/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8372807
Autistic and unnecessary thing to do. I'm gonna tell you what your father should have: get a life, get a real hobby, go outside, and have sex. In that order. Nerd.

>>8372807
You know you can back that shit up through USB, right?

>>8372807
Based. Make sure to have each cell represent one block so you can see how much space each save file takes.

>>8372825
This sounds kind of cool, and that's embarrassing.

>>8372807
Nothing wrong with that, I would say.
>>8372825
That honestly does sound cool. Maybe I'm just weird too.

>>8372825
>Takes OP's already based idea
>Brings it to the next level
Well done.
As for your question, OP... Being organized is a good thing. If you're that organized with everything in your life you'll be alot more successful, stress-free and ready to take on new challenges since you have all your shit on lock already.

>>8372807
It's only retarded if you're doing it because you're too retarded to write on labels like the developers originally intended. If there's a legit reason you don't want to do that it's not retarded at all. I've seen systems for managing saves that seem ever more retarded at first glance but make sense when you understand why it's done that way.

>>8372894
I numbered the cards but I want to then take those numbers and catalog the saves associated with them.

>>8372825
neat I'm going to do that for my GC MCs too

When I was a kid, I'd make a list of every PC game I played in HTML, with a screenshot per game. Then saved it on floppies.

>>8372825
Aren't PS2 saves measured in KB?

>>8372807
i just write on them
i don't really play many rpgs so i just have ones for racing, platformers, etc

>>8372807
If my experiences with VHS tapes are any guide, you'll inevitably get lazy and let the contents fall out of sync with the spreadsheets, making things worse. A physical notebook might be marginally better; less dependency on a particular device or service, and less potential to be distracted by other things happening on the device.

PS2 support when?
>>8372919
yeah but some games take up 45kb, some take up 1,457kb.

>>8372964
>ps2 support when
well
it does support ps1 saves on a ps2 i think, but the not vice versa

>>8372970
Yes, with magicgate being cracked now I'd love to see that problem solved.

>>8372919
Yes the PS2 saves weren't measured in blocks so it would only work for the PS1 games.

I wonder if the block size really was 1kb though, or if the PS2 cards used bigger blocks behind the scenes? Even if it was bigger it was probably small relative to the size of the save files, making it simpler to just display the size in kilobytes.

>>8372807
They came with labels for this purpose you dip-shit. The way I do it, is just use a memory card for each publisher or genre. So one labeled just for Capcom stuff or one for just all RPGs. Really though the way I do it is just have one all-purpose card for the game im currently playing, then when I 100% or plan to come back to it at a later point, I transfer the save over to one of the above labeled cards. Its nice being able to go back and look up the games ive completed.

>>8373312
I don't have memory card labels.

Plus what the fuck do I do with this? There are four banks per unit.

>>8372807
You should get one of those trading card binders and put labels on the plastic.

>>8372897
>I numbered the cards
Well if you didn't have some way to tell which car was which that would indeed be retarded.

are those 128mb memory cards any good or just chinkshit?

I just save them to the HDD and put them back in when I need them. I only have one 8MB MC but I've played hundreds of games

The PS3 has the best PS2 and PS1 memory card manager complete with color coding.

>>8372964
>>8372964
to be fair PS2 cards are a lot bigger and fit a lot more games

>>8373369
Giga memory cards and cool until they fail and you lose 8 memory card at once.

>>8372819
>Ummm, you do realise that x is y... right?
Kill yourself valley girl faggot
Not everybody is a faggot who wants to buy some gay cable, some people just want to play their games

I've got my Dreamcast saves sorted by theme and colour.
Blue is for adventure, like Shenmue or Skies of Arcadia.
Red is for horror, like Resident Evil 2/3/CV and The House of the Dead.
Yellow is for racing.
Green is for games that I associate with the colour green, like Sega fishing games or Phantasy Star Online.
Pink is for fighting.
Aqua blue is puzzle.
Black is for sports.
Seaman VMU is for Seaman.

>>8373017
Using a ps1 memory card on a ps2 shows it in kb,one block is 8kb and theres 10 block on a memory card.

What is a spreadsheet and how would this work with video games?

>>8375342
Has this HAPPENED to you?

These are unreliable, though. My Sonic Adventure JP save got corrupted on one of these (and I seem to remember these being problematic back in the day as well - I had one as a kid, although I can't remember if anything ever corrupted on it).

My original VMU from my old Dreamcast is still working, though, as is my original 4x unit.

>>8375404
>Not everybody is a faggot who wants to buy some gay cable
What are you talking about? Do you not own a thumb drive?

>>8375931

>>8372807
dexdrives gives you unlimited saves.

>>8372807
If you have to ask, then yes you are retarded. And a nigger. Possibly a tranny

>>8375904
It happened to my buddy, one of those 3rd party 300 block ps1 cards. Big jrpg fan, so hundreds and hundreds of hours lost. I myself wiped a 1st party card through static charge. Only last suikoden 2, but it gives me a reason to relay that awesome game

>>8375342
that is an official one, only the knock madcatz ones have problems

>>8376637
Because that works for PS2 memory cards...

>>8376646
The reaction most people get when asking about overclocking their PCs.

>>8376637
this user is underage

>>8372867
embrace the statistics autism anon, quit being embarrassed of what you like, you're not a fucking teenager

>>8372807
Autismo es magnifico.
Though I do what this anon says >>8374635 and call it a day.