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Japanese 3rd party memory cards. How do they work?

saturnrulez - Mar 20, 2003

		saturnrulez		Mar 20, 2003
			Well, after i bought 2 such carts (they boldly claim they are 32 Mbits) i cant find out how they work. I have it plugged in the socket, and i enter the bios screen. In the memory manager, nothing except system memory is there. Then, i tried to play alone in the dark 2, its a memory eating bastard, so i thought that it should recognize the memory cards ok. But it just saved on the system memory as well. I know that non official memory cards are not recognized as additional memory from games, but i just tried. The funny thing is that i cant really get the usage of it. How can i save to this thing? If i cant, then how can i transfer saves to it? Is there a manager hidden anywhere that i dont know of ( )? help me use this @%%# thing. I will contact the seller of course, but i thought that the replies would come more complete here. George

		M3d10n		Mar 20, 2003
			Are you sure they are "Save Memory Carts"? Maybe you got RAM expansion carts by mistake.

		Scared0o0Rabbit		Mar 22, 2003
			I'd suggest playing around with the card, putting it in, taking it out etc. several times. I own a 3rd party mem card and it seems to have a very low success rate of being detected by the system, but once I get it in just hte right place in the system, it will every time until I remove it.

		saturnrulez		Mar 22, 2003
			They are probably ram cartridges and not save cartridges after all. Thats what i think at least. I tried to move it a little, take it out and insert again and again to no success. My question is : How will i know that it worked? Will a backup cartridge appear in the memory manager of the bios? OR will games show me the cart so i can save on it? I thought that 3rd party backup cards do not appear in game, so you can only transfer saves to it from the bios. Whats the deal?