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Standards for creating backup compatible software

(Sega Saturn version)

These standards have been established in order to create a user-friendly environment for all software by unifying basic functions and terminology related to backup. This creation standard applies only to applications that use backups.

Structure of this standard

• Initialization check
• Presence/capacity check
• Load
• save
• Comment support
• Time stamp support
• Body RAM/Cartridge RAM selection

• Example message when checking initialization
• Example message when checking presence/capacity
• Example message when loading
• Example message when saving
  Reference 1) Example message when erasing/copying
  Reference 2) Terminology used in the backup tool