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. This breakthrough technology, developed by a team of coders, enables smart memory cards like the 8BitMods MemCard Pro 2 and the open-source SD2PSX to load games directly from a MicroSD card while also functioning as virtual memory cards for saving progress.How It WorksThe MMCE system alternates between save data and game data, allowing players to boot PS2 games using Open PS2 Loader (OPL) without requiring any hardware modifications

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.

  • ShinkanTrainEnglish
    7·
    10 hours ago

    Probably cheaper/better to use a 2.5" hard drive. Though I guess this works with Slims as well

    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      10 hours ago

      I think the best thing is to load your games over the network. The usb ports are only 1.0. And I’m pretty sure the network adapter hard drive connector either only accepts up to 40gb drives or it only uses a pata connection.

      • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        I bought a 3rd party drive adaptor without a network port and had to load my games on my PC using a network enclosure.

        It was still a pain. Its all soooooo slow and buggy.

      • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I have a 500GB drive in my hard drive slot using the third party adapter and grimDoomer OPL

      • ShinkanTrainEnglish
        5·
        9 hours ago

        There are newer adapters for the network port. I use a 500GB SATA drive just fine, it’s just a pain in the butt to transfer games

        • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          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?

            • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

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

          • ShinkanTrainEnglish
            2·
            7 hours 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)