Just Found My Oldest Memory Cards

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My oldest PS1 Memory card is probably almost 20 years old by now...

My family emptied a box with some of our old stuff to put them in a new place. I thought I took what's mine out of it ages ago, but we found some stuff that's almost two decades old! One of them is my Playstation Memory Card. I took pictures:

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I want to start by mentioning that both Memory Cards don't seem to be officially from SONY. Playstations sold in Libya in before and during early 2000's were modded versions, that included the Console, the Games and the Memory Cards!

The Green Memory Card in the photo above is my oldest PS1 Memory Card. As you see, time didn't treat this boy well. The plastic case is broken... Last time I used it, (more than 12 years ago,) it was still working.

I don't remember when I bought it, and which game I played with it at the time. I remember playing PS1 for years without having a memory card to save games with, and that it was revolutionary to my child self. (See "PS1 Games of My Childhood" article series.)

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One of the games I remember needing the Memory Card for was Digimon World 2... I played it a lot before, but I had to replay the first levels too many times to count. I only realized how long the game is, after getting the Memory Card and splitting the gaming for days.

It really puts it in perspective how short PS1 games were.

When I used to play PS1 games with my brother and my cousins, we played a lot of games without saving. Games like Tekken, CTR, and Disney games could be finished in one sitting. One LONG sitting after understanding how the game works.~

In the photos above, the White Memory Card wasn't originally mine. The owner was one of my cousins. (I forgot which one of them.) When they sold their PS1, some of their stuff stayed with ours. The PSOne memory card is one of the leftovers..

I think it's sad we don't have a PS1 anymore, so I can't check which save files each memory card still contains. (That's if they actually still work.)

Now that I can't return these to the box I found them in, I have to let them find another resting place. I think I know just the right place for them.~

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Since your PlayStation 1 memory card is almost 20 years old, that means you have been playing games since almost 20 years ago! 😆😅

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Actually more than that... I was 7 when I played with my mother's MSX computer, I'm 29 years old now: 22 Years!!

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Since you are 29 years old now, that means you are about 5 years older than @mehmetfix who told his age on this comment as well as here. 😏

Take note that @mehmetfix likes to ask the ages (as well as the names) of other people, as evidenced by his Hive comments here, here, and here. 🤓

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Oh, if you didn't put the second line, I would say that this was unnecessary... Well, I put my age online a lot, but I dislike asking about real life ages online.

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@mehmetfix said on this comment that asking people their age is a common activity where he lives (Turkey). 😏

One funny thing is that @mehmetfix suddenly asked @shinyobjects about what their age is, when @shinyobjects just posted about chill/relaxation music. 😅

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Haha~

It is where I live as well, I'm strange compared to the average Libyan person. I give answers like "My age is 29.3 or something..." Because I only calculate it when asked about it.

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I don't know why you say .3 after 29, especially since I never encountered one in the Philippines who tells ages like that. 😅

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I never encountered anyone who does it like me too... Adding the fraction is a joke.

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I assume you just came up with that joke today! 😅

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No, I'm doing it for at least 3 years now... Mostly offline.~

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The people who you told your age with fractional or decimal part would assume that you are a math geek! 😆🤓😅

Have a !PIZZA! 😁

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It's fun to see their reactions.

Compared to normal people, I'm a bit of a math geek. I don't like spending time solving problems, (hence why I only took part in your contest only a few times,) but I always use examples using math terms for real life things. Maybe because my mother is a Math teacher? ...but she doesn't do this, I do!

I told someone once:

Translating Arabic or English into Japanese feels like differentiation, there's always something that's lost in the process. When translating Japanese into Arabic or English, you have to imagine the lost pronouns, the lost context. You have to come up with C (the integration constant.) Isn't that fascinating?

For context, I can't read Japanese yet, and I said that with the information I know. The person knows I'm interested in the language, and I know they understand these math terms I'm using. But to normal people, it will sound like a very geeky conversation.

