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Post by Coralcola on Nov 27, 2005 8:09:47 GMT -5
Something very interesting happened with my ST2 game yesterday. Has this happened to anybody? I was playing the game in review mode and had just finished going through chapter 2. When Mike entered Egypt, I waited until a part where I was free to walk around the screen before I shut the game off for a bit. When I turned the game back on, however, I found all my data saved on the game had been erased! This included the data in the other two game slots as well.  This is the first time that any of my games have erased previously saved data by themselves. Did I do something wrong here, or was this a glitch?  |
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Post by Michael Jones on Nov 27, 2005 13:20:29 GMT -5
Startropics 1 or 2 has never done it to me but donkey kong 1-3 for super nintendo do it all the time.
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Post by Scotty D. on Nov 27, 2005 14:45:44 GMT -5
Did you remember to hold in the reset button as you powered off your system?? This has happened to me a couple times w/ the ST games and Legend of Zelda.
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Post by Michael Jones on Nov 27, 2005 16:13:53 GMT -5
I never hold the reset button when I turn off games like startropics and dragon warrior. Whats the point and why would the game need you to hold reset?
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Post by gellin on Nov 27, 2005 16:44:25 GMT -5
The NES games use EEPROM which is definately not the standard today. Todays memory is much better therefore not having to do weird things such as holding reset. Personally, I never bothered with holding down the button and I think that out of all my games, I only had everything erased once or twice. www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/EEPROM.html |
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Post by Michael Jones on Nov 28, 2005 19:05:48 GMT -5
Oh. And by the way I never hold reset either and none of my NES games have ever erased.
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Post by Coralcola on Nov 29, 2005 23:36:52 GMT -5
I've had both games since they were released and I've never held the reset button for ST and LOZ. This is the first time that any such thing has happened to me, so I don't think it involves that, but for what reason it otherwise happened, I'm clueless...  Oh well! |
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Post by Michael Jones on Nov 30, 2005 12:13:37 GMT -5
It's probably just because it's old.
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Post by Scotty D. on Nov 30, 2005 15:13:29 GMT -5
Maybe my NES just didn't like me. Well it's dead now anyway...so it doesn't matter! lol
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Post by Coralcola on Nov 30, 2005 16:54:20 GMT -5
Well, it's saving things fine again now, so I'll just have to keep an eye on it. I'm runnng through ST2 entirely again, I always like to have one of the three slots filled with a fully completed game on it, so I can use the review mode to its full advantage. Thanx all.  |
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Post by Scotty D. on Dec 1, 2005 0:17:14 GMT -5
Ah the joys of Review Mode...how I love thee...
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Post by parrothead1983 on Dec 16, 2005 1:12:53 GMT -5
Startropics 1 or 2 has never done it to me but donkey kong 1-3 for super nintendo do it all the time. Same goes with Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins. |
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Post by Michael Jones on Dec 16, 2005 8:58:01 GMT -5
Thats one I didn't bring up but it did erase on me once. You do know that if you get gameover you lose the golden coins you have right? Thats not a glitch.
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