Downloadable Map Pack and Flash Drive Discussion Thread

[bigmike8119]

I archived the old thread to make it make it less tiresome to search the post for useful information. Please continue this discussion in this thread. Any other topics that relate to this one posted in as new thread will be deleted. Thank you and have a nice day.


From here on out, If I see another person whinning and crying over $6 for a maps. I'm going to delete there posts.

Reasons:
1. $6 dollars isn't a whole lot of money. Look at Xbox, they charge for all there content. At least we can play for free.
2. If you don't want to spend the money. "Don't" You can play the rest of the maps with doing so.
3. This is a "option" that sony is doing for it's customers. I feel like this is heading in the correct direction.

Originally Posted by discombobulate

http://www.gaming-age.com/news/2006/2/21-34

To sum it up for people who don't want to read, this says that it has ben confirmed that new maps will be available starting in March of 2006. They will be downloadable in the form of packs (implying more than one at a time) and will include updated Socom 2 maps, and brand news maps entirely. The first pack will contain Last Bastion, After Hours, and Liberation, which were only available for the hdd in Socom 2.

Now, for those saying "how will we store it". The maps can be stored on an hdd, flash drive, or a PSP memory stick duo (not sure what that means). So basically, if you don't have those, you'll have to buy one to play the new maps, in addition, map packs will cost a price of $5.99 each.

That's a basic summary, now we can all go nuts.

Originally Posted by -Robby23

http://scea.com/Pressreleases.aspx?id=326

there you go..i think thats reliable enough

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Originally Posted by discombobulate

You can use a usb flash drive, or whatever the PSP thing, I'm not sure about it.

All i know is this: I won't be spending $50+ just play a few old maps.

More about usb flash drives:

http://www.usbflashdrive.org/
http://www.usbflashdrive.org/usbfd_overview.html

and this final one should answer any of your questions about flash drives:

http://www.usbflashdrive.org/usbfd_faq.html

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Originally Posted by AlexRider

http://media.putfile.com/last-bastion
heres a link to a great video of a guy going through last bastion in spectator mode giving the layout of the map and playing a game or too.

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/552/552397/vids_1.html
heres a link to 4 or 5 vids on ign of after hours. not as informative as the first vid but still gives a good idea of the level.

And i couldn't find a vid or anything for liberation, but to give an idea its sorta like a crossroad styled map in the middle east city. the city is sorta a port citywith some docks off the side of the main road. but the seals spawn in a road where they can go straight down the road to an extraction, but theres usally alot of snipers along the road, or the seals can go through a series of alleys and a big market place in the middle of the alleys to get to and extraction in the back.

hope this is helpful to people who havent played the maps.
and if i find anything for libertaion ill post it.

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Originally Posted by kill_fever

circuit city is having a 60% off sale 256MB USB flash drive $9.99. This is a great deal from the $50 it was at. If you look at the list of drives that work with GT4 this drive is listed so I would think it would work with S3. Here is the link.

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/SanDi...oductDetail.do

[xBUSTINATORx]

Good. Thank you for making a fresh one. Haha, the last one had over 23 pages, that's amazingly too much for a single thread.

Anyways, I like the idea that they're actually doing this. I'm going to get a flash drive and just use that because I only have a 256mb card which I'm sure isn't enough. Finally, the poll on socom is going to do good.

[IL'sLengendary]

I called Sony to verify the compatibility of USB Flash drives with the PS2, what the Sony rep said was this............As long as the device is a offical "USB Flash Drive" any of the drives should work, and If a device driver is needed for the PS2 to recongnize the device it will be available for download with the Map pack or before we download the map pack. That is all.....................

Now to Bustinator for flamming this original message

"Because:

1. There is a post very similar to the thread just posted.

2. If you are known for 'spamming' then it would be unfavored.

3. When you make worthless threads like this one, it is a waste of space...no questions asked.
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IM THE BUSTINATOR, I CAME TO BUST U UP"


I dont take time out of my day to help people to be flammed by some kid with diahrea of the mouth, never have i posted a useless message, the message that was locked was directed to Big Mike, and until your a mod STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jd81366]

Has anyone been able to find what USB Drives will work. I tried connecting my PNY 256MB Attache and the browser only saw tha HDD and the Memory cards. I found a MAX Drive but it was only 32MB and was released in 04. I know a lot of people do not have tha HDD so was wondering what the rest will do. March is upon us and I can't wait for tha maps. These were 3 cool maps on Socom2.

