Customer Reviews

Mega Memory Card (16 Meg)

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4 star:		(25)
3 star:		(17)
2 star:		(21)
1 star:		(132)

 

 

Well I hope this can be useful to someone but I just recently purchased a PS2 and with the lack of memory cards on the market I became easily frustrated just trying to find one regardless of the company. All the stores pointed me to the internet so I looked and I saw all the negative reviews on the Interact 16 MB card and I imidiately grew wary about purchasing it. But after countless hours searching online and in stores for a memory card I broke down and figured I would at least try the product and hope for the best since I couldn't save my games anyway. Well I brought it home and being apprehensive I tried it out and it works fine. All my games are saved and I have not had a problem. Everyone keeps saying that it doesn't work. Well it states very clearly in the directions that you must load the software prior to loading a game. This is quite simple. Insert the disk and let it start up. Once the menu has loaded (about 30 seconds to a minute) take the disk back out and put in your game. Then press start and follow the directions. Once that is done it works just like every other memory card and the compression function is a plus as well. Also for those saying the card does not work on their system it states very clearly that the card ONLY works on US systems. So if you follow the directions you should not have a problem unless you have a non-US system. The only reason I gave this product 4 stars instead of 5 is because it can get rather monotonous having to load the disk everytime you start the system up but since Sony has been slacking on their production I will deal and it is Sony's loss of business. Well I hope this was useful for you and if you really need a memory card and have a US system just read the simple directions and this card will work fine.

Sounds good... double the memory for about ($$$) less than Sony's 8MB card... tell ya what, go ahead and spend the extra (...) bucks. It is more than worth it to AVOID THIS PRODUCT AT ALL COSTS!

My PS2 would not recognize that it was plugged in no matter what. Not only that, you are required to run a software cd EVERY TIME you want to play a different game? The packaging does not inform you if this important piece of information.

Again, it is in your best interest to simply purchase a Sony memory card. This InterAct card is one of those "too good to be true" products that does not live up to its billing.

If this product was supposed to be recalled already, why do they still have it on store shelves? First of all, it is decieving. It has another software disc in it, you have to load it EVERY SINGLE TIME before you play. It says nothing about it, only on the back, and at first you think 'cool, a bonus!'. I bought this today, tried it at home, then read reviews on it. I too wish there were negative numbers on the rating system. I saw cases were it actually destroyed a console so he had to buy a whole new one, and everyone should know how much a PS2 costs. Thankfully I only tried it once and mine still works. STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS!

This item should not even be rated a one star it should have never been able to be released. First you have to load software everytime before you get to play. Plus in isn't liecensed by Sony so I wouldn't buy it for that reason alone. If you were to screw up your PS2 your just *&cked. Maybe it is 16 MB but I would go with the 8 MB Sony card. It is quicker to get to your games, not to mention more convinent.

First of all, everytime you start up your console you have to "install" the memory card by putting in a CD and then starting the game from that cd. Second, it doesn't work with all games. I bought 5 games and it only worked successfully with one and to get it to work you have to first put in the memory cd then hit start then put in the game cd then hit some more buttons, then CROSS your fingers and hope it works. DO NOT BUY...

I purchased this memory card without looking at the reviews. I bought a PS2 so that I could turn on the power, put in a game and start playing. Now though, I have to turn on the power, load some memory management software from a cd, go through a menu to tell the new software that I want to run a game, put in my game cd and then I finally get to play my game. The added bonus is that I play a game and then save the game data, turn off the system, come back the next day and find that I can see the game data, but my game cannot load the data from the card (yes I had to reload the memory management software).

I bought this game at Best Buy, and was told it was "just as good as Sony but cheaper cuz the Sony name wasn't on it". As soon as I got, it home and opened it, I found out why it's cheaper: 1. gotta load the software every time (yeah right, that's a great feature !!) 2. Cartridge got stuck in the game deck 3. Saves unbelievable and excruciatingly slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww !! This piece of "hardware" isn't worth the plastic packing it came in. What a complete WASTE !! Time to try and get my money back.

Memory Cards using the Mega Memory Manager are a bit of a pain to use. You have to load the memory software everytime you reset the PS2. That means everytime you load a game or switch games, you have to put in the Memory Manager disk, let it load, and then launch the next game out of the software. It can be quite annoying, especially if you forget to do it. Your memory card won't be recognized and you have to start all over. I just wish using the card was a bit more convenient than this process.

this and the gameshark2 don't work on all versions of playstation2 WHAT THE HECK IS THE POINT OF BUYING A MEMORY CARD
IF ITS NOT GOING TO WORK I'm inraged at interact. I have spent over [amt] on products that simply don't work!

I had actually purchased the 8MB version of this memory card from Interact when I bought my PS2 a couple of months back, hoping to save a few bucks, as opposed to purchasing the Sony card. Well, needless to say I was disgruntled upon finding that I needed to use that stupid boot disk EVERY time I wanted to play a different game. However, over time, I just learned to deal with it, even though it was a pain in the butt. The disc fiasco was bad enough, but I LOST MY MIND upon finding the copies of Grand Theft Auto 3 AND Ace Combat 4 I had just bought, would not even recognize that the card was in the slot. And YES......I loaded the disc first. I called Interact and was simply told that certain games are cropping up that are incompatible with the cards, due to the way the games are being programmed and it's probably deliberate on the part of the publishers. OH GREAT!!!!! And the best part is; YOU'LL NEVER KNOW IN ADVANCE WHICH GAMES WORK AND WHICH DON'T! THAT'S WHAT I WANT IN A MEMORY CARD!!! *dripping sarcasm* Stay as far away from this piece of dung as possible. Only get Sony OR Sony LICENCED products. I just bought a MadKatz 8MB card and it works GREAT with ALL my games.......without the nusance of that AWFUL boot disc.