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Save RAM

Hardware theme

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

525
games
20
platforms

Alternate name: SRAM

Rayman 2: The Great Escape (Game Boy Color)
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
GBC 2001-06-01
P.T.O. II: Pacific Theater of Operations (Super Nintendo)
P.T.O. II: Pacific Theater of Operations
SNES 1995-02-17
Final Fantasy VI (Super Nintendo)
Final Fantasy VI
SNES 1994-04-02
Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island (Game Boy Advance)
Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island
GBA 2006-10-24
Disney's Magical Quest Starring Mickey and Minnie (Game Boy Advance)
Disney's Magical Quest Starring Mickey and
GBA 2002-08-12
Jajamaru Ninpou Chou (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Jajamaru Ninpou Chou
NES 1989-03-28
Seiken Densetsu 3 (Super Nintendo)
Seiken Densetsu 3
SNES 1995-09-30
Super Hydlide (Mega Drive)
Super Hydlide
GEN 1989-10-06
Shadowgate (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Shadowgate
NES 1989-03-31
GetBackers Dakkan'ya - Metropolis Dakkan Sakusen (Game Boy Advance)
GetBackers Dakkan'ya - Metropolis Dakkan
GBA 2003-03-20
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3 (Super Nintendo)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 3
SNES 1994
Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 (Super Nintendo)
Super Baseball Simulator 1.000
SNES 1991-11

The first video game about Save RAM was released on May 27, 1986.

Nintendo, Konami and Koei has published most of these games

See also: temporary saves
Usually this is for saving game progress. This often includes saving the character's name and/or highscores/statistics. The Later two are sometime the only data saved. Other data that has been known to be saved is settings, custom skins, in-game photos, and custom journals.

Saving: free*, points*, auto, checkpoints, code, quit*, none

* denotes player initiated saves

Parent group

Game save storage

Platforms

GBA 150
NES 131
SNES 129
GBC 55
GB 28
Mega Drive 8
Master System 5
Game Gear 4
Atari 2600 3
ColecoVision 2
PCE CD 1
MS-DOS 1
Apple II E 1
Uzebox 1
NEC PC9801 1
3DS 1
Windows 1
Atari 7800 1
PS 1
C64 1

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