Advanced Usage

introduction while the basic functionality would normally be enough for anyone to forget about having to use a memory card to save their game progress in playstation 1 and playstation 2 consoles, the memcard pro gets really exciting when you start taking advantage of all the advanced features it has to offer these features are presented below, along with instructions on how to use them automatic game detection (gameid) the memcard pro supports various ways of detecting the unique disc identifier of the game you've launched, and the method depends on the console you are using it on, and how you launch your games playstation 1 in order to use gameid detection on playstation 1 and psone consoles, you will need to use either specialised software that can send the id to the memory card, or an optical drive emulator (ode) odes supported are the "xstation", "mode" and "psio" alternatively, you can use the software " freepsxboot", "unirom" or "tonyhax" finally, you can use a modified bios chip that will natively send the gameid for whatever game is launched on the console playstation 2 on the playstation 2 console, the process is more simple the memcard pro supports a method of identifying the launched game by monitoring a system file on the virtual memory card called "history" this means that with no modifications or special software, the memcard pro can automatically switch to a dedicated virtual memory card when launching a ps1 or ps2 disc, or when launching games through homebrew solutions like opl the memcard pro also supports gameid through the mmce protocol if you're using the memcard pro as a storage device, launching games from opl will automatically send the gameid to the memcard pro using automatic game detection with gameid means that your memcard pro will generate a unique set of virtual memory cards for each game you play this way you can have your saves separate, and you don't need to worry about mounting the correct virtual memory card that contains your saves when launching your favourite games these virtual memory cards will be identifiable on the microsd card through their unique id if you do not want to use per game virtual memory cards and prefer to use generic virtual memory cards that you can manage yourself, this feature can be turned off in the webui settings page automatic gameid detection on the playstation 2 is only available when the memcard pro is in "ps2" mode if you launch a game while still in "ps1" mode displayed on the oled screen, the memcard pro will not be able to identify the current game cloud backups the memcard pro is the only memory card for the playstation 1 and playstation 2 that allows you to automatically back up your virtual memory cards to your favourite cloud service provider through its wifi connectivity at the time being, only google drive is supported as a cloud service provider more providers will be added with future updates set up (google drive) to setup cloud backups for the first time, please follow the instructions below power up your console with the memcard pro plugged in on the memcard pro, press and hold the left button until a message shows up release the button this will bring up the main menu by clicking the left button to change the highlighted entry, move the cursor ＞ to the "cloud" option click the right button on the device to select it and enter the "cloud sync" submenu make sure the cursor points to "sync vmc now" and click the right button the cloud sync setup will start after a few seconds, you will be greeted with a message with a url and a uniquely generated code on your phone, tablet or computer, launch your web browser and navigate to https //google com/device once the page loads, enter the code exactly as it is shown on the memcard pro oled display (including dashes if there are any) and click "continue" google drive will ask you to log in with your google account if you don't have one, you can create one for free by following the instructions on your browser you will be presented with a page to verify that you want the memcard pro to access your google drive the memcard pro will only access files and folders it creates it does need or request to have access to your entire google drive files the required permissions will be listed on that page if you see anything suspicious, cancel the request immediately and contact us to let us know if everything is ok, click the "continue" button the setup is now complete the memcard pro will return to the main screen and start uploading your first virtual memory card! automatic backups once you have finished setting up cloud backups on google drive, you can now enable automatic backups! automatic backups work by monitoring your virtual memory cards and automatically uploading a new version to the cloud provider whenever new data is saved to them the data that is backed up to the cloud is the whole virtual memory card and not individual saves however, an automatic upload will happen even when you save a single game in a virtual memory card automatic cloud backup is only compatible with playstation 1 virtual memory cards playstation 2 virtual memory cards will not be automatically uploaded, and you will need to manually upload them through the device main menu to enable automatic backups, you can either enable the option in the webui settings page, or follow the instructions below power up your console with the memcard pro plugged in on the memcard pro, press and hold the left button until a message shows up release the button this will bring up the main menu by clicking the left button to change the highlighted entry, move the cursor ＞ to the "cloud" option click the right button on the device to select it and enter the "cloud sync" submenu click the left button to move the cursor to "auto sync" and click the right button to confirm you will enter a new submenu called "autosync vmcs?" make sure the cursor is point to the "enabled" entry and confirm with the right button automatic backups will now be enabled if you want to disable this feature, follow the same instructions above and instead select the "disabled" option in the "autosync vmcs" submenu ftp server feature the memcard pro can run a small ftp server when the wifi is connected this feature provides convenience in terms of managing the physical virtual memory card files on your sd card remotely you can download or upload files directly to the memcard pro microsd card wirelessly by using this feature to setup the ftp server on your memcard pro, follow the instructions below power up the memcard pro and wait for it to be connected to your wifi network bring up the webui on your favourite web