Attention internets

[aleksandyr]

Anyone have a way to dump a PS2 memory card?

Action Replay MAX, instead of backing up my card, seems to have corrupted it.

I really don't want to lose the hojillion hours on there, especially since I BOUGHT THE STUPID AR MAX TO BACK IT UP. Sigh.

(AR Max now shows no data on the card, but shows that it's mostly full.)

Comments

[dariusk]

Get Linux running on your PS2.

http://playstation2-linux.com/

[aleksandyr]

Double plus sold out, it seems?

[dariusk]

Hrm. Well, that's how Prof Cyganski got a hexdump of his son's Gamecube save card. He did the ol' "take-advantage-of-a-buffer-overflow-in-Phantasy-Star-Online-to-install-linux" trick.

Weapon of last resort

[ab3nd]

Well, conceivably you could get a heatgun and a USB flash drive, extract the flash chips from the card, put them in the drive, sacrifice a chicken, and use DD to get the data out.

That would be horrible, and if it worked, would no doubt open a rip in the very fabric of the universe.

You could get something like this http://www.superufo.com/product_html/Playstation_2_PS2_USB_Memory_Adaptor.html

I don't know if that works, or is useful for dumping memory cards.

Re: Weapon of last resort

[aleksandyr]

I've seen that adapter (although for much less) elsewhere and it requires a separate USB cable (not included) that nobody seems to stock.

At this point it's mostly completed games (sigh) and 20 hours of FF12. I may buy a SwapMagic and see if there's some homebrew to fix it...