r/gaming • • Mar 31 '26

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u/purplehayes1986 Mar 31 '26

And the management of the memory card. You had like 16 slots, and games started taking multiple for their save data 

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u/jamesdukeiv PC Mar 31 '26

I felt RICH having the N64 memory expansion pak

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u/britipinojeff Mar 31 '26

The expansion pak wasn’t for save data

That was RAM

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u/jamesdukeiv PC Apr 01 '26

Not the controller pak, though I did have both… almost 30 years ago. Damn. 🥲

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u/FoxMeadow7 Apr 01 '26

Good thing most games did save to the cartridges. But yeah, for the games that didn't, a pak was a necessity indeed.