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stopskeletons.bsky.social • 122 days ago

15 memory card blocks to save your game??

I almost forgot to get my Random Game Saturday entry in! Reaching for our PS1 shelves, I came away with an appropriate game given Doom: The Dark Ages' recent new trailer: Hexen! Sequel to Heretic and (at least on PlayStation) a memory card-slot guzzler needing an entire 15-block card to save.

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hartic.bsky.social•122 days ago

Das huge!

alucardsquest.bsky.social•122 days ago

Yes, same with the N64 (not sure about Saturn). Saving takes up a whole memory pak, but you can save anywhere.

mataoja.bsky.social•122 days ago

And I thought Diablo needing 10 was wild

sonicsean34.bsky.social•121 days ago

I kinda miss blocks. Tho I miss PS1 and PS2 save icons the most, now it's just terrible lists on a hard drive and you often have to nuke all saves for a game at once cos it’s all one bloated mega file

rustyshackles.bsky.social•122 days ago

I remember this one did too for some weird reason!

cabanafred.bsky.social•122 days ago

I used to see that game in the rental store all the time & it wasn’t until recently I realized it was based on a Jean Pierre Jeunet movie!

rustyshackles.bsky.social•122 days ago

Yeah, me and my film nerd friend in Austin rented the game back in the day and had to ask ourselves if we wanted to clear off an entire card for it ha

paulhawxhurst.bsky.social•122 days ago

I always wanted to play that, since I was a huge Jeunet fan. Was it any good?

cabanafred.bsky.social•122 days ago

A whole card just for Hexen?! That’s Gran Turismo levels of save space!

fenrah.bsky.social•122 days ago

Like... Hexen has some bullshit hubs with complicated variables, maybe the PS1 port was just a completely unoptimised mess? That seems like a lot.

cherrypixelbun.gay•122 days ago

Oh yeah the PS1/SAT version of Hexen is really rough, that game already requires a lot of patience and the 32-bit console versions basically run in slo-mo

axlst00pid.bsky.social•122 days ago

My favorite one is Fighter Maker

A fighting game focused on creating custom characters needing the entire 15 blocks from a memory card to save a single character

So unless you have multiple empty memory cards you can't even save a single character

Thank goodness there's virtual solutions nowadays

nachodisk.bsky.social•121 days ago

in this economy?!?!

whitn3y.bsky.social•122 days ago

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