How about memo saving and then turning the power off. Hard reset can be so damn awful sometimes. You turn the game back on and realize that all that power training was for nothing. So my advice that I take seriously even to myself, Save! Take the minute step and save to memory. Don't ever bother with memos.
I only remember doing this once, so I don't have a problem. But I do tend to save a lot. I'm kind of forced to in the NES version. No memo saves with that game!