/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3034518
I've felt this when I've bought old pokemon games and their childhood save was still on it, my Pokemon games were all stolen so I don't have them anymore so it hits me kind of hard. Except gold, I've never found a gold cart with a working battery, I don't think that is even possible.

>>3034518
How does it feel that you're caring far more about their saved games than even they did?

>>3034518
>bought a lots and lots of Japanese GB/GBC games from yahoo auctions
>there are ONRY TWO kinds of saves
>around 15-30 mintues of game
OR
>200h+ of games with MAXED stats etc, all secrets
I am thinking about building some sort of shrine for those "level of generic asian guy" saves

>>3034518
We all power off someday and our SRAMs lost.

>>3034518
I bought the Zelda Oracle games not long ago. Both of them had 1 or 2 100% saves, and one of them had an untouched file called MOM.

>>3034523
>I've never found a gold cart with a working battery, I don't think that is even possible.

It's not. Launch copies' batteries from 2000 commonly started losing power in 2006. I imagine any later copies would have long since lost the original battery by now.

>>3034561
>>3034523
I don't know about replacing batteries in GBC carts, but I've had many Genesis games have their old saves appear once I replaced the battery.

>>3034545
Please tell me you didn't delete the MOM ones

>>3034567
Were the saves on there before you replaced the battery? If you're quick enough it's very possible to swap batteries while the RAM still holds a charge, but we're talking a matter of seconds here.

>>3034576
No, I would buy carts that appeared to have no saved games but then when I played them found I couldn't save because the battery was dead. Once I put a new batter in there and booted the game up, there were old saves that I had never seen before. It was pretty cool actually.

>>3034518
I wipe every memorycard I get.

they're the ones that probably sold their own memory card why would they care

>>3034570
I didn't.

But I checked another save. They were missing one heart piece and had a large collection of rings. It's kind of weird thinking about how much effort he put into the game but will never fully finish it.

>>3034720
>It's kind of weird thinking about how much effort he put into the game but will never fully finish it.

I do that with many games. It's very rare that I 100% complete any game, it's only the ones I absolutely love I stick with that long. Most I just play to the end and then am done even if I didn't get or do everything possible.

Yeah I like backing up previous owners' saves for sentimental reasons, even though I'll never use them.
I've been using a Retrode for SNES and Genesis saves and just ordered a MegaMemory for GB/GBC.

>>3034795
Good for you. I got a Retrode for this same purpose and it only reads half the game I try. I think I got a faulty one, and customer support didn't give a fuck.

It's my biggest regret of a gaming purchase.

>>3034795
I may have just gotten lucky on the particular games I used with it.
Originally I was looking into the GBC adapter for the Retrode, too, but it's difficult to find now, and in the process of looking around I ran into this page listing games the GBC adpater + Retrode will and won't copy saves from.
http://mysteryadv.blog18.fc2.com/blog-entry-242.html
Several games listed as not working with save transfers are ones I have or plan on getting, like Seiken Densetsu 1, SaGa 1, and Aletha 2.
At that point I decided to just go with the Mega Memory.

>>3034829
Meant for >>3034814

>>3034518
yeah but i delete them unless they have a save for a game i had

>>3034518
>I guess I'll copy them to my PS2 memory card

Wait... you can save PS1 games with a PS2 card?

>>3034876
No, but you can store them onto a PS2 memory card in the BIOS menu and then put them back on a PS1 memory card afterward.

PS3 with the PS1/2 memory card adapter is also an option.

>>3034829
That's cool. I googled around for one some time ago, but never found one at a reasonable price. Hopefully you didn't have to pay that much for it.

So what's on the cards OP

Do you have FFVII saves with the main character as like Jeff and Aeris or Tifa as Stephanie or his crush in middle school

SPILL IT

>buy used memory card last year
>FIFA FIFA PES NBA and some rugby shit
>SOTN save, named PENDEJO

I understand where you're coming from OP, but sometimes scorching the Earth is an acceptable solution.

>>3035130
I don't know most of these games and I can't read their title because they're all in Japanese. That 54 hour FF8 save look useful though.

>>3035138
That reminds me, I bought a PS2 memory card not to long ago.
Nothing but football, hunting/fishing, and guitar hero game saves.

