Intec PlayStation 2 16MB Memory Expansion Card Reviews

• Double the memory for half the price, no disc needed

  
  By A3GZVY2EK7G6PP on 2003-10-17
  I've read the reviews posted here, there appears to be a conflict of facts. Some of the reviewers said their product came with a boot disc, while some did not.

  The one I have did not come with a boot disc and it did not need the disc to operate. It is truly plug-and-play right out of the box. It is basically a memory card at double the normal capacity (at 16MB) with an expansion slot which allows you to plug your original memory card in there. A switch on the card allows you to switch between the 16MB expansion and the 8MB memory card. There are 2 LED indicators that lets you know whether it's the 16MB expansion or the 8MB memory card that can be accessed currently. This means you cannot access saved files on both memory cards at the same time, but at least you can access 16+8 = 24MB's worth of saved files via a single port without rebooting the system or physically replacing the cards. With 2 of these and 2 memory cards, you can have 48MB's worth of memory using only 2 memory card slots compared to the 16MBs you are limited to if you are only using the regular memory cards.

  At $12.49, this is defiinitely a great value and a great alternative to a Sony brand memory card, which gives you half the amount of memory at double the price.
  
  

• Disc Swap Tricks to get more memory

  
  By ADA4SHUR5JB1R on 2003-01-17
  This comes with such an annoying bootloader that you have to use before each and every game. There are a few games (such as Super Bust-a-move) that this doesn't even work with. It's a hack and it makes you swap discs each and every time you load a game.

  Spend the extra bucks and buy a real memory card.
  
  

• Crap!

  
  By A1SAGQH85QBC2R on 2005-05-05
  I buyed this item two weeks ago... I put many saves in it... Works very well! Works like a single memory card(don't need to swap, no CD is included anyway!!!)
  
  But today my PS2 tell me that this 'memory card' is unformatted. Impossible to see my saves...
  
  I choose 'Format It' and I see 'Format Failed'!!!
  
  It's now impossible to save on it. And I lost all my saves! WOW!
  
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  DON'T BUY THAT ******!
  
  

• sucks

  
  By on 2004-01-02
  this thing seems like a dream-i owned one for a year and it worked perfectly, with 16MB of memory on the expansion itself. it has an expansion bay to plug in your smaller 8MB memory card, and there is a button on top you use to toggle between the two. to clarify the confusion, THERE IS NO DISC NEEDED TO LOAD THIS MEMORY CARD OR TO PLAY WITH IT. i used it fine for a year until....one day i was saving my dynasty in March Madness 2004 and the expansion corrupted. it does this without warning, and all of the files on the card become corrupted, which means unable to save/load and unable to be deleted from the card. so it becomes totally worthless. this thing is really bad, and i lost thousands of saved files because of it. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS ONE BY INTEC, get the 16MB memory cards WITHOUT THE EXPANSION. consider yourselves warned..
  
  

• It's great.....until

  
  By A2XHQ2807M232O on 2005-01-07
  It works fine....until the day you wake up to find that it has crashed on you, and all your stats and saves are down the toilet
  
  
  
• NEVER WORKED
  By A36TMN64NBZ8OA on 2005-08-02
  My machine wouldnt recognize the card. Total waste of my money. I have the new slim PSTwo machine... I DO NOT recommend this to anyone. Do yourself a favor and just buy the regular memory cards.
  
  
• It is a good memory solution..!
  By A1ERGOZMEZA616 on 2003-05-13
  I bought two of this and i think that this is a wonderfull solution to save a lot of games, it doesn't have a disc in order to work, i just only put my 8Mb memory card inside and it works great, the only problem that i see is that this expasion is slower than the original memory card and another thing that dislike to me is that the 24X that show in the cover are separate, it have a button that swap the Expansion and the original memory card, a thing that i like, is that it have a light that let you see when the console is accesing the memory card, it blinking when the PS2 is reading or writing to the expansion. I recomend this expansion, it is a must buy accesory for your PS2 console...
  Note: It has no disc to work, it came with just the expansion and the instructions, no more else!.
  
