re: Do old Cartridge games have batteries in them?

TIL that some old games had batteries in them.

I was coming in here to laugh at the OP.

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like snes and N64 games?

my friend told me that they use a battery to hold the save data, but once the battery goes out you lose your data and can no longer save

is this true?

I've got some games 15+ years old and have yet to encounter this

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google is your friend

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Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (battery)

Ogre Battle: Person of Lordly Caliber (battery)

Harvest Moon (battery)

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Those are the three main games I play on N64....

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Here fricktards, learn how computers work.

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Irony: someone who has never heard of a CMOS circuit telling others that they need to learn how computers work.

Until somewhat recently, most computers had a small battery on the motherboard to store software changed BIOS settings. (before it was exclusively jumpers, now it uses Flash memory).

All computers still have a button battery on the motherboards still as a result of this time though, even though it's not used to maintain save data.

Let me guess, you think information stored in RAM is still there after power is cut too.....

Good job embarassing yourself.

Next time google for 30 seconds and get your facts straight.

I guess the battery swapping I did in game cartridges that wouldn't save was a dream.

This annarbor guy exclusively shows on the gaming board to troll with purposeful idiocy, I remember he made a realllllllllly stupid claim a while back. Anyways in the spirit of gameboy saves dying, anyone remember the game where you had to be out in the sun to power your in-game abilities? I bet that wouldn't work very well 10 years later