Jaelyn
12-15-2002, 11:54 AM
Hi all,
Longtime DC PSO vet here, just recently made the transition to GC. After all the hype and concern over this memcard on not only this forum, but several others as well, I figured I'd have a friend send me one from overseas. Plus, since he was sending a platinum wavebird and GC keyboard anyway, might as well throw one more item in. After playing around with it for the last week, I thought I'd let you know what it can and can't do, especially for PSO.
First off, it's your basic 64mb memory card. Works like any standard card, and has a ton of memory blocks. I tried it on 12 different games, and it worked flawlessly on all for basic saving.
Now, as for backing up files, it again worked perfect for 11 of the games I tried. I could easily download the file, erase the one on the card and then reupload without any problems. So, for basic backup of files, it also works great...
Except for PSO. Yes, it works as a basic memcard without any problems. And you can download the character, guild and system files to your computer without any problems. However, if you attempt to return any of them to the card, it corrupts your character file and when you try to load the character, you can't. Only a reformat will allow you to use the card after that. And this is true if you only download and then re-upload the guild card. Any attempt to reupload a file results in a corrupted character message when you try to use it in the game.
Syncing the GC clock with your computers clock does no good. Syncing the time on the computer when you are re-uploading the card with the time your GC saved to the card does no good. I tried online multi, offline multi, etc...etc...anytime the memcard had ANY PSO info copied back onto it, your character file is corrupted and unuseable. At this time, there is no way to save and restore ANY information from the card related to PSO and still be able to use that character.
Therefore, as of this time, the card is completely worthless for anyone looking to use it to dupe items or Mes. Let me say that again, YOU CAN NOT DUPE WITH THE CARD AT THIS TIME. Any concerns of mass item duping now that it's released can be put to rest. Also, anyone thinking of trying it, you will corrupt the character on the card completely and lose that character all together.
Now, on a positive note, you can use it to capture screenshots and download them to your computer. However, as of this time, I've been unable to decode the file, and every image view I've tried has been unable to open the file. Perhaps with a little more work it will become a viable option for downloading screenshots onto your computer, but as of this writing the files are unreadable.
SO, in summary:
Works like a basic memcard for all games.
You can backup and restore for all the other games I tried.
Any attempt to restore any PSO info results in a corrupted file and complete loss of ALL characters on the card.
You can DL the screenshot file to your computer, but can't actually view it....yet...
If you don't have a friend that owns a gameshop overseas that can send you one for cost (Thanks again, Jim http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif ), save yourself the money and just pick up a generic 64MB card here unless you really want to be able to back up your other saved games. But for PSO, at this time it has NO advantage over standard memcards.
Any questions, feel free to email or PM me.
Longtime DC PSO vet here, just recently made the transition to GC. After all the hype and concern over this memcard on not only this forum, but several others as well, I figured I'd have a friend send me one from overseas. Plus, since he was sending a platinum wavebird and GC keyboard anyway, might as well throw one more item in. After playing around with it for the last week, I thought I'd let you know what it can and can't do, especially for PSO.
First off, it's your basic 64mb memory card. Works like any standard card, and has a ton of memory blocks. I tried it on 12 different games, and it worked flawlessly on all for basic saving.
Now, as for backing up files, it again worked perfect for 11 of the games I tried. I could easily download the file, erase the one on the card and then reupload without any problems. So, for basic backup of files, it also works great...
Except for PSO. Yes, it works as a basic memcard without any problems. And you can download the character, guild and system files to your computer without any problems. However, if you attempt to return any of them to the card, it corrupts your character file and when you try to load the character, you can't. Only a reformat will allow you to use the card after that. And this is true if you only download and then re-upload the guild card. Any attempt to reupload a file results in a corrupted character message when you try to use it in the game.
Syncing the GC clock with your computers clock does no good. Syncing the time on the computer when you are re-uploading the card with the time your GC saved to the card does no good. I tried online multi, offline multi, etc...etc...anytime the memcard had ANY PSO info copied back onto it, your character file is corrupted and unuseable. At this time, there is no way to save and restore ANY information from the card related to PSO and still be able to use that character.
Therefore, as of this time, the card is completely worthless for anyone looking to use it to dupe items or Mes. Let me say that again, YOU CAN NOT DUPE WITH THE CARD AT THIS TIME. Any concerns of mass item duping now that it's released can be put to rest. Also, anyone thinking of trying it, you will corrupt the character on the card completely and lose that character all together.
Now, on a positive note, you can use it to capture screenshots and download them to your computer. However, as of this time, I've been unable to decode the file, and every image view I've tried has been unable to open the file. Perhaps with a little more work it will become a viable option for downloading screenshots onto your computer, but as of this writing the files are unreadable.
SO, in summary:
Works like a basic memcard for all games.
You can backup and restore for all the other games I tried.
Any attempt to restore any PSO info results in a corrupted file and complete loss of ALL characters on the card.
You can DL the screenshot file to your computer, but can't actually view it....yet...
If you don't have a friend that owns a gameshop overseas that can send you one for cost (Thanks again, Jim http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif ), save yourself the money and just pick up a generic 64MB card here unless you really want to be able to back up your other saved games. But for PSO, at this time it has NO advantage over standard memcards.
Any questions, feel free to email or PM me.