The Memor32 is still sort of new-ish. While the save card works perfectly, and the USB allows backing up, the Memor Software so far does
not do everything most people would want it to do. Most of its listed 'features' and are what they hope it to do in the future once the software is updated, not what it is capable of right now. If you want something that works
now you still need the boot disk for imports, or a hard mod for .. everything.
As to the PS3, there is only one available in AU, and it looks like it is going to stay that way for some time. Most people were hoping the updated 80gb would come out in australia. This now look unlikely as this console was tied to the launch of MGS-GotP. The Game is now available with a firm date, yet the console is no where to be seen. So, at least for now and the mid term, the only way to get Backwards Compatability in AU is to buy second hand, or import.. Nite that ALL current PS3s with BC handle it via Software. This software is still 'broken', and while it DOES upscale the games for those playing on HD panels, that is about the only thing it does properly. The EMU is buggy as hell, and SONY has even stated that BC is not a major focus for them, meaning updates to the BC EMU software are going to be few and far between.
In other words, if you want to play PS2 games, the cheapest and most satisfying way to go about this is to simply buy a PS2.
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On Topic now...
I have every console released to the
common AU market, with the exception of the Dreamcast. I say common market as a conversationally cheating way to not have to say I don't have anything from the NeoGeo range
See, as most of you will know (if you are old enough to remember) the NeoGeo was never actually sold in Mainstream Stores. The only way to get it was in niche gaming specialists stores, or by specifically placing an order through the Larger Chains such as Myer who never even advertized them. In fact, if you were not the type to haunt the Niche Gaming specialists at the time, there was a good chance you never even knew NeoGeo existed!
So.. apart from every console I also have a few rare things, such as
TV Tennis. This is basically Pong, before Pong was Pong.
It is a HUGE fake wood box that had two sliding controllers permanently attached and only played ONE game, TV Tennis. I believe it was made by Tiger? I also have Tiger's competition to the original GameBoy, which from a technical standpoint was actually BETTER! The screen was clearer, it had the ability to attach to the TV so you could play the game in there, battery life was longer, and it is hinged in the middle, so you could ajust the angle of the screen. The biggest problem with this machine was that for some reason most of the larger gaming companies seemed to ignore it for some reason. No idea why, as technically it was more capable of than the Gameboy. Just another example of promotion, or behind the scenes dealings.
As for Home Computers, I still have my fully functional
Commodore128, which due to the fact it came out far to close the the release of the Amiga Range, got almost completely ignored. As such, I am thankful for the very useful ability to boot the thing into "64 mode", which it runs in for 99% of its use. Strangely, this is the only was to run the mountains of software released for the c64. My
Amstrad PCP464 still works perfectly as well. Altho I only ever had a handful of games for this (most games at the time were better on the c64 so I got those versions instead). At the time, a mate of mine was studying programming, and he and I stuck our heads together and wrote a game we called
Galaxy Conquest 0.5. It was basically a bare bones version of the game Galactic Conquest that was extremely popular among the IBM-Clone owners of the time.
I also have around 10 PCs. These range from a still fully functional
PentiumMMX 233, which plays Diablo II easily, and thats about it. Used mostly for abandonware as its just easier than messing around with DOSBOX. Ironically, it still needs to be 'slowed' to play some REALLY old games, so it looks like I will either need to track down a AMD-586-133 (the last home PC made that still had a functional turbo function) or chuck em all and 'admit defeat' by resorting to useing DOSBOX. The fastest PC I have is really not that fast. Its just an
AMD x2 6000. This was bought to be used as my HTPC, but I did not do my research properly first, and ended up buying a lemon of a TV card. This has relegated the machine to an encoding box, which I only ever use to watch DVDs, or to stram media from other places on the network. The PCs I use the most are my
Lappy (Turion64) which is my main PC, and an old
AMD 2600+ that I use to play the occasional game, but otherwise is currently just a torrent box.
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