List of NES games with a battery save

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List of NES games with a battery save

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I couldn't find a good list, so I made my own. I almost certainly am missing several Famicom games.

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Bard's Tale, The
Bard's Tale II, The
Baseball Simulator 1.000
Baseball Stars
Baseball Stars 2
Base Wars: Cyber Stadium Series
Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge '92
Crystalis
Déjà Vu
Destiny of an Emperor
Dragon Warrior
Dragon Warrior II
Dragon Warrior III
Dragon Warrior IV
Dungeon Magic - Sword of the Elements
Earthbound (aka Mother)
Elite
Empereur'L
Faria - A World of Mystery & Danger!
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II
Final Fantasy III
Formula One: Built to Win
Gemfire
Genghis Khan
Ghost Lion, Legend of
Golf Power, Greg Norman's
Kirby's Adventure
Legend of Zelda, The
Magician
Maniac Mansion
Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum
Nobunaga's Ambition
Nobunaga's Ambition II
NES Open Tournament Golf
Overlord
Pirates!
Racermate Challenge 2
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II
Shadowgate
Shingen the Ruler
Star Tropics
Tecmo NBA Basketball
Tecmo Super Bowl
Ultima - Exodus
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny
Uncharted Waters
Uninvited
Wario's Woods
Willow
Wizardry - Knight of Diamonds
Wizardry - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Wizardry II
Wizardry III
Y's
Y's 2
Y's 3
Zelda II - The Adventure of Link
Zoda's Revenge Star Tropics II
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Similarly if you have a set of ROMs, you might write a script to tell you all the ones with the battery bit set.

I wrote one for this purpose to set up my PowerPak saves.


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Restricting the Bootgod search to just USA you have all of the non-prototype ones except:
Base Wars: Cyber Stadium Series

I dunno if it would be worth separating by region? (Elite, Final Fantasy III, Ys, etc.)
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rainwarrior wrote:Restricting the Bootgod search to just USA you have all of the non-prototype ones except:
Base Wars: Cyber Stadium Series

I dunno if it would be worth separating by region? (Elite, Final Fantasy III, Ys, etc.)
Added Base Wars, missed that one.

My interest was for PowerPak as well. I hadn't considered writing a code to look for the "battery" bit in the header. Clever.

Still trying to figure out which NTSC games won't play because of unsupported mappers / etc without testing them all. ?
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dougeff wrote:Still trying to figure out which NTSC games won't play because of unsupported mappers / etc without testing them all. ?
There are mapper compatibility lists available. You could similarly use a script to compare mapper numbers against that. (Doesn't account for partial compatibility, though, and of course you have to choose which mapper sets to use.)

I'd be pretty surprised if someone hasn't already made a list, though.
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When I made PowerMappers I tested compatibility with every game in the PAL/NTSC game library, the results are at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing (switch tabs at bottom for USA region results).

(It is possible that the list is outdated in some parts. Also it only accounts for PowerMappers. E.g., MMC5 is supported by loopy's mappers.)
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Thanks you, that's very helpful.

I'm also concerned about Konami mappers and Unlicensed mappers (Tengen)...

EDIT, Oh, I see a solution.

"Alien Syndrome and all the Mapper 206 games should be set to Mapper 4 for the PowerPak."

http://nintendopowerwhentheygotitright. ... e.html?m=1
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RacerMate Challenge II has battery-backed CHR RAM. But Tengen's output was mostly arcade to console ports, and arcade games of the time were short enough not to need battery save. It wasn't until things like the link mode of Dance Dance Revolution that arcade games saved a campaign longer than one credit.
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There's also an Everdrive N8 compatibility list that seems to have a PowerPak column as well:
http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=340.0
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That's a perfect list. Great. Got everything I need now. Amazing how few games don't work that I care about....Lagrange Point, Just Breed, Perman 1+2, Pizza Pop!, Spartan X 2...and that's about it.
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rainwarrior wrote:There's also an Everdrive N8 compatibility list that seems to have a PowerPak column as well:
http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=340.0
This list is a little bit outdated, especially when it comes to save states.
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