Submitted 22 hours ago by Kain1@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
https://www.retronews.com/run-your-ps2-library-from-a-50-memory-card-effortlessly/
A new innovation in the retro gaming community now allows you to run your entire PS2 library directly from a $50 memory card, thanks to the Multi-Purpose Memory Card Emulation (MMCE) protocol.
Probably cheaper to use a 2.5" hard drive. Though I guess this works with Slims as well
I think the best thing is to load your games over the network. The usb ports are only 1.0. And I’m pretty sure the network adapter hard drive connector either only accepts up to 40gb drives or it only uses a pata connection.
There are newer adapters. I use a 500GB SATA drive just fine
I bought a 3rd party drive adaptor without a network port and had to load my games on my PC using a network enclosure.
It was still a pain. Its all soooooo slow and buggy.
I have a 2TB SATA HDD in my PS2 fat. AFAIK that’s still the maximum storage size possible with the FMCB/wLaunchELF software. I believe that an unmodded original network adapter should be able to take up to a 512MB IDE drive, but I’d have to double-check that.
I used to use a third-party “network adapter” (they usually don’t have Ethernet, just an HDD connector) with SATA support, which still works fine (it seems like most brands stopped working properly after a certain homebrew software version), but later I bought an official adapter (IDE/PATA) and a SATA conversion kit (a kit specific to the PS2 network adapter, not a standard IDE-SATA converter, which sometimes work with the PS2 and sometimes don’t) so I could try network stuff.
I don’t think it was worth it, but these days it’s probably the way to go since there no longer seems to be any way of telling the non-working aftermarket adaptors from the working ones; the companies making the bad ones just started putting the brand name of the one still working adapter on their products.
I have a 500GB drive in my hard drive slot using the third party adapter and grimDoomer OPL
From my experience using mem2sio to run games from an SD card is that the memory card slot causes issues with certain games causing issues from lagging cutscenes, long load times, and freezes. Are those fixed in this version or is it similar as far as compatibility goes?
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
That’s cool and all, but you can probably run your entire PS2 library from stuff you already own.
stevo887@lemmings.world 22 hours ago
Some people like to play on original hardware but I guess this still being emulation makes that a little cloudy. I certainly couldn’t justify it. I own a computer and wireless controller, so as you said.
Redkey@programming.dev 9 hours ago
If you have a relatively powerful computer or phone, and your library only contains games from the console’s top 100 or so, you’re probably right.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Kinda difficult to put all of your game discs into the PS2
LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You can install a hard drive and burn your games to it.