How did my PCE remember this

[Necromancer]

Alright, you're not touchy, just grouchy.  I apologize if you thought that I meant to imply that you are a retarded oaf - I only meant that you may have entered the code incorrectly or at the wrong time (I'm not perfect, but mayhap you are).  I'll stand by my original assessment that you either entered the code wrong, your controller is acting up intermittently, or you had the turbo switches on (as nat has suggested a few dozen times).  The only other possible explanation that I can think of is that your HuCard is faulty, which is unlikely unless you've somehow mistreated it.  There is no way that a bare CoreGrafx could save anything, period, end of story.

[sunteam_paul]

Faulty card = pretty unlikely.

Faulty controller = kind of likely although it working fine outside of this cheat makes it seem unlikely.

You making a dog's breakfast of putting the code in = most likely.

There don't seem to be any other credible explanations that I can think of.

[Kitsunexus]

"Hence, duh" is literary genius I would compare to the likes of Shakespeare!

"Do you bite your thumb at me, sir!?"
"Hence, duh."
"AGASP!" 

Also, you don't have to put /end sarcasm in quotes, because one, I know you weren't really jaded enough to say it in real life and two, the forum won't use it as SMF code.

And also dude, check your damn controller. Despite what you may think, these people do know what they're talking about.

You making a dog's breakfast

WTF!? Am I the only one who has never heard these sayings before? 

[Kitsunexus]

Actually guys, it does say that Splatterhouse for the Turbo-Grafx contains 4 bytes of RAM, presumably so it can store the options, and possibly the cheat variables:

[nat]

http://splatterhouse.classicgaming.gamespy.com/turbo.html

WTF?!?

 

[Kitsunexus]

^____^

[Necromancer]

Faulty controller = kind of likely although it working fine outside of this cheat makes it seem unlikely.

True, though I once had a controller that would randomly use turbo on button I (due to a cracked board).  Since turbo doesn't do anything unless the button is held (in most games), it wasn't really noticeable.

Actually guys, it does say that Splatterhouse for the Turbo-Grafx contains 4 bytes of RAM, presumably so it can store the options, and possibly the cheat variables:

www.notfunny.com

Lame.  Surprise!

[sunteam_paul]

Who's actually tried the cheat on an actual hucard and it definitely keeps on working?

Yes I have. Yes it does.

[spenoza]

OK, to summarize... Unless you have a CD or Booster attachment, there is no way your Turbo or your Splatterhouse game can save any settings. This means either the game, your hardware, or your fingers (and thus code entry abilities) have developed a problem.

I will tell you that some game codes are very finicky. Sometimes I'll get codes right several times and then I won't be able to get them to work for weeks on end because some aspect of my timing is off.

The consensus here appears to be that either your code entry or controller conditions have changed a little and that's throwing you off. You don't have to like it, or even agree, for it to be true. You can't be perfect all the time.

AFAIK there's no other help we can really offer up with what you've given us to work with.

[Kitsunexus]

You can't be perfect all the time.

Unlike me. 

[nat]

I just checked the code and apparently it doesn't involve buttons I and II anyway, so I guess the turbo switches wouldn't be a problem. Sorry 'bout that.

EDIT: Disregard.

[Kitsunexus]

I just checked the code and apparently it doesn't involve buttons I and II anyway, so I guess the turbo switches wouldn't be a problem. Sorry 'bout that.

No, you had it right:

Splatterhouse Level Select
While the rain is falling on the title screen, press Run and press Select, Select, Select. Next hit Button I while holding Down-Left on the directional pad.

Note: If you select level 0 you'll warp to the final boss.

http://www.cheataddict.com/turbografx16/splatterhouse/cheats/7340.html

[nat]

Hahaha, what a moron. I love Internet tough guys.

Up until now I've been trying to be nothing but helpful, but I'm done with that.

You aren't going to get very far around here with that kind of attitude, BTW.

[Kitsunexus]

I'm way more than that "jaded" enough for real to say a lot more than that. Anyone dumb enough to try talking to me that way and I didn't know who they were - let's say there are ways of getting to them that their cowardly anonymity shielding doesn't help them with.
Not of course, and I shouldn't have to point this out either, that anyone here could possibly have any knowledge of what I am like for-real. We haven't met, so you don't know me then do you. How can you guess what I'm like for real based on two posts about one topic; that's just mentally ill. It's also a lot more PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE than the possibility that a console or a hucard might have properties some people don't know about.
Maybe someone you do know likes to pretend they are people you reply to online. Or maybe you have people here believe you can slide up banisters against gravity, & perhaps time will tell what fingers you have their weak minds twisted around. I'll certainly be keeping a watch on this topic.

I'm not sure if going by the comments that the hucard is considered here to contain any RAM or not. However that was going to be my next thing to point out - all the hucards I have have the means to save the scores (no additional peripherals required) while the game remains on. Turn it off and they forget it, since there's no longer any power being supplied by the console. That sounds like RAM and I've certainly seen other people in other forums saying there are hucards that contain RAM. Where else might the scores be being saved. You'd think anyone that knew things about consoles might have noticed something like temporary score saves.

And since it keeps coming up, no I didn't move the turbo buttons. Once it stopped working, I then tried them in different positions. If I had moved them previously, and the cheat ceased working, then I'd have considered that that may have been why. I can appreciate that maybe some people find that the way they enter codes changes from second to second, but it doesn't with me. I've entered a lot of cheats in my time on multiple different machines etc and I've not had that problem.
If it works, it works. If I happen to get a timing wrong, it only happens a couple of time max - not indefinitely.

If you thought I moved the turbo buttons and neglected to say so or consider that - then you are trying to call me an idiot. But it's you that's the idiot.

Oh and - the chill pill. I did explain already that I'm not the one being unreasonable here. What do you think this is - if I'd have been that way to anyone then I'd have been well aware that I was trying to use them to make myself look funny to the ignorant morons (not that I'd do such a thing - play to ignorant morons or use people that way). So why should I treat it any different if someone thinks they can try it on me. You must be used to interacting only with total dipshits or you have no life outside web forums, text-messaging, and chatrooms.

TLDR. Anyway, we don't care how you are in real life because this is how you are on the internet. Go f*ck yourself.

[Necromancer]

I tried to apologize for the perceived slight; what more do you want tough guy?  I don't really care what you're like in real life, but I bet you're a hoot.

I'm not sure if going by the comments that the hucard is considered here to contain any RAM or not. However that was going to be my next thing to point out - all the hucards I have have the means to save the scores (no additional peripherals required) while the game remains on. Turn it off and they forget it, since there's no longer any power being supplied by the console. That sounds like RAM and I've certainly seen other people in other forums saying there are hucards that contain RAM. Where else might the scores be being saved. You'd think anyone that knew things about consoles might have noticed something like temporary score saves.

You are absolutely wrong here.  The HuCard is not storing any of the temporary data - it's in the system's memory, which is why it's lost when you turn off the power.  The only HuCards that are capable of saving without any peripherals are those that have the RomRam logo - Tennokoe Bank and Populous.  You stated that you cycled the power, so nothing could have been saved that would've prevented the code from working (unless you cycled the power really quickly, which could've caused any type of error).  This brings us back to either a hardware problem or a user error (which is not an insult unless you have a God complex).