Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With a sizeable collection of old game carts, sooner or later the topic of save files will come up. So here's a quick look at how I handle save data backups in my collection!

For more info on game dumping:

The official Retrode website: retrode.com
libgbpak (Transfer Pak dumping tool): krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=1548.0
General dumping guide from Emulation General Wiki: emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Ripping_Games
Professional disc ripping guide from Redump: wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Dumping_Guides
Video Game Preservation Collective: preservegames.org/p/how-to-join-project.html

0:00 Intro
1:55 Famicom
2:51 Famicom Disk System
4:00 SNES & N64
5:25 Game Boy (Color)
6:27 Game Boy Advance
7:35 DS & 3DS
8:04 Epilogue

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