PS1 Memory card emulator

HDDGuy · Post by **HDDGuy** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:30 am

Ok, many of us still have some old Playstation (PS1) games.
As everybody knows, the only way to save/load a PS1 Game is with a PS1 Memory card...
Well, PS3 will have some kind of PS2/PS1 Memory card emulator, so we can have some retro-compatibility.

Can't we make the same in PS2?

Or at least is somewere any info if someone want to give it a try? (Build the MC-emulator)

cloudhunter · Post by **cloudhunter** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:11 am

I doubt it is possible i'm afraid, as it seems you can't use other drivers when you are in playstation mode.

Cloudy

Bloodstorm · Post by **Bloodstorm** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:14 am

Hmm.. i think the guys from epsxe made one though.

J.F. · Post by **J.F.** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:39 am

ePSXe is an emulator - of COURSE they'll have an emulated PS1 memcard. If you make your own PS1 emulator for the PS2, you could have emulated PS1 memcard. The PS1 emulator from Sony built into the PS2 does not.

Post by **jbit** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:11 pm

You could maybe patch the PS1 kernel of the PS2s "emulator" to do odd things with the memory cards (AFAIK nobody has ever tried this or put any major thought into it)...
Or, of course, you could opt for the hardware solution, which would actually be pretty "easy". You could probably do it with a relatively fast PIC connected to the memory card bus, an SD card (in SPI mode) connected to the PIC, and some nice code that understands memory card commands. (There may already be such a project)

But what's the point, PS1 memory cards are cheap.....

btw, as far as I know the PS3s PS1 support is fully software (somebody want to correct me?) so sony can "emulate" stuff a hell of a lot easier than on the ps2, which is mainly hardware.