Thread 718192813

The modern developer cannot even begin to imagine how to make a game fit inside this bad boy.

>>718192813 (OP)
That's because it's for storing save data.

>>718192892
you could fit the whole NES library on it

Memory Cards Are Anti-Nostalgia

>>718193013
if you were poor

>>718192813 (OP)
>>718193012
wow who could image that game sizes would increase exponentially over the years. It's not like it kept happening for 40 fucking years
Dumbass zoomer.

>>718192813 (OP)
PS2 games are around 3-4 GB big by the way OP.

>>718193112
To what value?
Do you REALLY THINK that "FIFA 2025" is worth its price and size?

>>718193613
Yes I do. What now?

>>718193613
nice goalpost moving
do you think the average NES game was on the same level as Super Mario Bros?
Dumbass child

>>718192813 (OP)
nintendo was so jew the gamecube launched with only 512kb memory cards

Early FF games were programmed in assembly, I'm gonna take a guess and assume this was the norm during the NES and maybe SNES era.

>>718193789
Then they advertise it in bits instead of bytes so people think it's half the size of a PS2 memory card

>>718194251
They use "blocks" and most memory cards were 512kb or 2mb lol.

>>718193868
>Game was made in LE ASSEMBLY
Shut the fuck up, you dumb nigger. Damn near every game 6th generation and below would have the developers interact with CPU instruction codes in some capacity. You are a smelly, disgusting Indian teenager who cites facebook and youtubers as your source of personality and information

>>718192813 (OP)
"memory cards" were for saves, the shiny circle thing you insert into the console is the game
>>718193112
kys bootlicking retard, you do not to store all voicelines and cutscenes for every language + arapchniphobia mode when the player is going to select english 80% of the time

>>718194348
Oh yeah I forgot they were telling people it was like 50 blocks so it looked bigger than it actually was lmao.
Making up arbitrary units of measurement to scam people should be a crime.

>>718194681
Then there was the chadbox with 50,000+ blocks.

>fits almost every single ps1, 2 and 3 game on on drive
>modern devs could never
retard op

>>718194864
>Steal someones made up arbitrary measuring system
>Advertise to other people you have 50,000+ of it
Honestly based.

>>718194350
Just checked and they used C starting with the PS1. Writing 3D graphics in assembly would be tedious.
C is still low-level but not on the level of a NES game, which is practically embedded software.

>>718194891
>700 us dollars
Lol

>>718194891
>$700
PFTAHAHAHAHAHAHA

that's a memory card. you weren't supposed to fit whole games in it. i'm not even sure the PS2 would be able to read one fast enough to play a game off it if you used some trick to put a whole game on a memory card.

>fwooosh
>[smooth sounds of waves upon the beach]

>>718194350
There's a difference between doing some hardware calls and interrupt routines in assembly and programming the whole game in pure assembly.

>>718195502
>i'm not even sure the PS2 would be able to read one fast enough to play a game off it if you used some trick to put a whole game on a memory card
It is. Its actually faster than the USB 1.1 ports, so modders sometimes use memory card to SD card adapters to play games on slim models instead of USB flash drives.

>>718194864
Haha, wow. The Xbox I grew up with was modchipped, so I never saw this. I always saw the storage measured in MB and GB.
This whole time I thought it was just Sony and Nintendo pulling this.

>>718195502
>>718196613
Beat me to it.
I've found that games are technically playable via USB storage on there, but FMVs never play at full speed.
So in all likelihood, someone really could develop a perfectly functional, not entirely rudimentary game that just runs from a PS2 memory card if they wanted to.

>>718192813 (OP)
I liked memory cards. I always thought it was super cool I can just take my save data over to my friends house with whatever game we would play and it was just that easy. Data corruption was a bitch though.

>>718192813 (OP)
Why were these 8mb cards so much more reliable than the 16+ ones? I'm currently trying to get every color there's lots of variants

>>718193012
In 8MB? not bloody likely.

>>718194891
I can fit every PS3 game on a 0kb drive big whoop

>>718193012
Nope entire nes library of 600+ games at 100-200kb a piece is in the 250+ mb

>>718197249
I had a red and blue pack and they were always "ol reliable" after my parents thought they were being slick getting a third party 32MB one that corrupted hard not even three months later

>>718197495
HACKSHEWALLY my NES library is 9,800 roms and 2.2 gigs

>>718197249
Official PlayStation and Katana memory cards and memcardpro's are the only ones you should ever use.

>>718192892
If you look at save files of modern games, the open world games and RPGs can easily hit 20 MB or higher.

>>718196975
>So in all likelihood, someone really could develop a perfectly functional, not entirely rudimentary game that just runs from a PS2 memory card if they wanted to.
Those already exist. Aside from the previously mentioned backup games that run fine on sufficiently large SD cards, even stock memory cards can run some games. Most PS2 homebrew software is small enough to fit on a memory card, so a lot of the homebrew games can as well. Classicube can run from the memory card, for example, as can some emulators.

>>718198330
That's almost as bad as Deus Ex saves.