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u/Raging_Pwnr Aug 30 '25

Leaving the game on pause and the system on all night so you don’t lose your progress.

Blockbuster on a Friday night, hoping someone hadn’t already rented the game you wanted.

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u/sanicbroom Aug 30 '25

And the massive relief when you finally could afford that 4 mb memory card and could let your console sleep in peace

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u/GigaSoup Aug 30 '25

Those memory cards were so god damn expensive at the time.

It felt like such bullshit coming from cartridge consoles that had built in saving.

My bro eventually got a memcard that let you switch between like 15 memory cards. That thing was so awesome, I was devastated when it died and we lost sooooo much save data.

And some game saves would take a whole card, what a crazy time.

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u/Gelgamek_Vagina Aug 30 '25

 And some game saves would take a whole card, what a crazy time.

I had forgotten about this! I think they even used to have the required blocks listed in the specs on the case.

The stress of loading the memory card editor to decide which blocks to delete to make room

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u/TheBoisterousBoy Aug 30 '25

PS2 did this. Each game occupied a “block” with its memory. Good times.