Timestamps: (for mobile) 00:00 - Intro (stating out with VMU introduction) 00:10 - Pocketstation intro 00:15 - Pockestation background/basic features 00:38 - Pocestation vs VMU 01:23 - Pockestation interface/Controls 01:56 - Changing Settings (volume/clock/alarm) 02:36 - How to download games 03:02 - Region locking 03:25 - Pocketstation Gameplay (What to expect) 03:49 - What the point of playing pockestation games? 04:29 - How to exit games 04:34 - How to backup/restore your pockestation games 04:54 - Pocketstation homebrew 05:24 - Loading custom Custom application on a pocketstation 05:52 - Pocketstation legacy 06:02 - Pocket station vita 06:43 - Is the pocketstaion worth buying? 07:27 - End card
There are actually 4 games in the US that support the Pocket Station, FF8, Saga Frontier 2, Ridge Racer Type 4, and Street Fighter 3 Alpha. Also there is a way for the PS3 to read the pocket station, the icon comes up and everything. I forget the steps but I know it exists. Great video!
it was amazing. I never played street fighter but the game allowed me to install a digimon game but with SF characters. U can fight your friends digimon style.
Bit late but interestingly, if you have a pocketstation plugged in in the 2nd slot while playing YuGiOh Duelists of the Roses, you can duel a new enemy called Deck Master I, which uses Immortal monsters. (Not my discovery)
Great video dude, remember hearing about this thing when I was a kid and reading about all the cool ways it would interact with games. Thanks for demoing it
Neat! It makes me think they could bring PocketStation back as an app, especially now that you can sign into PSN/SEN and access the saves of your existing games. A portable minigame to unlock stuff for the big game is still a great idea!
There’s always the mentioned PSVita support ☺️ it’s region-unlockable via a mod script and also allows for PIP side-by-side display with the PS1 render window.
Thanks for this video! I was in Japan a few weeks ago and I was buying some PS1 games. One of them had support for PocketStation, and the store also had those so picked one up. This video helped me get things up and running!
I know the video is a bit older now, but, dude, if this is any indication of the quality and thoroughness, I'm more than happy to sub and bell! I've got two pocket stations on their way right now :D.
IIRC, in FFVIII / Chocobo World, there were certain items/treasures that could ONLY be gotten by owning and using a PocketStation. The elitism was awesome. :)
Never heard of a Pocketstation until now, and i'm someone who knows a bunch about game consoles and whatnot. But i can see why, it's basically like a tamagotchi size memory card with a screen, that can play tiny games.
Just get any Playstation that has the parallell port on the back, which is basically every single revision except the last couple ones, then get an Action Replay, Gameshark or any other parallell port cheat cartridge. Then burn the Unirom installation CD, and do the swap trick once. When you have booted that CD, you can install Unirom on the parallell port cartridge. That way, you can play games from any region, and you can bypass copy protection too. If it fits on the cartridge, I recommend that you select Unirom+Caetla in the menu, since Caetla has a built-in memory card manager so that you don't have to take it out if you need to manage your memory cards.
@@KopperNeoman TonyHax is for the PS1 and it uses the same exploits as UniROM, but it's much less convenient since you have to boot a different game to use it first.
So glad you found a peripheral you always wanted! For me, it was the SNES Super Scope which I wanted for the longest time so I could finally play Yoshi’s Safari. And I knew it was a crap shoot as to whether it would work or not from eBay especially. Luckily, it did! And it only took six AA batteries!
The Spyro games didn't have PocketStation support removed, it was added specifically to the Japanese versions, which were released after the US versions.
@@bobdotexe That’s great! I needed a memory card for my two PS1 games I have anyway, so I ordered a PocketStation. Excited for its arrival. Thank you for the very informative video!
Thanks for the video, just set the date and time on mine. I loved the VMU's and I decided to give this a shot since I started collecting to play Playstation 1 stuff. Might try to add homebrew stuff, but it's just cool to have. I also like collecting memory cards tho.
5:58 i think is a mistake, you can use this woth ps3 with the official ps2 memory card adapter fpr ps3 from sony. Even logo for pocket station comes up on ps3.
Thank you for the great video! I have had PS1's for years since around 1999 (I first had a Saturn) but never had a Pocketstation. I just ordered one from ebay :)
@@bobdotexe thank you!! Honestly didn’t expect a response, but thanks for answering! Doing research after I posted this I think it is the Puyo Puyo game
One small correction is that you can read pocketstations on a PS3, you just need the (now expensive) adapter. I back up my pocketstation on my PS3's virtual memory cards.
I see your point, but backing up the pocketstation, and actively using it with games is a little different. For example, as far as I'm aware, you can't actually run a pocketstation ps1 game on your PS3, and transfer the mini-game directly, you can only backup and copy data, as you would with a normal memory card.
Someone somewhere on the internet has to have a dump of all the Pocketstation games right!? I’d love to have one of these. I remember seeing one in a magazine back in the day but then we never got it in the US
There's at least 4 Pocket Digimon World full of monsters to evolve... They are complete V-pet games discs for you to play and train on Pocketstation that you can use to battle on the PS1 after training them. They are awesome games but in japanese only. But it's fun.
