Animal crossing power saving?

[Metroid fan]

Ok I was just playing around with my GC and discovered a way to save power on animal crossing with an open back portable if you pull off the disk after you load your game it will stop running the disk player but the game will keep playing! The game is loaded in it's entirety on the mem. card thus saving some amount of power kind of useless I know but hey who doesn't want to save a little power here and there?

[Gamelver]

actually, I think it's loaded in the RAM, or some kind of internal memory. But yeah, if a game doesn't need that much data I believe you can take the disc out and have it still work. Saves a little power, I suppose, if the disc stops spinning...

[totokan]

Yes, as animal crossing was originally designed for the N64, the entirety (sp?) of it is stored in the GC's Random Access Memory. This creates the loophole that asks 'what's keeping me from renting and just never turning the 'cube off?'

[Metroid fan]

I doubt they would care too much they figure the power would go off sometime or another.