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backup slots are unused?

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Connor Olding 2015-02-19 18:07:54 -08:00
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@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ owls use the extra space primarily (exclusively?) to store the pictograph pictur
note that some values don't get copied when reading/writing save files, even owl saves.
the game checks a checksum, and for the text "ZELDA3".
each slot has one backup copy of itself.
if one copy is considered corrupt (bad checksum), the game will load the other.
if that one's corrupt as well, the slot will show up as empty in the menu.
each slot has one backup copy of itself, though they don't seem to be used?
if a slot is corrupted, it will show up as empty in the menu.
the checksum is a 16-bit sum of all bytes up to that point, allowing overflows.
i've written [a checksum-fixing program][chksum] in python for bizhawk savefiles.