/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1969937]

What is the oldest save file you have?

I got SM64 pretty early in the N64's lifespan, and even though I've beaten the game, and had lent it to friends who have 120'd it, I have my first incomplete file that I started with my dad. It was stuck at 108 stars for around 17 or so years until I started playing it last night.

[Anonymous No.1969970]

i have some gbc cartridges like pokemon pinball and the oracle zeldas that probably have saves from before the millenium, but i don't have a gbc to play them on anymore.

[Anonymous No.1969979]

the oldest file i have is my Pokemon Gold Version file from 2002. I have over 300 hours, but stopped playing it when I was in middle school. went to check something in it a few years ago, and when i try to load the file, it tells me it is corrupt
>mfw
so i guess technically i don't have it anymore, but it's a huge part of my childhood, so i like to think it's still there

[Anonymous No.1969986]

Kirby from 1993.

[Anonymous No.1969993]

>>1969937
I think my oldest save is FF1 for the NES, containing a part of Fighter, Red Mage, White Mage, and Black Mage. They spent 12 years stuck at the Marsh Cave, then finished all the way up to Lich before eternally resting at the Circle of Sages.

I know it's just bits of data, but especially in the case of user created characters, I feel like there's sort of an "aliveness" to them. That's why I hate MMOs so much, you get so attached to your character and if you quit, they lie fallow, almost like they're waiting for you to come back.

[Anonymous No.1970009]

>>1969937
My very first Ocarina of Time save from 1998. I still go back and play on it from time to time. I still have the bottled fairies I've had since the first time I beat Ganon. I can't bring myself to part with them.

[Anonymous No.1970014]

>>1969937

Has to be my FF2 snes file, I mean assuming it hasn't deleted itself yet.

[Anonymous No.1970017]

>>1969986
This. Played it recently, expecting all the saves to be gone, and they're all still there, and the battery still works fine

[Anonymous No.1970029]

Sonic 3. All my saves from 1994 are still there. Thank god for that battery-less SRAM or whatever the hell magic Sega put into that cartridge. Why didn't any other cartridge at the time use that?

[That Ecchi Guy !!SXqkEzxV5p0 No.1970036]

>>1969986
>>1970017
Sakurai wizardry at work

>>1969993
>you get so attached to your character and if you quit, they lie fallow, almost like they're waiting for you to come back
There you are, Peter!

SMW save from '92 here, assuming it's functional

[Anonymous No.1970046]

Oldest save file? Probably the ones from Legend of Zelda and Zelda 2 from 1989.

[Anonymous No.1970079]

Probably a Super Mario World save file I started on my GBA in 2002.

[Anonymous No.1970095]

>>1970036
I've owned like two different copies of SMW and each time the battery has died. You are a lucky man

[Anonymous No.1970112]

I remember checking out my Goldeneye 64 cartidge a little while ago to play it a bit for old time's sake, I had it since release in 1998.

Apparently the battery in the cartridge had failed because all my save files at various stages were just gone. As if the game were being turned on for the first time.

>mfw

It wasn't that big a deal really, with knowledge of the game and having more experience at gaming in general I have managed to unlock everything in the game on a different cartridge in a couple days to get a file that's functionally identical to what I had saved before.

Still, there's something rather depressing about that, like the game will boot up and work fine (apart from saving), but despite the hundreds of hours I spent with that particular cartridge over many years, it is as though it suddenly doesn't recognize me anymore, like I've lost an old friend.

It makes me wonder whether this is an extremely minor version of how one feels when a close friend or relative goes through Alzheimer's.

[Anonymous No.1970178]

Well, the batteries all since died the few cartridge games that had them so nothing from too long ago. This kind of thing almost pushed me into dedicated emulation - if I couldn't easily back up the saves I wouldn't play. I'm past that now. Still a shame to lose them though.

Got a few various FF game saves from 2002 or so, just before when I moved to PS2 mem cards. Nothing older on it, always wiping the thing for those games that took up 10-15 blocks! Was good to fire them up last year and see what I was thinking at the time, diving into my younger mind. I did alright.

[Anonymous No.1970223]

Link's Awakening from 1996.

[Anonymous No.1970224]

I'd say either Links Awakening or Pokemon Red/Blue. How those batteries have lasted so long is beyond me

[Anonymous No.1970239]

>>1969937
I still have my first save on Ultima: Exodus on the NES, which was one of the first games I ever played. Instead of making multiple files, I just kept creating new characters on the same file, since you're allowed to have like 20 of them.

I don't know if the save file is actually still there, considering the age of the battery. Last time I checked it was about ten years ago.

