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"PS2 playing PS games... problem"

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use the PS2 memory card to save ordinary PS games (when played on PS2).

I tried out Resident Evil 3 on my PS2 (funny how poor the graphics look in comparison to the next gen games isn't it?!). Anyway I went to save my progress, my PS2 memory card was inserted but I got the error saying that it wasn't.

Did this happen anyone else ?

Any ideas ?

You can save your PS1 game saves onto the PS2 memory card through the browser but (only for backup) you can't acess them in a game from there, but at least you can back up files then delete them off your PS1 card and get more free space then you just save them back to the PS1 card when you need them it uses about 10Kb. per block as it uses 2Kb for the file headder as on a hard drive

yeah but it's a larf.

Erm? You don`t have to play along you know dave, it`ll just make you look as stupid as me.

ssxpro wrote:
> Damn! It happened on a PS2 game now. I get these square blocks on
> the screen when I play TimeSplitters. Every time I go to the Chinese
> level, there are about 7 or 8 of them around the level, and even
> more annoyingly, the computer characters always hide behind
> them.
Fortunately it wasn`t as bad as Tetris.

ssxpro, I've also heard some people have experienced "blocks" whilst playing Tekken Tag ...could this be another occurrence of the PS2 Block Bug?

> I hope
> that other Playstation games don't take up as much space or we will
> be forced to have a big stack of £30 PS2 memory cards with 3
> or 4 files saved on them.


Shouldn't do. I have 7 games at the moment, and they all save on one card with plenty of space to spare.

And a lot of the used space is taken up by Madden NFL 2001, which saves several files, depending on what aspects of the game you use.

Damn! It happened on a PS2 game now. I get these square blocks on the screen when I play TimeSplitters. Every time I go to the Chinese level, there are about 7 or 8 of them around the level, and even more annoyingly, the computer characters always hide behind them.
Fortunately it wasn`t as bad as Tetris.

And it dont take a rocket scientist to work out that most games have at least 2 blocks now and GT takes 6 (i think)so 3 games per mem card...

Break down: GT1, GT2, another 1 block game

ok vai no need to be picky. I still say it's expensive no matter how much the cost is per byte. Lets look at it another way:

You pay £10 for a PS1 Memory card which allows you to save up to 15 "blocks" of information. That is 15 games that can be saved.

The PS2 card saves in files instead of blocks to save space on the memory card. For example a saved file for Tekken Tag Tournament takes up about 250kb (actually my saved file takes up more) So that's 4 saved files of the same size.

The PS2 memory card has gotten bigger because the games take up more space. I hope that other Playstation games don't take up as much space or we will be forced to have a big stack of £30 PS2 memory cards with 3 or 4 files saved on them.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work it out.....

Darkreaper

Expensive? Lets take a look=

PS1 Cards = £9.99 128kb storage
PS2 Cards = £28.99 8mb storage

PS2 Cards = 62.5 (rounded down to 1000kb per mb) times the storage cap of PS1 cards

So if we did it on the same system, £9.99 x 62.5 =

£62.50

It dont take a rocket scientist to work out the savings...

Sounds fair but the new PS2 memory cards are still expensive.

Darkreaper