Back in the day (1998-2002) I went through EIGHT memory cards, the last of which was one of those funky double-sized card with a little button to switch between cards. All of them still have the original saves after over TWENTY YEARS OF USE. Which is testimony to the longevity and durability of PlayStation memory cards. Nice to know I can back them up to SD card.
Because we are passionate hobbyists, not just consuming a game a a piece of entertainment and then forgetting it. With videos games truely in the mainstream, like every other type of media, we have become more like cinenphiles buy woth video games instead.
On Gamecube, you can do this with Swiss and the SD2SP board. It will let you create multiple virtual memory cards on an SD card, divided by region (since the GC's memory cards have their odd region issues) Dreamcast would be nice though , the official VMU holds next to nothing
@@ChrisDoesTV yes a VMU would be AWESOME! The downloadable VMU games take up an entire card by themselves and then burn thru watch batteries like a fat kid in a candy store! Also you could copy those VMU games and (like pocket GT) and basically give yourself unlimited in game money
Honestly- with hd loader, it has built in virtual memory cards already. Trust me, I wish so too (and would gladly buy it in a heartbeat) but even if someone never does make one, at least we have that and it works
@@nunyabusiness69 if your like me and playing PS2 on a PS2 Slim 7000 then HD Loader isn't even an option. But if they make a microSD to PS2 memory card adapter... oh my god
When I got my PlayStation 1 in 1997 packed with Tekken 2 I got home, unlocked prototype Jack then I got called down for dinner. I went to turn it off and realised I’d lose everything! I had no memory card... I thought about leaving it on until the next day but thank god I didn’t 😂
I was in a similar situation. I had an N64 and then got a PS1, do I didn't know what a memory card was for. I got Wild Arms and borrowed Wing Commander III from a friend. Tried to beat both of them without saving. I made it pretty far in Wing Commander but quickly decided I needed to buy a memory card lol
You know what would be really awesome? The ability to load full games off the SD card. Essentially making the adapter not only a super-sized memory card, but a mod-free alternative to the MODE and other optical disc replacements.
Great video! Really enjoy it. That was funny when you mentioned the PS3 memory card USB adapter Sony made, because I have one c.i.b. I found it years ago at a local yard sale, and it was just sitting on a tarp on a person's lawn. It was still in it's box, and it caught my eye. So I went over to it, bent down and picked it up. I read what it was, and immediately was like "I gotta buy this". I think I paid $5 for it. I still have it too to this day.
Back in the early 2000s I had a version of this for the PS1 and I thought it was great as it saved like 10x more games. One day I booted up Dragon Warrior 7 and had over 120 hours into the game. I was promted that my memory card needed to be formatted.... I never to this day finished that game.
I backed up a bunch of my save files on my hard drive and my PS2. The only problem is when you want to play one of your games you got to make sure that file was on your memory card
The reason memory cards were so small at this time was due to how expensive flash memory was in the late 90s->Early 2000s. It's why SD cards in recent years have exploded in sizes where you can get an absurdly big one for something like 30 bucks. It's also why DS cartridges were only up to 512 mb in size and the PSP went with a mini disc format instead.
What I’ve done for years is use an internal HDD on a phat PS2 and copy my memory card saves to the HDD and then copy them back to the memory card when I want to play them again. Works for PS1 and PS2 games.
This answered every question I had about the device. I also realized I've been watching your content for AGES... but I've never subscribed? Fixing that shit right now lol
Mine comes tomarrow straight from 8 bit mods ! I’m excited . My setup is with the xtstation and the ps1 digital . I got the exact same color as you as well ! Also as always , love your videos man !
I have eight PS1 memory cards with saves on them, or I hope the saves are still on them. Great video Adam more people are looking into retro systems since they know current systems have a limited life left.
I do agree a dreamcast vmu based on this would be amazing! may have to track down one of these it would at least make downloading saves (like the new one for dancing stage: disney's rave with the maniac steps unlocked, for example) much easier!
Downloading new saves to a Dreamcast can actually be fairly simple. Use DreamShell with one of those com port sd card readers. Though yeah. Sticking a SD card directly into a VMU with an SD slot would of course be better.
I don't see a PS2 card happening at the moment due to MagicGate. Every Sony device from the PS2 onward that takes a memory card or SD card supports MagicGate. From what I've read it was used to authenticate whether or not the card was genuine (made by Sony or a company licensed by Sony such as MadCatz). They apparently forced large game developers to verify that the card was genuine if it wasn't it would either refuse to save or create corrupted save files.
