Despite previously claiming that there is no way to delete the perma-save in Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions without "corrupting" the game entirely, Namco Bandai has admitted that there is a secret way of wiping data safely.
Holding down "ABXYLR" when the game boots allows you to quickly reset your save data, contrary to what the publisher originally stated.
The "single save" was copied from Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and seemed intended to combat used games by rendering the cartridge worthless to a second player. It's a controversial idea that many gamers aren't pleased with.
On the one side, it's great that there is a way to restore the cartridge. On another, Namco was either incompetent or outright lying before now, with no indicator as to which.
Pac-Man & Galaga 3DS: You CAN delete saves [Official Nintendo Magazine]
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10:00 AM on 08.02.2011 | 
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I probably still won't pick the game up. I don't like what this whole situation says about their intentions. Either they wanted to keep me from reselling the game on the used market or they let something blow up that didn't need to. At any rate, hiding the reset option from the end user is ludicrous. So it conveniently forgetting you had one.
Does this trick work for Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D?
BOOOOMMM!!!!!
Has this changed your mind on purchasing the game, or does the fact that they even touted a single-save still tarnish it?
good luck with that, I think the big N probably sold this as an amazing feature to 3rd parties.
I remember reading a gmaing news article a while back on how 3rd parties were raving on the antipirating/security features of a particular Nintendo system. Is this it? or am i thinking about the then unannounced wii-u?
While I still think it's not that bad considering it's just a score/time attack game (believe me, if this was done on something like an RPG where I couldn't start over again from the beginning of the story, yeah, I'd be mad), I don't get why they'd keep this hidden (unless stated in the manual like mentioned before).
Or you were just overreacting prematurely to create teh hits on dtoid.
As Bobyko said nothing new, Mario Kart games usually support this method.
Next time wait till you have all the facts or better yet when the game actually comes out to bitch and complain about microscopically small missing features that are actually there :/
Also @ Epic-Kx how do I know that you are the real deal and not someone that is pretending to be the real Epic-KxDtoid?????
I don't get it. The game has been out for like a week or more, and even after the entire gaming internet exploded in negativity about single save 3DS games, Namco themselves went about buisness per usual, without a single word as Pac-Man/Galaga took a huge hit. (I myself didn't buy this game after hearing about a single save feature.)
Namco could have come out and said 'Yeah it has a single save, but you can delete it.' and everything would have been fine. They didn't, and that leads anyone who's thinking to assume they're beyond stupid, or just plain ol' liars.
Has anyone tried this with Blazblue?
That would seem normal.
A lot of games used to do that in the cartridge days.
Even if the code is hard to find or hardly spoken of its better than not having it at all.
So Namco gets some points for knowing what their doing still.
However they should smack the guy who thought it was a good idea to say it was locked.
That's negative advertisement right there.
Or maybe they did it on purpose to grab some attention from the controversy then turn around and say they are on the up and up.
Kinda like a prank or scare to try and shock everyone then show off that it wasn't true and they were cool the whole time.
Think they could just make a something good enough to stand on its own instead really in that case.
Also, old-school stupid.
Swine that he was! He had some mad Advance Wars skills. Keeps me motivated at least. Great game too btw.