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A question about RAM carts

liquidcross - Aug 28, 2002

		liquidcross	Aug 28, 2002
		I know if you take the lithium battery out of a Saturn, your game saves are erased. So I figured I'd back them up to my secondary RAM, which in this case is an Action Replay cart. Those don't need any type of battery backup, correct? (Like PSX cards, etc?) Stupid question, I know...just checking to make sure.

		ExCyber	Aug 28, 2002
		Nope, Action Replay carts store saves in their Flash memory, so they don't need any kind of power to maintain the contents.

		liquidcross	Aug 28, 2002
		Whew. Are they considered an "extension" of the system RAM? i.e., If I copied all my game data over to the AR cart, would the games be able to read it directly? Or would I have to copy saves back to the system RAM?

		ExCyber	Aug 28, 2002
		AR-resident saves are invisible to the BIOS backup library, so you'd need to copy them back into the Saturn backup RAM to use them.

		liquidcross	Aug 28, 2002
		Ah well. Better than losing them, at least. Thanks for the help.

		Miles McCloud	Sep 1, 2002
		Just buy a new battery and switch while the powers on.

		MasterAkumaMatata	Sep 2, 2002
		Sounds kinda dangerous, better wear rubber gloves.