u/Cold-Sandwich-6213

PSA - memories (save state)

I understand this might be common knowledge but its a reminder.

For cartridge based games (especially if you have decade old saves, avoid using memories and trying to save to cartridge. Imagine you load a memory and your save is gone because you thought the game would just overwrite your file.

You can test this with any two cartridges (everdrive too)

  1. Create memory
  2. Boot up second game
  3. Load memory
  4. Progress further and let the game save (eg. MM song of time)
  5. Reboot cartridge.

Second cartridge has no idea the file ever existed so it never saved.

I emailed analogue but for future reference, dont mix memories and cartridge saves. Analogue clearly says it will overwrite but not ever game saves the same.

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u/Cold-Sandwich-6213 — 3 months ago