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

524

games

platforms

Alternate name: SRAM

Klonoa: Empire of Dreams

GBA 2001-09-12

The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

GBA 2004-11-02

Shining Force II

GEN 1993-10-01

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest

SNES 1992-10-10

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

GB 1993-06-06

F1 Pole Position

GB 1992

Minority Report - Everybody Runs

GBA 2002-11-12

King of Kings

NES 1988-12-09

The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

SNES 1994-08

Fantastic 4: Flame On

GBA 2005-11-16

Super Baseball Simulator 1.000

SNES 1991-11

Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland

GBA 2002-12-02

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

Nintendo, Konami and Koei has published most of these games

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
Uzebox		1
NEC PC9801		1
3DS		1
Windows		1
PS		1
C64		1
PCE CD		1
MS-DOS		1
Apple II E		1

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Save RAM

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