eli5: How did old NES cartridge games save your game?

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I mean the ones like The Legend of Zelda that saved your game without the use of passwords. How was your game saved on the cartridge? Did it work the same way as an old floppy disk?

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Cartridges in general were basically add-on computer parts, so they would come with RAM and disk memory and sometimes added processing power. The differences between graphics for example on the SNES level between launch games and games at the end wasn’t just upgrades in development, the hardware in the cartridge was significantly upgraded as well.

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