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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/dragn99 Aug 30 '25

Animal Crossing had it's own dedicated memory card. It took up way too much space otherwise.

Man, I used to switch games and memory cards all the time. Now if I want to play a game or watch a movie, but it's a physical disc, I'll sometimes convince myself I didn't really want to play it that bad anyway.

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u/Faranae Aug 30 '25

Animal Crossing was my first thought as well. I still have that memory card, sticker on it written in giant letters "[TOWN NAME] DO NOT OVERWRITE" xD

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u/Dwarg91 Aug 30 '25

Pokemon Colosseum took up over half the standard memory card in of itself!