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The amazing USB-C gadgets that play old Nintendo cartridges
AI EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A recent review highlights modern USB-C devices designed to play vintage Nintendo cartridges. The piece notes that original game cartridges relied on small internal watch batteries that eventually fail, resulting in the permanent loss of saved game data over time.
WHY IT MATTERS
It highlights the vulnerability of physical retro gaming save files as original hardware batteries degrade with age.
Last week, I powered on a 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball, one of the best Game Boy games ever made. My save file was no more. The Charmander I'd caught for my daughter, the high scores we'd set together… gone. Before flash memory, Nintendo cartridges used tiny watch batteries to save their games, and those […]
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