PS2 - Real info request.

**Coldbrand** · 03-20-2011 07:25 PM

This is the true story... of eight strange developers... picked to live in a design studio...work together and have their lives blogged... to find out what happens... when people stop being polite... and start getting real (systems that aren't 11 years old and have more memory than most modern cellphones)...The Real PS2 Thread.

**Neofire** · 03-20-2011 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji

The new content in all likelyhood would also atract the displaced PS2 players who, after all, will not lose anything ingame in the transition.

Can i borrow that time machine so i see what you claim to know will happen? lol

All i see is the same set of cry babies on this forum posting the same topic over and over again.

**Gwynplaine** · 03-20-2011 10:56 PM

Say something new or don't say anything at all.

**Legomike** · 03-20-2011 11:27 PM

im pretty sure the game will not instantly improve and thousands of new customers will join just by dropping PS2

**Zyeriis** · 03-21-2011 01:50 AM

Originally Posted by Legomike

im pretty sure the game will not instantly improve and thousands of new customers will join just by dropping PS2

Instantaneously? Probability: none. It still wouldn't take 11 years, the amount of time the game has been held back.

**Odintius** · 03-21-2011 01:53 AM

I want to hear it from the horse's mouth specifics on ps2 limiation not rumors :P

**Alhanelem** · 03-21-2011 01:55 AM

The PS2 has one simple main limitation: Memory. The PS2 has very, very little memory compared to even PCs around at the time of its release.

The PS2 doesn't need to have lots of support software running, so normally it doesn't need all that much memory. A console is designed with just enough of the resources they think the developers of games will need during its lifetime. Unfortunately, some people end up needing more than that and thus have to find more difficult and complicated ways to work around problems.

The second limitaiton is disk space. SE was mostly prepared for this, that is why so many newer areas are clones of older ones.

This is not a rumor. This is a simple fact of the extremely old hardware.

**Gwynplaine** · 03-21-2011 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by Alhanelem

The second limitaiton is disk space. SE was mostly prepared for this, that is why so many newer areas are clones of older ones.

Reskins of old graphics do not work that way. Reskinning old content does not save disc space. It saves the staff time in creating something brand new. That's all.

**Byrth** · 03-21-2011 03:13 AM

Well, so, PS2 has 32MB of RAM for the main CPU and 4MB of video RAM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2

Still, the recent memory issues SE has had are related to harddrive space though. Currently FFXI only uses up (I think?) either 4 or 8GB of space on the hard drive.

**Vyvian** · 03-21-2011 03:19 AM

Wasn't the PS2 hard drive a 20 or a 40? What are they doing with the rest of the space?

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