Panasonic 3D0 Saves ?

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I just bought myself a nice Panasonic 3D0 FZ-1, first time I see this system in "real" life even tho I have been gaming since 82'

i must say, I am quite impressed, decent features and robust system.
Trying to find a few exclusives for it, but games are hard to find for that now.

Never the less, the "no copy protection" allowed me to still try out a few games.

BUT
The infamous saves. So I read you need a save manager or use the one built-in games.
I played Gex for a while and was pretty sure the whole thing was saving, upon wanting to continue playing today, I was presented with 3 empty slots!!
Now I see here and there the mention of a battery, is it the case? Could the battery be dead and it is not saving, or am I facing other issues here ?

Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks

[puke_face]

It really isn't very hard to find games for it. Amazon, ebay, all the big seller sites like that usually have them for a reasonable price. As far as your saving issue goes, I'll have to look into that further, as I haven't really ever wanted to save many of the games I was playing. It is a great system though, one of my favorites.

[superlarz]

Very likely could be a battery issue. FZ1 isnt the easiest battery to replace, but if you have any soldering skills you should be able to do it pretty quickly.

[pepharytheworm]

You need one of the sampler discs. The fz-1 requires one to manage the memory, yours is probably full or needs reformatting. You can always burn a copy to use.

[sneth]

yeah. FZ-10 has a nice built in manager.
Some games also have a built in save manager.
I believed i used the demo disc back in the day as well.

I actually never did an FZ1 battery replacement. I would be interested in seeing the progress there. I'm sure it's a simple solder like some CDi models.

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Thanks for the responses.

Never thought of the "full" memory possibility. Going to check that with save manager from a demo disk.

Although, I would also be interested in a tut for the battery, I have soldering skills no problem there. But upon looking for a tutorial, I couldn't find anything.

Thanks again to all responders.