What am I seeing here?
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Original PlayStation memory card icons are really small — only 16 pixels square! That’s awfully tiny for today’s screens so I’ve created 2 versions of each icon: one at 32 pixels that is closer to the original size and a much larger one at 256 pixels.
FUN FACT
Here’s another mysterious example of a static memory card icon from a Western release being animated in the Japanese version. This seems to happen from time to time and might simply be a small flourish added by the team localizing the game from one region to another