We didn't know how good we had it, did we
>>738045810You're joking, right? Internal storage was a ducking godsend. I always hated having to use a memory card.
Memory cards were great for bringing saves over for multiplayer games. Then you'd forget it and by the time you got it back at least one save would be deleted and replaced with a save for something retarded like jersey devil or something.
>>738045810we use those to hack PS2s now. everybody had that ugly yellow one back in the day BTW. only the rich kids had the name brand PS2 memory cards
>>738045810>buy 3rd party memory card because cheaper with double the storage>card gets corrupted>lose several 40+ hours JRPG savesI had to replay FFX, FFXII and Kingdom Hearts 2.On the plus side I did better on my second run through those games.
>>738045810uhhh hey can you old boomers explain wtf i'm looking at?
>>738045956A mix of both would be nice.Internal storage on consoles but also in controllers so you can bring progress to a friends place when you play splitscreen would be kino
>>738046592playstations loaded the data from the DVD-ROM so they couldn't write data to anything unless you wanted to wait 30 minutes to rewrite the DVD. so instead we had memory cards which are just stupid little flash drives with like 8MB of storage as pictured. some 3rd parties made bigger ones and now they're just used for freemcboot
>boomoids had to pay to save their gamestop keklmao
lol at you poorfags not being able to afford 16k of memory card spacei bet you are all nerdy, writing down passwords on your hello kitty notebook you stole from your sister haha
>>738045810https://ps2iodb.com/kino
>>738046969most games had blank pages in the manual to write shit down
>>738045810>Family doesn't know what a a Memory Card 8MB is>Buys me this huge 3rd party memory card after awhile>Came with a disc for some reason>Doesn't save games>Play all PS2 games without a memory card for years>FFX from the beginning til just after Blitzball tournament, never getting farther>The Bouncer, fighting that insane ninja for the third time and then having to shut off the PS2>At pawn shop with grandma one day>Looking at PS2 games>Everquest looks cool, i'll take that one...>Open the case to give it a go>Cool as fuck Black and Yellow memory card in the slot of the case>Finally have a memory card after all these years>Don't even care that Everquest couldn't be played
>>738045810Yeah...Its so annoying now the saves are tied to accounts so you can't safely store them unless your console doesn't die or connect to the internet.
>>738045810I had a 16 MB memory card as a kid. I really miss those things.
>>738047090so fucking soulful
Zoomies will never understand the soul of the memory card eras.Now everyone uses the same soulless save system.
everybody had this one. only the kids with rich parents got the nice black one to match the console. we also reused our PS1 memory cards which had all kinds of fucked up colors and designs
>>738047291You had to use the disc every time you booted the console to initialize the memory card. I had one of those, but it was pain in the ass to use so I bought an official card.
>>738047853>hey uncle anon, what did that button do? >guess what kid it's not even a fucken button its just some pre-9-11 product design
>>738045956It started off that way but now we are in the situation where its the primary storage and games only run due to proprietary digital keys and even discs now have little to no data and are no more than a physical key for your game
>>738045810Something about bringing your saves over to your friend's place or any different system. Didn't have to make a guest account and type in your login credentials to download a save from the cloud. Just plug and play.
>>738045810They never went away
>>738046659You're describing the Xbox, save games on the included hard drive but you can plug a memory card into your controller and bring your save with you.
>>738045810Gaming used to be "plug & play" for about 30 years.That stopped with the Internet.Now, you need accounts.We're watching.
>>738045810Kill yourself zoomer. Nobody liked these, they were an inconvenient necessity.
>>738045810I have this oddity I stole from my sister in law.
>>738047853>everybody had this oneWhat's the incentive for spreading retarded shit like this? You had one and you knew one other retard that had one, that's not 'everyone'.
