Does anyone have one of these? I'm trying to get mine set up. I was under the impression that, once you get OPL installed on it, it would automatically switch between card pages or whatever based on what game you're playing, but mine doesn't seem to be doing that. Am I just moronic? Is that only for non-disc based game copies?
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Yep.
GameID doesn't work with PS2 discs, only backups, and you need a special version of OPL as well.
That's tragic. Thanks for clarifying though.
illegal copies you mean
no i use vintage hardware only
What's the point of that thing when saves on any soft-modded PS2 can be backed up to a USB flash drive? Even 8MB memory card is enough. You're not going to tell me that you play 20 games at the same time, right?
I do that thing and it's a hassle to manage, specially when dealing with huge stuff like wrestling games or shit you don't wanna move (games with unlockables like fighting games and rhythm games). It's painfully slow. I'm actually waiting for this thing since I pre-ordered one and just started shipping.
Because it’s set and forget
i just delete my saves after i beat a game. why does it matter?
I bought the sd2psx https://store.phenommod.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=74&product_id=98
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Yep, you need OPL, I think 1.20?
The latest build will give you what you want
Can this work as a PS1 card for playing PS1 games in a PS2? Or will it only function as a PS2 card in a PS2?
Does it have any sort of protection for not frying your PS1 if you forget it in PS2 mode when you plug it in? I recall the SD2PSX, basically a DIY FOSS version of this, has a warning about plugging it into a PS1 while it's set to PS2 mode.
Works for both consoles, you have an option for mode change and no warning messages.
>and no warning messages
Wait, what warning message?
This stuff
, as it allows you to change to PS1 mode while is inserted into a PS1 in PS2 mode without shitting the bed.
Oh, I thought you meant it had an option to disable the warning message.
But I think you misunderstood what I said
>it allows you to change to PS1 mode while is inserted into a PS1 in PS2 mode
Are you saying while it's plugged into a PS2 you can switch it between PS1 and PS2 modes? Because if so, that's not what I am asking. I was asking if it was left in PS2 mode and you plug it into a PS1. The SD2PSX warns that can damage the PS1 and/or the card since the PS2 cards apparently draw more power than a PS1 port was meant to supply.
No idea, but as I said, you can change modes while it's inserted on both consoles. If that could damage the memcard/console, no idea.
Someone should make a card that doubles as a FMCB card and an MX4SIO
>Launch FMCB directly from a virtual memory card!
From the product description.
Doesn't MCP2 just store saves?
ie you can't read games off it?
My bad, I misread
Yes it functions as a FMCB, no, it's impossible to run as MX4SIO because then you'd have to stop reading the game to save
>then you'd have to stop reading the game to save
Ideally I'd want one card that has FMCB and MX4SIO, then I can save to a USB (or if VMC doesn't work, to a regular memory card)
How is that Ideal?
It's ideal because the PS2 only has 2 memory card slots, so this way I wouldn't have to unplug my FMCB card whenever I need to use a real memory card with MX4SIO
It has several features. Auto-card switching with OPL, cloud backups, FMCB, etc.
>I’m really confused by the need for this one, OPL gives you virtual cards on a per game basis.
USB saves are not compatible with every game
Works in both a PS1 and PS2
PS1 and/or PS2 do not need to be modded to use it
Nothing to setup or configure on your consoles
Can auto-switch to the virtual card on your PS1 as well if you have an xStation in it
Opens the route to modding your PS2 with FMCB
Can access the card remotely to download/upload saves from your PC or internet
Automatic cloud saves/backups
Display that tells you the state of the device
There is also future planned support for SMB support, for it to function as a wireless receiver for an upcoming wireless controller, and as an OPL block device (which is most likely for MX4SIO-like functionality).
I have a Memcardpro for PS1, and I understand the value of using it in conjunction with my XStation for automatic switching, but not a single one of those features for a PS2 Memcardpro are compelling other than the games that cannot use virtual memory cards from OPL, which I’m taking your word on.
What’s the point of cloud saves? Just take the memory card out and use it on another console.
Why do you need a display telling you it’s saving or loading? The game does that already.
A non modded console doesn’t support automatic game save switching, so why bother using it over a memory card, they don’t have a strict file size limit like the ps1, and have a quite generous size for saves at 4mb. Again avoidable with virtual cards built into OPL anyways.
OPLs virtual memory cards can be downloaded uploaded and shared on the internet.
You can buy Free McBoot memory cards of Amazon for a few dollars.
This is a largely pointless product and this thread seems proof.
