http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/ Engadget Comments for PS2 memory card modchip to play games from USB hard drives http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 12th 2008 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
This is such old news.

'Insert engadget tardy compliant here']]>Jan 11th 2008 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 12th 2008 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 12th 2008 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/chips.]]>Jan 14th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
You can do similar with HDLoader/HDAdvance. They don't use USB, though. They require a fat PS2 with network adapter and internal HDD to work, and not all games work properly.]]>Jan 11th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
You can do similar with HDLoader/HDAdvance. They don't use USB, though. They require a fat PS2 with network adapter and internal HDD to work, and not all games work properly.]]>Jan 11th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 13th 2008 1:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
Get this app called SMS Player.
Plays divx,xvid,mgeg etc, either from the internal HDD, usb, or even from your windows shared folders over the network.]]>Jan 11th 2008 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
I hope to see someone verify these claims, as atm it smells like bullcrap.]]>Jan 11th 2008 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
All you need is an ide drive, network adapter and this

http://www.hdloader.net/

I do not see what the big deal is.]]>Jan 11th 2008 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 11th 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
Dont tell me 'most' games are under 4GB, because 8 of the games I play most are all over 4GB. I am in a PAL territory and when compared to the USA ISO file sizes, the PAL is always much larger.

The only game I own that is under 4GB is Family Guy (USA). What about the rest?

The only USB hard drive I own in my 160GB 6G iPod classic, I can use this in disk mode perfectly BUT it is FAT 32 and I cant format it to something else.

And yes I do actually own a Memor32 with Memento firmware, and yes it does work for most backups. Its far from perfect with compatibility though, and I'm interested to see how they get around the 4GB file size limit.]]>Jan 11th 2008 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
Just use it to boot HDLoader and then run the games with almost perfect compatibility with that.]]>Jan 11th 2008 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 12th 2008 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 12th 2008 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
What format of file system does HDloader use? This means the hard drive is dedicated to PS2 only applications?]]>Jan 12th 2008 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
I imagine one being able to use one partition with PFS and one with FAT to be able to use the same drive for both things, but that just splits the size, not making u able to choose the size unless u use some partition magic or whatever program that can alter the sizes of the partitions.]]>Jan 12th 2008 7:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/HDLoader or advance DO NOT work with USB HDs. You can use (as I do) an USB-IDE adapter to load games on your PC, but still need to plug the disk inside a fat PS2 using the network adapter.
USB Extreme was released for USB disks, BUT it sucks. Really low compatibility, slow as hell when streaming, and the HD remains in FAT32 format. For usbextreme you use software on the PC to load the games into the HD, and it splits them into 2GB chunks so you don't break the FAT32 4GB limit.
Let's hope that memento found a way to use the HD in USB2.0 mode.]]>Jan 12th 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 12th 2008 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
From here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pstwo

"2 proprietary Memory Card slots using MagicGate encryption (250 kHz for PS1 cards, up to 2 MHz for PS2 cards)" ]]>Jan 12th 2008 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/905769/video/R/CFD_1002/]]>Jan 14th 2008 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Jan 15th 2008 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/Feb 13th 2008 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.memor-pro.com --> I think this have the same function as the Memor32 but with a better game support, a free USB cable and a product case. Has anyone already tested this set? Works it or not? Please replay asap because I need a good solution for import games - thanks!]]>Feb 22nd 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/new to this stuff but i can use my ipod as a mass storage device and i was thinking it might work but i dont want to go wasting my time dowloading a program that possibly wont work and could it be plugged into the front of a ver4 ps2 (old school big betsy). well i hope to hear a msg soon thanks
]]>Mar 13th 2008 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/11/ps2-memory-card-modchip-to-play-games-from-usb-hard-drives/works awesomely with fat ps2 tho and hdadvance.
both do not require a modded ps2, just a modded ps2 to do the memory card hack on.. after that it works on whatever]]>Apr 8th 2008 9:42AM