Mr. Sensible
Pitch and Putt Duffer
Continuing ShakeWell's thread from the Before Times, let's talk about stuff like Everdrives and optical drive emulators!
So I recently started playing GBC Mario Golf on my Everdrive-GB, and I found myself enjoying it so much that I sought out a real copy of the game to play instead. However, that introduced the minor dilemma of abandoning my EDGB save data (about 20 hours of playtime) and starting fresh on a real cart. Some quick searching led me to a Micro-64 article covering Libgbpak, an Everdrive-64 utility by Saturnus that allows dumping of GB/GBC ROMs, as well as reading from/writing to save RAM, by making use of the N64 Transfer Pak accessory. After recovering from the shock of a Transfer Pak actually being useful, I was able to transfer my EDGB save over to my real copy of Mario Golf. I suppose it's a lot of hardware just to move save data around, but I was nevertheless impressed that it's possible at all!
So I recently started playing GBC Mario Golf on my Everdrive-GB, and I found myself enjoying it so much that I sought out a real copy of the game to play instead. However, that introduced the minor dilemma of abandoning my EDGB save data (about 20 hours of playtime) and starting fresh on a real cart. Some quick searching led me to a Micro-64 article covering Libgbpak, an Everdrive-64 utility by Saturnus that allows dumping of GB/GBC ROMs, as well as reading from/writing to save RAM, by making use of the N64 Transfer Pak accessory. After recovering from the shock of a Transfer Pak actually being useful, I was able to transfer my EDGB save over to my real copy of Mario Golf. I suppose it's a lot of hardware just to move save data around, but I was nevertheless impressed that it's possible at all!