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Did u kno you can save on the 3ds cartridges themselves?


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5 minutes ago, Adminderaptorpat said:

That's generally how cartridges work

Wait until she discovers she can take old games and trade them in for even more savings.....It'll blow her mind.

It'll make the same sound as a soap sud popping, but blown none the less.

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55 minutes ago, fuggnificent said:

i thought the cartridges were like cds or dvds... that you couldnt actually save stuff ON the cartridge.. and all the saving happens on the 3ds console itself. 

No.

Cartridges save data. The old consoles were literally just boxes that played the cartridge. That means you could take your cartridge to your friend's and play from your save on your friend's console.

Cartridges were replaced by CDs because that technology could store more data at the time, which meant bigger and better games. However, CDs can't save date because there was no way to rewrite a CD. 

While that doesn't matter today when consoles have internal storage, there was a generation of consoles (ps1, gcn, ps2) that introduced CDs but hadn't yet bridged the gap on internal storage. In order to save your games, you needed external memory cards. Those memory cards were basically cartridges.

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3 minutes ago, Adminderaptorpat said:

No.

Cartridges save data. The old consoles were literally just boxes that played the cartridge. That means you could take your cartridge to your friend's and play from your save on your friend's console.

Cartridges were replaced by CDs because that technology could store more data at the time, which meant bigger and better games. However, CDs can't save date because there was no way to rewrite a CD. 

While that doesn't matter today when consoles have internal storage, there was a generation of consoles (ps1, gcn, ps2) that introduced CDs but hadn't yet bridged the gap on internal storage. In order to save your games, you needed external memory cards. Those memory cards were basically cartridges.

wow i went thru the trouble of buying and installing a sd card in the 3ds for nothing

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