A new innovation in the retro gaming community now allows you to run your entire PS2 library directly from a $50 memory card, thanks to the Multi-Purpose Memory Card Emulation (MMCE) protocol. This breakthrough technology, developed by a team of coders, enables smart memory cards like the 8BitMods MemCard Pro 2 and the open-source SD2PSX to load games directly from a MicroSD card while also functioning as virtual memory cards for saving progress.How It WorksThe MMCE system alternates between save data and game data, allowing players to boot PS2 games using Open PS2 Loader (OPL) without requiring any hardware modifications

A new innovation in the retro gaming community now allows you to run your entire PS2 library directly from a $50 memory card, thanks to the Multi-Purpose Memory Card Emulation (MMCE) protocol.

  • Redkey@programming.devEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    What ShinkanTrain said. The last a read about it, the PS2 only switches into PS1 mode on a trigger from the optical drive subsystem, and then most of the memory and other hardware used to run homebrew is deactivated. AFAIK no-one’s yet found a way to trigger the change in software and keep the connection to wherever you’re loading your game from.

    I believe that on certain revisions of the console, MechaPwn can overcome the protection, but you still need a “Playstation 1” CD in the drive to actually run something, as ShinkanTrain wrote.