[red No.1970516]

>>1969937
>sudden reminder that there are a lot of games I can never finish because I lost my saves after about 50% of the game
>tfw I'll never finish half of the RPGs on Snes
>tfw I'm glad I still have my Xenogears saves or I'll never finish it

[Anonymous No.1970524]

I think my Dragon Warrior cart still has my older brother's game saved on it. That would be 1990 or so.

[Anonymous No.1970541]

my Links Awakening cartridge has a save from when I got it for my 4th birthday in 1997. the save battery still works and everything. it also happens to be the oldest physical game I own. the cartridge is still in really good condition which is weird considering my Pokémon Silver cart had its battery die 4 years ago.

[Anonymous No.1970543]

>>1969937
zelda link's awakening definitely

[Anonymous No.1970546]

>>1970543
*It's like from 1993 when I was 7 years old.
insane

[Anonymous No.1970552]

Probably a SM64 file from 2000, because that's when I started games. My old N64 broke, but the cartridges worked fine the last time I checked, which was about 3-4 years ago. I wonder if the saves are still there...

[Anonymous No.1970886]

Definitely an SNES save file. I'm going to bet Super Mario World. Pretty sure File A has never been erased since I got the system in April of '93.

[Anonymous No.1970897]

That would have to be my megalopolis on Simcity SNES from 1997. That's assuming it's still there, I haven't checked in several years.

[Anonymous No.1970903]

I got Pokemon Gold shortly after it was released in Europe and i still have my save data. I really expect the battery to die soon though. I keep hearing so much about Gold and Silver dying that i am very surprised that mine is still alive.

[Anonymous No.1970904]

>that run-on sentence
Do you even punctuate?

[Anonymous No.1970920]

My first Secret of Mana file was started in 1995, it is save slot 3. It has everyone at max level, all the weapons tempered to level 9, with maxed out weapon and magic levels on every character. I keep it around not only for sentimental value, but also so that I never have to do that again to see any of the animations for the max level magic or max weapon charges.

[Anonymous No.1970963]

>>1969937

a sm64 save file that's from 98

[Anonymous No.1970989]

I have a Final Fantasy Legends 3 save file from when I was in 4th grade. I was going through my gameboy collection and decided to pop it in, all my characters were named after my best friends at the time. It gave me some pretty heavy feels.

[Anonymous No.1971039]

>>1969937
Not retro, but my GC memory card has a lot of memories on it.

[Anonymous No.1972320]

>>1969937
I found an Ultima 2 save a couple months back that would be from the early 80's. For consoles I guess it would be LTTP from early 90s.

[Anonymous No.1972549]

Pokémon Pearl started in 2007

[Anonymous No.1973245]

>>1969937
Mostly just Super Mario World and the DKC games. I also have a bunch of N64 and PS1 games. Haven't had a save battery go bad yet, then again last I played my SNES carts was in 2011 or early 2012 since I just emulate now.

[Anonymous No.1973275]

All my old saves are either deleted, wiped due to battery failure, or I sold the memory card/cart because I was not an affluent child and the only way I could buy new games was to sell my old ones.

I don't mind too much, it's not like none would care that I had a 99:99 playtime in a bunch of JRPGs.

[Anonymous No.1973278]

I still might have tekken 2 saves in my ps1 memory card (1996).

[Anonymous No.1973291]

I still have a save file on Donkey Kong Country 2 from 1995.

[Anonymous No.1973316]

probably mario 64. I had a NES before that but none of the games I owned had save features.

[Anonymous No.1973354]

>>1970920
Secret of Mana is also my oldest saved game (that I'm aware of)

My PS1 memory card still has a ton of stuff on it too, but I haven't checked in a while.

[Anonymous No.1973368]

Super Mario World 100% file

[Anonymous No.1974328]

>>1970903
My Silver file died after about 350 hours, which is the only save file I've ever had on that cart

[Anonymous No.1974337]

Super Mario World, probably 1992

[Anonymous No.1974396]

>>1969937
I have my smw save from when I was a tiny kid still.
I also have 3 ps1 memory cards relatively untouched from when I was a kid.

[Anonymous No.1974437]

>>1970029
What did SEGA do to make them save so well.

[Anonymous No.1974494]

>>1974437
Ferroelectric RAM. It's a fringe technology - they've been producing it at very low densities for years, but it's never taken off like other memory types.

The FRAM in Sonic 3 is like 512 bytes or something. Modern FRAM is cheap up to ~256KB.


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[Anonymous No.1974503]

I have save codes for Wonder Boy III written in crayon on the ripped backside of a Kellog's Frosties package somewhere. Probably around 97-98