I was a store manager for GameStop for three years in the mid 2000’s and can confirm we never ever wiped any memory cards nor was there a company policy
@SentientPops Yes, we would take the stickers off if asked. To your point, it would take a lot of time to manually wipe the memory cards. In addition, we would need to set up a PS2 to initiative the process of deleting the saves. Gamestop was all about getting the used product back out there so they could sell it at max price. The more the games or accessories sat on the shelf the less they would be worth. This also included systems as well
I did this personally, completing games i found so difficult 20 years ago, were a breeze as an adult, but it felt like i was closing chapters of my childhood... an emotional experience for sure
Feels kinda dirty though especially if you lived in it people touching your card or saves was almost sacrilegious but they gave it up by choice so I can't say no.
@@erueka6 That's a fair point, although, handling money everyday that has been exchanged by people for decades isn't any cleaner. Besides, I don't think anyone died of game card related deseases. I myself I always clean anything I buy used.
What I didn't like about the Xbox was that it had a hard drive. As a result, hardly anyone who had an Xbox bought the memory card. It was always said bring your save and the answer was, don't bring my console with you. Just the love that was put into it for the memory card savegames with the animations, etc. Didn't even have the cube. The cube generally had the problem with the blocks. I remember that I had the gray card with 54 blocks. Some games simply took up to 20 blocks. was like the PS1 but even there, I didn't think it was that bad. especially since PS1 memory cards were not that expensive in comparison. It's really a shame that those times are over. At the latest with the PS5, where you can no longer back up your saves on the USB stick, it's just shit and pure money-making, because you're forced to pay for the cloud save subscription. At least MS offers it for free.
This is Mike here! Been following you for ages and watching this video was completely trippy. The reason that I never got the clues was literally because I thought their only purpose was to exist for completion progress. Had no "clue" until this video they actually gave you moves for getting them all. Keep it up Mystic.
One of my absolute favorite things about the PS2 was how every game (for the most part) had a cute little 3D model or logo in the memory card. Every time I popped in a new game my dad bought for me, I always had to check what it was, it was exciting lol
During those days as a kid, I rarely got new games. Spent a lot of time at pawn shops and used sections for my PS2. Had several memory cards back then where they has existing save files and sometimes I did this too if I had the game. My name is Gary, maybe that one card was one of mine. I definitely played all of those games. Such a blast of nostalgia
The market is what dictates the final product. The companies have only followed the gamers. Gamers used to appreciate quality and creativity. Times have changed.
You have that somewhat wrong. Today, what is happening is so-called 'user experience' via 'UX experts'. The problem here is the framing of the word 'user', like a drug user. One element of modern UX is in microtrans and attention-stealing/retention, which means it's built to keep you hooked to their game/service 24/7. This is also how modern social media functions, along with Netflix and other TV streaming services. I don't use the term UX for this reason, even though it used to have a more reasonable meaning that was actually player-centric and positive (such as with Naughty Dog's amazing UX with Crash Bandicoot circa 1994-1996). What you're really talking about is 'player experience'. You have also somewhat incorrectly placed the issue of micotrans and greed onto the devs, when the players -- or users -- are also to blame for demanding it and/or supporting it. Nobody is forcing players to use microtrans -- they want to and love doing it and keep doing it. Sometimes, they even demand it with Skins/cosmetics, season passes, general DLC, and even in-game benefits. This was really invented around 2007-2009 (with origins back to 2004 and before) and was widely used and demanded by players by 2012 or so. By 2017, it's in almost every major game, and many players love it and demand it, such as with Call of Duty: WWII, Fortnite, Overwatch, CS:GO, World of Warcraft, Warframe, RuneScape, FIFA, and many more.
@@emotionalfriendone43 Had to comment: you're one of only about 5 people I've seen correctly understand this and openly state it, out of 2,000+ comments across dozens of videos and Reddit posts, etc. Devs are only partly to blame. Many, many players are to blame and demanded this and pushed it and accepted it, starting in about 2007, more so, 2012. As you said: players mostly rejected all of this MTX/DLC stuff between 1996 or whatever and 2006. It's mostly an issue with Gen Z and middle-aged fools starting in 2007-2009 with FarmVille and FIFA. By 2012, it was in RuneScape, CandyCrush, and many other games. By 2013, it was in Warframe and countless other MMOs and AAAs and live service games and MMORPGs, leading to the state we currently have today, which really cemented itself around 2016-2018 with Overwatch, GTA Online, buyable Minecraft skins, Call of Duty: WWII, CS:GO, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and so on (including many Asian MTX/loot box machines). We had a shift in gamers and gaming landscape, which led to the devs creating MTX for income and new ways to give games to people, and a way to move towards free-to-play games instead of sub models, along with never-ending live service games, with its roots in things like World of Warcraft and RuneScape and League of Legends in the 2000s. Warcraft was very open about this by 2013 or so, when it really shifted gears. Entire games were then marketed in this way, and literally demanded by millions of players. This is around the time Gen Z got some money to throw at these games and were older, and wanted to fill their lives with something, so they turned to video game addiction and gambling/loot boxes. Now, it infects almost every young gamer -- ranging from about 12 to 25 -- in the world, from America to England to China to Japan. Many of these games are not even 18+, some are not even 16+, so pretty much anybody can buy them and feel justified and moral about doing so. It's insane that we have millions of 12-16-year-old gambling addicts via loot boxes on popular video games like FIFA, RuneScape, Call of Duty, CS:GO, Overwatch, and so on. Partly, this is a parenting problem, too. Then, we have millions more just like this in their 20s. Not as many in their 30s, but still enough -- with many more using cosmetic MTX systems in Warframe, Minecraft, Fortnite, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, and so on. Lots of studies have come out since 2018 showing that loot boxes is literally gambling, and psychologically unhealthy. They get away with it due to legal loopholes, though some nations have banned them entirely.
