The NEW Game Count+Safe Save Count List!

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Ladies (yeah right) and Gentlemen!

I have continued my work to get you the accurate counts for total game uploads and accompanying save slot counts for your modded NES Classic Edition. Since the previous post, I have a small correction of a +1 offset to the original table. This does not change much, and I'll get to that later.

Here's the big news: It's actually more efficient to hide the original 30 games and re-add them as a part of your mod than to just add to the original 30. I'll let that one sink in...

You read that correct. If you hide the original 30 and add them all back in manually, you can actually safely add MORE games than before.

Here's the old breakdown for keeping the original 30 games visible. The one entry that's been corrected is bolded:

• 4 slots per game: 32
• 3 slots per game: 39
• 2 slots per game: 49
• 1 slot per game: 65

Now, let's say you hide the original 30 games and add your own. Here's what the new breakdown looks like:

• 4 slots per game: 40
• 3 slots per game: 48
• 2 slots per game: 60
• 1 slot per game: 80

If you go 1 or 2 saves over the safe number listed above or in the doc that I'll link below, you'll see the saves occur and probably won't have an issue until you try to do certain things like save beyond that and play a couple different games...or you might get the C8 error on exit.

The reason u/bottomknob and u/TheYadda were able to have more saves was because both of them had hidden the original 30 games. This led me to running tests on their configurations and getting data that was similar to their experiences.

To see the entire set of tables, check out this Google doc here (note the 2 different tabs at the bottom):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rnasCcCjHmMns7UeQ1iRHTy6zhiTItQWYOXCvStblmI/edit?usp=sharing

(If you're curious...the maximum number of games you can load when hiding the original 30 and still have it start a game safely with the capability to at least save a single game's stuff twice is 120; at 121 you will begin to have C8 errors.)

Edit: Obligatory thanks for the gold!!

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