Gamer kept his SNES on for 20 years just to keep the game saved

[Djole123]

One gamer kept his Super Nintendo on for about 20 yrs, just to keep the game saved. Since his battery on catridge was low, and he wanted to keep his game saved, because saving the game wasn't easy in the past: if your battery was dead, you can say goodbye to your progress. But, he kept his Nintendo on, and he could continue his game just like it was saved. In fact, he turned his SNES off only once, because he moved, and the battery kept the game. What a gamer...

Source: https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://bgr.com/2015/12/30/super-nintendo-20-years-saved-game/&ved=0ahUKEwiH3bPC44bKAhVLhhoKHbDhCB4QFggbMAA&usg=AFQjCNHBG5ySi-sk3kDOBHUwIVzd-muKpg

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This is like a month old news

But this seems pretty.. Like weird news. ReviewTechUSA did a video on this too and he pointed something out I thought too: I don't care how good your powergrid is, but everyone has experience a power outage at least once. so this just seems kinda sketchy

[FatPenguin]

what happens if you loose power?

[FatPenguin]

This is like a month old news

But this seems pretty.. Like weird news. ReviewTechUSA did a video on this too and he pointed something out I thought too: I don't care how good your powergrid is, but everyone has experience a power outage at least once. so this just seems kinda sketchy

maybe he has the tesla home battery

[aSpoink]

This is like a month old news

But this seems pretty.. Like weird news. ReviewTechUSA did a video on this too and he pointed something out I thought too: I don't care how good your powergrid is, but everyone has experience a power outage at least once. so this just seems kinda sketchy

 

 

what happens if you loose power?

He may have it hooked up to some kind of generator, but that seems like a lot of work just to keep a SNES on.

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maybe he has the tesla home battery

He may have it hooked up to some kind of generator, but that seems like a lot of work just to keep a SNES on.

Or a UPS? But I dunno, seems kinda silly for a SNES

[FatPenguin]

Or a UPS? But I dunno, seems kinda silly for a SNES

well some people and their video games just go outside.

[alpenwasser]

But this seems pretty.. Like weird news. ReviewTechUSA did a video on this too and he pointed something out I thought too: I don't care how good your powergrid is, but everyone has experience a power outage at least once. so this just seems kinda sketchy

I actually can't remember ever living through a power outage TBH. Not that they don't happen here, but the last big one I can remember was in 2005 and "only" affected the railway grid (200,000 people stuck in 1,500 trains for three hours in summer heat).

Aside from that, they usually seem to be very localilzed from what the internet has been telling me. Funnily enough, it seems we had a power failure in a few towns adjacent to where I live due to a failure in a distribution station in my town this year, but our town itself didn't actually suffer power outage despite the cause being located here.

Still, 20 years... IDK. Maybe, maybe not. If true, hella cool though, IMO.

[FatPenguin]

I actually can't remember ever living through a power outage TBH. Not that they don't happen here, but the last big one I can remember was in 2005 and "only" affected the railway grid (200,000 people stuck in 1,500 trains for three hours in summer heat).

Aside from that, they usually seem to be very localilzed from what the internet has been telling me. Funnily enough, it seems we had a power failure in a few towns adjacent to where I live due to a failure in a distribution station in my town this year, but our town itself didn't actually suffer power outage despite the cause being located here.

Still, 20 years... IDK. Maybe, maybe not. If true, hella cool though, IMO.

wow where I live we get them like once a month when ever there is a lot of wind or rain the power goes out. just last week we had one the power surge killed the board in our washing machine.

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I actually can't remember ever living through a power outage TBH. Not that they don't happen here, but the last big one I can remember was in 2005 and "only" affected the railway grid (200,000 people stuck in 1,500 trains for three hours in summer heat).

Aside from that, they usually seem to be very localilzed from what the internet has been telling me. Funnily enough, it seems we had a power failure in a few towns adjacent to where I live due to a failure in a distribution station in my town this year, but our town itself didn't actually suffer power outage despite the cause being located here.

Still, 20 years... IDK. Maybe, maybe not. If true, hella cool though, IMO.

I have experienced at least .. 6 outages in the last 10 years of my life. Not a whole lot, but they happen sometimes.

And this is not including the times when a light bulb died and the power in the house went out for a second.

[alpenwasser]

wow where I live we get them like once a month when ever there is a lot of wind or rain the power goes out. just last week we had one the power surge killed the board in our washing machine.

I did once have a power surge kill our wifi access point during a lightning storm, but I think that's about it. To some extent it's probably luck, because we're not immune to power outages, on the other hand, our infrastructure in general is (so far) pretty good (and expensive).

 

I have experienced at least .. 6 outages in the last 10 years of my life. Not a whole lot, but they happen sometimes.