Just awesome to see Skater Mike lives another day, dude would be probably be hyped to know we just all got to see his creation years later. Like a time capsule.
You always have some of the best video ideas. Not only that, you're always super chill in your videos. The PS2 and PS3 era are basically my favorite, so while I do like watching youtubers who do retro game content and whatnot, PS2 is what I gravitate towards the most. Keep being awesome Ryan c:
@@lordeowstheking Is the thought of someone being nice to someone else that foreign to you? Has nobody in your life said anything nice about you? If that's your first thought when you see some positivity online, then I'm not really surprised...
Honestly, love to see so many people still enjoying PS2 up into the 2010s. Still been playing mine quite a lot, too! xD This reminds me, I really need to finally finish Final Fantasy X
You goddamn right that FFX was THE RPG for PS2. It was pretty common to see it in a PS2 owner's library, even if they weren't necessarily big on RPGs or Final Fantasy. It had almost the same impact as 7, but for the PS2.
Man whenever I see a PS2 retro video, nostalgia hits so damn hard. It only takes a few seconds watching the graphics or listening to their soundtrack to take me back to my childhood / puberty. It's something special that I can't describe.
I remember back then seeing the optical sound port complete with blue glowing cable tips and thinking "I have no idea what this is but - the future - is - here)
loved this video, its kind of sad seeing all of these save files, Knowing how much joy these games bought to people at the time, just for them now to be a forgotten memory lost in time.
I did this recently with my own ps1/2 cards. Very nostalgic, some of the saves brought vivid memories of the times in which I played the games. Pre 2000 when the world hadn't fallen off a cliff.
The absolute best video game system ever. Still hasn‘t been dethroned in units sold and the game selection was bonkers. Wish I still had my ‘03 fat PS2.
It sold that much because it had a built in DVD player, that was a big deal at the time because DVD players were more expensive than the PS2, which is why people bought the PS2 even if they weren't big gamers.
@blkshp25 Kind of but it didn't have anywhere close to the same impact at the time. Bluray players went down in price really quick. PS3 sold around 85 million... PS2 sold almost 160 million. The PS3 is only the 8th highest selling console, while the PS2 still remains at the top.
Honestly was just planning to have this in the back ground but when you started completing saves I couldn't look away. It would be awesome to see you do this way more. Especially completing games for save files. ❤
I did love the save icons/animations. Some of them had unique animations when you copied or deleted them, they were awesome. It's an interesting concept for a video because you're literally exploring people's gaming memories. It makes me realize the only PS2 game that I have yet to finish in my collection is Nightshade (sequel to Shinobi). I keep telling myself I'll get it done one day, but it's far in my backlog.
@@TheGary108 Yessir, or at least a spinoff? It's somewhat similar to Shinobi but more enemies and you play as a Kunoichi after the events of the Shinobi game. There is also an unlockable character from Shinobi!
@@TheGary108 Tbh, I much preferred the original on PS2. I think I stopped playing Nightshade because I got bored of it halfway through. But if you do end up getting it, feel free to lmk what you think of it.
I have a memory card I got from my neighbor who he got from his cousin, and I found a max payne save file from December 31st 1999, imagine being a kid enjoying Christmas break with the potential threat of y2k and deciding to spend what could be your last moments with any power playing max payne. Dope
I've had two red ps2 memory cards and one black one for about 15 years now, and couldn't bring myself to delete any data, was searching ebay and found a bunch of different oem colors I didn't even know existed, ended up picking up a Clear memory card and I'm loving it👍 🙂
@@MrPsyren99 Uh, yeah it was. Maybe not on NTSC copies which is a fair point considering where most of these cards came from, but to say it wasn't on ps2 copies at all is just flat out wrong.
surprised we saw a kh1 save but not 2. i knew 10 was popular, but didn't know how much so at the time, i didn't get my copies of 10 and 10-2 until like 2005.
I just recently checked all my PS1/2 cards. Oldest data I found was FF Anthology. The game came out in 1999 so I think the data is about that old. Oldest PS2 saves was Syphon Filter 3 at the end of 2001.
Great video. Still have my memory card seeing the date and time brings back memories it was like when we see trophies today. Memory cards was such underrated
Mike here, i came across your videos while looking at old ps2 home videos. Once i saw my character on pro skater. I remembered that i started going out more. Since i started high school. Thanks for finishing sly cooper. I gave up 😂 after awhile.
this makes me so nostalgic of going to gamestop and just buying loads of used memory cards. i always thought it was so cool, seeing other peoples journeys and what they liked to play. i do find it funny that most of the save files for ffx are from within sin. if you went from point a to point b all the way through the game with little to no grinding you were in for a hell of a boss battle. and im sure that turned many away, unless they just cheesed it with yojimbo... grinding is so fun in that game for some reason.
Oh man! The memory card slot in the PS2 disc boxes were such a cool feature. Bringing your own card to a friend's house always had me giddy. Miss those times. Thank you for making this nostalgic video.
