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This is Pilotwings 64 for the N64. It uses an unusual little EEPROM for savegames. I think I almost liked it better when they used battery backed SRAM.
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Why did you prefer it the other way?
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On one hand. SRAM will lose memory when the battery eventually dies. On the other hand, the epprom has limited write cycles.
Now if only they used FeRAM.
@[email protected] As far as I’m aware, all N64 carts use I2C EEPROMs for saves. But funnily enough, the Memory Paks are battery-backed SRAM. I’m guessing that’s so they could share BOM with Game Boy carts.
@[email protected] there are some games with battery backup. Ocarina of Time comes to mind. But also a handful more:
https://consolemods.org/wiki/N64:List_of_Nintendo_64_Games_with_Save_Batteries