hardware and accessories

After reading countless bad reviews of other companies memory cards (8Mb and up) I can't believe people actually buy those things. Yea the 16Mb card is 5 bucks less, till it frys the machine, and since it's not a licensed Sony card, you pay [money] to have the machine fixed. So that card actually costs you [money]! Ouch. Buy the real card, save your machine. Besides most games are only around 80Kb, not unless you have alot of sports games you won't need more than one for a while. Don't forget the old PS1 cards were only 120Kb. This card is super fast, a 2Mb file from an NBA game saved in like 5 seconds, excellent.

When I first got PS2 a year ago, I didn't had any memory with it and a lot of good games now need it to store a save point, so I really couldn't progress much on those games (gta3). There's not much to write for thr review other than few facts
- This is not compatible with PS-One
- It's much faster in access (saving and loading games) than PS-One : about 200 times.
- Absolute requirement.
- Last but not the least, it's a little expensive for the price and I'm sure that pretty soon other companies would be coming up with higher memory modules, just like it happenend for digital cameras.

I would recommend a different memory card than Sony, which is from NYKO and available in most game shops. This card is exactly same as sony, has the "official licensed product" from Sony Playstation. It was originally used by Sony with their game consoles and then Sony started making their own.
If you buy it in a game shop, it's couple of bucks cheaper than the Sony brand and it comes in YELLOW color.

If you plan on having any fun on your PS2, you must get this! Though Sony needs to make a larger one (maybe 32MB) to keep up with nintendos 1041 block(about 210mb)