old niggas be like
>ayo sixteen whole ass mbs? ain't no WAY

>>716454169 (OP)
Bullshit, even back then I thought that memory cards were a scam.

Zoomoids will never understand the feeling of progress.

>16mb
and then your save disappeared the next day because its a knockoff pos

>>716454169 (OP)
wtf am i going to do with SIXTEEN mbs anyway? thats more than i could ever hope to store

My parents wouldn't get me a memory card, so I had to keep the console on over night and hope my mom didn't have a fit, flipping the switch.

>>716454250
Are you implying things used to be better and that the concept of progress was possible? Cool it with the antisemitism

>>716454318
Why did parents get so mad over this? I doubt something like a ps1 or dreamcast used up THAT much electricity.

>>716454257
GT4 needed 13% of a memory card just to save your career progress

>>716454494
what about the television?

>>716454169 (OP)
Mf this shit filled up by playing PES for 20 minutes.

>>716454494
She took out her anger on my joy :D

>>716454494
Because boomers.
But I looked up and it seems the ps1 used 10W and PS2 fat used 50W. This is from sticker at the bottom which lists maximum values, so in use it would probably be less most of the time and only hit that occasionally.
Modern LED lamps are around 10W and the incandescent lamps from back in the day varied a hell of a lot, but you could say the average was around 60 or so.
>>716454606
The TV doesn't need to be on.

>>716454212
>rent game
>get to keep your save file so you can keep renting the game again and again and beat it without ever buying it
Memory cards were kino.

>>716455398
>The TV doesn't need to be on.
little timmy isn't clever enough to figure this out

>>716455542
>little timmy isn't clever enough to figure this out
Anon, I personally knew a friend who did this at 7 years old. He would shut off the TV and leave the console on when he had to go out somewhere, so he could come back and instantly start playing.

Not every kid is a braindead dumbfuck. Just most of them.

>>716455529
The concept is fine, my problem with it was the price for the amount of memory.

>>716455542
Even 6 yo me knew that.
And I tried to plug in two mouses on a computer once expect to get a second cursor.

>>716455616
The saves took such little memory that it didn't matter.

>>716455667
>expect to get a second cursor.
that should actually happen, microdick fags were just too dumb to implement it

>>716454169 (OP)
NO FUCKIN WAY! That can't be REAL! There is NO DAMN WAY! That MICROSCOPIC card can fit COUNT THEM..! ONE WHOLE ASS hd AI-generated gay furry porn image!!

>>716454169 (OP)
Save icons were sovl overload though

>>716454169 (OP)
how the fuck did boomers store a whole ass game on that shit frfr

>>716455667
one mouse per screen, no more trying to reduce the full screen game without it freezing, fearing crashing etc.

>Ebonics

>>716457176
Sheeeeiiiit nigga, I know you ain't finna boutta be greentextin' 'n' sheeiit on 4channel.

>>716454169 (OP)
Funfact: the floppy disks that we used up till the mid/late noughties had 1.4mb of storage on them. That's not even enough for a single image file nowadays.

>>716456083
You know that devs cared when they added delete animations for no reason

>>716455732
I think i ran out of space at some point on every memory card I've ever owned

>>716457491
Look at this >>716457480 it's 360 KB.
Let's say each game save takes 500 KB, you still get to save 36 games. And for a lot of games there's no reason to keep the save after finishing it so you just delete it and go play something else.
I've never ran out of space.

>>716454169 (OP)
Megabytes? I only know of "blocks"

>>716454254
My 16mb card worked fine the entire time never had an issue. But it was weird it required an official 8mb card inserted into some sort of enclosure. Then you could press a button to swap between the 8mb official and the 8mb of third party memory

Save files on PS2 were often overbloated as fuck for some reason. Some games have saves take fuckall space even though they had a lot going on. I recall Rayman Revolution taking like a whole megabyte even though there's not that much going on in the save file.

>>716457062
I use a VM for that with an extra mouse assigned to the virtual machine. Works well enough.

>>716454169 (OP)
The only games that actually used lots of space were sports games. The Gamecube had tiny shitty cards, the biggest official size was only 8MB

>>716454169 (OP)
I had a 64mb one, Christ, what a piece of shit it was.

PS1 Memory cards were fucking ARSE
>only 15 available blocks
>some games' saves took up to 10 blocks if not more, see Civilization 2 as an example

>>716459946
What kind of retard plays strategy games on a console?

>>716460142
You didn't have much choice in the 90s given that PCs were like the same price they are now

>>716457480
Holy fucking kino

>>716460142
>he didn't play warhammer: dark omen on ps1
You missed out.
I did not have a PC until much later.