[DaSkiDude]

Hmmmm, how much room will there maps take up? I know I have an extra flash drive somewhere (its 256mb) but it has stuff on it. I have another one that I use for school stuff. This sounds all cool but I wish i have abetter way to store the maps

[discombobulate]

jd81366, the first post states that every drive should work, but here is a list of what was compatible with Gran Turismo 4, the only other game to use a flash drive:

Compatible:

(Ohmic electrical machinery and appliances) USB flash memory FreeDrive 32MB
. -10 DIGITAL
... CRW-6M02SL (multiple card RW)
6in 1 Card R/W GH-CRSP6
ADTEC AD-DSS256M and AD-DSS256M/U2 (USB memory)
Apacer Wireless Steno MB112 128MB
BN-SDCGP3 (.... 256M SD card) (SD card RW)
BUFFALO RUF-C, RUF-C32ML, RUF-C128ML-K/U2, RUF-C128ML-K/U2 and RUF-C256ML/U2 (US
B memory)
C-2040ZOOM (digital camera) +IO data SM (64MB)
CAMEDIA X250 (digital camera)
CIMA LABORATORY KRD-C256 (USB memory)
COWON IAUDIO 4 512MB (silicon audio)
CREATIVE CNMVS4G and CMV2F5G (HDD audio player)
Creative Muvo TX MP3 Player 256MB
Cruiser micro 128MB (USB memory)
Cruzer MINI 128MB (USB memory)
Cruzer Micro 256MB
Curtis 256MB MP3
Datel Max Drive(format require)
Dazzle MMC + 128MB Scandisk MMC
EDL-128M/B
EDL-256M/C, EDL-256M/G and EDL-256M/P
EDM-128M
ELECOM MF-FU2128AGT
EPSON PM-A900 (printer)
EasyDisk Mate 256MB (USB1)
Excalibur Flash Drive 64MB
Fujifilm 256MB USB
GH-UFD256LT (USB memory)
Gigabeat G5
Gigabeat MEG200J (20GBHDD)
GreenHouse GH-CRSD2 (SD card RW)
H10
HAGIWARA SYS-COM HUD-256PJ (USB memory)
HD-P40U2 (portable HD)
HDA-iU80 (outside attaching hard disk)
HDP-U20P1 (FAT32 and USB1.1)
HMP-A1 (HDD multiple player)
IO-DATA EDC-128M, EDC-256M, EDM-32M, EDM-256M and USB-32ED2 (USB memory)
IPod Shuffle
Imation 32MB Flash Drive
Impact 256mb usb flash drive
Intelligent Stick 128MB (old type 2.0 non correspondence)
Iriver HH300, 320 (HDD audio player)
KONICA MINOLTA DiMAGE Xt, A200 and KD-500Z (digital camera)
Kingston Data Traveler 256MB
Kingston Data Traveler 512MB
LaCie 20GB HDD
LEXAR JumpDrive (USB memory)
Lexar Media JumpDrive 256MB
Lexar 1GB Jump Drive(FAT32 format)
Lexar USB 2.0 Multi-Card Reader w/SanDisk 512MB
MCR-2UX (smart media compact flash RW)
MCR-C8/U2 (multiple card RW)
MCR-SD-LT/U2 (SD card RW)
MINOLTA DiMAGE Xt (digital camera)
MINOLTA DiMAGE Z3 (digital camera)
MSAC-US30 (.......) + PRODuo512MB
Memorex 256MB USB Flash Drive
Memorex USB ThumbDrive 1.1 256MB
MPIO FL300 MP3 Player
MuVo (memory audio prayer)
MuVo2 FM 5GB
NIKON 256MB SD of COOLPIX 3700 Panasonic (digital camera)
Nikon Coolpix 4500
Nikon Coolpix 3200
NOMAD MuVo2 4 GB (portable MP3 prayer)
OHM
OLYMPUS C-750UZ
Omega 1GB Flash Drive
OTOMO Capsule (MP3 player and USB memory)
Old GIGABEAT MEG50JS
Packard Bell Audio Key
PENTAX Optio S50 (digital camera)
Philips DVD Recorder
PNY 1GB Attache Thumbdrive
PNY Attache (128MB)
PNY Attache (256MB)
PNY Attache 64MB
PNY Attache (512MB)
PNY Thumbdrive (16MB)
PQI QIS-512
