u/steampvnc1880

New behavior since 1.3, all original controllers and controller paks:

I started up Rush 2049 with two controllers each with their own controller pak. Controller pak 1 has my Rush 2049 saves in it. Controller pak 2 has no Rush 2049 saves on it. In less than a second of seeing the Midway logo it turned black and wouldn't do anything. I tried a bunch of stuff until I figured out that removing my controller pak in controller 1 let it actually start. Now in the main menu I hit "Players (1)". There I inserted the controller pak. It started rapidly flipping back and forth between "No saves" and "no controller pak". I took the controller paks out of controllers 1 and 2. And placed the controller pak with my saves into controller 2. My saves appeared under "controller pak 2". I removed the controller pak with saves on it from controller 2 and put it in controller 1. My saves appeared under "controller pak 1". I inserted the other controller pak into controller 2. It started rapidly flipping between showing my saves and "no controller pak". My hypothesis is that Analogue 3D OS 1.3 might have some bad interaction with multiple physical controller paks.

At least in Rush 2049.

I left most of my childhood N64 game collection with my younger brother. Since then I've slowly built it back up from used game stores but of course they don't have my old save files. If the 3D ever does get save states is it possible to use them to copy paste the cartridge based saves from my childhood cartridges to the ones I got later by saving a state on the one cartridge and loading that state on the other cartridge (same revision where applicable)? For people with the Pocket have you tried anything like that and observed anything going wrong? Would it also make it possible to restore saves to a cartridge that has lost its saves due to the battery going bad (Ocarina of Time, RE2, FZero, Smash Bros, etc)? And what about saving the contents of my controller paks (also battery backed)?