Pure nitpicks
They're not nitpicks when they drive up the price of the product for no gain for the end user. The only utility of the MCP2 is not having to swap out your FMCB card for a normal memory card whenever you need to save your file in a VMC-incompatible game, but is the cost of getting off your ass to swap out your memory cards really 42 USD + tax + international shipping? I think not.
>42 USD + tax + international shipping
No need to cry. Your way to redact your posts are dishonest as hell and discredits every point you had.
>redact
Do you know what that word means?
>wifi crap, a screen, and on-board CPU
>they drive up the price of the product for no gain for the end user
You are a moron
First of all, there is no reasonable way to have even something as simple as switching your card and nothing else without some sort of CPU. The fact that you don't even realize this really speaks volumes.
The "CPU" is an ESP32. There is a reason damn near everything is using those these days for such devices, they can do a lot while being cheap as frick. There are places you can get them in packs of 5 or 10 that come up to less than a dollar each. That microcontroller also has the WiFi built-in, none of that was added. The reason it has all these features is because the cheapest possible CPU they could have used for this already has all those features built in, so might as well use them. The screens likewise can be acquired for cents. If they literally stripped out everything, everything, from these things, the screen, usb port, anything that can be torn out of it so it doesn't do anything other than just be a multi-memory card (even though the wifi is built in and you would just not be using it at that point) the price would not even be able to go under $35, there is no more cost to cut until these parts get even cheaper.
The reason the PS1 version went down in price so much is because it DID have useless crap in it that was pointless and was removed in later versions, such as a FPGA.
>Proof?
I like how you have no arguments left and just resorted to attacking the MX4SIO part. The product page lists OPL Block Device access an upcoming feature. Do you know what that is generally used for? I will give you a hint, the MS4SIO also uses that feature.
Let me guess, your next reply is "So it's not out YET". Well, you could have gotten a card that does far more than your current one for less if you had patience, but you have already proven that you have no patience and then b***h over the fact that it screws you over.
I don't even have an MX4SIO you spastic
I was talking about your memcard pro1.
Nice attempt at a counter-argument btw.
I don't have a memcard pro 1 either you gronk, why the frick would the person complaining about international shipping costs have bought the first edition? Do you think your argument is so infallible that it's statistically improbable for more than one person to think you're a wienerhead? Buy an ad, moron
So there is more than one of you idiots here? Why am I not surprised.
>why the frick would the person complaining about international shipping costs have bought the first edition
There is literally no logic in that argument, those two things have no correlation.
>Do you think your argument is so infallible that it's statistically improbable for more than one person to think you're a wienerhead?
As opposed to the millions who consider you one?
>Buy an ad, moron
I have no affiliation with them, kiss my ass, gay.
>those two things have no correlation
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How the frick is the cost of these things not relevant to someone b***hing about the cost of these things? You really need to start arguing in good faith, mate. Anyway, buy an ad.
It being a first edition has jack all to do with complaining about costs, do try to rub two brain cells together next time.
Why the FRICK would I have bought the memcard pro 1, mate?
You aren't even keeping up with the conversation anymore, that's a completely different argument.
Should have quit while people thought you were only a half-moron.
>First, you count on the stupidity of your adversary, and then, when there is no other way out, you yourself simply play stupid. If all this didn't help, you pretend to not understand, or, if challenged, change the subject in a hurry, quote platitudes which, if one accepts, you immediately relate to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, you give ground and pretend not to know exactly what you were talking about. You have not the slightest recollection of the argument you'd just read, you rattle off your same old nonsense as though nothing at all had happened, and, if indignantly challenged, affect amazement; you can't remember a thing, except that you had proven the correctness of your assertions somehow.
Sounds like you're not the one keeping up since you couldn't even tell you were arguing with separate, entirely different types of customers
And yet, not a single counter-argument to any point I made. You have nothing, so you are resorting to shit I would have seen someone try to pull on GameFaqs years ago. All you have is walls of gibberish trying to attack me because you can't attack my argument.
Go ahead, prove me right again with your next moronic ass post.
What left is there for me to say after "I don't want to spend 42 USD + tax + international shipping on this"? Is that something that needs to be proven?
You argued that the card had extra nonsense to drive up the price, I pointed out how that isn't the case and there isn't must cost to cut. You responded to none of that, but instead "I don't have a MX4SIO! I don't have a memcard pro!" because of the last sentence, ignoring the entire rest of the post that pointed out your moronation in complaining about nitpicks, after jumping into a conversation with one who said they do have a memcard pro. You also tried to argue it literally has no utility outside of "not having to swap out your FMCB card for a normal memory card whenever you need to save your file in a VMC-incompatible game" which was explained why that's flat out incorrect.