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You don't have to translate words in a language for some of its meaning to be lost. 🧘‍♂️ Just imagine a story being passed through word of mouth through a chain of several people. 🤓 You can imagine the same loss happening whenever you round off a number. 🤔 Isn't that fascinating? 😏

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Haha, that too... But I was talking about how Japanese language omits subject and sometimes even the object from the sentence...

This sentence from this song:

"自分を愛さなきゃ 他人も愛せない"

The words in-order are: -"Self, Love, Person, Love, No"

That can mean "If I don't love myself, I can't love anyone else" or "If you don't love yourself, you can't love people" or "If I don't love myself, people won't love me" ...You see how it goes.

The linked website translates it: "You gotta love yourself before you can love someone else."

But what you said is completely true.~

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Do people usually ask each other their age in the Philippines? Maybe there are some very curious people out there like me. 😅

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Curious people are present in every country, so the Philippines is not excluded. 🤨

People asking each other's age in the country is normally done only when the asker and the person (or people) being asked personally know each other (physically met at least a few times). 🤓

Have a !PIZZA and !ALIVE to help you avoid becoming too curious! 😁

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Hahahahah sometimes people give such strange answers here too. 😀😅

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Definitely something different culturally. Asking someones age is not common in my area. Different cultures = different norms.

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While anyone can ask somebody else personal questions, I really don't think that it is a good idea to answer such questions here on Hive. 😅

Have a !PIZZA! 😁

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Yes @savvyplayer
@ahmadmanga 5 years older than me. I thought he was the same age as me.

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I thought you just look 30 years old, but you also think that you are also as old as @ahmadmanga (@ahmadmangazap) who is halfway towards 30 years of age! 😆😅

Have a !PIZZA and !LOLZ to help you avoid thinking that you are already too old! 😁

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Amateurs... I've been playing since at least 1983 and got my first game system in Christmas of 1983 :).

I still have a few PS1 memory cards around though I know longer have my PS1 (I have a PS2 though which will play PS1 games). One of them is a Laura Croft memory card. Not sure what data is on them if any.

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Nice gif~ !LUV !PIZZA !LOLZ !ALIVE

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Thanks for the !PIZZA and !LOLZ with !LUV! 😀

Anyway, I noticed that you have only 0.1 staked and 0.3 liquid !ALIVE tokens. 😅

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I still have my PS2 memory cards, they're like a little relic to me haha, I keep them next to the table where the PS4 is ❤️.

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Yeah, I treat these two memory cards like a relic too... More history value than actual use. I think I'll put them with my old art pieces.

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oh man I had so many memory cards as I often played with so many games especially RPGs and would have tons of save before going into a dungeon or before a boss fight or a major branch in the storyline.

Good times!

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Oh this is nostalgic! If I were you I'd frame them and hang them on the wall 😆
How much space do these hold btw? Not even 1Mb? Nowadays you can download an emulator and any games you want for free and play them on your phone, and the space they'd take wouldn't be significant.
I know I'm acting like a boomer right now, but you're the one who posted pictures of PS1 memory cards 😂

I think the PS1 and PS2 were modded in all Arab countries btw, probably because there was no law when it came to videogames back then, because of that PS1/PS2 games costed less than $3 each! I had more of them than I can remember, but they also used to stop working very often, I actually had 3 copies of some of my favorite games because of this, I used to try them out until one worked, but then it'd stop working on the loading screen... Those were good days 😂

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If I remember correctly, they hold something like 128 KB? I forgot but I remember seeing it online when I was looking for emulators many years ago. It was a low amount even by the standards of that time-period.

I think the PS1 and PS2 were modded in all Arab countries btw, probably because there was no law when it came to videogames back then, because of that PS1/PS2 games costed less than $3 each!

So it was like that in Saudi Arabia too?

Yeah... Good Old Days~

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128 KB yeah that seems right, I just googled it (don't know why I haven't done that before), btw the PS2 memory card holds 8 MB.
What other PS1 games you used to play back then? Would be cool if you made a post listing them.
Mine were not too many, I don't remember all the ones I owned, but I always had a habit of sticking to one game for too long before moving to the next one.

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