The marathon of games event is over and produced some great speedruns for many, many games. Aside from the laundry list of games being played to beaten quickly, there was a charity event attached to it. Visit their website for info on what you missed and how to donate to help prevent cancer and to further cancer detection research.
Past broadcasts can found on their Twitch channel, other highlights are belong.
Cartridges from the 8-bit and 16-bit eras of consoles had a battery to maintain the save data. Aside from passwords, this was pretty much the only way to keep your progress. But, like all batteries, they eventually loose power and can no longer retain the memory of the RAM.
Batteries on a chipset can be replaced in some cases, but once the console is turned off, the data would be lost without a viable way to save it internally. Twitter user Wanikun found the option of losing the save data to Umihara Kawase unacceptable and left the Super Famicom powered on for 20 years to do so.
Even after moving, it seems that the Famicom is again plugged in, the save data still intact.
The video itself is just the boot screen, but it appears to be working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu3_X6HcVrI
How will the legacy operating system work on the popular dual screen device? Not much else is known but the original forum post is teeming with ideas.
This month we see the PlayStation 4 get some PS2 emulated games and a classic PS1 JRPG. The Wii U gets a beloved 3D platformer from its predecessor.
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MEGA MAN BATTLE NETWORK 5 TEAM COLONEL and MEGA MAN BATTLE NETWORK 5 TEAM PROTOMAN
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Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX
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