game?
Incredible. I owned the game for years, played it a lot, beat it once, and never noticed a way to save, so I assumed you couldn't. I even had the manual!