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March 8, 2000

PS2 Memory Card Impressions
Posted by @ 1:28 PM, EST
Chris, one of PS2 Central’s foreign correspondents, messed with the new PS2 memory card to find out just how good the backwards compatibility really is.
Here’s a bit of his impressions:

Backwards compatibility. That’s what Sony promised we would have with the PS2 and more importantly the peripherals. We’ll I’ve done some testing on different save and load situations and here is what I have found.

PS2 games require the PS2 memory card period. Although this may seem obvious to some most of the PS2 games out right now would fit on a standard Playstation memory card no problem. But this just doesn’t work. If you attempt to save a game to a standard card it will give you an error message and tell you to insert a PS2 memory card. You can copy a Playstation game save to a PS2 memory card though without a problem but more on that a bit further down. You cannot copy any PS2 file to a Playstation memory card through the normal copy and delete we are all familiar with.

Playstation memory cards are a whole other mess to deal with. First off original Playstation games will not work with the new PS2 memory cards. It doesn’t recognize the card as being there. So even though you can copy your Playstation game files to a PS2 memory card it really does you no good other that a backup of some sort. Secondly if the Playstation memory card is not in the first memory card slot then the game cannot recognize it as being there.
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Name:Chris
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Comment: Yes if the PS memory card is in slot one then you'll be able to save it no problem. I think future games might build in better save routines so that they can recognize and use the PS2 memory cards.


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Comment: So if I try to save FFIX on the PS2 and with a PSX memory card inserted into the PS2 then it will work


Name:Irvin
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Comment: Thanks Neo


Name:Neo
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Comment: Irvin, the over heating problem will be fixed as the DVD player inside the machine is updated, which will be in the next bunch of PS2's...The DVD player in the machine is cheap, but the machines that are made in the future will be alot better, wait 2 of 3 months...and there should be no problem.


Name:Irvin
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Comment: Neo do you know if the overheating problem will be fixed?


Name:Neo
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Comment: Ok, I have just finished talking to a guy in the games industry, and he told me that the problem, was the chips in the PS2 memory cards, sony is in the process of fixing the problem. This problem will be sorted out with in the next 2 months. The memorys cards that are sold with the machine are different to the memory card which is sold buy them selfs. I have also been told that the PS2 hardware will change, but this will not make a difference to the spec, just the quality of the DVD picture.


Name:Majorgamer
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Comment: Yes, that is exactly what it means. :)


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Comment: No not the whole game. Games saves.


Name:Iron Curtain
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Comment: I didn't know PSX games could be copied onto the Memory card. That surprised me.


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Comment: not unless you use the psx card instead of the psx2's


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Comment: Does this mean that I'll be able to play FFIX on the PS2 and save my game on the PS2


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