...how did Japanese people tolerate the passwords in Dragon Quest back in the day? a buddy of mine reminded me that when we got Dragon Warrior in the US, it was massively upgraded from Dragon Quest 1

DW still feels archaic, but having sprites that face multiple directions and having SRAM in the cartridge makes it feel vastly more advanced

I fired up DQ1 for FC, played a little bit with my piss-poor Japanese, and then went to collect my password. I wrote it down, then tried to load the save from password.

I know Excitebike on FC lets you save your courses to cassette tapes, there really needed to be some shit like that for DQ saves It doesn't matter 40 years later, but it is still fucked up.
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