Good to see we have a good option for using SD Cards as PS1 MEM Cards now. Hopefully this device continues to develop and mature into a solid option for both PS1 AND PS2. Ans yes, the Dreamcast would be awesome with this type of device.
Very interesting device 😀 my process is play ps1 games on ps3, take the ps1 save data & save it to a USB stick inserted in the ps3. If I'm using an original physical memory card ps1 or 2, I take my PS3 memory card reader & insert the memory card & save the data to the USB sticks via the reader. Then format the card for infinite uses. Again, very interesting device. Thanks for sharing Adam 👍
About time someone did this, I was loooking for a modern solution few months ago didn't found one, thought it was only logical. But the price + shipping. OOOh boy. I can get half a dozen OG 128KB ones for dirty cheap in Brazil, unfortunately cost/benefit doesn't work for me. Already burnt some cash on a niche Retrotink2x Pro-M after the dolar ratio went from 1:3BRL to 1:5.5BRL last year. Even with the extra little steps it's still a very elegant solution, though.
That things is awesome. All I could see Wi-Fi being useful for on it is updating it's firmware and transferring save game data from it to a pc and vice versa.
Funny, I ordered some original PSX memory cards. Lost mine somewhere.... and I want to get to use the old first model PSX again, yes that one with the RCA leads! Good times!
Ever heard of Brook's wireless converter for the PS2? It lets you use Switch Pro/Xbox One/PS3/PS4/PS5 controllers with the PS2. Works like a charm. "Switch Pro/Xbox One/PS3/PS4 to PS Classic/PS2 Super Converter."
Pretty cool device! Also, regarding the CMOS battery issue, Metal Jesus Rocks said in a recent video he did that Sony is APPARENTLY looking into the issue, but he didn't give a source backing up his claim. So, hopefully a solution is in the works.
@@AdamKoralik Yeah, I'm on the same boat. I'm not holding my breath until Sony releases a statement on the matter. Though given the fans speaking up about PSN and convincing Sony to change their minds, it may just be a matter of time.
13:30 PS3 compatibility would be nice, but seems rather pointless. Since the PS3 already has its own native way of backing up the original PS1 memory cards, why not just use that option?
I would get this for sure. I had a 3rd party one back in the day. It had 284 blocks on it but it dropped once and all the saves were gone. After that I stuck with Sony oem ones. But great video.
I know this is not the place but can't find information about the XBOX series x games on discs. Now each game is sold as both xbox series x and xbox one versions on 1 disc. Which version is on the disc? If its the xbox one version on disc is the series x being downloaded?
I'm not 100% on this, but I think it's the Xbox One build and the enhancements come from update files. As of now the actual number of Xbox Series X specific discs is minimal.
PS1/Saturn have VCD solutions right. Why not make an AVC CARD! That would be so awesome to use h264 instead of Mpeg-1. I'm having to use X-VCD 900kbps from VideoSolo Free Video Converter to achieve decent enough quality for 16:9 320x180 or 352x198 movies. Don't pick the VCD option, pick the Mpeg-1 option since that give 1.5x quality per bit even though it's the same codec. High bitrate TEMPGEnc will get you nowhere.
Most PS1 games I would be content playing on emulator. *however* If this could easily transfer save files BACK-AND-FORTH between o.g. hardware & PC for emulation, I'd be down for it. This has the potential to be the thing that replaces memory card peripherals that connect to a PC via a serial port - no modern computers have those anymore _and no, USB-to-DB9 adapters don't work._ At least it's better than trying to hunt down the PlayStation Memory (FLOPPY!) Drive 💾 I could see myself using this for using my o.g. hardware for replay save files from _Parappa the Rapper_ & _Umjammer Lammy._ Either that or custom missions for _Tenchu 2_
Xstation is easy - The memcard pro wiII Ioad up the Iast memory card sIot So as Iong as you generate a memory card for the game (no need to save) and Ioad the ps1 without entering into xstation menu (power on with Iid open) you can access it easiIy and then it is just a case of moving your other memory card fiIes onto the memcard pro A great bit of kit
Is there a way to take sd card and hook it up to a ps3 through USB adapter or such and copy your save to a virtual memory card in the ps3 to pick up playing on ps3 from ps1?