browser click "settings" next to the "ftp server" setting, enable the toggle two new fields will come up for a username and password enter a username and password combination that you will remember save the settings and power cycle the memcard pro once this has been set up and you have power cycled the memcard pro, the ftp server will become available after the memcard pro has connected to your wifi network again in order to connect to the memcard pro ftp server, you need to use an ftp client application we strongly suggest using the free application filezilla which should be available for any operating system other clients may or may not work with the memcard pro ftp server example instructions are provided below to setup the ftp client "filezilla" to connect to the memcard pro launch filezilla and create a new ftp connection under the "general" tab, enter the memcard pro assigned ip address to the "host" field (look under the "wireless features" section on how to find this information) in the "encryption" dropdown, select "only use plain ftp (insecure)" under "logon type" select "normal" enter the username and password you've assigned to the ftp server in the memcard pro webui settings in the "user" and password" fields click the "transfer settings" tab under "transfer mode" select "passive" check the checbox "limit number of simultaneous connections" and set the number to "1" save your settings and click connect to connect to the ftp server if the connection is successful, you will be presented with a split view of your local files and the remote files on the memcard pro microsd card the memcard pro has limited wireless bandwidth and a very simple implementation of an ftp server due to the contstraints of the hardware it is not possible to use advanced features such as muiltiple connections and / or end to end encryption transfer rates may be slow compared to the capacity of your wireless network alternative boot modes in order to enter the alternative boot modes menu, press and hold the right button the memcard pro while you are powering on your console once the message appears to release the button, do so you will be presented with the boot mode menu factory reset this boot mode is used for troubleshooting selecting it in the boot mode menu will clear the internally saved settings of your memcard pro and restart the device in a state as when you first bought it factory resetting will clear all settings, including the associated wifi, ftp server settings, cloud backup connection and any custom virtual memory card names it will not delete any physical data from your microsd card, nor will it delete any saves in your virtual memory cards template cards template cards are a great way to always create new virtual memory cards with specific files already embedded in them example use cases could be having "freepsxboot" in all new cards so you can easily reset the console without turning off and on again, or by having fmcb for the same reason on a ps2 in order to set up template cards, you need to power up your memcard pro and visit the settings page in the webui click the "use template cards?" toggle to enable the feature you can have a template card for each system and each size you use for ps1 template cards , copy your favourite mcd file to the following path on your microsd card and rename it to /ps1/templates/template 128k mcd for ps2 template cards , copy your favourite mc2 file, and depending on its size, rename it to /ps2/templates/template 8mb mc2 /ps2/templates/template 16mb mc2 /ps2/templates/template 32mb mc2 /ps2/templates/template 64mb mc2 /ps2/templates/template 128mb mc2 once you've set it up, the next time the memcard pro needs to create a new card, it will copy it from the template you have provided instead of creating an empty one opl, fmcb and mmce cold booting fmcb (i e booting into fmcb by simply turning on your console while the memcard pro is plugged in may or may not work, depending on a few factors like your console model, microsd card speed etc the memcard pro does not guarantee that fmcb will boot from cold boot you can boot into fmcb though, by simply resetting your console once after it's been powered on if this is important to you, then we suggest purchasing a memcard pro2 which does support fmcb when cold booting as any playstation 2 memory card, the memcard pro can be used to launch freemcboot (fmcb) and any apps installed on it on top of that, the opl mmce versions can use the memcard pro as a data storage device and access its microsd card directly there are various ways to set up fmcb and opl on the memcard pro the easiest way is to use a ready made vmc image, which you can easily find on the internet you can also install fmcb yourself through the fmcb installer on your playstation 2 once you have an fmcb image ready, the best way is to set it as your default boot image in the memcard pro browser this will ensure that whenever you turn on your playstation 2, fmcb will launch automatically in order to use opl mmce, you will first need an mmce compatible build of opl which you can fine here https //github com/ps2 mmce/open ps2 loader/releases https //github com/ps2 mmce/open ps2 loader/releases once you launch opl with mmce compatibility, follow the instructions below to enable it enter the opl options and scroll down to "mmce settings" mmce start mode set to "auto" mmce slot setting this to "auto" will attempt to use slot 1 first, and then slot 2 if you have multiple memcard pro devices plugged in to both slots, you can select which slot will be used here igr bootcard this determines which slot the special igr command will be sent to igr is functionality that allows you to return to the fmcb menu from inside a game with the press of a gamepad combo, usually l1 + r1 + l2 + r2 + select + start mmce prefix path this sets where on your microsd card the opl folders will be created / read from if you leave this empty, opl will create all folders on the root of your microsd card advanced wait cycles after /ack low we suggest setting this to "0" and only increase if you notice incompatibilities with games increasing this number will greatly affect read performance use timeout alarms we suggest setting this option to "off" turning on may increase compatibility but will affect read performance select ok to return to the main menu save your settings press the "o" button to enter the opl browser the first time you launch opl with mmce, if you have no files on your microsd card for opl, it will create the required directories from here on, you can copy files to your microsd card and start using opl as you would use it with any other storage device