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For When You Need To Backup Those Saves (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Open Source Cartridge Reader is a great diy project for dumping your own roms and saves. If you order a kit with the surface mount components already installed, it's also a great beginner soldering project.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I thought the saves were in my memorypak though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Most N64 games don't actually use the controller pak, instead using their own battery saves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmmm, I still have my N64, all my old games, etc and could test. Do you know if there is a way for me to check the memorypak to see what games actually saved to it?

Now that you mention it, I recall either OoT or MM saving to the cart directly.

Edit: May have found my own answer:

HOLD THE START BUTTON DOWN and turn your console on. Make sure to HOLD THE START BUTTON DOWN while it boots up. This will pull up the data management screen where you can view and delete your stored data on your memory card.

Will check and report back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To add to this, the reader also has a N64 controller port so you can also dump memory cards via a controller.

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