>turn off the NES without holding reset after saving

>ripping the power cord out of your NES while the game is still running

>>4134073
>manually removing the power fuse while the game is still running

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>Pull out cartridge while the system is powered on

>>4134028
Why did you even have to do this? I never held reset before powering off, and never had any issues with my FF1 saves.

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>slamming down so hard the SNES eject button that the cartridge hits the ceiling

>>4134114
It guaranteed a state where nothing was being written or read from the save file. Remember that saving games on the NES was basically a hardware hack and very primitive

>>4134138
Oh, so it was the 1980s equivalent of "safely disconnect hardware"

>>4134141
Basically, yes.

>taking your game PCB out of the shell, putting it in the console backwards, and powering it on to erase your saved games

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>Replacing the save battery while the game is on

>>4134191
quickly replacing the game cartridge with another copy of the same game so the console doesn't even register it.

>having two of the same console/game hooked into a switchbox while a friend rapidly switches back and forth while you play two games at once

>>4134191
you basically have to do this on the Saturn

>>4134232
>tfw that friend died when the switcher burst into flames

>slamming a cartridge so hard into the snes that the console does a sick ass backflip

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>playing your Gameboy in the bath

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>Pulling the AC adaptor slightly loose on the SNES so that the audio becomes quiet apart from on the high treble end which becomes a crunched garble of noise

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>playing virtual boy in public transit

>removing the cartridge from the snes without turning it off because it's not working
>it was working but your friend put the av cords wrong

>blowing on cds

>using the powerglove

>>4134201
/thread

>>4135067
>he didn't beat Ninja Gaiden with the powerglove

>>4134114
The 6502 in the NES has no defined behavior in a low power situation. When you kill the power and the capacitors feeding it rapidly run dry the operating voltage drops and the CPU can end up randomly doing just about anything before it completely runs out of power. This includes writing garbage to RAM, which may include the cart's save SRAM.
By holding the reset button you're forcing the CPU into a halted state where it can't do anything in the split-second it takes for the caps to run down.

>>4134028
Never did this, never gave a shit, and never lost a save.

I legit lost all my zelda saves once because I did not hold reset.

>>4135191
This. It's rare, but it happens.

I lost all my cities in SimCity once. Not the full data, like the unlocked scenario cities, just the save files themselves. I was pissed. I was at 480,000 citizens in one of them.

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>FMV won't play
>Cover disc in toothpaste

>Better than new

>>4135147
Why wasn't this an issue with the Sega Mark III/SMS?

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>when the port is better than the arcade version

>>4136767
Contra for the Famicom a cute! CUTE!

>fully submerging a powered on NES in a bucket of salty water and holding it there until it stops moving

Would anything weird happen if you held the reset button while powering the NES on?

>>4134028

>Hitting the eject button on the SNES -midgame - with your erect penis.

>>4136751
Different engineering. Handling a low power situation isn't hard, it just wasn't considered for NES. Nintendo probably didn't consider battery-saved games at the start, or they didn't realize it would cause issues until it was in the field.

>>4137626
>fucking your Super Nintendo eject button with a game that has your waifu in it so it bounces it up and down

>>4137665
I unironically want to do this.

>>4134201
>shoving Banjo Kazooie & Banjo Tooie into the cartridge slot at the same time using quantum physics and legit getting stop n swap to work

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>file down the cartridge slot of your European Mega Drive (on the sides) to play Japanese games without an adapter

>>4137575
I would think it would just start up to a black screen and then boot normally when you release the reset.

>>4138617
>sawing your megadrive in half and re wiring the broken joints to fit jap games in it

>>4138710
Much better than buying a silly adapter, 10/10 would slice my console again

>>4136743
> sell it as mint
> just make sure toothpaste flavor was actually mint

>Laying your consoles on the carpet in front of the TV instead of on a shelf.
Don't fuck with me man. I'm from the STREET.

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>see an SNES game in a retro shop
>buy the Virtual Console version instead

>>4139514
>see a RARE VGA GRADED SNES GAME in a retro shop
>buy it and play it on my Retron 5

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>>4139483

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>randomly press buttons on a controller trying to find cheat codes
>mfw when it actually works

>put snes games in sfc shells so they fit in your sfc

it's too bad there's no "plastic tab" equivalent

>>4134191
good one

>>4141190
I didn't make it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az89rPdt4Hg

>>4141209
PROTIP: A GBA flash cart will allow you to just straight-up copy the save to a file and back.

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>>4141237
Um, wat?
How can you copy a save from a different cartridge with one of these?

Did you mean to say gameshark or something?

>>4139671
>accidentally drop something on my Sega Genesis playing 3D Blast
>get taken to the level select menu

what the fuck even

>>4141245
There are saver programs for GBA flashcarts that will either copy directly from the other port (for GB/GBC) or run entirely from RAM and save from the GBA port by having you swap the carts back and forth until it's done.

>>4134028

>playing vidya at family event
>tough boss
>start button broken
>no save point or way to pause or save
>have to pee
>fuck it
>piss pants right there in the living room in front of the tv and the entire family
>no hit kill the boss

Take that, Birdo. Best 14th birthday party ever.

>>4141254
Oh, happened to me too - i have accidentally pulled on gamepad and dragged console off the table, fit me into level select menu.

>swing NES controller around on some Simon Belmont shit and hit the top of the NES hard with the controller to stop the green flashing screen

This is the only way to get mine to work anymore, but it works just fine.

>any vibration on the console fucks it up, so you can't even move without lightly stepping like a ninja without resetting the damn thing

>>4141254
>>4142708
They made the game so that it goes to that menu if it crashes. Happened to me once as a kid just in the course of normal playing. Tried to replicate it forever but I couldn't.

>>4134124
Giggled

>>4141209
the madman

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>i'm gonna play some fuckin nes
>get bowl of cereal
>sit down in front of nes
>spill milk into cartridge port
>uh oh.
>games work fine.
>weeks later.
>boy, zelda sure has a lot more glitchy lines and shit than it used to.
>get genesis instead of fixing problem.

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>remove USB drive without clicking "safely remove hardware"

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>game box is in sort of bad condition
>the "opening side" of the cardboard box is all loose after many years of opening and closing
>open the game from the opposite "fresh" side just that I can feel the authentic box opening experience
>mfw

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>game informs me it is currently saving the game into the memory card and I mustn't touch the MC or turn off the console
>yank out the memory card so hard the CD tray pops out
>console asks me to put the disk back to continue playing
>throw away the disk across the room and turn off the console

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>playing mortal combat on uncle's snes
>pull off scorpion's fatality by mashing buttons
>HOLY SHIT
>later uncle comes in the room
>"hey watch this"
>mashing buttons but nothing is happening
>never give up
>suddenly the fatality comes out again
>uncle's mind blown

>>4145178
>combat

Kome on anon...

>>4141275
>Its my party and I can pee if I want to

>>4134028
Use NGCD PSU