Super Nintendo games zijn zelfs op de dag van vandaag een must om te spelen, en verdomd leuk om te verzamelen. Alleen zijn er een hoop games (lijst) die gebruik maken van een batterij om save games op te slaan. Je raad het al, sommige van deze batterijen zijn nu leeg en is het niet meer mogelijk om deze te gebruiken en erger al je progressie is weg. Nu kan je deze redelijk makkelijk vervangen, maar dan nog kan je alle data kwijt zijn. Een Japanse gamer is hier zo bang voor dat hij nu al twintig jaar zijn SNES aan heeft staan. Hoe dan ook, dit is behoorlijk hardcore en het bewijs dat deze Nintendo console van zeer goede kwaliteit is, want ik zie een Xbox 360 dat niet na doen.

Umihara Kawase was released for the Super Famicom (Super NES in the west) in December, 1994, just over two decades ago. It was a popular game that has spawned a number of sequels for a variety of platforms and has won its fair share of fans, including many who loved the original cartridge game. Unfortunately, some cartridge games from the 90s featured a fatal flaw in their storage: the batteries keeping players' saves alive eventually dies.

While most gamers finally give up and waved goodbye to their progress, lost to the ravages of time, one hardcore fan has refused to lose his save and has simply left his console plugged in and switched on for the last 20 years!

hough it may be hard to believe now, with all our wonderful memory options for everything from computers to phones to handheld devices, back in the day, some game cartridges featured SRAM (Static RAM) coupled with lithium-ion batteries. As long as your battery stayed charged, the SRAM would hold your save data. Unfortunately, as soon as your battery ran out, your data would disappear as well. Of course, not all games used SRAM, but Umihara Kawase did, which means that if the battery in the cartridge were to die, @UMIHARAKawase would lose his replay data.

You, like many gamers from back in the day, are probably thinking it's just not worth it, but this Twitter user obviously disagrees. However, it seems that he did unplug his system once-while moving house. Fortunately, he was able to get it set up before the battery died, so it's not strictly true that the SNES has been on for 20 years, but we're not sure we'd call that much of a break either.