30 November 2006
Ferry

PS3 Memory Card Adapter for PSone and PS2 saves drawbacks listed

An accessory even harder to find than the PS3 console. Guess what? That’s right, the PS3 Memory Card Adapter.

The PSone and PS2 memory card adaptor can copy the save data onto a virtual memory card on your PS3 hard disk, so you don’t have to start all over in your old favorite games when using the PS3’s backwards compatibility. While that is very handy, there are some…

Noteable drawbacks:
* You cannot copy saves back to a physical Memory Card. You can copy them between PS3 internal virtual memory cards, but not back to a physical PSone or PS2 card.
* You actually only use the unit one time to copy over your old save data and that’s it. I realize this is very cheeky to say, but maybe you could get it at a store, carefully use it once, and then return it to get something else with the money.
* You cannot explore your PSone or PS2 card and copy over specific game saves. It’s all or nothing, but you’re still free to delete saves at will once the card has been copied over to the hard drive.
* The adaptor will not work with cards that have more than 8MB of storage space, like the Mad Catz 16MB card. While the card is recognized, a non-descript error is returned as soon as you try to copy its contents.
* At a price of $14.99 the PS3 Memory Card Adapter does not come with a cable, but this is just a heads up, because it doesn’t need to. You use the same USB cable to connect the adaptor that you use to charge the PS3 controllers.

For those of you who don’t know how it works, IGN explains how PS2 and PSone saves are handled on the PS3:


Under the Game section on the Cross Media Bar, you’ll find the Memory Card Utility. When you connect the unit to the PS3, the inserted Memory Card will show up inside of the Memory Card Utility. Your first option here is New Internal Memory Card, pressing X will bring up a message that says, “The saved data on the selected memory card will be copied to the hard disk. Do you want to continue?” Choosing yes creates a save space for backwards compatible games. After choosing the card type and giving it a name, the PlayStation 3 then sets aside the appropriate amount of space for the given card type on the hard drive.

When you play a game, you choose which virtual card is in Memory Card Slot 1 and Slot 2, which you can swap on the fly. You’re able to create an unlimited number of cards, though you can’t surpass the usage of 8MB or 15 blocks on any one card.

30 November 2006 12:29
Reeteshinator

Pretty useless to Buy a NEW one Maybe the shops can have a $5 Edition where One of the readers is Unpacked and for $5 we can Use The card for once and the return it THat would be a better thing I guess.

2 December 2006 09:54
john

Is it possible for the ps3 to save ps2 game data, while playing the game? Like can you go to the menu bar, and click save, and the next day when you check the memory, will it be saved there, so that you can continue from where you saved the game?

2 January 2007 07:35
philihp

why can’t we just have some sort of way to get the PS2 to connect to the internet and email the save game; and then download the save game onto the PS3 through its internet connection?

3 January 2007 17:44
Chris

so is it possible to just hook up a ps3 and a PS2 via usb cable..would the ps3 read the ps2 at all..just asking? just trying to see if anyone has even tried this?

7 January 2007 17:50
The Man

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11 January 2007 22:31
ces

after reading the paragraph on the drawbacks, am I to understand that the adapter is absolutely useless after transfer of data from just one ps 2 memory card? Or if I own lets say 3 ps2 memory card’s, will I be able to transfer the data from each of the 3 cards with one adapter? or must I purchase 3 separate adapters?

12 January 2007 08:24
supadupagama

ces, there’s 2 ways you can read that paragraph. Sorry about the confusion. You only need 1 adapter.

It’s supposed to mean that once you’ve used it the one time to copy over your save data from ‘each of the however many PS2 memory cards you have’ to your PS3, THEN it’s useless after YOU’RE done with it.

16 January 2007 18:36
steve blackman

So if i want to transfer my ps2 saves, which are on a ps3, onto another ps3, what is the process? I know it is possible to copy the ps2 saves onto an sd card, flash drive, etc. but they are not read as save files once copied since they are not on virtual memory cards. The ps2 games do not just load up files unless they are formatted the way a memory card would format them so i cannot copy the files from the sd card onto another ps3 because they are just blank.psv files, which i dont know what that means and i dont think the ps3 does either.

I think if it is possible to download a program that puts a virtual memory card onto your sd card, then you can copy files into that virual memory card and transfer them from it to other ps3s as well. It would be just like a real memory card but in a different form.

16 January 2007 18:37
steve blackman

*blahblahblah.psv files - it doesnt say blank