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[Warm Machine]

Did anyone else have punishing problems with their mem cart? I first tried saving game data with a 3rd party one and I kept seeing nonsense appear in the save game titles. I then wiped the machine clean and switched to a real Saturn cart. The same problem started happening later.

 

[BeOnEdge]

i believe the problem is with the cart slot itself. sometimes i have trouble with both the mem cart and the st key. usually requires a cart blow and a reboot for it to work.

 

[Lazy8s]

Poor quality third-party save carts would corrupt my game data too, but I never had problems after switching to the official SEGA first-party carts.

The Saturn's cartridge slot was not very durable, and third-party carts have been known to cause the console's connectors to bend out of shape, causing the machine difficulty in getting a good read in the future. It's possible your Saturn got damaged by the third-party save cart and now can't always maintain a good connection to the first-party cart, leading to corrupted data. Also, this shouldn't make a difference, but you can try changing the system's battery in the back (uses the same CR2032 battery that the DC VMU's used.)