Save management, which to get?

[NightWalker66]

Hi forum,
I am curious as to which is better: the memory base 128, Tennoke bank, or the backup booster 2? Thanks for your suggestions in advance.

[Necromancer]

It depends on what you're trying to do, as their functions are not analogous.

MB128 - not terribly useful, as a game must be programmed to be able to save to it directly and not that many can; and all the games that include MB128 support are cd titles, so it's just a paperweight if you only have a PCE base system.  Assuming you do have a CD add-on or Duo, you can use it with one of the games that has a memory manager utility built in to backup and restore the system's save ram into one of 64 slots, much like you can with the Tennokoe Bank card.

Tennokoe Bank - useful for backup and restoration of the system's save ram into one of 4 slots.  Same as the MB128, it's the entire contents in one step with no provision for moving individual files.

Backup Booster 2 - only useful if you have a bare system and want to add save capabilities.  Like the ram built into CD systems, there's just one slot, so you'd still need one of the other two if you want to backup your saves.

[Johnpv]

Probably not the right thread for this, or area of the forum, but I had a thought.  Anyone know if it would be possible to write a homebrew app that could be run on an everdrive to dump the systems save files to the SD card on the everdrive?

[ginoscope]

I personally use two tennokoe bank as they are very cheap and have a small foot print.  They are useful when I am transferring from duo to tg16 or just for backup.  I no longer worry about losing any of my saves since I started using them.

[NightWalker66]

@necromancer
Thanks for the info.

[mjsaville]

Just get both problem solved 

[NightWalker66]

Yea just want to get the lay of the land before I make my decision.  Thank you for your inputs.  Man the PCE is like an onion has many layers.

[geise]

Yeah it does.  I've used the bank cards for two decades now and I still find them to be a pain in the ass sometimes.  Mostly cause I forget what games are on which bank.  With that said, it has kept me going with saves since then.

[lukester]

A CD add-on or Duo has internal memory to save. I'd just get that.

You might still want a Tennokoe Bank 2 if the data gets full though

[Bonknuts]

Probably not the right thread for this, or area of the forum, but I had a thought.  Anyone know if it would be possible to write a homebrew app that could be run on an everdrive to dump the systems save files to the SD card on the everdrive?

There were people developing such a thing, but it's currently stalled (don't know why).

[Digi.k]

Hi forum,
I am curious as to which is better: the memory base 128, Tennoke bank, or the backup booster 2? Thanks for your suggestions in advance.

unless you have a CD-Rom unit you might have to consider getting both the back-up booster and tennokoe bank card.  Otherwise you can have a CD-Rom unit and a tennokoe bank/Mem128

[NightWalker66]

@Digi.k and Lukester
Yea just ordered a SCD unit from gamedoctorhk.  Don't know if and when it will be shipped, but I ordered it.  I should have went with a Duo + Supergrafx would have probably saved me $200-$300 but at least I getting what I want and wait until a better deal comes around next time.

[Johnpv]

Probably not the right thread for this, or area of the forum, but I had a thought.  Anyone know if it would be possible to write a homebrew app that could be run on an everdrive to dump the systems save files to the SD card on the everdrive?

There were people developing such a thing, but it's currently stalled (don't know why).

That's a shame that development stalled.  Do you know if discussion about it was on here or on the everdrive forums?

[Bonknuts]

That's a shame that development stalled.  Do you know if discussion about it was on here or on the everdrive forums?

Definitely here, but this might interest you: http://pcedev.blockos.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=90
Apparently all read and write functions to the SD card work fine now. The only thing that needs to be done is writing a FAT handling system in assembly for PCE.