yea, the first volume costs over $100CAD (including shipping) just for 10 games on amazon japan. i have been watching for a price drop and still nothing of note. these expansion carts should have been priced at $40CAD. hopefully they will slash the price of volume 1 in the near future and then i'll consider it. unfortunate that the egret II never got hacked by the community to allow us to add more roms to it either.
@Tobunari the good news is ps1 games are fully backwards compatible with the ps3 — physical discs on stock ps3's or in bin/cue format (if you mod your ps3). the emulation of ps1 games on ps3 is quite good as well. you don't necessarily need a memcard pro2 in that case and will have ample storage on the ps3 hdd for ps1 save files. as for ps2, you likely don't have the ps3 model that runs ps2 games natively since they are hard to come by (if you do have one, that is great). but to answer your question: there are literally hundreds of notable ps1 and ps2 games that never got remastered and cannot be streamed on ps4/ps5. that is not hyperbole, either. the ps1/ps2 is an absolutely treasure trove of obscure/interesting/hidden gems that have no equal in the modern era of gaming. however, if you are intolerant of the quirks and lack of polish some games from this era are known to have, relative to AAA modern gaming and do not fancy retro gaming in general, then you might not need to fall down this rabbit hole
excellent! been holding out on the pro 1 for this inevitable release. this will be the one memory card to rule them all without question. the flash memory of the official sony cards will eventually fail, not to mention fills up quite quickly with ps2 games, so this is certainly a must-have item for retro gaming enthusiasts.
there is nothing wrong with piracy so long as the games are legacy or the publisher has already made its revenue back 3 times over. i will never understand people who live by the highest level of self ritious, ethical nonsense just so that they can say "you are stealing!" or "it is morally wrong!". you know what is wrong? allowing classic games to die and be forgotten just because the publishers themselves didn't care enough to provide a reasonable means of purchasing their content in the modern era. i can assure you that those who created the games would be happy to know that 15, 20, 30 years later, people are still enjoying their art, whether they paid for it or not. the market has proven time and time again that if you provide a classics collection release of some kind on modern platforms, people will buy it... now, how do you think those same people were aware and exposed to many of those titles to begin with, making the re-release viable? oh, right, through "piracy"... see how it all works?
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Re: Taito Egret II Mini Arcade Memories Vol. 2 Coming This December
yea, the first volume costs over $100CAD (including shipping) just for 10 games on amazon japan. i have been watching for a price drop and still nothing of note. these expansion carts should have been priced at $40CAD. hopefully they will slash the price of volume 1 in the near future and then i'll consider it. unfortunate that the egret II never got hacked by the community to allow us to add more roms to it either.
Re: New 8BitMods MemCard Pro2 Works With Both PS One And PlayStation 2
@Tobunari the good news is ps1 games are fully backwards compatible with the ps3 — physical discs on stock ps3's or in bin/cue format (if you mod your ps3). the emulation of ps1 games on ps3 is quite good as well. you don't necessarily need a memcard pro2 in that case and will have ample storage on the ps3 hdd for ps1 save files. as for ps2, you likely don't have the ps3 model that runs ps2 games natively since they are hard to come by (if you do have one, that is great). but to answer your question: there are literally hundreds of notable ps1 and ps2 games that never got remastered and cannot be streamed on ps4/ps5. that is not hyperbole, either. the ps1/ps2 is an absolutely treasure trove of obscure/interesting/hidden gems that have no equal in the modern era of gaming. however, if you are intolerant of the quirks and lack of polish some games from this era are known to have, relative to AAA modern gaming and do not fancy retro gaming in general, then you might not need to fall down this rabbit hole
Re: New 8BitMods MemCard Pro2 Works With Both PS One And PlayStation 2
excellent! been holding out on the pro 1 for this inevitable release. this will be the one memory card to rule them all without question. the flash memory of the official sony cards will eventually fail, not to mention fills up quite quickly with ps2 games, so this is certainly a must-have item for retro gaming enthusiasts.
Re: Shocking Study Reveals 87% Of Classic Games Are "Critically Endangered"
there is nothing wrong with piracy so long as the games are legacy or the publisher has already made its revenue back 3 times over. i will never understand people who live by the highest level of self ritious, ethical nonsense just so that they can say "you are stealing!" or "it is morally wrong!". you know what is wrong? allowing classic games to die and be forgotten just because the publishers themselves didn't care enough to provide a reasonable means of purchasing their content in the modern era. i can assure you that those who created the games would be happy to know that 15, 20, 30 years later, people are still enjoying their art, whether they paid for it or not. the market has proven time and time again that if you provide a classics collection release of some kind on modern platforms, people will buy it... now, how do you think those same people were aware and exposed to many of those titles to begin with, making the re-release viable? oh, right, through "piracy"... see how it all works?