Kit comments on Run Your PS2 Library from a $50 Memory Card Effortlessly

Run Your PS2 Library from a $50 Memory Card Effortlessly (www.retronews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Kain1@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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A new innovation in the retro gaming community now allows you to run your entire PS2 library directly from a $50 memory card, thanks to the Multi-Purpose Memory Card Emulation (MMCE) protocol.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

I just added a SATA drive to my ps2 yesterday, and it plays ps2 games fine but I really want to play psx games. Is there a solution for this yet?

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago*

You can use POPStarter to use the built-in software emulator, but it's not great. There's also FreeMCBoot and MechaPwn if burning discs isn't a problem (might only work on some models? I'm not sure)

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I modded my PS Mini for PS1 games. Its pretty simple.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

Hell yeah, that sounds awesome. Does it have native composite video out? I wanna play on my crt without using an hdmi converter

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Its HDMI only.

The Wii someone else suggested may be a good way to go, I think they are fairly easy to get a hold of. I have not personally modified a Wii yet but its next ony todo list for console upgrades.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

I think the PS Mini is HDMI only.

Do you happen to have a Wii lying around? It can do actually pretty good PS1 emulation nowadays, and supports analog signals (including 240p)

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago

I do! I'll have to play around with it

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[–] Redkey@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

What ShinkanTrain said. The last a read about it, the PS2 only switches into PS1 mode on a trigger from the optical drive subsystem, and then most of the memory and other hardware used to run homebrew is deactivated. AFAIK no-one's yet found a way to trigger the change in software and keep the connection to wherever you're loading your game from.

I believe that on certain revisions of the console, MechaPwn can overcome the protection, but you still need a "Playstation 1" CD in the drive to actually run something, as ShinkanTrain wrote.

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