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I have a question for all of you

Could our memory card have a limited live ?;  Can our Psone and two memory card  have some kind of battery that could die during the time ?.

Or is the Ps one and two memory card  eternal live as little hard drive ?.

 

Thanks!



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theres no battery in them, its just storage, howver i had a PS1 memory card that crapped out on me, don't know why though.



They don't have a battery in them, but it's possible for them to fail like anything else.



Yup, no batteries to die out on you. :) They can fail though as others have said. I have a used PS2 memory card that I bought that occasionally screws up my saves (it may be dirty or something). My other PS1/PS2 memory cards, I've had no problems with though. I still have my old FF7 save(+90hrs) from 1997 on one of my PS1 memory cards, haha.

I think some of the PS1 third party memory cards might be more susceptible to failing than the Sony memory cards. I'm not sure if this also applies to PS2 memory cards.




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AFAIK memory cards don't have any moving cards or batteries, but sometimes stuff just breaks down. Most PS1 stuff is around a decade old by now, so it's only to be expected.



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Flash memory have limited amounts of writes before they break. Used to be in the low thousands for the same block. Newer flash memory devices (most anyways) have built in RAIDed banks and will automatically detect memory going bad and remap it. PS1 probably predates any features like that... so the more you save to it, the quicker it will wear out.

I hope they did the memory in the wii right...  otherwise in a couple of years it will be as bad a rrod...