>>3035292
Well if you don't know what the games are, then you don't have them, so you can probably just feel no remorse in deleting them, right?

>>3035360
And I got that card in Toronto, not exactly the most likely place to find anyone speaking Spanish.

>>3035379
It doesn't matter if I have the games or not, I see them as pieces of history.

I wish PS1 kept dates. I would feel much better about deleting them if I know they're only a few years old.

>>3034518
>play video games
>don't know how to back up saves
>can't bring yourself to an hero like you should because it's more complicated than backing up a save

>>3035436
I said I'll be copying them on a PS2 mem card. I'll do it when I need the space.

>>3035413
>I see them as pieces of history.

That's fucked up.

They're hogging space you need, and the original owner will never get them back. They aren't photo albums full of precious memories, dude, they're just placeholders in games he's not coming back to.

>>3035446
Well, I'm autistic like that.

Nope, I delete my own game iles to make room or to replay again fresh. I care not about someone elses. the exception is Mischief Makers. I was helping the retron clean out her developers basemenyt and found some 64 games. it records the age of the user and has a save from when she was 9 on it.

>>3034532
that's fucking deep yo

>>3034567
some genesis games such as sonic 3 use a special kind of ram called feram and don't use batteries, saves will be there until the ram chip is either destroyed or dead, which is cool as fuck

>>3035454
Let them go, dude. How would you feel if you were playing Diablo 1 and it was all like "GIMME TEN BLOCKS?" I mean, you'd toss those fucking Civ 2 saves out, right?

>>3035557
I AM playing Diablo right now. In fact, I ordered a third card just for Diablo and thankfully it was empty.

>RPG save
>MC is named Butthead and the party members are all stuff like Poopoo and Peabrain

Bought a used japanese Saturn memory cart and has a bunch of saves, I don't need to delete them because there's plenty space.

Bought a user Paper Mario for N64 and it has the saves to what appear to be a girl (it has names like "Becha" on them).
I only deleted one of the 4, and left the other 3 for now, they're cute (and she beat the game in less time than I did)

I had just got emulation set up on my psp 1000 before a big trip and needed some more storage (I had a 128mb card, shit was holding nothing). Found some black dude selling a 1 gig card for 10 bucks so I met up with him and his girlfriend at a gas station. He forgot to erase it and had naked pictures of his fat girlfriend on there. Emotionally scarred me for awhile.
Anyway I had no problem trashing this dude's "gaming" history.

>>3035835
Ahaha, fantastic.

>>3034686
>I wipe with every memorycard I get.
ftfy

>>3035565
>>3035557
Nigga, play that on PC. You have to fuck around with your desktop background, but it runs natively on Vista or 7 and the graphics are way, way better as are the load times (instant on a modern machine).

I have a japanese FFVI with all three save slots full.
One of them has the name "Oji-san" and i can't help but think it was a game of an old grandpa who was playing with his grandchildren in mid-90's.
And now that old man must be dead and his grandchildren just sold a 40+ hours memory of his childhood with grandpa.

>>3036037

That's the most fucked up thing I've ever read on this board.

>>3035964
I've been playing it on PC for years. I got kinda sick of it.

On the topic of memory cards, are those third party "1MB" and "128MB" cards (for PSX and PS2 respectively) found on Amazon any good or is it just asking for trouble? I was thinking of getting them to back up all my cards into one but I'm kind of afraid to pull the trigger, even though it's super cheap

>>3036776
PS2 ones might be legit but I think PSX ones look suspicious. I mean, since when PSX used megabytes to measure its capacity?

>>3036828
It doesn't. The PSX ones are actually pretty bad and not worth using (it basically functions like multiple cards in one and is prone to issues because of this). If you really need a ton of PSX save slots, you're better off transferring ones you're not playing to the PS2 card instead.

You can't load data from PS2 cards so you need to transfer them back. Them's the breaks.

>>3034518
I often found saved states in downloaded ROMs, and i sometimes continued playing their games.

>>3036878
kekid

This is the memory card I referred to earlier

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JA81WQE

I see mixed reviews but I'm willing to pull the trigger for 9 bucks and see how it works. If it fails, I'll still have my old memory cards.

