Hold reset while turning off the power?

[cr4zymanz0r]

I know on NES games that have battery backup saves you're suppose to hold down reset while turning the power off. Is the same true for Famicom games or do they have a different design where you don't have to hold reset?

Bonus Question: Does anybody know the technical reason why you have to hold reset on the NES games? I've always wondered that.

[nintendodork]

You're supposed to hold reset? I've always just turned the games off after I saved.

[ericj]

I believe it has to do with the potential of a small voltage spike resetting/corrupting the "save" memory when just pressing the Power button to turn it off. By first pressing the Reset button, this wouldn't happen because the power to the cartridge is cut off. Of course, I could be totally incorrect. 

[MS-DOS4]

I believe you're spot on!

[satoshi_matrix]

I do this with all cartridge based systems that have a reset button from the NES to the N64. Famicom games are no exception. Better safe than sorry.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

I believe you have to do the same for Famicom games (at least on an NES).  I found out when my Tetris II + BomBliss saves were gone.

[tappybot]

First time I've ever heard of this 

I suppose it might be in instruction manuals but I usually never really look at any of the first so many pages that have nothing to do with the game.


Wow, I guess I'll start doing this from now on, just in case. 

[UglyJoe]

When I was in college, one of my room mates started playing through Zelda 2 and at some point it erased his game.  He got pissed off and went to bed.  My other room mate booted the game up and registered the three save games like this:



When my room mate started the game over again in the morning, he got the message

[Jedi Master Baiter]

First time I've ever heard of this 

You've never seen one of these?



Unless you only have Famicom, then that's different.

[tappybot]

I was playing NES from before I can remember...  I guess my only excuse is that it was always there so it was never of interest to me.

Actually, the part in black print sounds familiar, the part in red I had never bothered to read I suppose, or maybe when I was young I didn't understand it, so ignored it.

[fredJ]

Maybe it can't happen on the top loader or the twin fami. I haven't heard of it anyways.

[UglyJoe]

Final Fantasy was pretty explicit about it:

[NintendoKing]

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

[cr4zymanz0r]

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?

[satoshi_matrix]

It'd be on the back of a copy of Mother 1, if anyone's got one loose. Mine is sealed.