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Dowbocop wrote:Could you have loaded the F-Zero save then hot swapped it with the new memory card and saved it again? Curious as to whether that would work.

May have worked - not sure it occurred to me at the time!

Drumstick wrote:

Dowbocop wrote:Could you have loaded the F-Zero save then hot swapped it with the new memory card and saved it again? Curious as to whether that would work.

May have worked - not sure it occurred to me at the time!

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Drumstick wrote:

Dowbocop wrote:Could you have loaded the F-Zero save then hot swapped it with the new memory card and saved it again? Curious as to whether that would work.

May have worked - not sure it occurred to me at the time!

Wouldn't that have just corrupted both memory cards? I remember specifically having to have the system off to swap memory cards around.

Qikz wrote:

Drumstick wrote:

Dowbocop wrote:Could you have loaded the F-Zero save then hot swapped it with the new memory card and saved it again? Curious as to whether that would work.

May have worked - not sure it occurred to me at the time!

Wouldn't that have just corrupted both memory cards? I remember specifically having to have the system off to swap memory cards around.

Never tried it but some rando on GameFAQs seems to say it'll work...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/91 ... e/78897371

I've got nothing to base this on but I always thought the memory card loaded the save data to the console and then the console didn't touch the memory card until the next save/load. You'd be at permanent risk of corrupting the card if it was always read/writing. Only weird point could be if it doesn't do a "full" save and only updates a few bits - if there was no existing save file or a very different one it could become nonsense.

I did occasionally at the time, but definitely now my retro games are in storage. Both GameCube and ps2 cards are stored in game boxes.

rinks wrote:No. But Constructor on PS1 came with its own memory card, because the save data used the entire card, but the PS1 cases didn't have the slot for it so it just rattled around between the disc and the manual.

I seem to remember a GC game that similarly needed a whole card. Baten Kaitos, maybe? But I never put the card in the case.

Xcom Enemy Unknown on PS1 was advertised as needing the whole card which is true if you save mid mission, if you make yourself save only pre or post mission you could make it use only 3 slots.

Good question! Sometimes I did but very rarey!

Not really. The cards always just lived around the console, maybe in a videogame drawer.

Only once. I had a separate PS2 memory card for Japanese save files and I kept that in one of my NTSC-J fighting games.

Otherwise, I had/have them in small plastic bags with a slip of paper inside to show what's actually on the card. All of my PS1, PS2, and Gamecube cards like this were then stored in a plastic tub.

On a related note, I always found it comical how little space you had to write on those label stickers that came with memory cards. It was legit only any good if you saved 3-4 games per memory card and left the rest of the storage space unused.