>>716457480
diabolical emotional manipulation

>>716454169 (OP)
I'm a zoomer and I still find these fascinating.

>>716460142
People that didn't have PCs but that's besides my point

>>716454212

>the Vita had it's own proprietary memory card despite the fact it was basically just a SD card
>didn't even release the largest version in the states, it was japan only (though it would work on US/EU Vitas, you just had to import it)
>wasn't until after the Vita was basically dead that hackers managed to setup a little device that lets you use regular SD cards instead

I really unironically liked the vita and I'm still mad Sony blew it so hard

I didn't know what that meant. All I know was I could save like 40 games.

>>716454169 (OP)
back when games were optimized that's all you needed

>>716457480
games will never be this soulful again

First PC I built had like a 2 GB hard drive. I remember being amazed at how much space that was and how I'd never need to worry about storage again.

>>716455542
I remember knowing you didn't have to be on the channel you were recording on the VCR. You could watch something else while recording

>>716454212
They were. Original Xbox had a 10gb HDD built-in

>>716461828
Sony has always been the biggest scammer 'fuck you' company in gaming but they get handed free passes left and right because of Final Fantasy.

>>716454169 (OP)
literally never happened

>>716454212
There were third party 64 and 128 MB memory cards on launch

Sony literally had no excuse, they were just a bunch of fucking jews

>>716462410
>Being able to play custom soundtracks during games
Why did they stop this?

>>716462192
When I built my first PC, I paid $90 for a 500GB hard drive. I could have spent $10 more for 1TB, but I cheaped out because I thought I'd never use for than 500GB...

>>716454169 (OP)
That's a nice memory card you've got there...

>>716456083
pedo shit

>>716460142
I had C&C, RA1 and War2 all on my PSX.

>>716462192
Even in the 90s games could take up shitloads of space. A full install of BG1 was like 1.8GB.

>>716462578
NGbro...

>>716454169 (OP)
Zoomers don't know the pain of losing your saves to a corrupt memory card

>>716455616
Any kind of flash memory was expensive in the 90s-mid 00s. Even hard drives.

>>716464871
You could get usb keys with vastly more memory than those memory cards for the same price... they were just exploiting us.

>>716459946
>tfw playing Resident evil games and using multiple slots so you don't fuck yourself over

>dad accidentally saves over my 50 hour xenogears save with one of his football games that take like 12 blocks
>complete sperg out
>friend has a “Dexdrive”, we find a gamefaqs page where some dude has uploaded saves of every single section of the game
>download save file onto my memory card from a part close to where i was in the game
>spend several hours relearning all the death blows

>>716454169 (OP)
Zoomers will never understand how life changing it was when your parents finally got you one
>leave PS on while asleep/at school
>come home and keep playing
>if power went out or mom unplugged it have to restart from beginning

>>716462446
>There were third party 64 and 128 MB memory cards on launch
every third party memory card i bought for the ps1/ps2 ended up corrupted at some point. shit was annoying

>>716454169 (OP)
old nigga here
back then i had a 30GB quantum fireball HDD
and that HDD was old as shit
all us PCfags were like "ayo, these console niggas happy with 8MB memory?"
meanwhile i was playing unreal tournament and half life n shit, was having too much fun to give a shit

>>716461828
I hate that era of Sony with their proprietary cards bullshit. It wasn't just the Vita, but literally anything, from camera to their phones.

I had this crap because the store was sold out of regular ps2 memory cards. You had boot up small cd's software everytime before booting up a game. Though you could compress saves.

Eventually got a nyko card.

>own rare PS2 (test dev kit)
>wanted to hack it and play most games ever made for the system
>downloaded entire repository of PS2 ROMs (4.1TB, without dupes and regional variants)
>removed IDE socket from official network adapter, replaced it with a sata connector
>installed an SSD
>fully configured freemcboot to how i like it, custom names, etc
>have mates over every week to nostalgia farm
feels good man

>>716455732
>t. never had big saves that ate up space

>>716465957
Does a dev kit give any advantage? I'm pretty sure the PS2 can be hacked with like 5 different methods at this point. Mine all I had to do was insert a burned CD and any memory card

>got pic with my Gamecube as a kid
>never got a bigger memory card
>shit was only like 4mb big (can't remember the number of blocks)
>could only have maybe 10 games saved to at once
>that was until I got Pokemon Colosseum
>fucking game had a save data size that was almost the entire capacity of the card
>had to basically nuke the card just so I could play through the game
>didn't even end up liking PC that much in the end

>>716465589
>back then
>and that HDD was old as shit
the 30gb models came out the same year as ps2 and were their flagship models

>>716454169 (OP)
Ah yes. I remember the times when developers could actually code, instead of just dumping every zone in the game into the savefile.