On the Neo Poke, save data is part of the ROM and you dump them together, so that's one advantage. Maybe it's not important to Paleface, though, since he didn't mention it. I'm glad I made save backups for all my cartridges before I sold them off since it means I can play my original games with original saves on the 2DS now.

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Posted by Flat Pom and Opa Opa on March 07, 2024 at 19:29:55 EST in reply to I am curious, aside from just having something to do, why indeed are you dumping games that you can just download? heck of a lot of work for that. (n/t) from exodus.

On the Neo Poke, save data is part of the ROM and you dump them together, so that's one advantage. Maybe it's not important to Paleface, though, since he didn't mention it. I'm glad I made save backups for all my cartridges before I sold them off since it means I can play my original games with original saves on the 2DS now.

n/t

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Yeah that mystified me at first (I'd totally forgotten how far I'd played through some of my old catridges! ^ _^) but eventually I realized it explained why how I had access to loads of puzzles/pieces in Sonic Pocket Adventure, for instance, so yeah, definitely a cool feature! I'm not sure yet but I'll probably be pretty grateful for it in Neo Poke-Kun. What did you use to back up your cart saves?

(Paleface)

(13:58:13 03/08/24 EST)

I had the Bung-hole linker and flashcart in my erstwhile youth. The software that thing used was terrible (like almost everything unusual in Win9x days really), but it did have nice features beyond just writing the flash cartridge. It could separately backup the save data or rewrite it from/to regular cartridges in addition to being able to backup the whole game+save. I think it may have also had a "clean" game dump option that ignored the save region on a commercial cartridge.

(Lubrication and Opa Opa)

(20:45:59 03/12/24 EST)

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