Definitely. You can get the same effect for GC by booting games from USB/SD using WiiFlow though. That mem.card emulation feature creates a new 251 block card or so for each game. I never found a good way to import all my old saves into that system though😭
One of my best childhood memories, is being like 13 or 14 and being at my younger cousins house playing Star Wars Phantom Menance (PS1) a bit before the actual movie came out. His mom was in the kitchen, and I told her we where going back to my cousins room to play Star Wars (kid friendly right?). I then remember about 20 minutes later, his mother walking in because she heard screaming, to see in horror me and my cousin 5 inches from the tv screen as the sound blasted - giggling manically as our Jedi scum character methodically hunted down and murdered every innocent settler, jawa, droid and funny looking alien on the Tatooine level in a glorious bloody fit of laughter and violence. lol. That game was FAR better than it ever deserved to be for a licensed game about a sh*tter movie. I sometimes think the games are the best part of what came out of that movies release (certainly better than the actual film).
I wonder if the card creating 8 virtual cards has something to do with the limitations of FAT-32 on drives larger than 4GB? Maybe those cards are actually partitions that a FAT-32 file system can manage. It would be cool if you could load up a FTP program like FileZilla to explore the tree or just read the SD card.
tried the mem card pro with a sandisk 64gb sdhx, no sd found was displayed. tried a much older random phone 8gb card, that was detected. idk why modern sd cards are a problem with a new device, wherass old hard to come by low stornge cards work.
@@AdamKoralik ps2 fat compatability seems to be hit and miss. i wondered if i loaded a ps1 game on my ps2 where i used to play ps1 games, if i could save my ps1 game to the memcard pro and continue on the ps1 (as my ps2 laser is failing). unfortunately the memcard pro is not detected on my pal v7 ps2 fat at all, no lcd, nothing detected in the browser. works fine on the ps1 though. alternatively i would do the transfer directly from the ps1, but unfortunately a ps1 memory card thats been formatted in a ps2 is not detected and also causes the controller to not function at all whilst the ps2 formatted ps1 card is inserted, i thought the game just didnt like the dual analogue controller but seems to be a weird issue with a ps2 formatted card :D
I’m so on the fence when it comes to this thing. I have a third party PS1 card with 50 banks (50 in 1 card) which works great. You can cycle through all of them using L+Select+Up/Down. This should just allow you to do 99 or more imo (I feel different button combos to go up/down 10/100 banks would solve browsing up to at least 1000 banks) And it should work with PS2 games and PS1 games through a PS2 HDD imo. I mean it’s FPGA. Being able to emulate different kinds of hardware is one of the very awesome aspects of FPGA stuff. WiFi is exciting though. I hope FTP is coming :) N64 and Dreamcast needs solutions like this *BAD* though
@@AdamKoralik It’s FPGA. If designed the right way I’d be willing to bet you could have it switch cores between acting as a PS1 and PS2 card. Then again I’m no FPGA or PCB designer myself and I don’t know exactly what differentiates a PS1 and PS2 card on a technical/hardware level ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@giordanosologuren So no, it's just a memory card. If you want to do anything with ISOs, you need an ODE. However, you can backup PS1 games on just about any Windows PC extremely easily.
I just got mine today... could I take my final fantasy 8 save from ps1 to a computer and then use that save file with an emulator? Do you have a video for doing that?
Random thought, memory cards really arent much of a thing for most consoles. PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, and Gamecube are the only consoles I can think of where they were absolutely necessary for game saves. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Those are the best known ones, but there's more. Saturn, Sega CD, Jaguar CD, TG-16 CD. There's actually some for other platforms that generally don't need them too. Like the N64, Neo Geo AES, OG Xbox, Xbox 360 and more.
@@AdamKoralik The Saturn and Sega CD had memory cards, but like the original Xbox, is didn't REQUIRE them. That's what I meant. (My Saturns internal memory was filled immediately...)
@@AdamKoralik If only I had ever seen one of those. Well, I guess I was wrong. But for most of us, the memory card age was pretty short compared to gaming as a whole.
He's alive! I was sold on this... Until you said I can't use PS2 cards with it. That it's solely for PS1. I'll wait until they make one that does both PS1 and PS1 games
Anyone got this to work with filezilla? I got everything setup right but it wont work as i think its a port issue as idk what port to use but in the manual it shows the port as blank, anyone know?
