PS2 Limitations...

[bungiefan]

I'm on PS2, and a PS3 is expensive at the moment. Also, removal of features by Sony, and the revelation from the people who have decrypted the firmware that the system monitors everything I do on it and sends it to Sony even if I'm not logged into PS2, upset me. SCEA has stated in the class action suit that we shouldn't expect their products to last past their warranty for any function. I'm not willing to buy a product like that from a company that behaves like that.

I've learned that I may even be sued by them for reading web sites and viewing videos I was linked to from news sites about the hacking of the PS3, and I don't even own a PS3 to have participated in any DMCA violation or copyright infringement.

I'd rather play on a console than a PC for important events, because my console doesn't get viruses or have driver conflicts that cause it to crash, and doesn't demand hardware upgrades, support software, or system software updates every week. Of course, the newer consoles are trying to force firmware updates on us, and are running monitoring to report back to their creators what is attached and running on them. I may just stick to my backlog of older consoles and games I haven't beaten yet if they want to spy on me with the newer systems.

Any clue how close we are to the limit on the max partition size on the ps2? I know they freed up the amount we can store by adjusting the update system but I thought we were really close to the limits on that as well.

After the last Abyssea expansion and ripping all the files from my PS2 FFXI install partition (to be able to copy them to friends' PS2s that got the update error and don't read discs anymore), I had a folder using 4.2 GB out of the 8 GB the partition has reserved. We're only using half the partition, and the partition uses about 23% of the total drive space available after HDD Utility Disc sets up system partitions (including a 128 MB one for game saves). PSBBN adds about 2 GB of hard drive usage in Japan for that interface, making it more like 26% or so that FFXI reserves of usable drive space. Undeleted update files from previous updates could take near to 2 GB of the partition, and uLaunchELF was the only way to manually delete them before the new update process in the last patch, which couldn't officially be run since it is homebrew, and thus SE wouldn't endorse or even mention it.