PRETEC IDisk TINY 2.0 Luxury 1GB
PSP, memory stick ProDuo256MB and ProDuo512MB
Panasonic DMC-LC70 (Digital camera)
Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ1, FZ2 and FX7 (digital camera)
RUF-DB-U2 (USB memory
Rio Carbon (HDD audio prayer)
Rio SU10 (flash memory audio player)
Samsung Digimax 4010 camera with 128MB SanDisk
SANWA SUPPLY ADR-61U2 SM32MB (multiple card RW)
SANYO XACTI J1 (digital camera)
SONY USM32D, 64D, 128D, 256A, 256D and 512E (USB memory)
Sony Network Walkman NW-HD1
SU30 (MP3 prayer of mass storage correspondence)
Samsung Yepp YP-55 192Mb
SanDisk Cruzer mini 256MB
SanDisk MobileMate Memory Stick+ 4-in-1 Reader loaded w/ a 256MB Sony Memory Sti
ck Pro
Sandisk Cruiser 1 GB
Sandisk Cruzer Micro 512MB
Seaming machine Laboratory KRD-C256 (USB memory)
Simple Perfection(model: CR-T2-UC) Plug & Play Compact Flash Card Read/Write(64MB Lexar 8X CF/Scandisk 512MB/Canon 32MB)
Sony Microvault USM-256EV
SunDisk SDCZ4-128-J65 (USB memory)
SunDisk USB FlashDisk128M (USB memory)
Sunplus Multimedia Disk USB device (Brand name: Muller 512 MP3 player/mem-stick)
Super Talent 256 Meg
TOSHIBA U2A-512MT (USB memory)
TransMemory U2B-128MT and U2A-256M
USB-3BRW (the smart media, compact flash RW) <- you verify with CF32MB
USBHDD (DXPX-U)
Verbatim 128MB Flash Drive
Viking Components Multi-format Memory Card Reader + 128MB SD card
Viking USB Pen Drive 256MB
Xiao Jr.2 PFU-2J/256 (256MB) (USB memory)
Xonix USB Mega Memory Watch(128MB)
Zire 31 PDA with a 256MB SD

This is a list of what was compatible for Gran Turismo 4, the only other game to use a flash drive, common sense tells us that these should work for all games, and the non-compatible ones should not work for all games.

Courtesy of Kill_Fever, he posted this link somewhere else in this thread. But here's the link again:

http://boardsus.playstation.com/play...ssage.id=70322

[Focus]

Originally Posted by xBUSTINATORx

Anyways, I like the idea that they're actually doing this. I'm going to get a flash drive and just use that because I only have a 256mb card which I'm sure isn't enough. Finally, the poll on socom is going to do good.

256mb should be more than enough. The article said to have a storage device with atleast 32mb. Meaning, the first pack will be alittle bit less than that. Then the article specifically said "second and third map pack".
So 256-32=224mb left for the 2nd and 3rd map packs. And if Zipper/Sony plans to, be able to put patches on the storage device, which you should still have plenty of room.

[syberianbull]

well first off all in the article it says there will be new maps for socom 3 there fore there will be more than 3 packs because it says packs 2 and 3 are going to be some classic socom 1/2 maps

[MemphisBleek]

Nice, I will make sure I get a flash drive before the map's come out.

[socommaster]

I know this doesnt go here, but can you still download the SOCOM 2 hdd maps, and can you download them to a flash drive