How do video games that run on systems without internal memory save?

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Like for example, how would a gameboy cartridge save game data? What is the internal process that saves the game?

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you appear to be confusing memory and storage. Memory refers to RAM (Random Access Memory). The original gameboy had 8 KB of ram (and maybe 8 KB additional vRAM). Ram is what is used to run a game

storage is where your saves are kept, that was just on the cartridge. Nothing special about it, there is just an instruction in the gameboy that tells the cartridge what to save and where, just like an ssd, usb, sd card, or any other type of storage.

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