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The Golden Sun series had a password system to transfer your progress from Golden Sun 1 to Golden Sun 2. If you wanted to transfer everything it was 260 characters. At least you only had to do this once and there was an option to use a link cable instead.

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If memory serves, the Golden Sun games gave you a choice of three different levels of detail of data transfer via password.

Correct, back in those days digital photos on a phone were also non-existant, which would have made the many pages to transfer everything so much more convienent.

Golden Sun also had a feature where you could put your GS1 game into sleep (at a specific data transfer point), take out the cartridge, and replace it with GS2, and unsleep, to transfer the data. My 11yr old brain was blown by this!

Yep! Specifically, it can transfer all the important things in 16 characters. The medium option about four times as big to send exact stats rather than just levels; that seems like a lot of work for little benefit. The big one transfers every single item in your inventory.

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