nitro2k01 wrote: But then you would always have to save before turning off, and people would be annoyed. Simply put, it's not how you'd want to do things.
[Edit: I assume you mean you'd have to manually save through LSDJ, not have the cart auto-save when you hit the power switch.]
Personally, I wouldn't have a huge issue with that - it's how every other piece of electronics works. You always have to save the files you're editing on your computer before you turn it off, or the song you're working on in DS10, or any game you're playing... I was really surprised when I first picked up LSDJ and found out I could just turn my gameboy off and not lose all my data. Now, I'm a real n00b when it comes to chipmusic, and I can see how a change would bother people who are more used to the current behaviour than it would bother me, but it does seem like saving before closing is the 'normal' way to do things. If it took a long time to save, it would be a pain I guess - I don't really know how these things work though, so I'm not clear on whether that would be the case.
Of course, not having to save is nicer, but it doesn't seem like a big enough drawback to avoid a design, if it would mean a more reliable cartridge. Although, there are other drawbacks to the EEPROM design as well -- shifting all these saves around sounds fairly kluge-y, and to my uneducated self, seems like a recipe for corrupting your files if anything goes wrong, as well as just taking up more space on the cart (since you need more memory chips). It also doesn't seem clear how changing to this design would make backing up any simpler, but again, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Anyhow, just my $0.02.
Last edited by nick (Dec 12, 2011 10:36 pm)