For PSX, the "1MB" card I found might actually be preying on people's lack of knowledge regarding storage space. Original PSX memory cards held 128KB (kiloBYTES) of storage (divided into 15 blocks), and 1Mb (megaBIT) is 1024Kb (kiloBITS), divided by 8 equals 128. So the card only stores 15 blocks, but is advertised as a 1MB (megaBYTE), which equals 8 regular memory cards

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045L3SNQ

How big are Playstation memory cards? They seem to be 1mb with 15 blocks, but each block is 128kb? Does the math add up?

>>3037583
After reading >>3037563 I feel retarded, but I'm still unclear on how big Sony's card was, and how big each block is.

>>3037583
>>3037591
1 byte is 8 bits.

128 kilobytes are 1 megabit (1024 kilobits)

Sony's PS1 memory cards are 128 kilobytes and the PS2 ones are 8 megabytes

>>3037601
So each block is basically 8 kilobytes? How the heck did games use only that much? A simple quick save from Half-Life, for example, is 291kb.

>>3034882
its too bad you can only transfer them to and not from.

>>3035835
not quite retro
but i picked up a 3DS at a flea market, dude i know does house cleanouts. got it for less than $5 and when i got home i checked the memory card.

it was some lil black kid and he had movies and shit on the card, so im digging through the files and there is a folder that says "mom don't open".

inside the folder was porn of fat titted, huge booty spanish chicks. also was a TON of shit tier R&B and "rap" for music.

>>3034518
>rent RPG
>there's an existing save
>everyone is renamed to stupid shit like Ganja and Kush

>buy two ps1 memory cards
>both are literally full of NHL 200x save files

>>3034531
That reminds me, I bought japanese copy of that kirby game with tilt controls and it had 100% save file on it

>>3037616
that's actually a lot of ones and zeros man.

>>3037774
So, Half-Life saves are just extremely bloated with too much useless data?

>>3034795
>>3034829
>>3034887
Well l I got my Mega Memory >>3037485 and it seems to be incompatible with the same games the Retrode can't access save data on. Won't start up with Seiken Densetsu (FFA) or Saga 1 (FFL) attached.
Doesn't work with Dragon Quest 3 either, which isn't tested on the list in the URL in >>3034829

I used the Mega Memory successfully with (all Japanese carts):
SaGa 2
SaGa 3
Dragon Quest I & II
Survival Kids
Jankyuusei
Martian Successor Nadesico Ruriruri Mahjong
Sakura Taisen Geki Hanagumi Nyutai
Zelda - Link's Awakening

Managed to wipe my almost-endgame DQ3 save data I was in the middle of playing by fiddling with the contacts while it was powered on.

>>3034523
Batteries for Gold/Silver die really fast due to the games having the clock function for day/night cycles.

>>3035497
Sega always ahead of their time

Not to long ago I picked up a, 32 inch Sony Trinitron for 10 dollars. They ended up giving me the stand as well. It was a really ugly silver display (that matched the TV, but it was to small and couldn't hold all of my systems) so I decided to ditch it. I already had a nice stand I acquired a few years ago. My mother has old co worker who sells items in some bumfuckegypt place and takes half of the money it sells for, so naturally I decided to give it to her. To my surprise, I got a call about something being left in the TV stand and it was a PS2 memory card. I looked through all the saves and it was mostly sports games. I decided to delete all the data. I don't know why. It was pretty cool to see another persons save files from over 10 years ago.

>>3035557
I still have the NESticle save states from when I first learned about emulation back in 1997

Now where did I put that save file?

>>3041503
can you give me a spare memory card please?

>>3036776
I had one of those third party big ps1 cards. You pressed a button on the card and it would light up led 1-4 for which "page" of the card you were accessing.

Problem was any files on it would become corrupted about 1-2 months after you last saved. I have distinct childhood memories of loading and saving with all my games every 2 weeks just to keep everything. Then, of course, becoming distracted by the actual games and not getting everything re-saved in that session so I would inevitably lose something to corruption.

Could just be I had a particularly shit card though.

>>3034523
Sold my Pokemon Red to a local game store a couple years ago.

Reading this makes me wonder if someone is taking care of my Charizard.

I hope so. Me and him had some good times. I could never delete him.

>Need a new memory card
>Official Card is £15
>Stupid bright red official card with digimon logo is £1
>Buy stupid card and scratch off stupid logo

This was the "buying heavily cut-price pink electronics" of my youth.

