Sony flash memory module - 8 MB - Sony PlayStation 2 Memory Card

Author's product rating:   

Memory / capacity	Good
Reliability	Excellent
Ease of use	Very easy
Speed	Fast
Value For Money	Good

Advantages:	OK space to save data, it is vital if you plan to play on your PS2 !  !
Disadvantages:	Maybe not much saving room for extreme gamers !

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

The memory card, one of the most important pieces of equipment that you will need for PS2 gaming. Without it, you will find it very hard to play games from beginning to end, in fact, impossible to play games from beginning to end, (unless you left your console on for the duration it took you to complete the game)! I really tried hard to find info for this review, but found it quite hard, so I hope you enjoy this (rather short) review!

Looks
The memory card is a very small and handy piece of equipment. It is 4cm wide and 5.5cm long. The main colour theme of the card is black, with white and blue writing on it. Although there are now new colours available to buy, as shown in the Ciao picture. It depends on whether you like the traditional colour of the memory card or the newer, more colourful version of the memory card. It is entirely up to you, whatever colour you decide to go for, you will still get the same performance!

Weight
Just in case you were interested, the memory card weighs 12 grams!

Plugging the memory cards into your console
To plug your memory cards into your console, you have to make sure you are putting the hollow end with the pins into your console, (not the solid end, or else you will be kind of stuck)!!! You push it against the flap of the memory card slot and the flap will lift up, and you can continue to push the plug into the console. After you push it in far enough, you will feel a slight click, (though there is no noise made), and this means that the card is now connected to your console! After you have done this, you are able to store data onto your memory card!!

Viewing items on your memory cards
To view items on your memory card, you make sure that one is plugged into your console, and click on browser. Here you can click on which memory card you would like to look at, and then you can look at the things you have stored on it. Then you can see how much data each one holds, and you can copy them to another memory card you have, or delete some items you have stored on it.

Technical Stuff
The standard memory size for the memory card is 8MB. This is quite a reasonable size if you are an average player. But if you really like playing on your PS2, and rarely delete your files that are saved onto you memory card, it might be a better idea to think about buying a larger sized memory card. I have bought a 32MB memory card, and it will last me for ages!!!! It is not made by Sony, but Sony have made larger sized memory cards!

The PS2 memory card transfers data 200 times faster than what the original Playstation memory card did. This makes saving, loading and deleting data much faster and easier!

This memory card also uses Flash memory, which is the same technology that is used for digital camera cards, and it is also used in MP3 players. This means that a lot more data is able to be stored on the memory cards.

Price of the cards
I have looked around and found various prices for the Sony 8MB Memory Card. When I first bought mine, they were just new, and were about £25-£30. Now they are much cheaper. I have looked around on the Internet, and the most expensive price I could find for one was between £20-£25 and the cheapest was about £10-£15.

Overall
The memory card is a vital piece of equipment. Without it, your gaming experience will be very poor. In my opinion, Sony should give you one of these with the console, because without it, you will not enjoy it as much. But once you have one, you will be able to save all the data that you want, (well, up to 8MB), and will make your gaming experience so much better!!!!!!!!!!

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