A PC Engine Question...

[Jashin]

Can any of the various PCE machines save hiscores? I think I've read somewhere that the Duo machines can, but how about the cart PCE's?

Any help much appreciated...

[EddieG]

The CD systems all have backup ram for game saves and hi-scores, (but obviously only for games written to make use of them).

There may be a few card games with backup memory, but I can't think of any offhand.

HOWEVER, there was a version of the Tenokoe bank memory backup unit that plugged into the back of a standard PC Engine that may have done the job.

Hope that helps

Eddie G.

[Papercut]

There may be a few card games with backup memory, but I can't think of any offhand.

I think Populous does.

HOWEVER, there was a version of the Tenokoe bank memory backup unit that plugged into the back of a standard PC Engine that may have done the job.

Yeah, it does the same as the backup memory in the cd unit. There is also a Tennokoe Bank card that allows you to copy game saves between machines.

[Jashin]

Cheers fot the info chaps. By the sound of it, I'm guessing that not many hu-cards have a save game / hiscore option? How about CD based shooters?

[Papercut]

most cd games make use of save files.

quite a few hu-cards do too. Adventure Island is one I can think of.

The memory store sans cd is this thing here:

http://www.videogameimports.com/get_hw.php?product=228

the Ten No Koe.

The ram card that can backup a memory store is the Ten No Koe Bank:

http://www.videogameimports.com/get_hw.php?product=315

I have one of these, it has four slots each of which can hold all the saves from a cd interface/Ten No Koe. It doesn't backup individual save files, but everything at once into one of four banks, hence the name.

[MD]

There are several card games that do store hi score data, the games will have a battery icon somewhere on the packaging, parasol stars does for example.