• TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    A few points:

    • It’s save data, not “save states”. That’s an emulator feature.
    • They’re basically correct that you’re only using memory cards for save data because the game itself is on a disc (point of pedantry: it’s a “disc”, not a “disk” unless you were using a HDD like they referred to). I was just pointing out a neat little fact that there were very rare cases when it wasn’t actually just used for save data storage.

    They’re correct they aren’t used for the same purpose. IIRC, a PS1 game would’ve been more akin to at most around 2 GiB for the ones that featured four discs.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        They tried and failed to be a pedant about “memory” (you can’t tell me everyone didn’t know what the OP meant even if they hadn’t been correct); I don’t see why an attempt at keeping things factual is “really unnecessary”. The meme itself is stupid as hell and has no nuance, but tbh that’s par for the course for tech memes.