PS1 Game Saves - Memory Card Capacity

[Delvesy]

Guys & Girls,

I'm looking to complete my library of Gran Turismo & Grand Theft Auto games, by purchasing the PS1 games of Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo 2, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto London and Grand Theft Auto 2.

While I will be using a PS2 with which to play them, I know that in order to save my progress of the games, I will need a PS1 memory card, and I understand that the official Sony PS1 memory cards are either 128KB or 1MB.

I have been told that possibly the 128KB card contains 15 blocks (1 block being approx 8KB), but have also been told by Sony Australia that the 1MB card contains 15 blocks!

My research has shown the memory used to save each of the games is as follows:

Gran Turismo - depending on who I ask, 15 blocks, 1-15 blocks or 5-15 blocks (number of blocks depending on number of number of different individual GT game saves)
Gran Turismo 2 - 1 block (although someone did tell me both GT games took up 4 blocks!)
Grand Theft Auto - 1 block
Grand Theft Auto London - 1 block
Grand Theft Auto 2 - 1 block

Can anyone please confirm whether these game save sizes for the games are correct, and/or confirm that one 1MB memory card would be more than enough for saving these games, as I would obviously need 2 x 128KB cards if the original GT takes 15 blocks?

Thanking you in advance.

Delvesy.

 

[Kelvari]

Unfortunately, the PS1 memory card doesn't use "MB" for storage. It uses "Blocks". Any game save will take a bare minimum of 1 block, so you could have 15 game saves taking up half the available memory of the memory card, but still be unable to put anything more on it. As for the requirements for those games, I'll see what I can find for you.

Edit:

Gran Turismo: 5
Gran Turismo 2: 4
Grand Theft Auto 2: 1
Grand Theft Auto: 1
GTA: London 1969: 1

1 memory card will be plenty, leaving you with 3 blocks left over

 

[Delvesy]

Thanks Kelvari. Much appreciated.

 

[Serge.D]

i have a 'piranha'memory card:up to 240 blocks memory.👍

 

[Delvesy]

i have a 'piranha'memory card:up to 240 blocks memory.👍

Serge, that's great. I don't. I prefer using the real McCoy, so if it's a PS1, I'll use a PS1 memory card. Less chance of corrupting data, I believe.

 

[Tornado]

Serge, that's great. I don't. I prefer using the real McCoy, so if it's a PS1, I'll use a PS1 memory card. Less chance of corrupting data, I believe.

Correct. Games that take up lots of space (RPGs, GT2, etc.) can freak out if there is much more space than normal.
Many games also refuse to run them if they have the normal memory card diagram similar to the one in the BIOS.

 

[Serge.D]

i also have 3 sony ps1 memory cards.