Always enjoy getting memory cards to see what saves they've got on them! I never delete the saves or anything, I just back them up. The oldest save I currently have is from 2001
This was amazing! I’m going back playing this system currently remembering how many games I have that haven’t been played or even completed. I honestly think this system could last for many more years just off the fact of the library.
For some odd reason, each RE4 save is its own icon. Leon is a handgun while Ada is a butterfly symbol. DMC 3 is a mini clown. SH2 is a radio. SH3 is the bloody rabbit with fast walking animation. SH4 is those ghost head/fungi thing-y.
I actually tried this with my cousin back then. But I had the first revision and he had Platinum (Greatest Hits). The save I got him obviously didn't work, it said it was corrupted and restarted the game from the start. He was so mad at me lol but I was confused. I found out much later that the early copies were not compatible with Platinum revisions. Same thing for Vice City.
I had a whole lot of memory cards growing up because I kept buying new ones because I didn’t know you were able to delete the saved data on them back when I was a kid
This was genuinely fun and enjoyable to watch! The rush of memories from the PS2 era rushes back to me! Thank you for the nostalgia blast from the past 😁
from what iv seen buying memmory cards over the years it seems like anything dragon ball/ DBZ related, yugioh, ff10 and ff12, god of war, sly cooper, crash, spyro, GTA and jack were probably the most popular games
@beautepley8352 Jirard Khalil. Aka The Completionist. He's played over 300 games as part of his youtube channel, and plays them to 100% completion. He is well known...
@@skitzocalypso5840 I don't watch well known channels. I like chill, low key channels. I like supporting small channels. Mystic is like the biggest I'll go but I've been here for over a decade. I grew up with the guy.
This is such a cool concept!!! Just thinking about how long ago they played the game and if they really enjoyed it, just the infinite amount of stories behind each memory card. 😊
I'm so glad I chose the PS2 after previously favoring other consoles like the SNES and N64. So many amazing games that, even now, I carry fond memories for like FFX being my first FF game and playing the original Yakuza.
There's something special here with you completing those games after all this time. I would love to watch more of these types of videos. You should consider playing and finishing more PS2 save data! I would watch an entire series on this.
Something about seeing these old dates with these saved games is really something. All the different games that people played and just how far back they go. Furthest I've ever gone back was 2007, so to see a save file way back in 2003 is very interesting to me
The reason some of the saves are from 2012 is maybe from kids my age who also grew up on the PS2. I’m 18 now, but I grew up playing the PS2 along with the Wii and 3DS around 2010-2015.
This was such a good idea for a video. Recently, me and my younger cousin found his old ps2 with original memory card and had a blast going through it. They had our Eye Toy profiles on there and it had screenshots of us from when we were 4 and 9 years old.
lol, what a coincidence. I literally bought a used PS2 card myself like a week ago, since I have finally set up my childhood consoles again after 20 or so years and needed some more space. Mine came full of savegames as well and I feel kind of bad about deleting them. The owner was even a racing game fan like me as well.
I know, I'm a chronic game switcher and restarter myself anyone else do that? if (and only if) I'm really enjoying a game I keep the original save but about 50% will start a new save and then jump between the 2 saves as I finish the last half. No idea why just what I do sometimes
@@sellingacoerwa8318 im the fucking worst for it...i need something to hook me immediately, then i need to just stay away from looking or thinking about anything else on my steam list or emulators. here's a good example, i started witcher 2 in march of 22, got through most of chapter 1 , just did the bath scene. then didn't open it again until may 2023.... the same thing happened to me with witcher 1 back in 2018....so i'll just restart and hopefully ignore everything else when i do.
So many iconic games released in such a short period of time. I hope the tenkaichi reboot is decent. Sly is bound to come back too when people get tired of the movie games
Didn't Sony end up releasing larger than 8mb official memory cards later in its life cycle? Or I'm just remembering wrong and they were all aftermarket made ones?
I recently started to collect ps2 memory cards from japan. A lot of limited edition of ps2 memory cards like the hori tekken 5 and onimusha 3 and official ones that’s themed by ape escape and sonic heroes.
Your channel's been a real delight so far, and I've only watched your Lair video. Someday I'd like to do this, but for PS3s - PS5s. It's gonna be hell of a lot different with the lack of fun physical content, but I'm inspired. Keep it up!
i played alot in the ps2, i got mine in 2006 and i played until 2013, the year i got my Ps3, just to play the god of war games becasue i already had a pc, i still play ps2 games to this day, but in emulators, i think the PS2 era was amazing, there was alot of experimentation and new ideias, now triple A games are mostly generic , and the indie games are the ones who experiment on stuff. In Brazil most people did not move to the new gen, so ps2 sold quite well in the ps3/360 era, people bought ps2 with modchip to play pirated games, then people moved to 360 because of piracy too.
Oh I really enjoyed this video! I am one of those people who still play PS2 games to this day and get excitement from placing those disc in the slim console and seeing the memory card files for those games I never had played before. What's funny is I have the same kind of controller that is blue and even memory card being exactly the same shown at the beginning of this video! After watching this Ryan you make me want to get some used memory cards and see what save files could be stored on there and do what you did myself.