Nobody is trying to convince you to buy one except the schizos inside your own head, people asked what the utility is, I answered, I never argued "You need to buy one!"
I'm sure there's cheaper chips out there, and I'll tell you it doesn't need a bloody screen
Those microcontrollers can be had for under a dollar, there is a a reason they are being used in every cheap DIY project these days. Same goes for the screen. I doubt axing the screen is going to make a pricepoint that's a dollar lower entice more people.
If you know of a better viable low-cost microcontroller than the EPS32 that would work then show it.
The b***hing always comes down to money doesn't it
I bought a more expensive memcard pro for ps1, can’t you read? It’s not about spending money, it’s about wasting money.
I already told you the benefits, if that doesn't appeal to you, then don't worry about it
>What’s the point of cloud saves? Just take the memory card out and use it on another console.
Both to auto-backup your saves and to sync them across different devices, or even across hardware and emulators. It's more for purposes of sync/backup, not to have multiple cards, although you can do that too if you wanted to for some reason.
>Why do you need a display telling you it’s saving or loading? The game does that already.
It does more than that, lets you know what card is selected, if you are in FMCB mode, status of wifi and other features, etc. The display is useful for when you want to manually switch cards, such as dedicating one to a series of games that has cross-save compatibility (such as the .hack games)
>A non modded console doesn’t support automatic game save switching, so why bother using it over a memory card,
You get a practically infinite amount of memory cards, and all stored in one place instead of multiple cards. PS2 and especially PS1 cards can fill up fast if you have a lot of games. The non-downloaded PS2 games I have alone required about a dozen cards altogether for my saves, and I had even more PS1 cards. And again, USB is not an option if your PS2 isn't hacked, or on PS1 at all.
>You can buy Free McBoot memory cards of Amazon for a few dollars
The average price for those seems to be $15, this is $40 for a card that lets you do FMBC, have an infinite amount of cards on both PS1 and PS2, and even ISO load in the future. A MX4SIO would be around another $15, that alogn with the FMCB card is already close to the price of a device that can do both and more in one.
>This is a largely pointless product and this thread seems proof.
You are arguing in bad faith, if not just flat out trolling, because you are salty you bought a PS1-only version that originally cost nearly double what this one does and are now crying because there is a much better one that can do both PS1 and PS2 and much more for less.
>even ISO load in the future
Proof?
>A MX4SIO would be around another $15
Maybe in Aussie dollars. MX4SIO is cheap
Watch Macho Nacho's video
I’m really confused by the need for this one, OPL gives you virtual cards on a per game basis. You can even retrieve your files pretty easily now that OPL supports exFat.
because it works better and easier to access everything you need
also the OPL VMC has compatibility issues
Compatibility issues aside (never heard of them). What’s better and easier about it? It takes like two seconds to turn it on as a global option from the OPL settings.
I’m all for these devices like this if they actually have worthwhile function, but what is this providing that you can’t already do for free?
>what's better or easier about it
It can be used with PS3 and PS1
Plug and Play
File editing and transfer is simply taking out the SD card among other things
It also works without OPL if you don't want to use it
Right, it literally does allow that with it and MX4SIO
you don't have to swap it out if you use the Memcard Pro 2
it has a feature that lets it have FMCB on boot and switches automatically to whatever you want
>with it and MX4SIO
I'd prefer one card that does both MX4SIO and FMCB, and I'd really prefer not to buy some 42 USD + tax + international shipping memory card with this wifi crap, a screen, and on-board CPU. Who the hell needs that for a bloody memory card? I don't!
I got the first version and now I feel ripped off because I could have just waited and gotten this
>there are people it complaining about the cost of a product that you can build yourself
What Is wrong with you, make it yourself if you don’t want to pay them
So does this thing do the automatic card switching shit with disc-based games or is this aimed more at pirates?
Only with PS1 discs
It does not work with ps1 discs. It requires an XStation to send it it’s gameid during loading the game from the XStation menu. You can still manually chose cards, but it’s not automatic.
I have FreePSXBoot as the first VMC, and with official discs it creates and loads cards perfectly fine.
It works with xStation and OPL. Was going to support PS-IO too but you know what a dick the PS-IO guys are about updating their shit.
Nope but it does work as a infinite card on disc based games