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Thu 12/07/01 at 22:00
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If anyone hasn’t heard about this little beauty, The Expansion Memory Card made by EMS Production Limited, is a small device that goes into your memory card slot. Putting a PS2 memory card into the device compresses the memory card turning it from 8mb to 32mb!
Does anyone know anything about this- with the extortionate price of PS2 memory cards, it could be a bargain little piece of kit.
Release date, price, anyone?
Fri 13/07/01 at 13:50
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The PC storage idea seems like a sound one.
Fri 13/07/01 at 10:04
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Compression on memory cards proved to be fairly unreliable on PS1. Personally, I'd avoid any such peripheral as if it was the plague!
Fri 13/07/01 at 00:04
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The access speed on the memory cards will be soooo much slower though.
Fri 13/07/01 at 00:00
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I was just pointing out that the disks used have a capacity of 1.5 GB much smaller than a 4GB memory card which seems quite odd.
Thu 12/07/01 at 23:58
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the Gamecube will have 64MB memory cards at launch from panasonic. But these memory cards are used by a wide range of products so i am not sure if the 4GB ones will be for GC.
Thu 12/07/01 at 23:54
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It's static memory though so it would be unfeasible to run a game off it, as it would be very slow.
Thu 12/07/01 at 23:51
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If it was 4GB it would be huge!
Thu 12/07/01 at 23:50
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With 4GB memory cards they would be better putting the games on them. I don't think it will be 4GB thats more than some peoples hard drives in their PC's
Thu 12/07/01 at 23:48
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not sure at all, but the 64MB one will cost $100.
Thu 12/07/01 at 23:37
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at what cost? and how big will they be?

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