PS and PS2 memory cards

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » October 24, 2004, 11:38 pm

I recently picked up FF9 second hand (had it originally, it died in a house fire.. don't ask). I popped it into my PS2 and was happily playing along, but came to the first save point and it wouldn't recognize the memory card I had in. Granted I have a cheaper card, not an official one, but it has worked perfectly up till now. I think this is the first original PS game I've tried saving on it with. Just wondering if this is a common thing? Anyone else experienced this?

Farrel · Post by **Farrel** » October 24, 2004, 11:55 pm

you cant save PSone gaves on a PS2 mem card and vice versa. you can use them to transfer data though.

edit: transfer data among mem cards. in other words, in the console menu, you can copy a psone file on your ps2 card, but when you play the game, it wont recognize it on the ps2 card, if that makes sense.

Markulas · Post by **Markulas** » October 25, 2004, 1:06 am

Wow same exact thing happened to my friend like yesterday. Only he completed FF8's first disc without saving only to realize that the PS2 memory card didn't work. I gave him a PSone memory card and everything is okay now. I wish it that information was a little more well known.

Llaffer · Post by **Llaffer** » October 25, 2004, 1:26 am

I had the same problem when I tried playing FF4 (SNES FF2) which is a PS1 release on my PS2.

Putting a PS1 memory card in the reader slot did the trick.

Canoe · Post by **Canoe** » October 25, 2004, 9:53 am

Yeah - as stated above PS1 games can only be saved to a PS1 card, and PS2 games can only be saved to PS2 cards.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » October 25, 2004, 10:21 am

Well thanks for the confirmation guys. Guess I'll have to go out and get a PS1 memory card.