Just get a 32GB micro SD card at Walmart, and you have over 225,000 memory cards for only less than $10 (minus the memory card pro for about $80, including the cheapest shipping option)
You might be able to transfer pictures and you're saved file but you won't be able to transfer anything else on it it won't be fast enough to use as an external storage.
Update, they added a big new firmware update today (April 25th) with a bunch of new features. Check 8BitMods website or my Twitter for details.
Neat!
Now, we need one for PS2 and PS life will be complete
youtube sucks! i am a subscriber, and i didnt see this video until 6 days after upload...wtf..FIGURE IT OUT! lmao
Back in the day (1998-2002) I went through EIGHT memory cards, the last of which was one of those funky double-sized card with a little button to switch between cards. All of them still have the original saves after over TWENTY YEARS OF USE. Which is testimony to the longevity and durability of PlayStation memory cards. Nice to know I can back them up to SD card.
Now try this with metal gear solid. Blow psycho mantis's mind.
Lol I hope he actually does to see what happens. What games would he pick? Would it differ every time?
@@Wally17. I think he detects only Konami games.
@@teoperoxd he only detects Konami games
You know, retro gaming communities are probably the best part of gaming. And I’m seriously loving all of these mods that are coming out recently.
Agreed.
Because we are passionate hobbyists, not just consuming a game a a piece of entertainment and then forgetting it. With videos games truely in the mainstream, like every other type of media, we have become more like cinenphiles buy woth video games instead.
I can't wait for someone to do something like this for the GameCube and Dreamcast.
I wouId Iove a dreamcast VMU simiIar to this
On Gamecube, you can do this with Swiss and the SD2SP board. It will let you create multiple virtual memory cards on an SD card, divided by region (since the GC's memory cards have their odd region issues)
Dreamcast would be nice though , the official VMU holds next to nothing
@@ChrisDoesTV yes a VMU would be AWESOME! The downloadable VMU games take up an entire card by themselves and then burn thru watch batteries like a fat kid in a candy store! Also you could copy those VMU games and (like pocket GT) and basically give yourself unlimited in game money
@@lightdark28 I had no idea that was a thing! I know what I'm gonna mess with this afternoon!
I have 6 memory cards on the GameCube just for Pokémon.
When you had to explain to the younger dudes what a memory card was... I realized i was old.
You get used to it.
Just left an Adam Koralik video to watch this other Adam Koralik video🤟🏽
I did too lol
I hope they can make a PS2 version someday.
Honestly- with hd loader, it has built in virtual memory cards already. Trust me, I wish so too (and would gladly buy it in a heartbeat) but even if someone never does make one, at least we have that and it works
@@nunyabusiness69 Also, ps2 cards are stupidly cheap on aliexpress. And they work great.
@@nunyabusiness69 if your like me and playing PS2 on a PS2 Slim 7000 then HD Loader isn't even an option. But if they make a microSD to PS2 memory card adapter... oh my god
@David Francisco yeah but those type of cards tend to fail easily
Yeah they confirmed they making the PS2 ones
great viewing once again adam.
Always joy to see your videos, Adam. Keep up the fine work.
Pepperidge Farm remembers not having enough space on a PS1 memory cards.
Goddamn if you aren't one of my favorite channels. I always come away with some new information on the best hobby in existence.
Reminds me of the 10 memory cards i needed for dragon ball final bout lmao
I had no idea this exsisted till now, god bless the retro community
When I got my PlayStation 1 in 1997 packed with Tekken 2 I got home, unlocked prototype Jack then I got called down for dinner. I went to turn it off and realised I’d lose everything! I had no memory card... I thought about leaving it on until the next day but thank god I didn’t 😂
I was in a similar situation. I had an N64 and then got a PS1, do I didn't know what a memory card was for. I got Wild Arms and borrowed Wing Commander III from a friend. Tried to beat both of them without saving. I made it pretty far in Wing Commander but quickly decided I needed to buy a memory card lol
Thank you for constantly spitting knowledge about all these retro consoles Adam 💪💪💪
The PS1 is my favorite console so this sounds great for me. Thanks for bringing it up.
I loved those PSM memory card and lid stickers!
