Memory cards thread

[Anonymous No.2159439]

Official thread. Posts yours and share your knowledge and opinions with us.

[Anonymous No.2159514]

Did anyone use the VMUs outside of the controller when they first came out? Was it cool or did it feel like it really wasn't worth it?

[Anonymous No.2159570]

>>2159439

[Anonymous No.2159571]

Don't feel like collecting them and getting a picture, but for retro memory cards I just have two normal N64 memory cards, an N64 rumble pak, 3 normal VMUs, one 4-in-1 VMU without a screen so can it still even be called a VMU?, and a rumble pak for the Dreamcast.

The best part about the 4-in-1 VMU is the lack of beeping.

[Anonymous No.2159575]

>>2159514
I did. Some of the early games were pretty cool actually.
I had my VMU with my keychain so I played a lot when I could.

[Anonymous No.2159583]

>>2159570

[Anonymous No.2159586]

I got the animal crossing card a couple weeks ago from goodwill and it had someones village on it. I deleted it because I didn't want to dig out my copy to check it out.

>>2159514
I used them for the chao thing for a bit when I was in summer school one year.

[Anonymous No.2159590]

>>2159570
lol holy fuck pelican was based.

[Anonymous No.2159598]

>>2159590
>>2159583
Unfortunately I only have this one

[Anonymous No.2159602]

>>2159586
>Not seeing how many villagers left the owner goodbye letters

[Anonymous No.2159604]

>>2159602
I got a little mad, not gonna lie.

[Anonymous No.2159627]

>>2159514
Yeah I did until I realized the batteries only last like 8 hours and I couldnt afford to keep buying them

[Kya !kDashing02 No.2159681]

>>2159586
I wish I knew what happened to mine.

On the topic of memory cards, what is a good place to get PS1 memory cards?

[Anonymous No.2159868]

>>2159681
ebay. just be worry of counterfeits/bootlegs.
There are some neat ones on amazon, kinda expensive though.

[Anonymous No.2160181]

Nothing too remarkable. Some of these, I have no idea where I got them. I still think it is weird that I found that ST Key and Japanese Saturn memory card at a Goodwill in the middle of nowhere in Texas. I would swap out the guts from it and put it in the Rayearth card since it doesn't work, but the insides are different.

[Anonymous No.2160217]

>>2159681
Pawn shops that sell old games are a great place. My local Cash Generators always has a selection of ps1 and ps2 memory cards.

[Anonymous No.2160254]

>>2159586
I like how the Gamestop ones greentext themselves
>Memory Card

[Anonymous No.2160257]

>>2160181
I have one of those Performance N64 cards. As far as third-party cards go, it's pretty fucking solid.

[Anonymous No.2160295]

I've about 5 Saturn ones, plus an action replay and a third party cart.

I had the cart with all my save games corrupted a month or two ago... I ended up desoldering and dumping the flash rom to see if the data is recoverable, and sure enough, only the header block of the cart was corrupted, all the savegame files were still there.

Unfortunately my programmer could not write to that type of flash rom, so I had to figure out how the actual filesystem on the cart worked, and write a tool to extract all my saves from it. Asked a friend to write a Saturn program that can copy them all back from this format, and that's how I saved all my stuff from a dead cart.

[Anonymous No.2160386]

>>2159514
There were a few games (Tech Romancer?) that had minigames where earning points in the minigames were transferable to the main game for unlocking crap.

And yes, VMUs were battery draining vampires. What I did with one of them was built an adapter that let me run the thing on 4 AAs. Kinda funny when the battery was larger than the unit itself. But yeah, fuck watch batteries.

[Anonymous No.2160438]

>>2160257
I've never actually used them. I always use the rumble pak/memory card combo thing. I've had no trouble with it since I bought it in the late 90's. I never had that many games that used memory cards, though.

[Anonymous No.2160482]

>>2160386
I was bored, so I decided to dig it out...

[Anonymous No.2160489]

Memory card collection threads?
Mad autism

[Anonymous No.2160505]

tfw no neo geo memory cards in this thread
iirc the aes was the first console to have them

[Anonymous No.2160510]

>>2160482
That's pretty cool

[Anonymous No.2160512]

>>2160386
Hm, didn't know any game besides like maybe Sonic Adventure You could have your chao on it, right? let you actually transfer things.

If I were to get a rechargeable battery like that, and I've seen they exist, would you have to charge them in a charger or would it charge when it's plugged in?

[Anonymous No.2160513]

>>2160489
How do you keep your saves?

[Anonymous No.2160556]

Another trick I used was that I kept those plastic battery tabs that new VMUs came with that prevented battery drain while on t he store selves. When I was done playing the game, I'd insert the tabs back into the device to save battery life. You had to reset the date and clock every time, but that was a minor inconvenience compared to paying for batteries.

>>2160512
>If I were to get a rechargeable battery like that, and I've seen they exist, would you have to charge them in a charger or would it charge when it's plugged in?
Don't quite understand what you saying.

[Anonymous No.2160565]

>>2160513
No man, I meant that as a compliment.
I have a few cards myself but never really took the time to marvel the collection

[Anonymous No.2160568]

>>2160556
Alright, so those little watch battery things. There's rechargeable ones. If I were to put it in a VMU, would it charge while it's plugged into a controller into a Dreamcast when it's on, or would I need to take it out and recharge it in a special charger?

[Anonymous No.2160619]

>>2160568
You would most likely have to charge them outside the VMU. AFAIK, there's no reason the controller should send current to the standard non-rechargeable watch batteries.

[Anonymous No.2160635]

[Anonymous No.2160641]

>>2160635
Ps2 isn't retro though

[Anonymous No.2160653]

>>2160641
It will be one day and when it is I'll be ready

[Anonymous No.2160801]

>>2160565
>>2160565
Post em dude!

[Anonymous No.2160827]

>>2159586
goddam i fucking hate gamestop

[Anonymous No.2160835]

>>2160295
you lost me after "corrupted a month or two ago..." which is a shame cause i could definately use a program like that

[Anonymous No.2161105]

>>2160653
I wonder about that. would there be a last-gen board to go with /vr/?

[Anonymous No.2161153]

>>2161105
Yes.

>>>/v/

Seriously, we do still talk about ps2 games.

[Anonymous No.2161157]

>>2161153
Fair enough, but I assumed that was because we can't talk PS2 here.

[Anonymous No.2161187]

>>2160835
>you lost me after "corrupted a month or two ago..." which is a shame cause i could definately use a program like that

If you can't understand even that much then you definitely couldn't get such an app working. You need 2-300$ worth of equipment just to read the flash rom.

[Anonymous No.2161320]

>>2161187
>You need 2-300$ worth of equipment just to read the flash rom
Are you saying you paid $200+ to recover data from your memory card?
Please tell me you use it for other things too.

[Anonymous No.2161324]

>>2161157
You can talk about ps2 here but you have to do it carefully. You can't just make a thread with a ps2 game's boxart and start a general thread.

[Anonymous No.2161338]

>>2161187
>not this guy >>2160835
I would still like to know where to get this program from!
>2-300$ worth of equipment just to read the flash rom.
I would also be okay with this too so what is the equipment?