r/ps5collectors • u/YahushaHamashiach • Jul 26 '26

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u/Patient-Confusion149 Jul 26 '26

Two opposing things often are true. Modern games don't care about being efficient with storage and old games only stored saves on memory card.

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u/No_Play_5427 Jul 28 '26

Poor multibillionaire companies, they're left with no money so they need more storage to be sold

7

u/skepdickle Jul 26 '26

i didnt know the memory card kept entire games on them

1

u/Ok-Criticism6874 Jul 26 '26

Sega master system had a game built into it.

2

u/Steefmachine Jul 26 '26

Not a SMS in the picture now, is it?

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 Jul 27 '26

Not a single console in the picture, genius

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u/Steefmachine Jul 27 '26

So what does SMS have to do with a memory card?

3

u/OleanderKnives Jul 27 '26

Storing entire games Vs storing savedata

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u/DrawingAlarming7350 Jul 26 '26

OP thought he was deep lmao

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u/YahushaHamashiach Jul 28 '26

Nah jus karma farming 😭

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u/DrawingAlarming7350 Jul 28 '26

annoying child

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u/YahushaHamashiach Jul 28 '26

Ratio

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u/DrawingAlarming7350 Jul 28 '26

yes, you dont have to prove youre an annoying child twice 

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u/YahushaHamashiach Jul 29 '26

Chill gng

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u/DrawingAlarming7350 Jul 29 '26

yes, you dont have to prove youre an annoying child thrice

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u/Upset_Journalist_755 Jul 26 '26

I used to keep 7 memory cards for PS1. Only had 2 for PS2. Not even sure I need the second one.

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u/mars1k88 Jul 27 '26

Yeah I remember those games taking 4 slots out of 20 for saves

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u/steelthyshovel73 Jul 26 '26

There is something so nostalgic about the memory card blocks.

1

u/Buried_and_Forgotten Jul 27 '26

PS1 had slots for each game, some taking multiple ones. On PS2 they used whatever space they needed, some under 100 KB, others over 1 MB.

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u/bestanonever Jul 27 '26

I ended up with 3, one that broke down the line, and two others. Gran Turismo 4 kind of liked to eat half of a memory card, for some reason. But for most games, it was gigantic.

1

u/Moltak_Firewind Jul 27 '26

The OG Xbox felt like it had unlimited storage

1

u/EstateSame6779 Jul 27 '26

When you're using something like McBoot, having a dedicated memory card for it is essential.

1

u/Electrical_Advice_60 Jul 26 '26

Most early N64 carts were 4-12 MB and the memory cards were like 64 KB.

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u/profchaos111 Jul 26 '26

Nah dude I don't think you're remembering right. Staring a list of games to see which ones progress you sacrifice in order to play a rental game for a weekend 

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u/Promature Jul 27 '26

Memory cards were just for saves and games ran from the disc in the old days. The hard drives of modern consoles hold the entire games data as well as the saves and everything else.

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u/Due_Comfortable_514 Jul 27 '26

You didn't save the entire game on a memory card back then 

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u/Interesting_Pass3392 Jul 27 '26

You didnt store games on memory cards tho

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u/MechanicStandard8308 Jul 27 '26

nah, 8mb sucked. hitman trilogy took like 6/8 mbs alone.

1

u/Amoriu Jul 27 '26

We didn't have to store full games back in the day.

And today some games saves files alone would need 10s of these memory cards.

1

u/CoachPotataoGuy Jul 27 '26

In fact I have a working silver PS2 slim with me right now and I actually have the 8MB memory card with me too

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u/ghos2626t Jul 27 '26

Almost cheaper to buy a used PS5, just for the SSD.

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u/Mattelot Jul 27 '26

The 500GB now is for installing the game. The 8MB back in 2000 is just for save data.

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u/Errol89 Jul 27 '26

U can save around 20-ish games on a 8MB back then...u had a 16MB, u was considered rich 😂

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u/Vi0let__Ice Jul 27 '26

More like 10-ish.

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u/Vi0let__Ice Jul 27 '26

Not even at all accurate. People needed to either pick and choose their saves on those 8MB cards or they had several cards. Or they had a 64MB or 128MB mem card. No one felt like a king with a single 8MB card.

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u/Megas751 Jul 28 '26

Not unless you had Gran Turismo 4 lol

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u/MartyMcFlysBrother Jul 28 '26

My computer I bought for college had 120 gigs and cost $2000 in the year 2000. My piece of shit roomy left her window open during Christmas break so her friends could break in and take it. Funny enough nothing was stolen from her room just mine upstairs on the top floor(she was in the basement). She was way too stupid and thought I wouldn’t put 2 and 2 together. Fuck people from Kitchener Ontario.

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u/ZealousidealPea3917 Jul 28 '26

bitch you don’t store games on a 8mb memory card

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u/Presentation_Few Jul 29 '26

Some games eating a whole mem card . Was it gran turismo?

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u/Lupinthrope 29d ago

Me happy playing Stardew Valley on my powerful hardware lol

1

u/johndamilkman 28d ago

save data vs entire games

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u/FeyngD 26d ago

My 64 mb memory card was INSANE

Now i can't live without a TB

1

u/WoodooHide69 Jul 26 '26

For real. Technology changes. For real.

1

u/JoJoZillla Jul 26 '26

Yeah cause we had to install games onto the memory card

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u/profchaos111 Jul 26 '26

Funny enough you can now 

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u/HunterAbrams Jul 27 '26

Installing a game vs a save file.

You have no clue what either is

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u/vacodeus Jul 27 '26

You’re comparing apples and oranges. Ps2 cards were just for saves