Game save storage
Hardware theme
Any tags describing where game saves are stored.
This is a container group; its children are:
| Save copy lock | Prevents copying of the game saves to back them up or to spread them to other players/systems by any means, be it DRM, OS specific functionality, saves being hardware signature locked, or by any other means. | 2009 / 2017 | 5 games |
| Local save storage | Stores saves locally on some system default location. (too short) | 1981 / 2016 | 7 games |
| Save to external media | Saves are stored on removable media, such as floppies or memory cards. (too short) | 1986 / 2004 | 17 games |
| Save to online storage | Game saves and possibly other information are placed in online storage. (too short) | 2004 / 2019 | 47 games |
| Save RAM | Data saved by internal memory in the cartridge even after being unplugged. Usually a battery powers RAM chips for this purpose but a few use Flash RAM | 1983 / 2020 | 535 games |