Use Save States on Your SNES?

Feb. 11 6:20 PM by Alicia Ashby

This was too cool not to post once I tripped over it. Vintage Computing has an awesome scan up of an ad for the Nakitek Game Saver+, a weird little device that hooked Game Genie-style to any SNES game. Once hooked up, you could use it to pretty much emulate the savestate function that's so convenient in... uh, emulators. Vintage Computing muses that it wasn't so great, though:

From what I've read, the Game Saver+ didn't work too well with certain games, causing graphical glitching upon resuming your state. In my experience (I remember mostly playing Super Castlevania IV with it), it seemed to work fine -- although I wouldn't want to depend on it.<

I didn't even know this thing existed until right now. If I still had a working SNES in the house, I'd go snap one up. They seem to show up on e-bay regularly (and cheaply) enough, but it helps to search for them as Game Saver+. For some reason, nobody selling them can manage to spell "Nakitek."

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There was a similar device for the NES called the "Game Action Replay," which is different from the "Pro Action Replay" cheat thing. I remember drooling over one of these things in an EB years ago. I wish I had bought it.

(search for nes "action replay" and it'll show up on a |tsr's NES archive page)

 

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