In the beginning, of the new age of technology, humanity invented the Game Cartridge and people started to set on their couches more often with a burger in one hand. Within every game cartridge is a memory chip but some have more then just a chip and some have more then one memory chip. Some even contain a battery like Zelda for the NES and the battery in the cartridge is what enables you to save your game(If you have a game cartridge that has saving capability but when you save it and turn off your system and your save is gone when your try to load it again the battery inside the cartridge is most likely dead. There should be eBay Stores that sell the batteries or go to your local major game store for help). Most of the NES game cartridges contained less then 550KB of game data but there are a some that have over 550KB. The first Zelda for the NES only contained about 129KB of data and it strike us that such a sweat classic game took such little space. Most of the Super Nintendo game cartridges only contained less then 32MB of game data. Super Metroid only contain 24MB of game data and Super Metroid is one of the BEST Super Nintendo games and to think that a great game like this only took 24MB of game data, Amazing. When you look at games of today there some that take 20GB or more of memory, Technology is really amazing isn’t people.

Now for the tip that you have been waiting for but might find it disturbing. As we have explained that Game Cartridges contain memory chips, the problem is that the cartridge you may or may want to own could contain a COPY memory chip inside the game cartridge. Let us explain, a person opens the Game Cartridge, takes out the memory chip, puts the chip on a device that is hooked up to their computer, they download the game data on to their computer, then they make a copy of the original memory chip and put back the copy in the cartridge and they keep the original game memory chip for themselves.

The basic question that you would have “how would I find out if it contained a copy chip?”. For most and we mean most people they will never know. It takes time to open a single game cartridge and to even KNOW what you are doing so that you do not hurt the cartridge and to know what you are looking at. In addition, the copy memory chip could most likely even look like the original. This is something that is good to know but something you should never care about, their really is no point. Still buy the game you want and if it works just fine you should be A OK.

This Guide has been made FOR THE SOLO PROPOSE of helping Gamers understand what they could end up owning and not even know it. If someone purchased a game like FINAL FANTASY III for the Super Nintendo and they do go for good money, it would suck for a gamer to pay $60 and find out that the memory chip is not even an original.