05-02-2004, 01:55 AM | #1 |
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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 >:
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05-02-2004, 02:02 AM | #2 |
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Are you using a memory card for the PS1 or PS2?
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05-02-2004, 02:37 AM | #3 |
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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 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....
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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 )
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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....
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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.
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That's true. I just wanted to bitch because I'm such a Nintendo-slut
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backwards compatibility rules the planet.
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05-08-2004, 12:07 AM | #11 |
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Once you get into FF7 you'll forgive the memory cards.
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05-08-2004, 05:31 AM | #12 |
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And (perhaps) when you get to play your fancy pantsy Grand Turismo 4, you'll understand why some people still buy the damn thing.
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I don't think your first playstation experience was as bad as this kid's:
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