MC2SIO - Load PS2 games from SD Memory Card!

[godreborn]

No idea

What do you use?

 

[Shadow#1]

What do you use?

Did u format it correctly?

 

[godreborn]

Did u format it correctly?

I'm still using h2testw on it, but I won't be able to test it for at least a week

 

[Shadow#1]

I'm still using h2testw on it, but I won't be able to test it for at least a week

Well when u do make use it's fat32 16k cluster size

 

[godreborn]

It says team group 256gb works, but I don't know about team group go.

 

[playstays_shun]

also, to be clear, this micro sd card will work? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0897BBCYP?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image&th=1

yep that one works

 

[fleamsy]

I can't get my games to show up and i followed all the steps of the video is it because of my sd? I have a SanDisk Ultra Plus 60gb

 

[Shadow#1]

I can't get my games to show up and i followed all the steps of the video is it because of my sd? I have a SanDisk Ultra Plus 60gb

SanDisk is known to not work

 

[fleamsy]

SanDisk is known to not work

Bummer i'll try another thanks

 

[godreborn]

yep that one works

it's legit. it just finished:

 

[Girtana1]

also, to be clear, this micro sd card will work? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0897BBCYP?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image&th=1

I picked up a 128GB PNY card for mine, I can't even really recommend the MC2SIO all that much though because a great majority of the games I was interested in do not work on this thing and its painstaking to troubleshoot and test each mode on OPL, I don't have the highest hopes for this thing getting great library support anywhere in the near future either because it seems OPL is not updated very often at all, pretty damn disappointed with this thing, I mean for $20 it doesn't feel like a complete loss (until you find out no SD you have on hand works I guess lol) and even the build quality just seems like they're rushed out of the door, yknow, all the stuff reviewers won't mention

 

[Shadow#1]

I picked up a 128GB PNY card for mine, I can't even really recommend the MC2SIO all that much though because a great majority of the games I was interested in do not work on this thing and its painstaking to troubleshoot and test each mode on OPL, I don't have the highest hopes for this thing getting great library support anywhere in the near future either because it seems OPL is not updated very often at all, pretty damn disappointed with this thing, I mean for $20 it doesn't feel like a complete loss (until you find out no SD you have on hand works I guess lol) and even the build quality just seems like they're rushed out of the door, yknow, all the stuff reviewers won't mention

List of games that didn't work please?

 

[Girtana1]

List of games that didn't work please?

Manhunt (1+2), Resident Evil 4, Simpsons Hit and Run, can't remember what else off the top of my head, I might mess with it some more today

 

[Maeson]

I got one of these things (a bit of a surprise I must say) and been trying a bit. It booted up every game I tried (around 12~15) except Gradius V.

Games like God Hand, Romacing Saga, Dragon Quest 8 and FF12 IZJS worked fine to my surprise, the Katamari games also work (thank goodness) and other smaller ones like Mr. Moskito or the Contras too. Videos play fine (I seriously did not see any difference from playing them from disc, but I'm sure it could depend on the quality of the video itself, most games didn't have super high quality videos though) and games run well. Of course I haven't put much time into each one yet as I only got it two days ago, but I've read people left games running for 14 hours and they didn't freeze or lose connection to the MX4SIO, so that sounds great.

It's rather surprising how well it works considering it is reading games through a Memory Card slot, specially when looking at the USB slots right next to it. Makes no sense to me, as at most the system would need to read mere kilobytes out of a MC.

I have a PS2 Slim 75004 model by the way. I did have no issue with having to eject and insert the SD card for it to read games at all, it has been very solid, but of course that will depend a lot with how the device was made; some of these things seems to be only "slide the sd in" while others have that "click-y" slot that keeps the sd card in place.

From what people say in psx-place, Sandisk cards do not work at all. I used a Samsung Evo Plus 64GB and that worked fine. It is recommended to format it FAT32 with 16kb clusters.

Of course the question will be if OPL will get worked on with some level of consistency. Right now the most important thing would be either fixing saving the configuration of OPL on the BDM3 version (which can save/load games from the MC on port 1) or making saving/loading games work on the main OPL version, right now 1.2.0 I think.

Having to activate the USB/BDM load every time you open OPL is a bit annoying, but hey, for now it'll do.

It definitely is a large step up from USB loading. Games that I never got to boot on USB, play fine on these thing. I don't expect every game to work, but just being able to play something like those long rpgs like Romancing Saga above or those replayable quick games fine through an SD card is awesome and will take a huge load off the disc reader, because those things can fail in many ways beyond the lens getting worn out.

 

[playstays_shun]

Manhunt (1+2), Resident Evil 4, Simpsons Hit and Run, can't remember what else off the top of my head, I might mess with it some more today

you've tried with pad emu on and off? That can change compatibility, sometimes on makes it more likely to work and other times the opposite depending on title

pad emu on but can turn 1P off if you dont actually use pad emu

 

[playstays_shun]

it's legit. it just finished:

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I don't even worry about that stuff haha I buy microcenter mostly and its from microcenter

and in this case, team group was sold by team group as well.

Id be a lot more cautious of other microSD's shipped+sold by amazon since ive heard they source counterfeits mistakenly a decent amount

 

[godreborn]

I don't even worry about that stuff haha I buy microcenter mostly and its from microcenter

and in this case, team group was sold by team group as well.

Id be a lot more cautious of other microSD's shipped+sold by amazon since ive heard they source counterfeits mistakenly a decent amount

I check all just in case.

 

[Flame]

got mine to work which i brought from aliexpress. i brought kingston sd card. playing ICO right now

 

[godreborn]

when they say a magic gate memory card, they mean an official (oem) card, correct? I know sony used magic gate on the psp as well, and I think it's to distinguish official from fake or something.

 

[Maeson]

MagicGate is fancy words for saying "We're Sony and we force encryption so people have to buy our proprietary devices" more or less. It's a form of DRM basically, and is how Sony tried to keep out third party companies from producing things to be used with Sony's consoles, or music devices (because believe it or not, it started with music).

This is why certain PS1 and PS2 games can't save or load (or corrupt your memory card) if you're not using an official one. That also goes for phones, camcoders, etc. I don't know if things like FreeMCBoot really need the MagicGate to work... Could be something else, maybe people tend to recommend official ones because of the 8MB size itself.

I've read that with larger memory cards the system gets boggled trying to look beyond the 8MB, and that can lead to issues, which is the reason often cited as to why Sony never introduced larger official cards (beyond you know, trying to make people buy several small ones instead of just a large one).

If anything I guess other officially licensed cards also use MagicGate and come in 8MB so they could potentially work. But now that I think about it, if the MX4SIO gets traction we'll probably see many memory cards destroyed to repurpose them...