>>738048648it was like a 50/50 shot it was either the translucent ones or the black and yellow. there's no incentive you're just gay
I'm still traumatized from when my official playstation 2 memory card with my Smackdown Here Comes the Pain saves just decided to corrupt for no reason. all my created wrestlers gone, like tears in rain
>getting some offbrand kellogg memory card that died and fucked your savesOfficial or bust
>>738049451from what I heard madcatz was the way to go
>>738046862>he pays to play online
>corrupts your memory cardHeh nothing personal…
>tfw deleting old save files of games you finished to make space for new games
>>738049668>xher doesn't know i'm a PCGOD
>>738047853It this an American thing? Everyone I knew has the regular black one.t. European
>>738047291>5th gen>Get a PS1>Don't know what the fuck a memory card was>Ask parents >They didn't know either>Been playing PS1games without a memory card for years>Would be late into 5th gen before finally asking and getting one and understanding that its like a floppy disk for game savesThe concept of saving games to other devices was just too new to me as a kid. I also had a Saturn and shit saved on it own. At the time I didn't realize it was saving save files to a simple watch battery hidden inside the console.
>>738048568You sound like an asshole.
>>738049676I would never do this? Just buy a new card?
>>738050146I was a little kid back then do you really think I would ask my parents for a new card every time I needed a new one? I could already hear them going >WHAT?! BWAI YOU DONE BROKE THAT DAMN TOY I JUST BOUGHT YOU?! if I even implied having to spend more money on it
>>738045810>buy a dedicated memory card for star ocean 3 because the "trophies" took up 5MB>end up using it for kingdom hearts as well>one day it just fucking disappears>no siblings, alcoholic dad wouldn't get more than a fiver for it (and i had better shit to sell), mother doesn't even know how to remove it from the consoleI was going for 100% in all 3 games too, SO3 in particular was so autistic about some of its trophies that you practically had to do challenge runs all the time. I eventually went back to KH but star ocean i never touched again, i was absolutely not going to put up with its bullshit ever again.
>>738045956Based
>>738045956>You're joking, right? Internal storage was a ducking godsend. I always hated having to use a memory card.This sounds like someone who made an independent save file every five minutes so he could scum-save through a game.
>>738050847No, because they could easily get stolen or lost. And sometimes a corrupt game file would fuck it hard. I was there you gen alpha faggot.
>>738047812>360kbfat cow
>>738048648I also had one, but the blue/white model. Not the black/yellow.
>>738050146PS2 had enough space. But the PSX didn't.
>>738050945>No, because they could easily get stolen or lost. And sometimes a corrupt game file would fuck it hard.Dafuq ya talking about. Your response doesn't make a lick of sense to what I said.
My mom bought me a PS1, but she didn't buy a memory card because it was too expensive. I didn't complain because a year later, she bought me a Dreamcast. The transition from PS1 to DC graphics was dope
>>738045810>be me>18 year old gamer when ps2 came out>turn on FFX to continue on my over 120 hour playthrough>realize my saved game was saved over>120 hour game gone down the drain>about to rage but then remember that my little sister, no more than 5 years old, asked me to play>told her how to turn on the playstation and how to save, even watched her ‘play’ which was just moving around and having fun making the characters do things>rage all but left me seeing it was just a simple mistake>played something else>now thinking back on this sweet memory of a sister who left this world too early with a tear in my eyeGreat times…
>>738048568I always wanted a case like this for memory cards, had no idea that they actually fucking made one. Not like we need them nowadays considering better options exist than original OEM memory cards.
>>738047090Thank you for sharing this.
>>738045810We thought things were pretty good but we thought the direction we were traveling in was forwards.
>>738050847More like someone who played more than 4 games
>>738047090IM GOING TO CUM!
>>738047090holy shit sometimes, gaymers are alright
i dont like jarpigs so i never had any space problems with my only memory card
>>738045956>ducking
>>738053270>More like someone who played more than 4 gamesIf you played a lot of games, that means you wouldn't give a crap about losing data because you're already a one and done player.
>>738045810Let me guess, you need more?
>>738050945>they could easily get stolenYou tried not living in Detroit?
>>738053629Weird looking pill.
