[ranaexmachina]

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.

[Kalium]

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

[greenknight]

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!

[Dylan16807]

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.