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"The PS2 Expansion Memory Card"

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?

4GB memory cards from panasonic for the gamecube by 2004.

Yes, I used one on the PS1. It took ages and buggered up the card. Good thing I backed it up then.

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Big memory cards are ALWAYS, ALWAYS bad news as I found out the hard way.

Turbonutter wrote:
> AliBoy wrote:
> I wouldn't think it would change the loading
> times by much but I
> could be wrong.


It will take bloody
> ages, and be very unreliable. Job done.

Have you used one?

AliBoy wrote:
> I wouldn't think it would change the loading times by much but I
> could be wrong.


It will take bloody ages, and be very unreliable. Job done.

You can get a 16 meg or a 32 meg expansion pack. It uses an officail memory card to upgrade it to 16 or 32 meg. It uses decompression as stated before. There is also a smart media card available in 8/16/32 meg which can be used as a memory card and does a few extra things like editing saves for cheats and uploading and downloading from a PC.

Dunno- its supposed to be quite clever how it does it, but i would have thought there would be a downside to it.

I wouldn't think it would change the loading times by much but I could be wrong.

surely using compression technology the memory card will take ages to load no?

You are amazing.