Shadowrun SNES delete option

[Albit-16]

Hi,

i know that there is a way to delete the saved games in shadowrun for the snes but forgot the combination of buttons, that need to be pressed to activate the erase dialogue in the games menu.
I've been searching google for hours but couldn't find anything related to this.

Can someone remember how to activate this option?

-Albit-16

[xelement5x]

I know nothing about this game, but I'm guessing you could unsolder and then resolder the save battery.

[Albit-16]

Many games for the SNES have the option to erase saved games like Zelda, which offer delete options in the main menu to do so. Others need a combination of buttons, that need to be pressed in order to be able to delete saved states - games like Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger, Sim City or Shadowrun are such games.

But to do so you need to know the combo for a certain game.

And as long as there is a built-in option to erase saved games, there is no need to unsolder the battery.

[Niku-Sama]

Random thought. Try the contra code?

[celerystalker]

Well, I checked the instruction manual anf it's not in there. Sorry. I guess they expected you to just start a new game and save over an old one.

[Tanooki]

Are you really positive there was such a code. I really don't remember any SNES game allowing for a button combination erasing of the entire save data on the carts. I think that really got started on the GBC, maybe a little earlier and has been widely used by Nintendo from the GBA since. The most annoying damned thing about it is they never are consistent what buttons or d-pad direction combos are needed to do so. Sure some of their games even have a data erase, but it leaves certain times or high scores only that combo will drop. I had Shadowrun in the past, I only remember being able to overwrite saves and figured it as normal just like various other RPGs such as the stuff Square did and those tools STILL won't let you erase their games in a lot of cases still outside of an overwrite.

[Albit-16]

There are games for the SNES, which allow you to delete your saved games via bottom-combo method.
I give you a few examples:

SimCity
Press L + R + Select on the saved game screen


Mario Kart
Press L+A+R+Y on the title screen


Chrono Trigger
Press START + SELECT on the 2nd controller on the main screen


You can feel free to try them out.
Sadly only a few people know about this feature, though it's sometimes described in the manuals - at least for Mario Kart. But for some games this is not the case, like celerystalker already confirmed, it's not described in the manual for shadowrun.

But as far as I can remember it was in the German manual for the PAL version of shadowrun. I've tried to find the german one on the net, but could not find it, so I just bought one on eBay yesterday. Hopefully I am right with that .

I definitely remember I did that with my saves on the shadowrun cartridge. I've played it a lot and one day I've searched for cheats and glitches for it and found the combination along with other tricks so I tried that trick with BOTH saved games on the PAL version.
I believe I looked it up and checked it in the german PDF scan, which I (somehow) got on the net a few years ago.

But still, there IS a way to do this, and though I can overwrite the saved states it's bugging me, that this information got lost on the net and most people seem to just to not know that.
If I will find out the combo I will open a new thread related to shadowrun, cause there are a lot of things which a lot of people may still not know about this game.

[Tanooki]

Had no idea about CT and totally forgot about the other two despite owning them with manuals in which that was published. Doh.

[Albit-16]

Yeah I think the main reason why most people don't know that, is because in the cartridge-based-console-era everyone had only the cartridges.
As I can remember all of my friends in those days had mostly bare cartridges and maybe one or two games with box and manual - usually the ones, which got bought together with the console.

[MidnightRider]

Can you not just start a new game and save over the old one?

[Albit-16]

Of course I can, but knowing everything about your good ol' games is something too, isn't it?

[celerystalker]

The version of the instruction manual I have is the US release, so I can verify that it's not there. Hopefully it'll be in your PAL version.

[Rickstilwell1]

Have you asked on Gamefaqs or looked there? Usually they have everything. Gamewinners.com usually has all the codes too.

[Albit-16]

Nope, neither on Gamefaqs nor the others.

I gonna mail the guys who made the walkthroughs, maybe one of them knows it.

[Daria]

So wait, why do we think this feature exists?

[Albit-16]

I've used this feature a couple times, but like I said, I can't remember how I did it.

[SparTonberry]

I tried using a debugger to check for button presses, and I'm only finding code for used buttons (L+R+Select+Start soft-reset, Up/Down/Select/B/Start on start menu), on controller 1 only. ($4218 is the hardware I/O register for controller 1 which is certainly the starting point when looking for SNES secret codes, this game stores held buttons to $01E6 and pushed buttons to $01EA)
(unless someone else can do better. I recall similarly not finding code on the cheat codes for Japanese Contra III but I've told before they do indeed work.)

Though as to secret data-erase codes, I submitted but GameFAQs ruled the code for the Japanese version of Xardion too simple to count as a code (hold Select at boot). Despite that one was actually REQUIRED to start a new game, as it otherwise auto-boots into an existing save game (screw everything we've taken for granted in about every game since the 2600 like publisher logo, copyright, or even a title :P ).

[Albit-16]

Did you try to look in the "Start Saved Games" menu for adresses? Because you have to go there first, select one of the saved states and then perform the button combination. The next thing is, that you have to look up for the input adresses for the 2nd controller too, because as far as I can remember, I had to do it with both controllers.

Which debugger did you use and how did you trace the adresses?