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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

Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction (Game Boy Advance)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction
GBA 2003
Baseball Stars (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Baseball Stars
NES 1989-05-19
SimCity 2000 (Super Nintendo)
SimCity 2000
SNES 1995-06
Crystalis (Game Boy Color)
Crystalis
GBC 2000-06-27
Mahjong Quest (Game Boy Color)
Mahjong Quest
GBC 1998
Ys I & II: Ancient Ys Vanished (PC Engine CD)
Ys I & II: Ancient Ys Vanished
PECD 1989-12-21
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody - Tripton Caper (Game Boy Advance)
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody - Tripton
GBA 2006
Final Fantasy Legend (Game Boy)
Final Fantasy Legend
GB 1989-12-15
Lady Stalker: Kako Kara no Chousen (Super Nintendo)
Lady Stalker: Kako Kara no Chousen
SNES 1995-04-01
The Powerpuff Girls: Paint the Townsville Green (Game Boy Color)
The Powerpuff Girls: Paint the Townsville
GBC 2000-11
Chrono Trigger (Super Nintendo)
Chrono Trigger
SNES 1995-03-11
Player Manager 2001 (Game Boy Color)
Player Manager 2001
GBC 2001

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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