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"The Price Of Memory cards"

The other day i got the PS2 for an early birthday present along with 2 games - Tekken Tag and MGS2. The only problem is that I haven't got a memory card. I looked in loads of mags but couldn't find the price. (My computer had to be fixed so i coldn'y go on the net). So finally I asked my friend how much they were and he told me.....25 QUID!!! I know it's a PS2 and it's amazing but that's very poor! I've got £15 quid and one guy who's gonna explode...ME! PSone memory cards only cost around £3, so why do PS2 ones cost so much!!!!?

reynolds wrote:
> i no the prices are ridiculas

If you don't like the prices, don't buy the console.

O.K thanks alot, atleast that's something that's been cleared up. But how much memory does this memory card contain. Surely you wouldn't need that much if you were only going round a friends house to use it. Lets face, some owners of the X-Box will not have alot of friends so it would be a pointless purchase. But for the rest, i suppose it will make gaming even more fun.

( . )Juicy Melons( . ) wrote:
> Well i haven't looked at the previous posts and i don't like the X-Box
> forum so i thought i'd ask you guys. Can you save your progress on to
> the hard drive on the X-Box? If yes then why are they selling an X-Box
> memory card? I think it is because your hard drive may get full but
> i'm not sure what the real answer is.


Yes- you can use the HDD to store game saves... and no, you'll never fill it! (Even if you bought thousands of games, I doubt you could fill it!).

The mem card is pretty much just for transferring data to mates houses. So, for example, with Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2 you can train your own computer characters, take them to a friend's house on the mem card, and then fight with your friend's guy.

Sonic

Bonus wrote:
> Because,
>
> They are 8Mb in size and store a hell of a lot of data
>
> They are the same as Sony memory sticks which are a very fast and
> portable storage device, and such quality comes with a price tag
>
> thay are about 16 times the size of a GC memory card which costs
> £15
>
> So stop whining....

yah they cost a lot but there is a non offital 16 MB memory card for about 27 quid nowadays.

Well i haven't looked at the previous posts and i don't like the X-Box forum so i thought i'd ask you guys. Can you save your progress on to the hard drive on the X-Box? If yes then why are they selling an X-Box memory card? I think it is because your hard drive may get full but i'm not sure what the real answer is.

i no the prices are ridiculas

Yep - you need a ps one memeoryt card for ps one games..

Sorry to change the topic slightly, but, does anyone know if you need a PSOne memory card to save PSOne games on a PS2? Or can you save PSOne games using the PS2 memory cards?

USB zip drive? thats interesting...

*ponders*

wouldn't that be just for zipping up downloads from the HD for when the PS goes online?

anyway memory cards they are expensive, you can probably get an unofficial sony 8mb Memory card from shops now or have a look on ebay they normally have people selling official ones for around £15-£20.

blimeyoreilly wrote:
> How about games supporting memory via the usb port like the usb-pen
> drives

I've seen a USB zip drive.