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Designed
by Datel
Price: £29.99
Every
game console that's ever been released has had an Achilles
heel. In regards to the PlayStation 2 there can be little
doubt that the one problem most gamers have with it is the
irritatingly small memory cards. Until now you've been stuck
with using the 8MB Official card. Sure there have been third
party products on the market that allow you to double the
capacity of your official card and indeed with the Action
Replay MAX EVO Edition you could even use USB pen drives
to store saves on in order to clear out some space on your
memory card. To a point these solutions have worked well
but none have offered the simple plug and play design of
the official memory card. In fact if you've wanted this
kind of simplicity (and more space to save those games of
course) you haven't really had a choice; until now that
is.
The
new MAX Memory range of memory cards have been created to
answer all of your memory card needs. Datel have created
memory cards that range from the standard 8MB to a whopping
64MB (eight times the size of the official memory card).
The cards have been manufactured by memory experts Toshiba
and Samsung to guarantee uncompressed and 100% stable products.
Theoretically then quality should not be an issue (more
on that in a moment). The price of these products is also
a concern of course and it's no good if they turn out to
be expensive. Fortunately the price for these MAX Memory
cards is exceptional and can be found below:
MAX
Memory 64MB UK: £39.99, USA: $49.99
MAX Memory 32MB UK: £29.99, USA: $34.99
MAX Memory 16MB UK: £19.99, USA: $24.99
To
make it even sweeter though I've been browsing around the
internet and it's possible to pick up the 16MB card for
only £12.99 and the 64MB for only £29.99 which
is outstanding.
Last
week we were fortunate to receive a couple of 32MB cards
from Datel and since then we've been putting them through
their paces. We switched on the PlayStation 2 and went straight
into the browser. A blank official PlayStation 2 memory
card shows 7,982 KB free in the browser whereas our blank
32MB MAX Memory card registered a far nicer 31,998 KB free;
that's just over 4 times as much and it's a serious amount
of storage space for PlayStation games. Impressed by the
storage space then, we decided to empty the contents of
our 3 official cards onto just one of 32MB MAX Memory cards
and were surprised to find around 9,000 KB of free space
remaining which gives you an idea of how big these cards
are.
Next
came the boring part as we played all the games which we
had previously saved (all saves now being on the MAX Memory
card). They all opened fine and all of the games saved fine
too whether it be overwriting a previous save or creating
a new save. Then we played around copying saves from one
card to another and deleted saves (that we'd backed up of
course) and generally did every action that's possible to
do with a memory card and every time the MAX Memory cards
performed just like an official memory card. Finally we
used the cards for a week constantly saving to them with
perfect results every time. There's been no file corruption
at all and no game (and yes we've tried lots of them) has
refused to save or failed to recognise the cards which is
excellent.
In
many ways a memory card is a mundane product but it's also
an essential product and most of your console games are
useless without one. For years I've always been a fan of
picking up the official memory card for a console because
of bad experiences with third party cards corrupting important
saves. In fact I even imported an official Nintendo 1019
memory card last year because I didn't want to risk buying
a card that corrupted my saves. However after continuously
using the 32MB MAX Memory cards for the last week or so
I've been very impressed by the reliability of these cards
which is equal to Sony's official PlayStation 2 memory cards.
In fact it's a win, win product because it's just as reliable,
much less expensive and a lot more capacious. When you have
memory cards of this quality it really makes the official
memory card look a bad buy and I have no hesitation in giving
the Max Memory PlayStation 2 card a perfect 10/10 rating.
Overall
Game Rating: 10/10
The MAX Memory cards for PlayStation 2 are absolute top
quality products that make the official memory cards look
very small and very expensive.
If you have any questions about the MAX Memory cards please contact Datel. We have far too many e-mails concerning these memory cards (some of which are rather abusive). WE DO NOT MAKE OR SELL THESE CARDS. THIS IS SIMPLY A REVIEW. You can contact Datel at:
http://www.codejunkies.com/
Any e-mails we receive concerning these memory cards will simply be deleted. Please use the above link should you have any questions regarding the memory cards.
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