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In the snes xml what is the meaning of

Save RAM.

Sorry I haven't been explicit enough, what exactly is the 8192 value. 8KiB of sram?

Yes.

I see. Thanks. Then this value is wrong in many cases, I will fix it to the correct value as I document the SNES cartridges.

The only problem is sometime the PCB indicates "512K/1M" (in bits). In those cases I will opt for 1M rather than 512K just to be sure the size isn't too small.

very good.

for the record, the values currently in use were taken from the cart internal headers, but if the real cart contains different amount of SRAM it should be fixed (exactly in the same way you split .sfc files into the proper number of pieces )

If a difference exists, perhaps it would be wiser to stick to internal SRAM size from headers. I can't believe you went thought all headers, you are really doing a huge and priceless job, again, thank you for your hard work.

Well, in fact data was extracted automatically by Tafoid (by using a script to run all the games one by one and by using a modified MESS which output the SRAM size).

My part of the job was parsing the results (and megadrive ones) and translating them into the xml. Pretty boring stuff, but imho it was useful for the project: the main advantage in using the xml for SRAM instead of the header only, is that through the <dataarea> approach we can later also add preset SRAM for the bunch of games (Ken Griffey?) which needs it and default the other games to anything we want (0x00, 0xff, 0x35 or whatever).
The code to support this is not present yet, but at least the basic infrastructure is there

Anyway, back to the case of SRAM size mismatching the header value, please add a comment in the xml for the carts which present this issue. They could be worth further tests to see if any has a wrong header