You know what would be really awesome? The ability to load full games off the SD card. Essentially making the adapter not only a super-sized memory card, but a mod-free alternative to the MODE and other optical disc replacements.
I'm guessing that's not possible through the memory card.
Thats a dream come true, I hope they would do that.
Great video! Really enjoy it. That was funny when you mentioned the PS3 memory card USB adapter Sony made, because I have one c.i.b. I found it years ago at a local yard sale, and it was just sitting on a tarp on a person's lawn. It was still in it's box, and it caught my eye. So I went over to it, bent down and picked it up. I read what it was, and immediately was like "I gotta buy this". I think I paid $5 for it. I still have it too to this day.
GameCube needs one of these since The Sims Bustin Out needs 20 memory cards all on it's own
Isn’t the PocketStation the ultimate one ?
Ha, no.
Wonder if they could make one with like Pocket Station functionality
Ok now i'm dreaming up a Super VMU for the Dreamcast
Yeah, it just needs an SD Card slot
Off the topic: I've just realized that I've been subscribed for more than 7 years now. Don't even want to continue on that train of thought.
Man, I love a MemCard Pro for the ps2 console. That would be a sweet deal!
retro gaming has became so innovating and its so cool waiting to see what will come next
Back in the early 2000s I had a version of this for the PS1 and I thought it was great as it saved like 10x more games. One day I booted up Dragon Warrior 7 and had over 120 hours into the game. I was promted that my memory card needed to be formatted.... I never to this day finished that game.
I backed up a bunch of my save files on my hard drive and my PS2. The only problem is when you want to play one of your games you got to make sure that file was on your memory card
Would love to see versions of this for PS2, Dreamcast, and N64
The PS2 version is up now for pre order. I just order mines. The PS2 version now works with both the PS2 and the PS1 games.
@@JuanDiaz-jo1rw yeah preordered mine from 8bitmods last week :)
The reason memory cards were so small at this time was due to how expensive flash memory was in the late 90s->Early 2000s. It's why SD cards in recent years have exploded in sizes where you can get an absurdly big one for something like 30 bucks. It's also why DS cartridges were only up to 512 mb in size and the PSP went with a mini disc format instead.
I imagine they could do a hardware revision that adds a switch to change the memory card from the PS1 to PS2 so you could actully save PS2 games
What I’ve done for years is use an internal HDD on a phat PS2 and copy my memory card saves to the HDD and then copy them back to the memory card when I want to play them again. Works for PS1 and PS2 games.
Sounds like the same problem we have nowadays, but with games.
@@HunterAtheist pretty much
Got mine ordered a while back... should be on the way soon!
This answered every question I had about the device.
I also realized I've been watching your content for AGES... but I've never subscribed?
Fixing that shit right now lol
Watching this in VR right now. Technology is pretty neat, just like turtles!
Mine comes tomarrow straight from 8 bit mods ! I’m excited . My setup is with the xtstation and the ps1 digital . I got the exact same color as you as well ! Also as always , love your videos man !
I have eight PS1 memory cards with saves on them, or I hope the saves are still on them. Great video Adam more people are looking into retro systems since they know current systems have a limited life left.
waiting for the PS2 version of this lol
VMU will always be the best memory card, but Wifi on a Memory card is pretty rad.
I do agree a dreamcast vmu based on this would be amazing! may have to track down one of these it would at least make downloading saves (like the new one for dancing stage: disney's rave with the maniac steps unlocked, for example) much easier!
Downloading new saves to a Dreamcast can actually be fairly simple. Use DreamShell with one of those com port sd card readers.
Though yeah. Sticking a SD card directly into a VMU with an SD slot would of course be better.
Brings back old memories.
definitely need one of these for a Dreamcast
The comments on Adam’s consist of I like turtles, Adam rules Dreamcast, comments about the actual video, and then a bunch of bullshit. It’s great!!!
Hi Adam totally agree with you about the Dreamcast needing a memory card like this - would be awesome.
PSIO will use the same game sd card as a virtual memory card, they tease a picture of the menu a few weeks ago.
Thats the memory card mvg used to perform the new ps1 softmod!
I don't see a PS2 card happening at the moment due to MagicGate. Every Sony device from the PS2 onward that takes a memory card or SD card supports MagicGate.
From what I've read it was used to authenticate whether or not the card was genuine (made by Sony or a company licensed by Sony such as MadCatz). They apparently forced large game developers to verify that the card was genuine if it wasn't it would either refuse to save or create corrupted save files.