Saves that went up to 2012 were so nostalgic for me. It was exactly what you said, some people didn't have the ps3 just yet, it wasnt until 2013 after visiting my sister in Austin, she gave me her PS3 we would always play on before she moved away as a gift to me. I still have it all those years later!
there is something sad, woolesome, profound, nostalgic, lonely feeling, i just can't stop imagining the people behind the saves, the hours they spend playing the games, tge progress they'vé madé, saved in that little box
Somewhere out there, lives my PS2 memory card with a 100% complete FF10. Somewhere. Full board unlocked for everyone. Surely it was not wiped or ended up in a landfill... Surely someone marveled at my determination.... Surely.
holy crap this is a really good concept for a show, specially because I like that you even went to some of those games and completed them. I would be cool if you could do another episode like this in the future.
As a more Young Gamer ( born in 2007 ) I am glad that I grew up with a 6 years older brother and two uncles who were both around 20 years older than me , I remember it like yesterday playing games like Fifa , Pro Evolution Soccer , Fifa Street , Def Jam , Smackdown vs Raw , GTA and Mortal Kombat with them or getting their Help if I struggled with Games Like God of War or Daxter or Midnight Club and Need for Speed I am grateful for my Childhood that i had , growing up with Hiphop , Football ( or Soccer how Americans call it ) along by having sleepovers at my uncles where we all would eat something and then play countless hours together or against each other , no matter if it was Hogs of War on the PS1 , Fifa Street 2 on the PS2 , Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 on the PS3 or if it was Mortal Kombat 2 on the Super Nintendo , I will forever cherish the Moments where I give my Brother a Panna and a Gamebreaker KO and hate how my Uncle always deleted my GTA San Andreas save file where I was at 95% completion
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I was a store manager for GameStop for three years in the mid 2000’s and can confirm we never ever wiped any memory cards nor was there a company policy
@SentientPops Yes, we would take the stickers off if asked. To your point, it would take a lot of time to manually wipe the memory cards. In addition, we would need to set up a PS2 to initiative the process of deleting the saves. Gamestop was all about getting the used product back out there so they could sell it at max price. The more the games or accessories sat on the shelf the less they would be worth. This also included systems as well
I would have rather clear memory cards than file guts
I bought a few used memory cards from GameStop during that period as a kid and mine were full of saves.
make sense especially since person data Ie address, name weren't on save data linked to an account like nowadays
there was probably for sure that managers who probably did it anyways but thats awesome you didnt let childhood's die
I did this personally, completing games i found so difficult 20 years ago, were a breeze as an adult, but it felt like i was closing chapters of my childhood... an emotional experience for sure
I have to admit that loading used save files and completing them is a very interesting concept. There should be more videos like this.
Feels kinda dirty though especially if you lived in it people touching your card or saves was almost sacrilegious but they gave it up by choice so I can't say no.
@@erueka6Somebody's gotta finish the fight. Complete the mission, even when the original owner couldn't.
yes plz
@@erueka6 That's a fair point, although, handling money everyday that has been exchanged by people for decades isn't any cleaner. Besides, I don't think anyone died of game card related deseases. I myself I always clean anything I buy used.
@@raptornerd4213I don't think they were talking about physical dirt
The PS2...one of the greatest consoles ever created and responsible for millions of childhood and loving memories. ❤️
What I didn't like about the Xbox was that it had a hard drive.
As a result, hardly anyone who had an Xbox bought the memory card.
It was always said bring your save and the answer was, don't bring my console with you.
Just the love that was put into it for the memory card savegames with the animations, etc.
Didn't even have the cube. The cube generally had the problem with the blocks. I remember that I had the gray card with 54 blocks. Some games simply took up to 20 blocks. was like the PS1 but even there, I didn't think it was that bad. especially since PS1 memory cards were not that expensive in comparison.
It's really a shame that those times are over. At the latest with the PS5, where you can no longer back up your saves on the USB stick, it's just shit and pure money-making, because you're forced to pay for the cloud save subscription. At least MS offers it for free.
One of the greatest?
The PS2 is the greatest!
It's the greatest it will ever exist simply because it was the end of an era when decent budget games were made with little corporate interference.
@@ThomastheDankEngine8900 What about NES, SNES, N64, Sega Genesis, PS1?
@@etherealdreamerart i'd take the ps2 over any of those. best library, best controller.
This is Mike here! Been following you for ages and watching this video was completely trippy. The reason that I never got the clues was literally because I thought their only purpose was to exist for completion progress. Had no "clue" until this video they actually gave you moves for getting them all. Keep it up Mystic.
This is awesome
This is so fucking cool lol
I love this!
No way
lies
Man the nostalgia is so real, love how creative the icons are for the games
You'll never get this kind of creativity again
@@TheChaoticWolf i'd love to go back to when that was current, these and the icons on the gamecube cards were awesome
not sure how easy these cards are to get but you could easily make this a monthly video series with more cards, it's a great video idea
@@nmkflvptttwell it's new to many people that have never seen it done before. And Mystics audience clearly enjoys him making these types of videos.
@@aussieknucklesI’ve never seen this done. Until now thanks myst
One of my absolute favorite things about the PS2 was how every game (for the most part) had a cute little 3D model or logo in the memory card. Every time I popped in a new game my dad bought for me, I always had to check what it was, it was exciting lol
During those days as a kid, I rarely got new games. Spent a lot of time at pawn shops and used sections for my PS2. Had several memory cards back then where they has existing save files and sometimes I did this too if I had the game. My name is Gary, maybe that one card was one of mine. I definitely played all of those games. Such a blast of nostalgia
The idea of someone finding my old memory card and congratulating me for having a cleared save fills me with joy
The golden age of gaming. When studios & devs were driven by creativity & user experience rather than greed & microtransactions
True
"user experience" very true
The market is what dictates the final product. The companies have only followed the gamers. Gamers used to appreciate quality and creativity. Times have changed.
