>boomers had to pay to save their games
KWAB

>games could read your memory card and tease you for your saves of other games

>>717829505 (OP)
>boomers had to pay
no, i didnt switch my ps2 off for a week.

>>717829505 (OP)
Now we pay to save AND store our games.

>>717829505 (OP)
It wasn't so bad with the PS2, Except when you had like 6 different memory cards and had to go through all of them to find your save file. PS1 memory cards were total shit, though. One Sim City 2000 save was like 90% of my card.

>>717829505 (OP)
>zoomers laugh and then get mad that their online save isn't accessible anymore because they didn't re-up their subscription service

>>717829505 (OP)
it was a simpler time when you could take the memory card to a friends place to continue games together. but of course a zoomie can't relate to having friends.

>>717830000
Checked. But yeah I remember having a huge pile of PS1 cards, but only a few PS2.

I wonder how much better games would have been if save storage was a solved matter right from the beginning like it is today.

It really feels like most games were designed with the simplest progression in mind just because all they could save was a few bits for progression.

>>717829505 (OP)
>zoomers think the price of a PS2 memory card is a lot of money

>>717829505 (OP)
Yes, but we had good games then. What do you have now? AAA slop of the month. Wow. What a time to be alive.

>>717830000
>quads
I thought you can't get digits on /v/?

>>717829505 (OP)
And the official cards costed like 40 bucks, so a poorfag like me had to waste a bday for the ability to save

>>717830473
you can still get quads, i've gotten them a few times

>>717830471
They don't even play the AAA titles. They keep playing Minecraft, Fortnite, COD and FIFA.

>>717829505 (OP)
I remember being at some kids playland for a birthday party and a black guy (adult man) stole some kids memory card lmao

>>717830624
I've still got some old memory cards with my PS1 in the attic that belonged to old friends. It was kinda common to forget cards or games etc at a friends house. I've still got a copy of Secret of Mana that we rented from Blockbuster for the SNES, we moved home and just didn't take it back kek

>>717830473
Zeroes are an exemption since the prevention is quite simple: if the last digits are the same, add 1. So if you get XX299, it adds one and your post ID becomes XX300.

>>717829505 (OP)
I had one of these that (i think) came with the console and i never even needed to buy a second one.
Just delete the savegames of shit you've already beat.
Tekken 5 was the only one where i kept the savegame permanently because of the character unlocks.

>>717830818
I still think Tekken 5 was the best, or at least Dark Resurrection. Took a shit turn at 6.

>>717829505 (OP)
Absolute poorfag so I had to replay games over and over from the start to make any progress.
Also left the game running overnight or when I went to school.
Finally got a second hand one when parents realized it's cheaper than the electricity bill.

>>717830621
All of those are AAA titles

>>717831104
Well they're all shit if so.

>>717830520
>>717831068
How did they get away with this?

>>717829505 (OP)
>he doesn't know

>>717830948
For me its 3>5>7>Rest
Never really got into any of the other ones and 8 looked gay

>>717831068
I had a copy of Donkey Kong Country 2 for the gba from some black market that didn't save so i had to play through the entire thing in one sitting and without getting a single gameover, since that kicks you back to the title screen. Theres a different kind of panic when you're 6 hours in and you don't have any replacement batteries left.

>>717831428
It legitimately didn't bother me to replay games endlessly.
I'm the kind of absolute retard who grinded for a charizard before the first gym.
Now I'm a savescumming autist, I WILL alt+f4 and manually replace my savefile if I fucked up or didn't like the RNG.
Yes I'm a complete idiot.

>>717831669
I mostly agree but I don't really like how 7 looked.

>>717830752
based

>>717831068
>poorfag as well
>get ps1 from me and my sister's birthday money, along with Tekken 2
>game asks for memory card
>tell my mom that I need one otherwise I can't save
>no anon, I asked the guy selling it if it needed anyone else to play the game and he said it didn't. Don't be spoiled
>get upset
>mother returns it saying it doesn't work
>uses the money to buy whiskey
>two birthdays worth of money stolen
I fucking hated being from a white trash family.

>save icon
>animated save icon
>animated save icon deletion

SOVL

>get one of those modern production 128mb or whatever cards so i dont have to swap as much
>some games, like 5% of them tops, have goddamn card DRM and will ONLY save to official sony cards
>this clearly wasnt a publishing requirement since 90% of titles lacked this
We Love Katamari, you have BETRAYED ME

>>717832101
lel
We somehow regularly ran out of toilet paper or even food, but dad had his beer and mom her cigs, funny how that works.

>>717832301
>it's a "walk 35 minutes to grandmother's house for dinner with little sister in hand because mother was too wasted to buy food" episode
I hate reruns.

>>717832301
>>717832101
brutal. what's your life like now and relationship with your family? did you escape this fate?

>>717832828
I took as many part time jobs as time could afford so I could pay for my own tuition, now I'm a senior engineer. I haven't seen my mom in 15 years and I don't know where she even lives now, but I see my dad regularly now that he's not fucked by parental custody and we can see eachother whenever we want.

>>717829505 (OP)
Having to save for one, it was the first time I ever felt like I was getting fleeced.

you will never know the pain of replaying intro of one game over and over, because you don't have the memory card...