I'm still working on getting all systems going again. Alas, I cannot blame it on a Skin Condition thanks to my filthy house or the Incorrect Medication That I Said Was The Correct Medication After The Other Incorrect Medication, I just gotta wake up and do some shit. Let's funpost! Here's some PS1 memory cards I bought.

Anyone who's seriously played a decent chunk of the PS1's library knows that one memory card doesn't really cut it. You get 15 "blocks" on one, which adds up to 128KB of total space (the sixteenth block is for file system information, if you know your powers of two). A lot of games only use one or two blocks, but a lot don't. Given that this year was the year I finally decided to give into the Madden bug, and Madden games are notorious for huge season and franchise saves, paired with all my other in-progress PS1 games, I needed some more breathing room. These cards are both Japanese models, one unlabeled and the other with a cute Gran Turismo label on it.

Before this, I'd never owned an OEM Sony PS1 memory card. I was actually using a third-party Performance PS1 card, the same one I had as a kid and have just kept rolling with because It Just Works. I know some people (like Connor) have seriously bad luck with third-party memory cards, but the two that I regularly use, the Performance card and also a 32MB Max Memory PS2 card that I use for storing all my completed saves, have been perfectly usable. Maybe not identical to a Sony card (the Max Memory card isn't beloved by every game and it is noticeably slower), but good enough for holding saves, and if they do eventually eat shit, I keep meticulous images of them.

As for what's on them! The Gran Turismo card was empty. Sad, I wanted to see a nice garage. The unlabeled one, though, had a whole variety of Japanese-language Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and Dragon Quest VII saves, each with 30-220 hours of play on them. (Other than their names, you can verify that they're for the Japanese versions by the SLPS and SLPM disc IDs attached to the saves. Each region has a variety of disc IDs for Sony-published, Sony-licensed, demo/pack-in software, and those are Japan's.) I just happened to get some Japanese guy's old no-life saves for a bunch of JRPGs I admittedly have zero interest in playing.

Yes, I did immediately wipe the card and put my Madden 2002 saves on there instead.

Yes, I imaged the card before I did that. If you want the saves, sure, have fun, here they are.

There's one other game on that JRPG card that I wasn't able to identify, but through the disc ID lookup, I learned it's apparently a Japan-only virtual board game called DX Okuman Chouja Game - The Money Battle. Looking up some footage of it, it looks more like a SNES game than a PS1 game, largely isometric 2D and all the player models are grotesque and possibly mildly racist caricatures. I don't understand what's going on, due to not being able to read Japanese, but if you can, and you like this game enough to see what I guess scores or whatever someone almost 30 years ago got on it, there's your link! Have fun.

Bitches love my memory cards. Yes, I do own one labeled "Adult", and no, you don't get to see what's on it.

(There's room for a parody of Spoon's "My Little Japanese Cigarette Case" called "My Little Japanese Memory Card" in here, and literally no one but me would get it. As such, I will refrain from naming the post that.)

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