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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

Kaijuu Monogatari (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Kaijuu Monogatari
NES 1988-11-18
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
GB 1992
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (Master System)
Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
SMS 1990
Baseball Stars II (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Baseball Stars II
NES 1992
NBA Jam T.E. (Super Nintendo)
NBA Jam T.E.
SNES 1995
Shadowgate Classic (Game Boy Color)
Shadowgate Classic
GBC 1998
The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (Super Nintendo)
The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang
SNES 1994-08
Robots (Game Boy Advance)
Robots
GBA 2005-02-22
Otaku no Seiza: Adventure in the Otaku Galaxy (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Otaku no Seiza: Adventure in the Otaku Galaxy
NES 1991-07-31
Heroes of the Lance (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Heroes of the Lance
NES 1991-01
Final Fantasy IV (Super Nintendo)
Final Fantasy IV
SNES 1991-07-19
The Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause (Game Boy Advance)
The Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause
GBA 2006

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
Apple II E 1
Uzebox 1
NEC PC9801 1
3DS 1
Windows 1
Atari 7800 1
PS 1
C64 1
PCE CD 1
MS-DOS 1

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