And this is not including the times when a light bulb died and the power in the house went out for a second.

Power outages due to causes inside our house/apartment I've had a few as well, yes. So I couldn't have left on my SNES for 20 years without interruption (although usually in those cases power doesn't go out in the entire house/apartment). But not outright grid failure (yet).

Edited December 31, 2015 by alpenwasser

[FatPenguin]

I did once have a power surge kill our wifi access point during a lightning storm, but I think that's about it. To some extent it's probably luck, because we're not immune to power outages, on the other hand, our infrastructure in general is (so far) pretty good (and expensive).

well I live in New England so we get a pretty decent amount of rain and hurricanes 

[Dabombinable]

This was posted at least a couple of months go. I'll have to do some sifting.

[handymanshandle]

Power outages are quite rare in quite a few places actually. It's plausible he had it on a UPS and was fortunate enough to have underground power.

[LokiFire]

We get outages at least once a year.

[Arty]

This is like a month old news

But this seems pretty.. Like weird news. ReviewTechUSA did a video on this too and he pointed something out I thought too: I don't care how good your powergrid is, but everyone has experience a power outage at least once. so this just seems kinda sketchy

ups ?

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ups ?

Thought of that a little later:

Or a UPS? But I dunno, seems kinda silly for a SNES

[ICantThinkOfAnyGoodName]

"News"

[BuckGup]

I have experienced at least .. 6 outages in the last 10 years of my life. Not a whole lot, but they happen sometimes.

And this is not including the times when a light bulb died and the power in the house went out for a second.

On my USP it tells me how many you have had from when you got it and I got it about 3 years ago and it said 642. Then again about 200 of those came from a time span of 1 week when a transformer was dying and the power would cut on and off about 6 times a minutes. Very bad for appliances 

[TriviaBeast]

He must not live in tornado alley. We lost power for a month in an ice storm. I have lost power twice in the past few months for at least an hour.

[Misanthrope]

I actually can't remember ever living through a power outage TBH. Not that they don't happen here, but the last big one I can remember was in 2005 and "only" affected the railway grid (200,000 people stuck in 1,500 trains for three hours in summer heat).

Aside from that, they usually seem to be very localilzed from what the internet has been telling me. Funnily enough, it seems we had a power failure in a few towns adjacent to where I live due to a failure in a distribution station in my town this year, but our town itself didn't actually suffer power outage despite the cause being located here.

Still, 20 years... IDK. Maybe, maybe not. If true, hella cool though, IMO.

That's mostly not the case for everyone but that's actually just part of the problem, I'd be hard pressed to find a house that has 20 year old fuses still on them, either that house would also have the most perfect power delivery with 0 peaks over 20 years or again, battery back ups or BS on the part of not losing power for 20 years.

[alpenwasser]

That's mostly not the case for everyone but that's actually just part of the problem, I'd be hard pressed to find a house that has 20 year old fuses still on them, either that house would also have the most perfect power delivery with 0 peaks over 20 years or again, battery back ups or BS on the part of not losing power for 20 years.

Yeah, as said, the part about me not having a grid failure is certainly part luck and partially our pretty decent power grid. As for fuses and such, I don't think we ever had a complete failure in our house of everything at once, but over 20 years, sooner or later I estimate every fuse got replaced at some point. Although in the newer houses (like our current apartment) we no longer have replaceable fuses, just the ones which switch out if something's wrong, and then you have to re-engage them. So unless you actually draw too much power, those might indeed not disengage for a very long time. But we didn't have those in our old house, just the ones which eventually burn out.

Either way, I don't think I could have left a SNES on for 20 years either to be honest, sooner or later I would have lost power. In our current apartment... maybe. Very maybe. Lived here four years now and haven't had a failure yet, but that's not quite 20.

[zacRupnow]

I don't care how good your powergrid is, but everyone has experience a power outage at least once. so this just seems kinda sketchy

Backup UPS.

[Syntaxvgm]

I actually can't remember ever living through a power outage TBH. Not that they don't happen here, but the last big one I can remember was in 2005 and "only" affected the railway grid (200,000 people stuck in 1,500 trains for three hours in summer heat).

Aside from that, they usually seem to be very localilzed from what the internet has been telling me. Funnily enough, it seems we had a power failure in a few towns adjacent to where I live due to a failure in a distribution station in my town this year, but our town itself didn't actually suffer power outage despite the cause being located here.

Still, 20 years... IDK. Maybe, maybe not. If true, hella cool though, IMO.

I've had multiple in the past few months 

[christianled59]

He must not live in tornado alley. We lost power for a month in an ice storm. I have lost power twice in the past few months for at least an hour.

Do you live in Missouri? I remember that shit. It was cold as fuck. I had to live in one room with my family and a fire place just to stay alive.