This thing works great and it is totally plug and play!!!!! And it comes with some great pre-loaded PS2 apps.
This plug and play memory card just single handedly replaced my HD loader, my Breaker Pro and my Swap Magic discs. Overall, a great little card that makes playing off my HDD easy and adds a bunch of other features that are great to have.
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I would suggest putting the games either on your HDD if you install one, or on a CD or DVD that you can plug in as you won't have much room / if any / for any 16-bit system games on the memory card itself. You can easily install any number of emulators on the memory card and load them from there. I guess the HD loader hasn't been updated in a while (on the discs) but the Open PS2 loader is still getting updates for compatibility and so a lot of the later games work flawlessly with it. However, I edned up using the Open PS2 loader that is on there because I found that it has better compatibility for newer games. I bought this to be able to use the HD Loader so I didn't have to worry about always having to boot a disc the first time I power up. The key is to either get an IDE hard drive (which you can find on Amazon for around $50.00 for a 160 gig one) or to hack your network adapter to let you connect SATA drives (which I hear is something a lot of people are doing).
I bought this because I have a PHAT PS2, with the network adapter and I have wanted to put my games on the hard drive to load and play them faster.
Bought this last month and haven't had a chance to write a review of the mcboot card.