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Record the configuration on a tape or disk.
The tape and disk drives for this platform were released only in Japan. I don't speak Japanese. Implementing it on a PowerPak would be the same as having battery save.
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Implement on a non-NES system, such as GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, PC (either BIOS-based or cross-platform operating system based), etc.
That's what I did with one of my clones. I implemented it on PC using Allegro, a middleware library similar in scope to SDL, and it could save a custom scenario to a .ini file. But then I'd have to keep it to General Stuff.
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Allow the data to be compressed and displayed as a series of letters and/or numbers which you can write down more easily.
Players don't want to have to enter passwords as long as those in
Dragon Quest 2 or
Golden Sun either. The 24-character base64 passwords of
Metroid were already pushing it.
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Publish the ROM addresses of the configuration data so that you can set what the default will be on power-on and which other files you have quick access to (if the user has the ability to modify the ROM).
Memblers has mentioned carts using SST39SF series flash memory, which would allow modifying 4096 byte blocks of the ROM, but then that'd be the same as having battery save.
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Barcode scanner: The configuration menu displays a barcode and then you can photograph it and scan the photograph.
I was planning on doing just that for my rewrite of Who's Cuter, but I backed out after realizing how much time it'd take for me to understand the whole QR Code spec enough to convert a publicly available Python implementation to working assembly code. And how would the code get scanned? Most PCs don't have webcams, and most smartphones don't have gaming buttons.
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Another possibility: See if the court decisions are not revoted or something like that
Should Xio prevail on appeal, I plan to put the clones right back up.
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Other issue is different law in a different country, what is the case?
The case is that I don't know what other country would take me.