MEMORY CARD MANIA!

[cookie monster]

PS1 - 3~4x - Official Sony
N64 - 1x - I bought one at launch thinking it was gonna be like the PS1... Never used it.
SS - 8MB AR for imports and system memory back up (those cr2032s die too fast), and I picked up a few other memory carts for a buck each.
PS2 - 1x - I never needed more than 1. I've just erased saves that I don't care about but I still have a lot of saves on there.
GC - 2x 59, 3x 251 - got 2x of the 251s and 1x 59 free inside used games
DC - 5x VMUs (got 3x from PlayAsia for $10 IIRC, Euro clearance, 4 controllers as well at that price)
PSP 1x 16GB MSDuo

1 Xbox Memory Unit (which I frustratingly learned after buying apparently can't backup every game)

I tend to hang on to my saves forever. I mean, what if someone came over to my house and didn't believe that I beat Popful Mail? I'd have to PROVE IT with my save! (Note: I'm aware this will never, ever happen.)
If I leave a game unfinished for a long period of time, I usually re-start from the beginning and delete my old save. But I try to avoid those situations!

I hear ya on the Xbox (me too on N64).
And on unfinished games, yeah, I've tried to resume the game but it never works for me on RPGs. Start over~

wii 2

What sort of memory card is this? Just an SD card or...?

yep there the sd cards.

[Mechblue]

I've got a lot of memory cards, at least one or more for each system. Some of the less common I've accumulated extras. I don't even know number wise.

I still have my PS1 saves from back when the PS1 was popular. I had a save of Thousand Arms and finally bought the game maybe 10 years later and finally beat the part I was stuck on. After which I totally had no clue what was going on in the game or how to play any more so I just saved and put it away feeling like i'd gotten closure.

[D.D.D.]

wii 2

What sort of memory card is this? Just an SD card or...?

yep there the sd cards.

Okay, that makes sense. I thought I mighta missed something on the Wii...
I got a mountain of those. 8MB to 32GB.

[DinnerX]

I have several memory cards, but only two have a story. I have two of the largest official GC memory cards.

You see, once upon a time I had just one of those huge memory cards. Then one day I go to play a game and the save is corrupted. I try another game and its save is corrupted. Needless to say things pretty much went down hill from there. I bought a wii (I'd been thinking about getting one anyway) and used it to check if it was just my GC having a strange problem reading memory cards. Nope. Something just went wrong with the card. Lost a bunch of saves. Some of them were OK and were copied to the second memory card I bought.

Level 90 Tyranitar how I miss you.

EDIT:And Ho-Oh too.

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Level 90 Tyranitar how I miss you.

EDIT:And Ho-Oh too.

Ughh. My condolences.

I didn't own any systems that took memory cards until I bought a Sega Dreamcast at launch, for which I still have only one lonely VMU, and I didn't purchase another external-save system until 2006. As such I had some pretty warped ideas regarding proper memory card etiquette. For example, I somehow got the impression as a kid that having one memory card should be enough for one person, and considered it bizarre when friends bought several. I routinely deleted saved game data blocks on my sole VMU to make room for new files without much angst, and am still pretty quick to clear stuff up these days, regardless of console.

But this old memory card attitude of mine makes little sense, and even less considering how anal I had been about on-cartridge save files. Both my Sonic 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles have two save files per playable character combination -- one with all Chaos Emeralds/Super Emeralds collected and one without (because the featured picture and endings differ between them). Considering this sort of bizarreness, I imagine had cards been more a part of my life early on, I would have been the type to color-code and file them, possibly with a matching card catalog system.

Here's something that confuses me, though. I bought a GameCube this year, and a MadCatz card with tons of space for it. And yet, when I play Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life, it appears I am only allowed two save files per card. I had assumed that save file quantity would be limited by space, as it is with the Dreamcast VMU, and not by an arbitrarily limited number of slots. Does the Dreamcast differ from most systems in this way?

[Zing]

I have six official Sony PlayStation memory cards. I have one of each color (black, blue, red, green) plus two light grey. These colors are the "PSone era" colors.

I have assigned each color to a genre. Black is puzzle and adventure games. Blue is Squaresoft RPGs (since there are so many). Red is other RPGs. Green is action games. The light greys are used for specific games (Gran Turismo and ISS Pro Evolution).

I actually used a spreadsheet to determine the optimal arrangement for memory block usage. Even games I have yet to play are already assigned to a specific memory card. So far, these six cards should handle my entire collection. The red card is the only one on the edge, with 14 blocks used.

[Menegrothx]

Atari Jaguar CD memory cart

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Sega Saturn back up memory cartridge+action replay that has region converter, cheats and memory card all in one
2 PS1 memory cards
8MB and 64 MB PS2 cards
128 mb Gamecube memory card
3 VMUs and 2 MB dreamcast memory card that doesnt appear to be working
+Wii and PSP memory cards
I'm wondering if I should buy a Sega CD back up memory cartridge and a sega mouse for Monkey Island and Dungeons and Dragons eye of the beholder They are kinda expensive Atleast it's cheaper and less rare than the 3DO memory expansion thingy

Tbh I'm surprised that my 64 MB PS2 memory card still hasn't run out of space

[Bogard07]

I've got quite a few. Bought a slim PS2 and games from a friend years ago and got about 7 or 8 PS1 memory cards with it. I also have a green Dreamcast VMU, and a Xbox 360 512mb memory unit.

[wip3outguy7]

Cool idea for a thread. I was going to take a picture of all of my cards and the bin I keep them in, but my camera isn't charged.

PS1: Three official cards in different colors - standard, red translucent and clear. I also have one unofficial card in a dark blue that I acquired from my recent PSone/LCD combo pickup. I doubt I will use it much, considering the unreliable nature of 3rd party Playstation 1 memory cards.

PS2: I have four official cards - two in the original black, one translucent blue and one in translucent red.

Dreamcast: Three official - one in translucent black and two in the original standard color. I have a two unofficial - both are Performance brand. One is translucent green and the other is an off white color.

Oh, and there's my Saturn 4 in 1 that I regularly back up to. It's the older version with the serial port in the top.

I keep everything in a translucent mini storage bin that I picked up from IKEA several years ago. It came in a pack of three. The other colors in the pack were translucent blue and green.

All of my Playstation memory cards have either Street Fighter Alpha 3 stickers from an old issue of Playstation Magazine (the unofficial one at the time) or from the original Japanese Tenchu release.

I'm not sure what my oldest save is. A lot of them have fallen victim to space requirements by newer games.

[bryan_65]

I got what I need , but every time I have used a third party card is has had bad results. Never again will I use one. I Lost Gamecube and N64 saves, and also got a third party PS2 card that is bad.