I'm no expert on it, but the memory card exploit is the key thing that opened up the PS2 hacking scene. So I'm guessing it was defeated.
Good to see we have a good option for using SD Cards as PS1 MEM Cards now. Hopefully this device continues to develop and mature into a solid option for both PS1 AND PS2.
Ans yes, the Dreamcast would be awesome with this type of device.
Very interesting device 😀 my process is play ps1 games on ps3, take the ps1 save data & save it to a USB stick inserted in the ps3. If I'm using an original physical memory card ps1 or 2, I take my PS3 memory card reader & insert the memory card & save the data to the USB sticks via the reader. Then format the card for infinite uses. Again, very interesting device. Thanks for sharing Adam 👍
I received mine the other day! Cool addition to an ultimate ps1 set up... but an expensive nice to have.
Got mine yesterday!
looks cool
Also you can use the PS3 dongle you will need the normal memory cards to load and transfer saves onto it.
About time someone did this, I was loooking for a modern solution few months ago didn't found one, thought it was only logical. But the price + shipping. OOOh boy. I can get half a dozen OG 128KB ones for dirty cheap in Brazil, unfortunately cost/benefit doesn't work for me. Already burnt some cash on a niche Retrotink2x Pro-M after the dolar ratio went from 1:3BRL to 1:5.5BRL last year. Even with the extra little steps it's still a very elegant solution, though.
I do not see myself getting an ODE for my PlayStation, but I DEFINITELY WILL get a MemCard Pro!
That things is awesome. All I could see Wi-Fi being useful for on it is updating it's firmware and transferring save game data from it to a pc and vice versa.
Funny, I ordered some original PSX memory cards. Lost mine somewhere.... and I want to get to use the old first model PSX again, yes that one with the RCA leads! Good times!
Ever heard of Brook's wireless converter for the PS2? It lets you use Switch Pro/Xbox One/PS3/PS4/PS5 controllers with the PS2. Works like a charm.
"Switch Pro/Xbox One/PS3/PS4 to PS Classic/PS2 Super Converter."
Adam, does this have potential as far as translation patches go for Japanese games? What do you think?
No idea, I'm not familiar with how that works.
Pretty cool device! Also, regarding the CMOS battery issue, Metal Jesus Rocks said in a recent video he did that Sony is APPARENTLY looking into the issue, but he didn't give a source backing up his claim. So, hopefully a solution is in the works.
Jason is referring to the post from Does It Play which is a screenshot from PlayStation customer service.
Take it with a grain of salt.
@@AdamKoralik Yeah, I'm on the same boat. I'm not holding my breath until Sony releases a statement on the matter. Though given the fans speaking up about PSN and convincing Sony to change their minds, it may just be a matter of time.
Y'all remember when people used to call SD cards "memory cards"?
I don't know if that was ever a thing. SD cards are a specific thing.
Here in South America they used to and still called them memory cards sometime, guess Is the Playstation influence xd
@@stardustman420 Ah that's interesting. Which country?
Peru.
@@stardustman420 Ah cool, well thanks for watching!
I Wish someone would test the psio with this
Adam, does cos battery affect playing games offline even if the ps4 is not connected to the internet?
Well, yes. That's part of why it's a problem.
13:30 PS3 compatibility would be nice, but seems rather pointless. Since the PS3 already has its own native way of backing up the original PS1 memory cards, why not just use that option?
In the context of using a PS3 or in the context of using a PS1?
@@AdamKoralik Using a PS3 to backup your PS1 game saves and then play them on the PS3.
@@WhiteJarrah I assume that's fine. This isn't really aimed at that since it doesn't work on PS3.
PS1 games are definitely still great to play! Especially on RGB CRTs that we have in Europe.
Man a good dreamcast memory card like that would be awesome. I'd kill for one lol
Two Day going to figure it out The memory card on the PS1 New memory card
I've been on filf burn-spree thanks to UniROM.. so when I actually reach 16, 24 banks do they just read out like so 9-24 or always only up to eights?
I would get this for sure. I had a 3rd party one back in the day. It had 284 blocks on it but it dropped once and all the saves were gone. After that I stuck with Sony oem ones. But great video.
