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The games themselves simply can't recognize the hardware, through no fault of Sony or even the game programmers themselves.
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#Ps2 game saves memory card software#
In fact, the Sony code (via the PS2 memory card manager) is the only software that can move PSX saves to and from a PS2 card. The games themselves access and manipulate the memory cards directly, which is why there's not some one size fits all method of translating one format into the other. In additon to what ryonavin wrote, the problem with card compatibility has nothing to do with the code Sony wrote. (Here's a hint: It's usually not pretty and rarely works properly, if at all.)
#Ps2 game saves memory card Pc#
Spoken like someone who has never actually tried to run old PC software on modern machines. MS has a decent dev kit and sane APIs, and they did it better. Sony just doesn't know much about software development. Simple enough for a PC BIOS to do it 25 years ago. But assume there's a decent chance it'll be better than what you have now. We also won't know how quickly it can read/write. It'd be like someone telling you to write software that can save data to a future storage format, but by the way, we're not going to tell you what physical form that storage will take, how we'll interface with it logically, how large it'll be, or how it'll be formatted. Other PS2 hardware such as multitaps won't work in place of PSX multitaps either. The problem is that the game code itself was never designed to interface with the 8MB hardware. I don't expect the two platforms to be developed side by side, but I don't think it's too much to ask for complete backwards compatibility. If I'm able to play the damn game on a PS2, I should be able to save on the card that was released with it. I do expect them to at least make it possible to save the PS1 game I'm playing on my PS2 on a PS2 card. Huh? I don't expect the 8MB card to work on a PS1, but I do expect them to at least make it possible to save the PS1 game I'm playing on my PS2 on a PS2 card. I guess you *expect* Sony to have developed the PS1/2 side by side, and have clairvoyance enough to find that rebel base, which would have ensured that nobody would ever have to buy 2 memory cards for two completely different formats. The poster above me is correct, it was a totally different time and technology. I am not a Sony fan, but seriously, get over it. I don't think they expect you to do anything, but it's a system that is over 10 years old, that sold plenty of units, so it's not going to be tough, or even expensive to get one. So Sony expects me to find a used card or never play their old PS games again?