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Anything other than the Sony brand 8MB cards fucks up after awhile. I just picked up a PS2 not long ago at a garage sale for $15 with GTA3 and GTA:VC. Then picked up a new controller, memory card and FF12 for another $30. Then picked up Suikoden Tactics for $1.50 at a garage sale, brand new. Lol.

There's a bunch of other games I wanna pick up. All are RPG titles. Lol. If you find any that are good, let me know.

Matt wrote:

Mhh, well I'll probably pick up a handfull of 8MB cards later on. What kind of time-span are we looking at for a wear out?

You can't save / load games to the HDD. You can copy things from your memory cards to the HDD and back, but that's it.

(I have the HDD because of FFXI)

Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123

I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much.

I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one.

Thoughts?

Robin wrote:

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GIAKEN wrote:

Robin wrote:

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I have an XBOX. There's not many decent RPGs however.

You can also do that on PS2

PS2 came through

Enjoying playing FFX & Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 to you Americans).

Also found FFX-2 for £5 on eBay, so bought that as well.

halla wrote:

You can also do that on PS2

Not soft modding. You need a chip.

Matt wrote:

halla wrote:

You can also do that on PS2

Not soft modding. You need a chip.

You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go.

halla wrote:

Matt wrote:

halla wrote:

You can also do that on PS2

Not soft modding. You need a chip.

That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol.

Matt wrote:

halla wrote:

Matt wrote:

halla wrote:

You can also do that on PS2

Not soft modding. You need a chip.

That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol.

Yeah a chip is easier but its a cheap method that works. And its really easy to do so unless you cant follow instructions you wont mess up your system.

Author:	Robin [ Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:43 pm ]
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Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much. I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one. Thoughts?

Author:	Robin [ Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:50 pm ]
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Just ordered a memory card too. I seem to remember them being 8MB... so 64MB seems... huge. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390083689682

Author:	Matt [ Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:01 pm ]
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Anything other than the Sony brand 8MB cards fucks up after awhile. I just picked up a PS2 not long ago at a garage sale for $15 with GTA3 and GTA:VC. Then picked up a new controller, memory card and FF12 for another $30. Then picked up Suikoden Tactics for $1.50 at a garage sale, brand new. Lol. There's a bunch of other games I wanna pick up. All are RPG titles. Lol. If you find any that are good, let me know.

Author:	Robin [ Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:10 pm ]
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Matt wrote: Anything other than the Sony brand 8MB cards fucks up after awhile. I just picked up a PS2 not long ago at a garage sale for $15 with GTA3 and GTA:VC. Then picked up a new controller, memory card and FF12 for another $30. Then picked up Suikoden Tactics for $1.50 at a garage sale, brand new. Lol. There's a bunch of other games I wanna pick up. All are RPG titles. Lol. If you find any that are good, let me know. Mhh, well I'll probably pick up a handfull of 8MB cards later on. What kind of time-span are we looking at for a wear out?

Author:	Matt [ Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:18 am ]
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Robin wrote: Matt wrote: Anything other than the Sony brand 8MB cards fucks up after awhile. I just picked up a PS2 not long ago at a garage sale for $15 with GTA3 and GTA:VC. Then picked up a new controller, memory card and FF12 for another $30. Then picked up Suikoden Tactics for $1.50 at a garage sale, brand new. Lol. There's a bunch of other games I wanna pick up. All are RPG titles. Lol. If you find any that are good, let me know. Mhh, well I'll probably pick up a handfull of 8MB cards later on. What kind of time-span are we looking at for a wear out? The research I did gave it about a month or two. I personally haven't tried them and so have no personal experience with it. Just shit I read.

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Author:	Rian [ Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:21 am ]
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Both of the non-sony-brand cards I bought seemed to fuck up around the one year mark. I've been thinking about buying a PS2 as well. It's hard to resist the now dirt cheap awesome titles. And like you said Robin, a lot of good new titles are still being released.

Author:	Robin [ Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:52 am ]
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Is it worth buying a HDD? It'd be nice having a hard backup of my saves.

Author:	Jacob [ Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:11 pm ]
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You can't save / load games to the HDD. You can copy things from your memory cards to the HDD and back, but that's it. (I have the HDD because of FFXI)

Author:	Robin [ Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:52 pm ]
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Jacob wrote: You can't save / load games to the HDD. You can copy things from your memory cards to the HDD and back, but that's it. (I have the HDD because of FFXI) Yes, thats what I mean. If I can do that, it means I don't have to have hundreds of memory cards, I can simply backup old save games.

Author:	GIAKEN [ Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:50 pm ]
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Robin wrote: Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much. I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one. Thoughts? Attachment: yorobin.png [ 136.46 KiB \| Viewed 16063 times ]

Author:	Robin [ Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:30 am ]
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GIAKEN wrote: Robin wrote: Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much. I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one. Thoughts? Attachment: yorobin.png I have an XBOX. There's not many decent RPGs however.

Author:	Matt [ Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:43 pm ]
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Robin wrote: GIAKEN wrote: Robin wrote: Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123 I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much. I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one. Thoughts? Attachment: yorobin.png I have an XBOX. There's not many decent RPGs however. The only good thing about the XBox is soft modding. Lol. That way you can play all the SNES, Genesis and GBA RPGs on it.

Author:	halla [ Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:20 pm ]
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You can also do that on PS2

Author:	Matt [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:43 am ]
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halla wrote: You can also do that on PS2 Not soft modding. You need a chip.

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Author:	Robin [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:48 pm ]
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PS2 came through Enjoying playing FFX & Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 to you Americans). Also found FFX-2 for £5 on eBay, so bought that as well.

Author:	Matt [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 2:56 pm ]
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Robin wrote: PS2 came through Enjoying playing FFX & Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 to you Americans). Also found FFX-2 for £5 on eBay, so bought that as well. X-2 is just gonna piss you off. Lol.

Author:	Aaron [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:09 pm ]
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I found Dark Cloud 1 to be much more of a crisp game than Dark Chronicle. I suggest purchasing it if you don't happen to have it.

Author:	Rian [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:28 pm ]
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Lol Aaron, I live in Smyrna Tennessee. And Robin, FFX-2 is lame

Author:	Aaron [ Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:54 pm ]
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Hah, thats pretty awesome. I wonder how many other Smyrna's there are. And yes, FFX-2 is pretty lame.

Author:	Robin [ Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:32 pm ]
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-shrug- It's £5, I might as well get it.

Author:	halla [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:54 am ]
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Matt wrote: halla wrote: You can also do that on PS2 Not soft modding. You need a chip. You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go.

Author:	Matt [ Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:48 pm ]
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halla wrote: Matt wrote: halla wrote: You can also do that on PS2 Not soft modding. You need a chip. You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go. That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol.

Author:	halla [ Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:37 am ]
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Matt wrote: halla wrote: Matt wrote: halla wrote: You can also do that on PS2 Not soft modding. You need a chip. You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go. That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol. Yeah a chip is easier but its a cheap method that works. And its really easy to do so unless you cant follow instructions you wont mess up your system.

Author:	Robin [ Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:20 pm ]
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halla wrote: Matt wrote: halla wrote: Matt wrote: halla wrote: You can also do that on PS2 Not soft modding. You need a chip. You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go. That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol. Yeah a chip is easier but its a cheap method that works. And its really easy to do so unless you cant follow instructions you wont mess up your system. Have you chipped a PS2? It's fucking hard.

Author:	Matt [ Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:50 pm ]
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It's hard to do but in the long run doing what you wanna do on the PS2 is MUCH easier. Lol.