First playstation experience is a lousy one
 

I finally got my hands on Final Fantasy 7 for the Playstation, and was playing it just now on my little brother's PS2. And what happens? It can't detect the memory card! I couldn't save the bloody game! Not that I was very far in the game, or at least nothing that I would mind playing through again, but this is a bad first impression of the playstation! Has anyone else had a similar experience, and more importantly; how the feck do I get it to work?! I'm a bit pissed off at the prospect of finally having FF7 and not being able to play it >:

Are you using a memory card for the PS1 or PS2?

It's a PS2 'Magic Gate', 8 Mb memorycard. Transparant red design, other PS2-games have been succesfully saved on it. I don't believe PS1-games have ever been used on it.

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You can't use PS2 memory cards for PSOne games...
You will need to buy a PSOne memory card....
They are 100% incompatable, the PSOne uses "blocks" of 512k memory and the PS2 uses it normally... I think they have a different format too...
Anyway you need a PS2 card for a PS2 game and a PSOne card for a PSOne game, I think PSOne card are cheap now, but I'm not sure....

Alrighty then, I'll go buy one (hopefully they're el-cheapo indeed) =_= But Sony is getting a thumbs down on this one. Disappointing.

[added: the PS1 memorycard IS able to slip smoothly into the appropriate PS2-slots, right? Or do I need yet another invaluable piece of hardware to buffer it? This is starting to look like a not-so-awesome obstacle course :D)

They look the same and are the same size, they just have diffrent logos...
And what exactly bothers you? The fact that you have to buy a another memory card? Then you'll be thrilled to know that they have only 15 blocks of memory and FF uses quite a few... I have quite a lot of PSOne cards but I only had to buy a second PS2 card so far....

For whatever reason my brother decided to get a ps2 even though we already had an x-box and gamecube, while it's an alright system, the only thing I use it for is playing ps1 games.

Well, to be fair, they're really the only current console to support backwards compatibility at all. I think in most people's cases, if they have PS1 games they probably already have the PS1 memory cards that they used them with originally.

That's true. I just wanted to bitch because I'm such a Nintendo-slut :P

backwards compatibility rules the planet.

Once you get into FF7 you'll forgive the memory cards.

And (perhaps) when you get to play your fancy pantsy Grand Turismo 4, you'll understand why some people still buy the damn thing. :P

No it doesn't! Vive Le' Revolution.

I don't think your first playstation experience was as bad as this kid's:

http://www.officer.com/article/artic...&siteSection=1

My goodness... that's awful.