I know this is not the place but can't find information about the XBOX series x games on discs. Now each game is sold as both xbox series x and xbox one versions on 1 disc. Which version is on the disc? If its the xbox one version on disc is the series x being downloaded?
I'm not 100% on this, but I think it's the Xbox One build and the enhancements come from update files. As of now the actual number of Xbox Series X specific discs is minimal.
PS1/Saturn have VCD solutions right. Why not make an AVC CARD! That would be so awesome to use h264 instead of Mpeg-1. I'm having to use X-VCD 900kbps from VideoSolo Free Video Converter to achieve decent enough quality for 16:9 320x180 or 352x198 movies. Don't pick the VCD option, pick the Mpeg-1 option since that give 1.5x quality per bit even though it's the same codec. High bitrate TEMPGEnc will get you nowhere.
Most PS1 games I would be content playing on emulator.
*however*
If this could easily transfer save files BACK-AND-FORTH between o.g. hardware & PC for emulation, I'd be down for it. This has the potential to be the thing that replaces memory card peripherals that connect to a PC via a serial port - no modern computers have those anymore _and no, USB-to-DB9 adapters don't work._ At least it's better than trying to hunt down the PlayStation Memory (FLOPPY!) Drive 💾
I could see myself using this for using my o.g. hardware for replay save files from _Parappa the Rapper_ & _Umjammer Lammy._ Either that or custom missions for _Tenchu 2_
Xstation is easy - The memcard pro wiII Ioad up the Iast memory card sIot
So as Iong as you generate a memory card for the game (no need to save) and Ioad the ps1 without entering into xstation menu (power on with Iid open) you can access it easiIy and then it is just a case of moving your other memory card fiIes onto the memcard pro
A great bit of kit
Those memory cards look awesome. I thought about getting another GC memory card so I can play more GameCube games since the memory card is full.
Is there a way to take sd card and hook it up to a ps3 through USB adapter or such and copy your save to a virtual memory card in the ps3 to pick up playing on ps3 from ps1?
If you have a way to digitally transfer your PS1 saves from a PS3 to a PC, then maybe. I can't say I had that option.
id love to see them do a proper 1/4mb cart for the saturn
GameCube version would also be nice!
Definitely. You can get the same effect for GC by booting games from USB/SD using WiiFlow though. That mem.card emulation feature creates a new 251 block card or so for each game. I never found a good way to import all
my old saves into that system though😭
One of my best childhood memories, is being like 13 or 14 and being at my younger cousins house playing Star Wars Phantom Menance (PS1) a bit before the actual movie came out. His mom was in the kitchen, and I told her we where going back to my cousins room to play Star Wars (kid friendly right?).
I then remember about 20 minutes later, his mother walking in because she heard screaming, to see in horror me and my cousin 5 inches from the tv screen as the sound blasted - giggling manically as our Jedi scum character methodically hunted down and murdered every innocent settler, jawa, droid and funny looking alien on the Tatooine level in a glorious bloody fit of laughter and violence. lol.
That game was FAR better than it ever deserved to be for a licensed game about a sh*tter movie. I sometimes think the games are the best part of what came out of that movies release (certainly better than the actual film).
I wonder if the card creating 8 virtual cards has something to do with the limitations of FAT-32 on drives larger than 4GB? Maybe those cards are actually partitions that a FAT-32 file system can manage. It would be cool if you could load up a FTP program like FileZilla to explore the tree or just read the SD card.
tried the mem card pro with a sandisk 64gb sdhx, no sd found was displayed. tried a much older random phone 8gb card, that was detected. idk why modern sd cards are a problem with a new device, wherass old hard to come by low stornge cards work.
That's a good question actually, wish I knew.
@@AdamKoralik ps2 fat compatability seems to be hit and miss. i wondered if i loaded a ps1 game on my ps2 where i used to play ps1 games, if i could save my ps1 game to the memcard pro and continue on the ps1 (as my ps2 laser is failing). unfortunately the memcard pro is not detected on my pal v7 ps2 fat at all, no lcd, nothing detected in the browser. works fine on the ps1 though. alternatively i would do the transfer directly from the ps1, but unfortunately a ps1 memory card thats been formatted in a ps2 is not detected and also causes the controller to not function at all whilst the ps2 formatted ps1 card is inserted, i thought the game just didnt like the dual analogue controller but seems to be a weird issue with a ps2 formatted card :D
I’m so on the fence when it comes to this thing. I have a third party PS1 card with 50 banks (50 in 1 card) which works great. You can cycle through all of them using L+Select+Up/Down.
