Famicom Battle Box

[Arctic Feather]

Has anyone got one of these?  As far as I can tell it adds the ability to save your game to the games that support it.

It looks like this:


I found out about t when I bought Armadillo and it prompts for if you choose "Load" on the title screen.  Being able to save would be great, so is it worth getting one? Also anyone know what other games support it?

[Trium Shockwave]

I wonder if a device that would save a game's state is possible. That way, you could save any game right where it is. It would probably have to sit in line with the cart, like a Game Genie.

[UglyJoe]

From http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=851 (as mentioned in our What's This thread  )

"BATTLE BOX" saves SRAM data.
A battery and an external power supply are unnecessary though it looks like the "TURBO FILE".
It was sold to "BATTLE BOX" to attach to "Battle stadium" ,too.

It was possible to fight by my data and friend's data using this together with the battery backup in "Battle stadium".
Because "Armadillo" doesn't provide the battery backup function in the cassette, "BATTLE BOX" is indispensable to save data!!

[Lorfarius]

I wonder if a device that would save a game's state is possible. That way, you could save any game right where it is. It would probably have to sit in line with the cart, like a Game Genie.

There is such a device for the US NES (cant think what its called off the top of my head) so I would only assume it was attempted in Japan.

[Arctic Feather]

Thanks for the info

Is the battle stadium game that uses it any good?  Can't seem to find a video of it.

[UglyJoe]

Battle Stadium is a baseball game.  I'm not entirely sure what the guy was using the box for since the game has a battery backup.  It sounds like he was able to sort of merge his save data (from the battle box) and the data on his friend's cart (battery backup).  Entirely speculation, though.

[Walky]

A had a snes device (Naki Game Saver) that allowed to save states (using select + R and select + R combinations) and even could make the game run half-speed (R + L + Select, I think). So it's probably quite feasible that such a device exists for the nes and/or famicom. The saves where lost when the SNES was powered off (there is another version that can save for some time after that).

[DDCecil]

Sorry for the necrobump, but I finally got ahold of a battle box and am playing through Armadillo right now. I know the first 2 options are Save and High Score. Not sure what this 3rd option is, could someone translate it for me? I'd appreciate it.

[P]

*Stone Armadilo's features*

1. When rolling in slopes, acceleration is doubled.
2. Immune from touching spikes
3. When in water, sink if doing nothing

1 Play
2 Play

[DDCecil]

*Stone Armadilo's features*

1. When rolling in slopes, acceleration is doubled.
2. Immune from touching spikes
3. When in water, sink if doing nothing

1 Play
2 Play

Thank you! Finally made it to the final world, I'll have to play through it again with these features!

[P]

Is this mode only available if you have a Battle Box?

[L___E___T]

 



Cool that it looks like more of a semi-official Game Genie, rather than an input recorder like the Turbo File seems to be.