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| tpugmire:
Today, I found a used 40GB PS2 hard drive at a local game store for $10. I don't necessarily want to mod my console to play backups or anything like that. Am I correct in assuming that it would act like a giant memory card? Is that the only benefit in having one? |
| matt:
I don't even think it acts as a memory card. Someone can confirm but I think you still have to write to a memory card but you can backup your saves to the HD. |
| foxhack:
A few games support using it to save games. Most use it to speed up load times, and this feature was used much more often in Japanese releases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_Expansion_Bay#Hard_disk_drive |
| ffxik:
Two games in my collection actually supported the thing is Final Fantasy XI which eats around 20 gigs and Metal Saga which you still need a memory card to save your game. Outside that the only reason I use mine is that I own 200+ games and only about six memory cards. So it comes in handy to shuttle games saves back and forth. I would like to note that thing is probably useless with out the utility disc it was packed with. It was used to format the thing. Little bit of history I still have the magazine that stated all the features that this thing was supposed to come with. Storing pictures, music, ability to save games straight to the drive, and web browser. It had none of it. Come to find out those were only available in Japan and even then it was a very small number that actually came with the installation disc for those features. I felt really bad paying $100 on release for this just to have it marked down to $25 not even a month later. |
| tpugmire:
Gotcha, so for my purposes, it would be useless. Good thing I passed on it. |
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