This should just allow you to do 99 or more imo (I feel different button combos to go up/down 10/100 banks would solve browsing up to at least 1000 banks)
And it should work with PS2 games and PS1 games through a PS2 HDD imo. I mean it’s FPGA. Being able to emulate different kinds of hardware is one of the very awesome aspects of FPGA stuff.
WiFi is exciting though. I hope FTP is coming :)
N64 and Dreamcast needs solutions like this *BAD* though
I don't know if it would be possible to support both PS1 and PS2 given how the PS2 blocked out PS1 cards from supporting PS2 saves.
@@AdamKoralik It’s FPGA. If designed the right way I’d be willing to bet you could have it switch cores between acting as a PS1 and PS2 card. Then again I’m no FPGA or PCB designer myself and I don’t know exactly what differentiates a PS1 and PS2 card on a technical/hardware level ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
this device charge backup iso's? or only use to save games
I'm just guessing you didn't watch.
@@AdamKoralik sorry is that English is not my first language. just ask to solve my doubts
@@giordanosologuren So no, it's just a memory card. If you want to do anything with ISOs, you need an ODE.
However, you can backup PS1 games on just about any Windows PC extremely easily.
Can you download ps1 saves from online to the sd card and plug them into a ps console?
Yes, as I understand it that's part of their WiFi plans.
Damn, i hope it works for the slim ps2 maybe someday
I just got mine today... could I take my final fantasy 8 save from ps1 to a computer and then use that save file with an emulator? Do you have a video for doing that?
As far as I know you can, I've never tried that though.
@@AdamKoralik that would make a killer video bud. I use steamdeck while on the road and finding a way to cloud load my ps1 saves would be epic
Random thought, memory cards really arent much of a thing for most consoles. PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, and Gamecube are the only consoles I can think of where they were absolutely necessary for game saves. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Those are the best known ones, but there's more.
Saturn, Sega CD, Jaguar CD, TG-16 CD.
There's actually some for other platforms that generally don't need them too. Like the N64, Neo Geo AES, OG Xbox, Xbox 360 and more.
@@AdamKoralik The Saturn and Sega CD had memory cards, but like the original Xbox, is didn't REQUIRE them. That's what I meant. (My Saturns internal memory was filled immediately...)
@@lemonfraid Interesting question. I think the Apple Pippin required a memory card too.
@@AdamKoralik If only I had ever seen one of those. Well, I guess I was wrong. But for most of us, the memory card age was pretty short compared to gaming as a whole.
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He's alive! I was sold on this... Until you said I can't use PS2 cards with it. That it's solely for PS1.
I'll wait until they make one that does both PS1 and PS1 games
Did I die at some point?
@@AdamKoralik Lol. It feels like I haven't seen a video from you all year.
@@AntonioCunningham Ah, well you have a big back lot to keep you amused if you wish.
Does it work with the new exploits like tonyhax and freepsxboot running unirom
Not sure, I assume so. Someone mentioned MVG did one with this. But I can't verify that.
Could they add a pocket station to one
With the PS3 you would need to copy them to a different card and then copy them over...
Only they could possibly answer that.
With the fpga would It Be able to boot ISO from its SD? One Man can only dream .....
No, that's already a thing though. I even showed them in this video.
Anyone got this to work with filezilla? I got everything setup right but it wont work as i think its a port issue as idk what port to use but in the manual it shows the port as blank, anyone know?
Just get a 32GB micro SD card at Walmart, and you have over 225,000 memory cards for only less than $10 (minus the memory card pro for about $80, including the cheapest shipping option)
You might be able to transfer pictures and you're saved file but you won't be able to transfer anything else on it it won't be fast enough to use as an external storage.
Who said anything about using it as external storage?
Ps1 is still rad! 🤙
We need this for n64 Saturn dreamcast Ps2 and gamecube
Yeah if they added color to the VMU that would be fucking amazing
Is it possible down the road they make it play games region free?
No idea.
But when will the 8BitMods MemCard Pro release the final form of Adam Koralik without a beard?
Not supported.
@@AdamKoralik LIES!
I finally found a use for my 64mb sd card
You have a 64 mb micro SD card?
@@AdamKoralik yes
This is pretty cool...