I recieved my Saturn games from Jillygames today and I noticed on the box for Sim City 2000, (On the front manual cover and the back insert page.) it says "Backup Highly Recommended".
What do they mean? Backup the disc? Backup the memory? It just strikes me as odd. Though it would make sense maybe backing up the memory to save your city in case of corruption or whatnot. I looked in the manual and it didn't mention it.
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"Backup Highly Recommended"
Started by Jasoco, Dec 19 2003 11:53 PM
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Posted Fri Dec 19, 2003 11:53 PM
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:00 AM
I never owned the Saturn version, but I'm willing to bet that the save game files for SC2000 are rather large, so they're advising you to utilize the backup cartridge as opposed to the minscule amount of internal system backup memory.
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 10:59 AM
Adrian M said:
I never owned the Saturn version, but I'm willing to bet that the save game files for SC2000 are rather large, so they're advising you to utilize the backup cartridge as opposed to the minscule amount of internal system backup memory.
yup thats it they want ya to get the backup ram cart
which you will need to play the bigger games so ya dont have to delete the internal memory just to save one game
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:47 AM
Lemmi said:
Adrian M said:
I never owned the Saturn version, but I'm willing to bet that the save game files for SC2000 are rather large, so they're advising you to utilize the backup cartridge as opposed to the minscule amount of internal system backup memory.
yup thats it they want ya to get the backup ram cart
which you will need to play the bigger games so ya dont have to delete the internal memory just to save one game
How much does the Saturn's internal memory hold? Vs. a standard RAM cart?
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:07 PM
i cant remember how much the saturn holds but my Memory Card Plus says it holds *8 megabits
*4 megabits, which, though the use of advanced compression technology, provides a virtual 8 megabits of staorage capacity
thats word for word from the little card manual that comes with the ram cart which is made by Interact performance
*4 megabits, which, though the use of advanced compression technology, provides a virtual 8 megabits of staorage capacity
thats word for word from the little card manual that comes with the ram cart which is made by Interact performance
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:11 PM
Jasoco said:
I recieved my Saturn games from Jillygames today and I noticed on the box for Sim City 2000, (On the front manual cover and the back insert page.) it says "Backup Highly Recommended".
It means they actively want you to pirate the disc. Go on, Maxis said it was OK
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:03 PM
Lemmi said:
i cant remember how much the saturn holds but my Memory Card Plus says it holds *8 megabits
*4 megabits, which, though the use of advanced compression technology, provides a virtual 8 megabits of staorage capacity
thats word for word from the little card manual that comes with the ram cart which is made by Interact performance
*4 megabits, which, though the use of advanced compression technology, provides a virtual 8 megabits of staorage capacity
thats word for word from the little card manual that comes with the ram cart which is made by Interact performance
At one point Working Designs had a page on their website specifically dedicated to telling people not to buy Interact's memory cards because they were so glitchy.
Then Interact threatened to sue and WD changed it to "don't buy 3rd-party memory cards, espeically ones that use compression".
They only recently took it down. Darn shame.
Compunding the issue with Saturns is that Interact's cartridges are on thicker PCBs than Sega's carts, and bends the cart connetor pins out.
No real problem untill you try to use a 1st-partty cart in your Saturn. That's Sega-brand save carts, Sega-brand system RAM expansions, and the ROM carts that a few games used.
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Posted Sat Dec 20, 2003 6:37 PM
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And that "advanced compression technology" made it a very unreliable memory card.
At one point Working Designs had a page on their website specifically dedicated to telling people not to buy Interact's memory cards because they were so glitchy.
Then Interact threatened to sue and WD changed it to "don't buy 3rd-party memory cards, espeically ones that use compression".
They only recently took it down. Darn shame.
Compunding the issue with Saturns is that Interact's cartridges are on thicker PCBs than Sega's carts, and bends the cart connetor pins out.
No real problem untill you try to use a 1st-partty cart in your Saturn. That's Sega-brand save carts, Sega-brand system RAM expansions, and the ROM carts that a few games used.
At one point Working Designs had a page on their website specifically dedicated to telling people not to buy Interact's memory cards because they were so glitchy.
Then Interact threatened to sue and WD changed it to "don't buy 3rd-party memory cards, espeically ones that use compression".
They only recently took it down. Darn shame.
Compunding the issue with Saturns is that Interact's cartridges are on thicker PCBs than Sega's carts, and bends the cart connetor pins out.
No real problem untill you try to use a 1st-partty cart in your Saturn. That's Sega-brand save carts, Sega-brand system RAM expansions, and the ROM carts that a few games used.
i believe it, ive had 2 interact carts crap out on me but i still have 1 sealed and one open that still works
and the interact cards pcb is even alittle thicker then the Cart i got with Dragon Force
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Posted Mon Dec 22, 2003 12:35 AM
Lemmi said:
JB said:
And that "advanced compression technology" made it a very unreliable memory card.
At one point Working Designs had a page on their website specifically dedicated to telling people not to buy Interact's memory cards because they were so glitchy.
Then Interact threatened to sue and WD changed it to "don't buy 3rd-party memory cards, espeically ones that use compression".
They only recently took it down. Darn shame.
Compunding the issue with Saturns is that Interact's cartridges are on thicker PCBs than Sega's carts, and bends the cart connetor pins out.
No real problem untill you try to use a 1st-partty cart in your Saturn. That's Sega-brand save carts, Sega-brand system RAM expansions, and the ROM carts that a few games used.
At one point Working Designs had a page on their website specifically dedicated to telling people not to buy Interact's memory cards because they were so glitchy.
Then Interact threatened to sue and WD changed it to "don't buy 3rd-party memory cards, espeically ones that use compression".
They only recently took it down. Darn shame.
Compunding the issue with Saturns is that Interact's cartridges are on thicker PCBs than Sega's carts, and bends the cart connetor pins out.
No real problem untill you try to use a 1st-partty cart in your Saturn. That's Sega-brand save carts, Sega-brand system RAM expansions, and the ROM carts that a few games used.
i believe it, ive had 2 interact carts crap out on me but i still have 1 sealed and one open that still works
and the interact cards pcb is even alittle thicker then the Cart i got with Dragon Force
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