  
• double the memory
  By on 2004-04-03
  I bought the expantion pak about a year ago it is working great.I never have ran out of memory and there is no disk to put in. the price has droped since I bought mine. I recomend purchasing one.
  
  
• no memery
  By AHUAQIAXJHZA1 on 2003-04-08
  OK, if you loose the disk, your sqrewed, not to mention loading the stupid thing every time you change a game... and who takes the time to "crush" a file after playing... it works till you loose the disk, and it wont work on "Medal of Honor: Frontline"
  
  
• CORRUPTS SAVES
  By A113LHLZIBF8DA on 2005-12-24
  CONSTANTLY CORRUPTS SAVES FOR RE4,MADDEN 2005,AND ALOT OF NEWER GAMES.
  
  
• good, 'till you sell it
  By on 2006-03-14
  ok, a long time ago, I picked one of these up. it came with no disk. not so long ago, while trying to get cash for something, I sold it along with some games. little did I know that I had just sold off all my GT4 data. I am not sure if it compresses the file or just has a itty bitty memory card inside of it, but regardless, I can't acess the GT4 file. 2+ months of grueling gaming down the drain. word of warning: if you get this and use it with games, make sure you do not sell it until you sell the games you used it with! if you do, you'll almost certainly loose your data unless you find another one, and if it only adds to the storage with another memory card, then you're out of luck!
  
  
• Stay away from Intec
  By A3PDJZHO2L9MID on 2006-10-20
  I'm a hardcore gamer, I've got a ton of games with complete save files for all those games. I've had this memory card since when Devil May Cry 3 came out, if not longer. Well, what sucks is that I just turned on my PS2 to get some Tekken 5 practice when I realized it didn't load (meaning the memory card was entirely corrupted and that I lost ALL my saves files in the expansion card by Intec). Lucky all the games on the original PS2 memory card was still there, but damn, WTF. And it was when I tried to create a save file for Okami, which I doubt could have been responsible for the corruption. Okay, so this isn't the first time it's happened to me. I bought a memory card for my GameCube which was also by Intec before. It couldn't save Final Fantasy Chronicles. Damn, I thought having a whole 24 mb for my PS2 would save me some cash, but it's not worth losing all the saves. I know what I'm talking about here, so if you still want to go for this product, then go for it but don't say you haven't been warned. So angry.
  
  
• Itsan Okay set until this disc they dont tell u about breaks
  By A2KTU3UB1LK2KG on 2002-12-28
  Like the picture says it douubles the memory capabilities of your memo card and you enjoy it at first.Its okay but after the disc breaks everthing comes crashing down and all of your memory is lost unless you buy a new one.Now the number one draw back is that you HAVE TO USE THE CD THAT COMES WITH IT EVERYTIME USE THE MEMO CARD.Its preety stupid but you learn to put up with it . I didn't buy it from here I was rushing in and out of [the store] and I piicked it up. After a while it kind of [stinks] !!!
  
  
• Lost Everything!!!
  By A1CYGTWV2XH8VQ on 2006-01-02
  I found this thing easy to use. The problem was that it wouldn't work while I was playing Ratchet and Clank: UYA. I'd jiggle it around in the memory slot, and it would work work. Then one time jiggling it didn't work. It hasn't worked with anything else either. I lost ALOT of saves. I want my money back!
  
  
• Intec NEVER seems to work
  By AWJ353KGHWWNJ on 2007-02-01
  I got this about a year ago from my mom, she figured to save money on buying memory cards she would give me this. Well, I could never get it to work. I thought maybe I was doing something wrong. So I kept it in but I only used my original 8MB memory card. I couldn't access the expansion. Everytime I tried the PS2 would say it needed to be formatted. When I hit "yes" It would say that the formatting failed. I thought that maybe I was doing somethign wrong. However, after checking out HUNDREDS of reviews and forums I found out that 12 out of 14 people are having the same problem (or something similar) and that it's happened on INTEC expansions for all 3 major consoles.
  
  I say your better off buying memory cards because INTEC doesn't seem to work...I say stick with the Sony stuff.
  
  

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