Check out this cool article about the PS2 HDD at IGN.com http://ps2.ign.com/articles/500/500522p1.html Like i imagine, it upgrades the PS2 Browser and drivers like the DVD driver. This might cause some problems to modchips avaiable. They'll probably have to upgrade their chips. I'll buy this sometime, since i'll have Resident Evil: Outbreak (short loadings), Gran Turismo 4, Socom 2, Syphon Filter: Omega Strain and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Too bad i'll have Final Fantasy XI for a month then it will gather dust for the rest of it's life :toimonster:
Cool! Cant wait for it to get released over here in PAL country... might be a good time to chip my PS2 then afterwards :smt033
Well maybe your test unit has as PCMCIA interface instead of the 'newer' port where the network adapter plugs into... I'd check that first. Oh and if the network adapter works I suppose the HDD will work too, but that's just a guess.
First party? Yeah right I probably won't buy the official Sony one because A) I'm not interested in FF XI and B) Approx 130 CDN for 40 GB's? If it offered some very compelling feature now or in the immediate feature, I would pay maybe 100 for it but for some updated DVD drivers and no real applications besides FF XI at the moment is not what I would call compelling.
My big question is, what is stopping us from using a normal hard drive in the PS2? I've got the drive that came with the Linux kit, which is supposedly identical to the Japanese internal drives, and unless looks are really deceiving, the thing is just a normal 40GB Western Digital IDE hard drive with thin metal rails attached to the side to allow it to attach to the Network Adaptor. The Adaptor, as I'm sure any of you who own it know, has on it a normal hard drive power plug, as well as a standard IDE cable plug to interface with the drive. Unless there's any special hardware modifications to any of those drives, I'm thinking that the Sony software is the only thing that keeps us from using a normal drive. I'm wondering if the HDD utilities disc included with FFXI would allow one to format and use a drive of one's own choosing?
uh you can use normal hd with the ps2, you just need to patch it with some things www.ps2ownz.com EDIT: Edited for brevity, PLEASE don't clog up the board with repeating emoticons. EDIT: okay a 2nd edit stop with the annoying flood of emotion icons they are not verry pleasant in this way
you're right Evangelion, moreover I believe the DMS3 modchip had some special features that work with a standard-issue harddrive.
uh you can use any hd, but i will eventually buy the sony one, i have something for hating 3rd party stuff..... :smt117
I think FF online game will sell well because it's the only real way to get the HDD ASSEMbler. I doubt that most buyers will subscribe past that fiee month though. Everquest for the PS2 pretty much showed that MMORPG's just don't do well on consoles.
Well a mmorpg can do fine but a lot of people don't want to pay the monthly fee (like me) If developers just make the initial buy price abit higher and stop with the annoying monthly fee that often requiers the use of a credit card that lots of people don't have i think online games would take a bigger flight on consoles.
Lots of people don't like the idea of monthly fees (myself included) but you have to look at the whole picture. Online games aren't like normal retail games, which ship, and then the dev team is off on vacation or a new project or whatever. Online games constantly have bugfixes, updates, new content, server maintenence, and a ton of other things that usually require a full staff. The company obviously needs to pay the people who do this sort of work, and that's where our monthly fees come in. Yeah, it is a bum deal for those of us who paid the $50 for the game itself, but I'm not sure I could think of a better method to use. The only thing I could think of is like Ragnarok Online's wonderful method - make the game available as a free ISO download on the website, and only charge the $12/month fee.
Re: ... Polyphony Digital already said it will use the HDD ( don't know what for yet ), but i don't know if it will be required. Probably it would be a plus if you use an HDD, to download cars, replays, and updates for the online game. Releasing GT4, putting the HDD as mandatory use would affect sales. Don't forget that to install the HDD you need a Network Adaptor, mostly because the connectors of the HDD are on the Network Adaptor. It can't be connect directly. The NA is kinda of a Bridge between the HDD and the PS2.