You have that somewhat wrong. Today, what is happening is so-called 'user experience' via 'UX experts'. The problem here is the framing of the word 'user', like a drug user.
One element of modern UX is in microtrans and attention-stealing/retention, which means it's built to keep you hooked to their game/service 24/7. This is also how modern social media functions, along with Netflix and other TV streaming services.
I don't use the term UX for this reason, even though it used to have a more reasonable meaning that was actually player-centric and positive (such as with Naughty Dog's amazing UX with Crash Bandicoot circa 1994-1996).
What you're really talking about is 'player experience'. You have also somewhat incorrectly placed the issue of micotrans and greed onto the devs, when the players -- or users -- are also to blame for demanding it and/or supporting it. Nobody is forcing players to use microtrans -- they want to and love doing it and keep doing it. Sometimes, they even demand it with Skins/cosmetics, season passes, general DLC, and even in-game benefits. This was really invented around 2007-2009 (with origins back to 2004 and before) and was widely used and demanded by players by 2012 or so. By 2017, it's in almost every major game, and many players love it and demand it, such as with Call of Duty: WWII, Fortnite, Overwatch, CS:GO, World of Warcraft, Warframe, RuneScape, FIFA, and many more.
@@emotionalfriendone43 Had to comment: you're one of only about 5 people I've seen correctly understand this and openly state it, out of 2,000+ comments across dozens of videos and Reddit posts, etc.
Devs are only partly to blame. Many, many players are to blame and demanded this and pushed it and accepted it, starting in about 2007, more so, 2012.
As you said: players mostly rejected all of this MTX/DLC stuff between 1996 or whatever and 2006. It's mostly an issue with Gen Z and middle-aged fools starting in 2007-2009 with FarmVille and FIFA. By 2012, it was in RuneScape, CandyCrush, and many other games. By 2013, it was in Warframe and countless other MMOs and AAAs and live service games and MMORPGs, leading to the state we currently have today, which really cemented itself around 2016-2018 with Overwatch, GTA Online, buyable Minecraft skins, Call of Duty: WWII, CS:GO, Star Wars: Battlefront II, and so on (including many Asian MTX/loot box machines).
We had a shift in gamers and gaming landscape, which led to the devs creating MTX for income and new ways to give games to people, and a way to move towards free-to-play games instead of sub models, along with never-ending live service games, with its roots in things like World of Warcraft and RuneScape and League of Legends in the 2000s.
Warcraft was very open about this by 2013 or so, when it really shifted gears. Entire games were then marketed in this way, and literally demanded by millions of players. This is around the time Gen Z got some money to throw at these games and were older, and wanted to fill their lives with something, so they turned to video game addiction and gambling/loot boxes. Now, it infects almost every young gamer -- ranging from about 12 to 25 -- in the world, from America to England to China to Japan. Many of these games are not even 18+, some are not even 16+, so pretty much anybody can buy them and feel justified and moral about doing so. It's insane that we have millions of 12-16-year-old gambling addicts via loot boxes on popular video games like FIFA, RuneScape, Call of Duty, CS:GO, Overwatch, and so on. Partly, this is a parenting problem, too. Then, we have millions more just like this in their 20s. Not as many in their 30s, but still enough -- with many more using cosmetic MTX systems in Warframe, Minecraft, Fortnite, League of Legends, World of Warcraft, and so on.
Lots of studies have come out since 2018 showing that loot boxes is literally gambling, and psychologically unhealthy. They get away with it due to legal loopholes, though some nations have banned them entirely.
Seeing the PS2 memory card screen brings me back to a simple time😌
I dunno if anyone has said it yet, but SOTET is Star Ocean: Till the End of Time! Fantastic game and one of my favorite RPGs growing up.
Top tier taste
only SO game i liked was one of the PSP versions
For me it was SO Second Story
i'm playing through it now
Forgive me if this is a spoiler, but was Til the End of Time the one with *that* plot twist?
Just awesome to see Skater Mike lives another day, dude would be probably be hyped to know we just all got to see his creation years later. Like a time capsule.
You always have some of the best video ideas. Not only that, you're always super chill in your videos. The PS2 and PS3 era are basically my favorite, so while I do like watching youtubers who do retro game content and whatnot, PS2 is what I gravitate towards the most. Keep being awesome Ryan c:
this was awsome
Yeah this was such a good video idea
Wipe your mouth off after you zip him up..
@@lordeowstheking Is the thought of someone being nice to someone else that foreign to you? Has nobody in your life said anything nice about you? If that's your first thought when you see some positivity online, then I'm not really surprised...
Honestly, love to see so many people still enjoying PS2 up into the 2010s. Still been playing mine quite a lot, too! xD
This reminds me, I really need to finally finish Final Fantasy X
I did finish it back in the day, but it took forever because I’d just play blitzball over and over
2020s*
Man, I still somewhat regularly play Final Fantasy X on my PS2. What a hell of a game, unfortunately the HD Remasters were not as good as the OG
You goddamn right that FFX was THE RPG for PS2. It was pretty common to see it in a PS2 owner's library, even if they weren't necessarily big on RPGs or Final Fantasy. It had almost the same impact as 7, but for the PS2.
