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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

535
games
23
platforms

Alternate name: SRAM

Ys I & II: Ancient Ys Vanished (PC Engine CD)
Ys I & II: Ancient Ys Vanished
PECD 1989-12-21
Ganbare Goemon - Mononoke Douchuu Tobisuise Nabebugyou! (Game Boy Color)
Ganbare Goemon - Mononoke Douchuu Tobisuise Nabebugyou!
GBC 1999-12-16
Sangokushi (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Sangokushi
NES 1988-10-30
Pachio-kun 5: Jr no Chousen (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Pachio-kun 5: Jr no Chousen
NES 1993-06-18
Uncharted Waters (Super Nintendo)
Uncharted Waters
SNES 1992-05
Mucha Lucha! - Mascaritas of the Lost Code (Game Boy Advance)
Mucha Lucha! - Mascaritas of the Lost Code
GBA 2003-11-18
L'Empereur (Nintendo Entertainment System)
L'Empereur
NES 1991-05-23
Pachinko Hissyou Guide Pocket Parlor (Neo Geo Pocket Color)
Pachinko Hissyou Guide Pocket Parlor
NGPC 1999
A.S.P.: Air Strike Patrol (Super Nintendo)
A.S.P.: Air Strike Patrol
SNES 1994-01
Looney Tunes - Back in action (Game Boy Advance)
Looney Tunes - Back in action
GBA 2003-11-11
Shining Force Gaiden (Game Gear)
Shining Force Gaiden
GG 1992-12-25
Hydlide 3: Yami Kara no Houmonsha (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Hydlide 3: Yami Kara no Houmonsha
NES 1989-02-17
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

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

Nintendo, Konami and Koei published most of these games.

Parent group

Game save storage

Platforms

GBA 151
NES 131
SNES 130
GBC 57
GB 28
Mega Drive 8
Master System 5
Neo Geo Pocket Color 4
Game Gear 4
Atari 2600 3
ColecoVision 2
MS-DOS 1
Apple II E 1
Uzebox 1
NEC PC9801 1
3DS 1
Windows 1
PS 1
Atari 7800 1
C64 1
Vectrex 1
PC Engine 1
Neo-Geo 1

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