has anyone setup their powerpak to save games? i dont understand how to do this. i put the empty save files from retrousb on the card. now what do i do? why are there 2 sizes?
Well, most games have 8KB of SRAM. However there are some that has 1KB or 16k, even 32k of RAM that could be battery backed. For just about every game you need a 8K save. Just name it RomName.sav and it'll be fine. Just remember you'll have to power off/reset so it can write the save to the card.
And some capture cards don't even work with an NES. I have an Aiptek A-HD camcorder that captures the 480i composite signal out of a VHS player and a GameCube console just fine, but when I tried it with the NES's 240p signal, it failed to record.
Still, a digital camera with the flash turned off should be able to make a good enough picture to show the user how to work something.
MottZilla wrote:Just remember you'll have to power off/reset so it can write the save to the card.
Reset, not power off Hit reset (hold for a few seconds?) and it should ask you if you want to save.
If I remember right, on the same screen you enter game genie codes on, you can also load a saved game.
Just seeing if I am misunderstanding something here. Are you saying that if I'm playing, say, Zelda 1, and I want to save, I can hold in reset and it will bring up a save screen?
How is this possible? Aren't the save routines for every game completely different?
You can power off and on, as the PowerPAK does have a battery. I'd imagine it's to power SRAM right? But yes you could hold Reset down for like 3 seconds or whatever it is to return to the PowerPAK menu to backup the save ram to the CF card.
Hit reset (hold for a few seconds?) and it should ask you if you want to save.