Man whenever I see a PS2 retro video, nostalgia hits so damn hard. It only takes a few seconds watching the graphics or listening to their soundtrack to take me back to my childhood / puberty. It's something special that I can't describe.
I remember back then seeing the optical sound port complete with blue glowing cable tips and thinking "I have no idea what this is but - the future - is - here)
loved this video, its kind of sad seeing all of these save files, Knowing how much joy these games bought to people at the time, just for them now to be a forgotten memory lost in time.
Right I got so happy when saw mine XD
I did this recently with my own ps1/2 cards. Very nostalgic, some of the saves brought vivid memories of the times in which I played the games. Pre 2000 when the world hadn't fallen off a cliff.
The absolute best video game system ever. Still hasn‘t been dethroned in units sold and the game selection was bonkers. Wish I still had my ‘03 fat PS2.
It sold that much because it had a built in DVD player, that was a big deal at the time because DVD players were more expensive than the PS2, which is why people bought the PS2 even if they weren't big gamers.
I still have mine... Game selection less now than it was tho
@@__D-B__ The same could be said of the PS3 blu-ray player
@blkshp25 Kind of but it didn't have anywhere close to the same impact at the time. Bluray players went down in price really quick. PS3 sold around 85 million... PS2 sold almost 160 million. The PS3 is only the 8th highest selling console, while the PS2 still remains at the top.
For each one of those old saves from early 2000s there was a day back then where whoever owned those memory cards just played for the very last time
Honestly was just planning to have this in the back ground but when you started completing saves I couldn't look away. It would be awesome to see you do this way more. Especially completing games for save files. ❤
I looked through my Dreamcast VMU a couple of years ago and found out that somewhere in between all the news that day I played some RE3 on 9-11-01.
I did love the save icons/animations. Some of them had unique animations when you copied or deleted them, they were awesome. It's an interesting concept for a video because you're literally exploring people's gaming memories. It makes me realize the only PS2 game that I have yet to finish in my collection is Nightshade (sequel to Shinobi). I keep telling myself I'll get it done one day, but it's far in my backlog.
Shinobi had a sequel!?
@@TheGary108 Yessir, or at least a spinoff? It's somewhat similar to Shinobi but more enemies and you play as a Kunoichi after the events of the Shinobi game. There is also an unlockable character from Shinobi!
@@shahrouhokay, now I’ll have to find a copy. Somehow I missed that.
@@TheGary108 Tbh, I much preferred the original on PS2. I think I stopped playing Nightshade because I got bored of it halfway through. But if you do end up getting it, feel free to lmk what you think of it.
@@shahrouh No problem.
I have a memory card I got from my neighbor who he got from his cousin, and I found a max payne save file from December 31st 1999, imagine being a kid enjoying Christmas break with the potential threat of y2k and deciding to spend what could be your last moments with any power playing max payne. Dope
I've had two red ps2 memory cards and one black one for about 15 years now, and couldn't bring myself to delete any data, was searching ebay and found a bunch of different oem colors I didn't even know existed, ended up picking up a Clear memory card and I'm loving it👍 🙂
I've been going HARD on PS2 lately so this is content! Memory Card misery is real with saves being stuck on a broken card. This was cathartic
Brings a tear to my eye. RIP in peace to my memory cards that got stolen around 2003/4.
I would have loved to see some of those FFX saves and how they had their parties setup through the sphere grid
Awesome video as always 🎉
PrestiegeIsKey jumpscare
Why the sphere grid was more linear then the game itself,
@@MrPsyren99Clearly talking about the expert sphere grid, not the standard one.
@@gamingbytetv665 expert wasn't available on PS2 copies
@@MrPsyren99 Uh, yeah it was. Maybe not on NTSC copies which is a fair point considering where most of these cards came from, but to say it wasn't on ps2 copies at all is just flat out wrong.
I didn't have a PS2 when I was a kid but FFX and Kingdom Hearts were games that made me want one. Not surprised to see a lot of FFX save files.
surprised we saw a kh1 save but not 2.
i knew 10 was popular, but didn't know how much so at the time, i didn't get my copies of 10 and 10-2 until like 2005.
It makes me so happy to see that other people played my still all time favorite series Sly Cooper
SOTET is Star Ocean Till the end of Time - Fantastic game, you could tell the first memory cards previous owner was a massive JRPG fan lol
and lots of xenosaga files lol and not to mention that the game is expensive now
@@timelymirror7826 don't remind me I sold my copy years ago 😭
I just recently checked all my PS1/2 cards. Oldest data I found was FF Anthology. The game came out in 1999 so I think the data is about that old. Oldest PS2 saves was Syphon Filter 3 at the end of 2001.
Great video. Still have my memory card seeing the date and time brings back memories it was like when we see trophies today. Memory cards was such underrated
My first trophy is from 2009, thats crazy, My PSN account is already 14 years old lol
Mike here, i came across your videos while looking at old ps2 home videos. Once i saw my character on pro skater. I remembered that i started going out more. Since i started high school. Thanks for finishing sly cooper. I gave up 😂 after awhile.
this makes me so nostalgic of going to gamestop and just buying loads of used memory cards.
i always thought it was so cool, seeing other peoples journeys and what they liked to play.
i do find it funny that most of the save files for ffx are from within sin. if you went from point a to point b all the way through the game with little to no grinding you were in for a hell of a boss battle. and im sure that turned many away, unless they just cheesed it with yojimbo... grinding is so fun in that game for some reason.
