Hold reset while turning off the power?

[Jedi Master Baiter]

Baseball Stars was also less subtle about it.

[MWK]

I once didn't hold reset and lost my Kirby's Adventure game save.

So can anybody read Japanese and know if the Famicom carts with save batteries have a similar warning on the back or in-game, or is it all just speculation?

That is weird, I've never paid any attention to this thing either AND didn't ever lost my save states in any of my Famicom game with battery backup. However I might have been lucky...

Anyway, that is some intel worth consideration, thx.

[P]

Zelda 1 cartridge version comes with an orange warning card in Japanese that tells you to hold reset when powering off. Also many RPGs for both Famicom and NES have a similarly in-game warning when saving like that one in Final Fantasy.

When I was a kid I never held down reset while turning off as I didn't understand English, but I never lost any data because of it. Maybe I was lucky?

[Drakon]

my repro of earthbound the official english translation keeps mentioning that too.  I've never held down reset and I've never lost the data.  My super famicom games lose data more frequently than this game.  Really it's the only famicom/nes game I have with a save feature.

[dukbrand]

It's crap when you've got a dirty 72 pin and the flashing pink screen wipes your game save

[Drakon]

It's crap when you've got a dirty 72 pin and the flashing pink screen wipes your game save

.....

Most of the time nes/famicom games don't connect to the system is because of the zif socket.  On a top loader you really never get that.

[UglyJoe]

It's crap when you've got a dirty 72 pin and the flashing pink screen wipes your game save

You know, now that you mention it, this is really how I lost all my save games.  It wasn't holding down reset when turning it off (which I did), it was turning it on and off so frequently while performing cart feng shui to try and get the NES to boot the game.