Game: Save and hold reset before turning power off Me: k *does

Read that carefully, numb nuts

>>3477719
Why was this allowed?

Perhaps the cart's battery is going.

>>3477726
This. It's dirty or dying anyway. I never did the thing when I was growing up and never lost a save once.

>>3478008
I lost shining force game data repeatedly until I started the habit of holding reset while powering off.
It's better for your game data. Easier on it.

>>3478463
>easier on 0s and 1s
Okay.

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>>3479428
>not understanding how save batteries work

>>3479428
Holding reset puts the console unto a lower power state.
It has to do with data transfer to the save battery, but that's all I know.
Hence, easier on it.

>>3478463
Well yeah, of course you would with an inferior Sega product. Nintendo products are in a much higher league of quality.

>>3479510
I thought it was only required on the NES due to a design flaw. I've never played a Genesis game with cart saving on real hardware though.

>>3480769
The famicom was never designed for game saving so there is a hardware issue there.
I don't own master system games but do they have save data? If they don't, or didn't until later, it's probably the same issue on it and the Genesis.
I am only speaking from first hand experience with several deleted game saves.

>As a kid I thought Super Nintendo games just randomly deleted themselves for no reason, or when you beat the game.
>Didn't put together until much later that my siblings kept erasing my saves and lying to me.

>>3480774
I guess being an only child has its perks.

>>3477719
>hold reset before turning power off
>before
Found your problem. You while reset WHILE turning the power off. You were doing it wrong and brought destruction upon your saves.

>>3478463
But the reset thing is a workaround for a problem with the NES, specically. Doing that on a Mega Drive has no effect, your cart must have just been fucked.

>>3484884
On two different versions of shining force 2? Possibly...

>>3479447
>that's all I know
>what i know is wrong
>everything i know is wrong

>>3484884
Actually it's standard practice when you have anything you don't want fucked with on the bus when the CPU is potentially in an erratic state.

>>3479510
>>3480769
>>3480771
Mega Drive games will save properly regardless. I've never done the hold reset thing in my life, and I've never lost a save in battery backup games (e.g. Sonic 3). You just turn off your console when you're done playing.

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>>3477719
>Save and hold reset before turning power off

>Do this religiously every time as a kid
>Think that the game will break if you dont do it
>friend is over playing vidya
>He just shuts off Zelda without holding reset
>mfw
>Quickly boot the game back up to see if it still works
>admonish him for shutting it down like that
>he says he never does it and his games are fine

Everything i know is a lie...