honestly i have no idea what you're talking about with corrupted Memory Cards, i've been playing since the PSX first came out and have yet to have a memory card corrupted, though my sister-in-law kept losing her FFVIII saves, i guess if you kill the power or reset the system while on a save screen that could have adverse effects but who's stupid enough to do anything involving the power when the memory card is opened on a save screen... as for the save count that's been there since the NES days and was a common feature on many games so it's no surprise there was a count on the SNES as well and of course all ports to the PSone still carried this along with them...