This gave me such great nostalgia feels. The loading screens. All the games that me and friends used to play. Great video
Let’s all salute Mike on a job well done! 👍🏼💪🏻
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Thanks
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-not Mike but identifies as Mike during this video
MVP gamer
@@warrioroflight99 For Micheal! 😉
1:21 😄😁😍😍😍 that start up noise :P
I still have my PS2 I got back in 2006. Even now that I have switch and PS5, I still play PS2 the most! Truly a legendary gaming experience
Had 50004 in 2007-2010, died due to laser disc readed malfunction because of DVD-RW abusing. Not a huge deal, nowadays I play on PCSX2.
You really get a sense of what kind of gamer these people were from their old saves, and when they were playing them. Cool video idea
One of your best videos! Love this type of nostalgia
I remember when I was really young not having a ps2 memory card and always having to restart games lol
Oh man! The memory card slot in the PS2 disc boxes were such a cool feature. Bringing your own card to a friend's house always had me giddy. Miss those times. Thank you for making this nostalgic video.
I love how every game had a unique emblem for the file
Always enjoy getting memory cards to see what saves they've got on them! I never delete the saves or anything, I just back them up. The oldest save I currently have is from 2001
This was amazing! I’m going back playing this system currently remembering how many games I have that haven’t been played or even completed. I honestly think this system could last for many more years just off the fact of the library.
Oh the nostalgia of seeing what the menu of these memory cards looked like.. Amazing, love watching your videos.
For some odd reason, each RE4 save is its own icon. Leon is a handgun while Ada is a butterfly symbol. DMC 3 is a mini clown. SH2 is a radio. SH3 is the bloody rabbit with fast walking animation. SH4 is those ghost head/fungi thing-y.
I'd love to see you do this again. Great fun, and a hell of a lot of nostalgia.
Unreal people were still playing these actively in North America in 2012. They were certainly immensely cheap for a while.
Honestly sometimes I miss memory cards being able to share saves with friends and family. I remember giving my Uncle a complete save of gta sa.
once you've taken over all the terrority in the post game, there's no way other gangs can challenge you, is there? I can't remember it was so long ago
I actually tried this with my cousin back then. But I had the first revision and he had Platinum (Greatest Hits). The save I got him obviously didn't work, it said it was corrupted and restarted the game from the start. He was so mad at me lol but I was confused.
I found out much later that the early copies were not compatible with Platinum revisions. Same thing for Vice City.
@@Manic_Panic yeah so weird how copys that look similar can't be used.
I had a whole lot of memory cards growing up because I kept buying new ones because I didn’t know you were able to delete the saved data on them back when I was a kid
Incredible idea! I really hope to see more of these videos.
I really enjoyed this video.
I like how the memory cards had the "magic gate" label on them, it really was a magic gate into each players lives.
Great idea for a video. It’s always great looking back and seeing what others enjoyed.
This video was recommended to me and would love to see more
This was genuinely fun and enjoyable to watch! The rush of memories from the PS2 era rushes back to me!
Thank you for the nostalgia blast from the past 😁
from what iv seen buying memmory cards over the years it seems like
anything dragon ball/ DBZ related, yugioh, ff10 and ff12, god of war, sly cooper, crash, spyro, GTA and jack were probably the most popular games
It doesn't matter how hard you try, nobody is a completionist like Ryan.
The Completionist would beg to differ... 😅
@@skitzocalypso5840 who dat?
@beautepley8352
Jirard Khalil. Aka The Completionist. He's played over 300 games as part of his youtube channel, and plays them to 100% completion. He is well known...
@@skitzocalypso5840 I don't watch well known channels. I like chill, low key channels. I like supporting small channels. Mystic is like the biggest I'll go but I've been here for over a decade. I grew up with the guy.
The “is this content” at the beginning was perfect 😂😂😂
More of these please brother, what an idea.
Great video idea! this was super cool, thanks for sharing!
This is such a cool concept!!! Just thinking about how long ago they played the game and if they really enjoyed it, just the infinite amount of stories behind each memory card. 😊
Not surprising the amount of FFX saves. Game sold more copies than GTA3 on the console.
I'm so glad I chose the PS2 after previously favoring other consoles like the SNES and N64. So many amazing games that, even now, I carry fond memories for like FFX being my first FF game and playing the original Yakuza.
I really hope you'll do more of these. Digital archeology is incredibly fascinating.
What an awesome concept man, looking forward to this
Just saying, those animated save file icons were badass, that console was my childhood
What a great video! This is like reliving a persons life. Who knows where these people are now and what great stories they had!
There's something special here with you completing those games after all this time.
I would love to watch more of these types of videos. You should consider playing and finishing more PS2 save data! I would watch an entire series on this.
Something about seeing these old dates with these saved games is really something. All the different games that people played and just how far back they go. Furthest I've ever gone back was 2007, so to see a save file way back in 2003 is very interesting to me
The reason some of the saves are from 2012 is maybe from kids my age who also grew up on the PS2. I’m 18 now, but I grew up playing the PS2 along with the Wii and 3DS around 2010-2015.