>>3042906
I always wanted to take pride in my pokémon, but despite the utter LIES in the game, it doesn't matter how you raise the pokémon.

You can use rare candies, level, trade for somebody else to level, or put them in daycare, and they always just end up with the same stats.

So besides his name and moveset, your charizard is the same as any other. Sucks, huh?

>>3042878
THe postage costs are more than what these things are worth

>>3042905
Definitely a shitty one, or bad luck. Or maybe I had exceptional luck.

I had a 16-in-1 and a 32-in-1 (both from the same manufacturer). Both still have dozens of my saves from 10-20 years ago. Sometimes one of their individual cards failed, but rarely. Only exception is the first card on each always got corrupted within days of formatting each time.

>>3034532
life is fleeting

>>3034531
>buy Pokemon Yellow
>previous owner had a loaded Pokedex
>dumped all his legendaries on my Pokemon Stadium and erased his file
Thanks, bro

>>3035835
I bought a psp1000 a few years ago. It came with a memory card, but it wasn't advertised as coming with the console. I don't think the seller realized it was still in there. Anyway, it was full of random photos and Simpsons porn. I dunno man, I wiped that asap.
But when I buy cartridge games, I always check out the old saves. I usually end up deleting/saving over them though. It feels weird to have a total stranger's data on my game.

>>3036776
I had a transparent red one as a kid. It died within the same month I bought it. Maybe there are better ones nowadays? You're better off buying a ton of official memory cards and some sticky labels or transferring saves you're not using to a ps2 memory card.

>>3043287
Are you being stupid on purpose?

>Get a bunch of weeb games used one day
>one of them came with a memory card.
Now, there was some good shit in this pile. Persona 4, Final fantasy 7 and 9, Dragon Quest 7, a bunch of stuff like that. So I figure the memory card would have more of that. I pop it in and check it
>nothing but military shooter save games

I'm still confused about it

>order rare Japanese strategy guide for Famicom game
>checking mailbox every day
>finally arrives
>ah yisss
>flip through guide enjoying rad 80s artwork
>finger suddenly stops
>see folded up piece of paper stuck between the pages
>bunch of hand-written passwords in childish writing
>little nip kid who wrote this must be old as fuck now
>mid 40s, probably a salaryman at some jap company
>working overtime every day
>never has time to play games anymore
>w/e, fire up game in Nestopia
>type in last password at the bottom of the page
>it's the last save point before the final boss
>best possible party in the entire fucking game
>good job little nigger
>good fucking job

>>3034518
I used to for awhile but then I realized those saves were probably from like a year ago anyway.

Not retro, but about a year ago I bought the Gamecube version of Animal Crossing used, and it still had the limited edition memory card inside of it. I don't know who owned this, but they had EVERYTHING. Like, the only thing they didn't have were the NES games that required special e-cards or whatever, but they had all the other ones.

>>3045470
and he'll never know that some loser is playing with his old toy. really makes you think, huh faggot?

>>3034518
I got a copy of Final Fantasy III at a garage sale for 2 dollars. This was only a couple years ago.

I was talking to the person selling them, they were her son's but he just finished college and had a job and lived awhile away, didn't want his old games anymore and said she could get rid of them or whatever

I get the game home and give it a shot, three saves all with over 70-80 hours, all the secret characters, etc.

Except he named Terra SLUT in one of the saves

>>3045887
yeah, it does actually. thanks faggot.

>>3040959
Well I'm pretty sure unless you're a complete fool that you wouldn't need to toss those few kilobytes of data on a harddrive whose space is measured in hundreds of megabytes.

>>3034523
>Except gold, I've never found a gold cart with a working battery, I don't think that is even possible.
You actually made me go check my gold cart and its save did get deleted. Same for Silver and Blue. Red for some reason still works. Man, I even had a save with a full 151 pokemon pokedex in Blue. That really hits me pretty hard. Also apparently my GBA has the start and select button broken, which it hadn't the last time I played it last month. I really need to get an SP.
Incidentally, older GB games I have still work, like FFL.

>>3046154
Your last one is probably going to die soon, I'd replace the battery in one of your other copies and transfer your Pokemon over to it before it does.

>>3045460
other memory card was lost??????

>>3043287
I came here to laugh at you.

