Being a poor kid in the 90s.
Choosing a save file of one of your favorite games and sacrificing it to the void.
The gut punch when a game has to take up 3 slots to save…
And god help you if you lost one.
Uphill both ways!
Being a poor kid in the 90s.
Choosing a save file of one of your favorite games and sacrificing it to the void.
The gut punch when a game has to take up 3 slots to save…
And god help you if you lost one.
Uphill both ways!
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Perhaps not, but even today, some games will limit your save files cause they suck.
Do you really need that many Chrono Cross saves or did you just do it to get the artwork?
I feel ya. Those were the days. Incredibly my PS2 Card still works and has my Diablo savegame on it…. oh…. i might
Just recently copied all my ps2 memory card data onto my computer, lots of great memories in those files…
MTV Music Generator ate many slots!
Had to get the thick boy card for that.
I remember Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, it came with its own standard-size Memory Card because IT TOOK UP THE ENTIRE CARD. Thankfully four people could share the same save file (or unfortunately, depending on your family), but still…
Now it’s game storage space. Not as big a decision though since you can redownload without losing your save almost always.
Was playing some NFL blitz on an emulator last night and it wouldn’t let me save any data unless I emulated having the memory pack in the expansion slot haha
I would save some of my school lunch money my dad gave me to save up for new memory cards 😂
“Ah sweet my memory card has 15 blocks on it!”
. . .”This game requires 13 blocks of memory.”
Fuck my life.
Well yeah dude has like 14 chrono cross saves
I’ll share my PS1 memory card horror story…
My mom bought me a 3rd party memory card that promised to hold more memory blocks. Big mistake. The memory card would randomly flash all its data maybe once every two months. So here I was, replaying thru FF7 multiple times, hoping to beat the game, but every time I’d get near the end it would delete the data at random. I think I cried a bit too, but anyways…
My mom called the Sony hotline (hah, I know) and the rep said to check the packaging. If it doesn’t have the official Sony logo, then it’s not a licensed product. They were right; it didn’t. My mom then bought me a standard PS1 memory card and it never failed once.
Sometimes, bigger isn’t always better.
I remember this, but don’t remember one game taking up multiple slots
Child, my PS1 didn’t have those colours! X’D
[https://tcrf.net/images/8/84/SCPH-1002_Memory_Card_Screen.png](https://tcrf.net/images/8/84/SCPH-1002_Memory_Card_Screen.png)
man, you really liked chrono cross. I did, too
Oh I guarantee you they do. They don’t have the space for the up to 100gb game installs. Saving memory is the least of their gaming issues.
I only had 1 card for the longest time but then saw a Game Shark that plugged into the back of the PS1 that boasted that it had like 8 memory cards. Pretty much the only reason I got it since I’m not a fan of cheats.
I backed up all my saves to it, so Final Fantasy VII/VIII/Tactics, Xenogears, Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legia, then other games like Crash 2 & 3, Mega Man Legends 1 & 2, etc etc.
One day friend knocked my PS1 off the shelf and it deleted every, single, memory card. So all I had left was my OG memory card.
No, I didn’t talk to him much after that.
My bro why do you have so many Chrono Cross save files
Chrono Cross my beloved
Uh… idk about you, but I dont have enough room on my drive for everything
“What’s file size?”
-Squaresoft, every PSX RPG
(On a side note, I did love the bonuses you got from sharing saves with other Square games. Legend of Mana had awesome weapons and pets if you had Saga Frontier 2 and FF7 on the same memory card.)
Yeah, now we just have to worry about hard drive space.
Raise your hand if you also played Warcraft on PS1 and thought “format memory card” meant it would organize your save files 🙋♂️
I remember buying one of those memoury cards that had multiple partitions. For third party, it really was a good piece of equipment.
I don’t see how you could afford enough games to fill up a memory card but couldn’t afford another memory card. They were always dirt cheap. I also don’t think I’ve ever filled one up on any system and I’ve been gaming since the first Atari consoles.
I mean, people still gotta deal with uninstalling entire games to make room for new games
I had that memory card that had many areas to save games. A1 may be one set of games. B2 another set of games etc.
When I first got a PS2 I barely had enough to get the console and One game, Jak and Daxter, I was opposed to get a Memory Card from a friend but he ended up not giving it to me.
So I had to keep my PS2 on all the time in order to play the game, unfortunately my house was on a chargestick system so the power would cut out whenever it would run out of credits, I got really good at playing it I’ll tell you what.
I had one of [these bad boys](https://retromtl.com/cdn/shop/products/IMG_7590-2_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1627504084). The Performance Mega Memory card. It was so awesome. I still have it (and my PS1).
Oh those stupid memory cards that had a button to change “pages” I dunno where half my saves ended up.