These things unironically ruined gaming forever
>>12090985No they didn't. They were a cheap solution to saving disc-based games. Plus before everything was internet, you could share and transfer saves with other people.
These things saved gaming forever.
>>12090985That's not a pic of youtube hot take
>>12090985The ability to take your game AND save(all in the game case) to a friends house and get back right where you left off on their system I honestly wish I saw again.
>>12090985Weird they got killed off on non retro consoles
>>12091054OG Xbox with its hard drive already made memory cards redundant and still optionally used them to transfer saves between consoles. Later consoles allowed automatic data transfer over network, making memory cards completely unnecessary.
>>12091061Not really. See >>12091048
>>12091061I'd like an offline option on this day and age.
>>12091084>>12091061My favorite aspect about PS1/2 memory cards is that your game data isn't bound to the console or the game itself, and so you can easily sell hardware and software without having to worry about data loss
>>12091097
>>12090985They were memorable just for the sake of save icons alonehttps://umbrella.style/ps1iconshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVlcdUKFiQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chVLZ5DAVT0
>>12090985Gaming got ruined when this cancerous tumor came out really pushing "cinematic" experiences to the mainstream.
>>12090985Gaming was ruined forever the moment (You) were born
this is one of those mad lib threads where the bot has a bunch of thumbnails and a bunch of shallow cliches and it just dicerolls two together
>>12090985These things are better than the alternative, i.e.on-board memory which would have ruined pretty much every retro console by now.I wish they were more compatible with other devices, though, like PSP's Memory Stick is.
>>12091150the PS3 adapter makes them universally compatible with PCs via usb
>>12091154really? If so then holy shit
>>12091187>he hasn't seen the price yetI'm sorry anon...
>>12091194*sigh* oh well. Bet there's 3rd party ones at least with more bells and whistles to boot cause this sounds pretty convenient.
>>12091209yeah it's expensive (~$60) but I think it's worth it just to be able to move a save between PS1/2 to PS3 consoles alone.I haven't used it to move to PC (I use my PS3 and copy to PSP for that) but I think it needs a driver to work correctly
>>12091219I use linux and thats got hardware support for just about anything pre-baked so its probably fine.
It was scummy to not include one with the PS2 when every game required it
>>12090985>made gaming experience have more soul, where you develop a personal attachment to your save files>>ruined gaming/v/ tourists are the worst
>>12091294Yeah, but most people weren’t buying it for games.
>>12091309In all fairness you could have a menu like this on modern systems and it'd be cool as shit.
>>12091314But we don't because modern devs are lazy as shit
>>12091331I understand hardware being more or less the same but man how don't we even have themes on ps5 beyond a 30th anniversary thing for limited time? That shit was done easily with a jailbreak.
>>12091048You do. Its called cloud saves and every major platform supports it
>>12091048Do SD cards not exist anymore?
>>12091350the thing is>>12091084
It lets you load hacks onto the system. So I like it. Consoles should not even have storage.
>>12091361>>12091369Modern consoles aren't as liberal in terms of handing a different person/account a save file. Not saying you cant but I wouldn't exactly call it convenient.
>>12091084everybody has internet, grandpa.
>>12090985A that's a ps2 memory card so it wasn't novel, but memory cards were a dead concept for consoles by the 7th gen so they're more a blip in the radar
>>12091135yup
>>12091294Yeah that would have been nice to include one with the console. I'm surprised more games didn't include one as a kind gesture like Animal Crossing.
>>12091630Animal Crossing alone is going to take up all the room in that card.
>>12090985As opposed to your save being wiped because the battery died in the cart?
>>12091294>>12091630couldn't they put internal memory on it?at least 4MB
>>12091729Yes but then they wouldn't have gotten all the money from selling memory cards.
>>12091048This is predicated on the false assumption that you have friends, though.
>>12091767You do have friends tho. Ronald Palmer and his five brothers..
>>12091061>go to save game on original xbox>"10,000+ blocks available"kino...
OP should have his lower colon packed to the absolute brim with memory cards.
>>12090985What do you mean? 3th and 4rd gen had battery save. Should that capability have been removed? Do you only like shallow arcade slop or what?
>>12091219>>12091209I hit a memcard pro2 recently and I've been slowly copying my memory cards over to it one by one using the ps2. Not the easiest most fun way of doing it but saving my money on a ps3 - usb adapter thingy makes it worth it for me. Plus the memcard does a lot more
>>12092339You're as bad as OP. Acade games are only shallow slop? The absolute beauty of 3rd and 4th gen was that you could have shorter form arcade games AND really long form adventures using saves.Hell, with memory cards, an arcade style game could save score, have lots of stages, and have unlockables.
What a pathetic piece of shit thread
>>12092398Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy save on each machine, which is appealing to operators because it means the same players will keep coming back. Youngshits don't know about Gaunt Legends blue valkyrie NUD 069
>>12091426I'd rather not have to pay sony for basic functionality
It's not there wuz a point in time when they already came with the consolemkxmp4
>>12090985Did you want disc consoles to have only built-in storage or what?
>>12090985>foreverNigger, they barely lasted 2 gens.
>>12093194Neo Geo used memory cards. The PC Engine also used external storage; the Backup Booster was one such option, and the Ten no Koe Bank HuCard was basically a memory card for the CD add-on. Even the Famicom got in on the act with peripherals such as the Bandai Datach Joint ROM System, and ASCII's TurboFile.
I always hated watching movies in two parts
>>12091124oh fuck off you daft cunt
>>12091124Nailed it.
>>12090985>Beat Chrono Cross>unlock New game+ where you keep the level you were at as well as all items while starting a new game>insert second memory card>copy the save for a friend>play Final Fantasy IX>could never get Ragnarok II>get it from someone who could by copying his save file>play the fuck out of FF8 where thanks to the card game have most items for final weapons before even done with the first mission (Ifrit)>share that save with friends to make their playthroughs easierThe age of memory cards was cool.
>>12091097>so you can easily sell hardware and softwareI forgot all about people selling memory cards with key game saves like Excalibur II on Ebay. Yes that was a real thing.
>>12097504>Ragnarok IIExcalibur II. Derp.