>>3035292
What's the time on those Dragon Quest ones? If the game is DQ7 and the time is under 120 hours then the player accomplished nothing of note and you can delete them without worry that you've destroyed a work of art.

>>3046154
Eh whatever, I only used Red to do the teleport glitch and catch Mew and a few others. Anyway, I could use Stadium, in theory. At this point I don't even really care anymore.

>>3046154
That's what you get for being a physical fag.

Let your pain serve as a reminder for everyone else.

Emulation is the way of the future. No physical fags will be allowed to enjoy games in the future.

>>3046007
I'm sure most people have gotten a fresh start on a new computer since 1997.

>>3047585
I remember playing DQVII. Got 12 hours in and felt like I hadn't done a fucking thing. Never went back.

>>3048265
I've been finding more enjoyment from fixing old games than sitting down and playing them.

>>3048290
lol

>>3048274
I'm sure we're getting further and further away from the point.

>>3048290
>That feel when you understand that feel

I get way more excited knowing that I can play old games and that they work properly than I do from actually playing them these days.

I still enjoy playing games but not as much as I did when I was a kid.

Although I really fucking enjoyed The Witcher 3. I guess I just need new and quality experiences to enjoy again.

>I guess I'll copy them to my PS2 memory card or something.

I've got some method of extracting saves to PC for every system I own, so I copy the save over, archive based on where/when I got it, add some notes if there was anything interesting about it, and then erase it from the cart/card.

>>3034795
>>3034814
>>3034829

I'm probably going to get crucified for this but I own a Retron 5 for the sole purpose of backing up cartridge saves to SD card.

It's cheaper than a Retrode + all the adapters, and it does carts the Retrode has no adapter for, like the NES. From the sounds of it, it even has better compatibility.

I've had it nearly a year now and I don't think I've ever once played an actual game on it.

>bought banjo and kazooie from a flea market
>has multiple 100% saves
Also bought a PS1 with memory cards from the flea market and they had a shit ton of saves on them, I'll have to boot it up and see what all is on there

>>3049321
There's got to be a better solution than giving those bumblers money, and by extension, encouragement.

I wouldn't crucify you anon, but I would send you to your room to think about what you've done with no dinner.

>>3034518
I remember when I bought a N64 off eBay and decided to play some Goldeneye on it. The guy unlocked fucking everything. All the cheats, all the characters. He even cleared Aztec on 00 agent difficulty. And I just took all of it from him for my own benefit. Felt good man.

> try new game a friend copied for me (on floppy disk)
> it's already got random people in high score list
> haha I'm gonna beat all these losers!
> years later I still can't dethrone Biff
Same thing happened with Pinball Dreams, and other games. Now I'm convinced some of these pirates edited the high score table...

>>3034518
No. Life's cheap.

>>3049484

Well if there is a better solution I have yet to find it.

>trade in SoM so I can buy a PSX because my parents are maximum jews
>max level all spells 8:99
>just so happen to be around in the game store when some fuck tries it out
>overwrites my save
>doesn't even bother to give the characters real names, just picks aaaaaaaaa and shit

>>3052179
Spells were easy enough to max out.

The real question is whether or not you had your Level 9 weapon orbs.

>>3034882
>you can store them onto a PS2 memory card in the BIOS menu and then put them back on a PS1 memory card afterward.
>>3037656
>its too bad you can only transfer them to and not from.

Which one of you is wrong?

>>3037752
That memory card must be my brothers. It had nothing but NHL 2K saves, and about four FF7 save files.

He changed Barrett's name to Rufus.

/blog

>>3057583
Second is wrong, you can transfer PSX files to and from a PS2 card within the PS2 management interface.

It must be the PS2 interface, the PSX wont even notice a PS2 card.

On a funny note; if you have YGO: Duelists of the Roses and put a PSX card in the second slot, the fight against Duel Master K becomes a trap-filled Exodia deck.

>>3043287
>and they always just end up with the same stats.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values

is there a limit to how long games can be on a memory card before it gets erased?

>>3060070

Flash has a storage life of 10 years before some of the written memory cells will have lost too much charge to be read.

In practice though they seem to last a lot longer than that. The rate of spontaneous quantum tunneling is also reduced at lower storage temperatures.

>>3034518
I don't give a shit. Even if the save is 20 years old I'll still delete it because it's not mine.