Network Adapter for PS2
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Bubba Grizz
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Network Adapter for PS2
Is it worth buying one of these things? Are there any hidden costs to play online? Or is it just plug and play?
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Jice Virago
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Unless the game has monthly charges, there are no costs. It also lets you do some cool modding things if you also have a hard drive installed.
War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future. At present we occupy a treacherous no-man's-land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them. . . .
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
PS2 online is total shit compared to XBox Live. Sony is making a big mistake in not building a solid online presence similar to XBox Live. Online gaming is only going to get more and more popular. This message board, more than most, should know that much. 60/year isn't that much for the much better online experience and options offered.Siji wrote:It's plug & play and completely free aside from game/ISP costs. XBox Live may have more features, but I'll take free anyday. Champions of Norrath online was a lot of fun.
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Don't spend any more cash on a console that very soon will be old tech. Xbox369/PS3PO will be out soon enough, and they both have integrated networking.
"There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism in international relationships." -Theodore Roosevelt
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/agreeBubba Grizz wrote:I may just buy myself a controller for my pc and buy the pc version of the game. That will be the death knell for my ps2 as I don't play any other games on it.
I don't look forward to enough console games to worry about getting them soon after they come out. I would rather just play games on the computer, especially online games.
The only game I can think of that is coming out this year that I will buy on release day is the new zelda.
Stupid PS2 tricks with a network adapter and an old 40GB HD -> http://www.exploitstation.com/ No modchip or fliptop needed.Jice Virago wrote:Unless the game has monthly charges, there are no costs. It also lets you do some cool modding things if you also have a hard drive installed.
PS2 games with NO LOAD TIMES FTW (I hate people that say FTW.) Anyway, all my games arranged on a nice little list for me to just pick from after power up ala Avalaunch on a hacked xbox (but not near as slick) is nice.
If you don't have the spare techno-junk laying around though and aren't interested in hacking, the network adapter is pretty worthless IMO (what Winnow said...) PS2 online play is a kludge compared to xbox live, though it is free. I'd go the PC with a controller route if all your interested in is one or 2 games available on both platforms (providing you already have a decent PC.)
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Jice Virago
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Also, if you have no interest in the hard drive or modding, the newer slim PS2s come with the network adapter build in.
War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future. At present we occupy a treacherous no-man's-land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them. . . .
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.
--RICHARD M. NIXON, "REAL PEACE" (1983)
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
Dwight Eisenhower