I thought I was the only creep doing memory card snooping! haha I love the history behind these
That's why it was called memory card, it contained our sweet memories
This was such a good idea for a video. Recently, me and my younger cousin found his old ps2 with original memory card and had a blast going through it. They had our Eye Toy profiles on there and it had screenshots of us from when we were 4 and 9 years old.
lol, what a coincidence. I literally bought a used PS2 card myself like a week ago, since I have finally set up my childhood consoles again after 20 or so years and needed some more space. Mine came full of savegames as well and I feel kind of bad about deleting them. The owner was even a racing game fan like me as well.
Getting a glimpse into people's gaming lives is so neat.
I know, I'm a chronic game switcher and restarter myself anyone else do that? if (and only if) I'm really enjoying a game I keep the original save but about 50% will start a new save and then jump between the 2 saves as I finish the last half. No idea why just what I do sometimes
@@sellingacoerwa8318 im the fucking worst for it...i need something to hook me immediately, then i need to just stay away from looking or thinking about anything else on my steam list or emulators. here's a good example, i started witcher 2 in march of 22, got through most of chapter 1 , just did the bath scene. then didn't open it again until may 2023.... the same thing happened to me with witcher 1 back in 2018....so i'll just restart and hopefully ignore everything else when i do.
The PS2 to XBOX360 people experienced peak gaming
So many iconic games released in such a short period of time. I hope the tenkaichi reboot is decent. Sly is bound to come back too when people get tired of the movie games
game development was different back then
I wonder if the Jak 3 player beat it, got to the credits and just turned it off without saving the update.
I had a 64 MB memory card, but it was soooo slow in comparison with the 8 MB official ones.
Didn't Sony end up releasing larger than 8mb official memory cards later in its life cycle? Or I'm just remembering wrong and they were all aftermarket made ones?
@@craigsampson3386 I'm not sure. The one I got was from a "licensed" third party.
Yeah, looking at save files in PS2 memory cards is so fun.
I recently started to collect ps2 memory cards from japan.
A lot of limited edition of ps2 memory cards like the hori tekken 5 and onimusha 3 and official ones that’s themed by ape escape and sonic heroes.
seeing save data from 2 decades ago, mind boggling
My man's really played through like half of Jak 3 in the middle of recording a video. Legend
I finally found a comment mentioning this. He loaded in with Jak finding out about the dark makers and just straight up finished the game. Props
Your channel's been a real delight so far, and I've only watched your Lair video. Someday I'd like to do this, but for PS3s - PS5s. It's gonna be hell of a lot different with the lack of fun physical content, but I'm inspired. Keep it up!
Still my favourite console ever.
good thing you didn't find my 250 hours ffx save. enjoyed the video though
Not one card with Gauntlet Dark Legacy? Everyone I knew played that back in the day I thought it was more popular
i played alot in the ps2, i got mine in 2006 and i played until 2013, the year i got my Ps3, just to play the god of war games becasue i already had a pc, i still play ps2 games to this day, but in emulators, i think the PS2 era was amazing, there was alot of experimentation and new ideias, now triple A games are mostly generic , and the indie games are the ones who experiment on stuff. In Brazil most people did not move to the new gen, so ps2 sold quite well in the ps3/360 era, people bought ps2 with modchip to play pirated games, then people moved to 360 because of piracy too.
ps2 was the best console ever. It even has the highest sales to boot as well.
Oh I really enjoyed this video! I am one of those people who still play PS2 games to this day and get excitement from placing those disc in the slim console and seeing the memory card files for those games I never had played before. What's funny is I have the same kind of controller that is blue and even memory card being exactly the same shown at the beginning of this video! After watching this Ryan you make me want to get some used memory cards and see what save files could be stored on there and do what you did myself.
Saves that went up to 2012 were so nostalgic for me. It was exactly what you said, some people didn't have the ps3 just yet, it wasnt until 2013 after visiting my sister in Austin, she gave me her PS3 we would always play on before she moved away as a gift to me. I still have it all those years later!
there is something sad, woolesome, profound, nostalgic, lonely feeling, i just can't stop imagining the people behind the saves, the hours they spend playing the games, tge progress they'vé madé, saved in that little box
Somewhere out there, lives my PS2 memory card with a 100% complete FF10. Somewhere. Full board unlocked for everyone. Surely it was not wiped or ended up in a landfill... Surely someone marveled at my determination.... Surely.
holy crap this is a really good concept for a show, specially because I like that you even went to some of those games and completed them. I would be cool if you could do another episode like this in the future.
This is fantastic! Hope you do more of these exploring game files!
As a more Young Gamer ( born in 2007 ) I am glad that I grew up with a 6 years older brother and two uncles who were both around 20 years older than me , I remember it like yesterday playing games like Fifa , Pro Evolution Soccer , Fifa Street , Def Jam , Smackdown vs Raw , GTA and Mortal Kombat with them or getting their Help if I struggled with Games Like God of War or Daxter or Midnight Club and Need for Speed
I am grateful for my Childhood that i had , growing up with Hiphop , Football ( or Soccer how Americans call it ) along by having sleepovers at my uncles where we all would eat something and then play countless hours together or against each other , no matter if it was Hogs of War on the PS1 , Fifa Street 2 on the PS2 , Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 on the PS3 or if it was Mortal Kombat 2 on the Super Nintendo , I will forever cherish the Moments where I give my Brother a Panna and a Gamebreaker KO and hate how my Uncle always deleted my GTA San Andreas save file where I was at 95% completion
I was born 2006 loved playing the Xbox 360 and Wii with my family back then