I believe it's called "Car-kun" or something, it's the mini game from puyo puyo on ps1 You can learn how to unlock it here: puyonexus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3551
It was basically PSP BEFORE PSP, even if it looks like a Game Boy clone, just like the Dreamcast memory Card. But it's okay. It was still kinda cool. Also Dreamcast did a home console with two screens, one bigger, one smaller, kinda like a 3DS, BEFORE WiiU
Gaming, in general, is somewhat of a cosmic joke. You have an era of strange paraphernalia, which could've added so much value to your console but the technology wasn't so far ahead at that time OR you have an era where it's now possible, but nobody cares anymore.
"There's no way to use it on PS3" Semi-False. Sony released a memory card adapter for PS3 that supports it. It even shows up with it's own icon on the XMB The True part is, games won't use the adapter directly, so they'll never detect the PocketStation and thus never save to it.
That's pretty much what I meant, Since games can't read to/from it you can't even download new mini-games, you can only backup/restore existing data, And I don't really consider that 'using' the Pocket Station in any meaningful way.
Timestamps: (for mobile)
00:00 - Intro (stating out with VMU introduction)
00:10 - Pocketstation intro
00:15 - Pockestation background/basic features
00:38 - Pocestation vs VMU
01:23 - Pockestation interface/Controls
01:56 - Changing Settings (volume/clock/alarm)
02:36 - How to download games
03:02 - Region locking
03:25 - Pocketstation Gameplay (What to expect)
03:49 - What the point of playing pockestation games?
04:29 - How to exit games
04:34 - How to backup/restore your pockestation games
04:54 - Pocketstation homebrew
05:24 - Loading custom Custom application on a pocketstation
05:52 - Pocketstation legacy
06:02 - Pocket station vita
06:43 - Is the pocketstaion worth buying?
07:27 - End card
There are actually 4 games in the US that support the Pocket Station, FF8, Saga Frontier 2, Ridge Racer Type 4, and Street Fighter 3 Alpha. Also there is a way for the PS3 to read the pocket station, the icon comes up and everything. I forget the steps but I know it exists. Great video!
Cool, thanks for sharing!
I'll have to look into that!
Yeah. the sony memory card adapter. Pocketstation will show with a special icon.
No! He said there was 1!
you forgot some... jade cocoon?
What do SF3 and Jade Cocoon do? I had no idea they were compatible...
I wanted a Pocketstation so bad. The idea of collecting items on the go to use in a game later seemed incredible.
it was amazing. I never played street fighter but the game allowed me to install a digimon game but with SF characters. U can fight your friends digimon style.
@@teachingwithipad that's amazing
Bit late but interestingly, if you have a pocketstation plugged in in the 2nd slot while playing YuGiOh Duelists of the Roses, you can duel a new enemy called Deck Master I, which uses Immortal monsters. (Not my discovery)
Just set my PocketStation date and time for 2019 ayyy
Just set mine for 2021 ayyy
I will just mine for 2024 ayyy
Great video dude, remember hearing about this thing when I was a kid and reading about all the cool ways it would interact with games. Thanks for demoing it
Neat! It makes me think they could bring PocketStation back as an app, especially now that you can sign into PSN/SEN and access the saves of your existing games. A portable minigame to unlock stuff for the big game is still a great idea!
There’s always the mentioned PSVita support ☺️ it’s region-unlockable via a mod script and also allows for PIP side-by-side display with the PS1 render window.
Thanks for this video! I was in Japan a few weeks ago and I was buying some PS1 games. One of them had support for PocketStation, and the store also had those so picked one up. This video helped me get things up and running!
im so glad i found your channel dude! AMAZING WORK
Thanks man!
Excellent video, not many videos on RUclips with this amount of information
I remember having an unofficial ps1 memory card that when using the ps2 would show up as a pocketstation in the ps2 browse menu.
Me too
😂😂😂
Pcsx2 shows any mcd file as a pocketstation on the ps2 browser
It wasn't unofficial !!!
That memory card was a performance version used for GameShark 👌
Matter of fact I got mine right now for my PS1 games
I know the video is a bit older now, but, dude, if this is any indication of the quality and thoroughness, I'm more than happy to sub and bell! I've got two pocket stations on their way right now :D.
IIRC, in FFVIII / Chocobo World, there were certain items/treasures that could ONLY be gotten by owning and using a PocketStation. The elitism was awesome. :)
so this is the real basic of playstation portable, so impresive, i loved it
Bought mine today, thanks for your guide helped a lot
Thanks so much for this. It really helps out. Heck, I had enough trouble just figuring out the interface on the darn thing.
Japan only, that's why I didn't know it existed. Super cool video, I wanted to know more about this thing.
Never heard of a Pocketstation until now, and i'm someone who knows a bunch about game consoles and whatnot. But i can see why, it's basically like a tamagotchi size memory card with a screen, that can play tiny games.
Just get any Playstation that has the parallell port on the back, which is basically every single revision except the last couple ones, then get an Action Replay, Gameshark or any other parallell port cheat cartridge. Then burn the Unirom installation CD, and do the swap trick once. When you have booted that CD, you can install Unirom on the parallell port cartridge. That way, you can play games from any region, and you can bypass copy protection too. If it fits on the cartridge, I recommend that you select Unirom+Caetla in the menu, since Caetla has a built-in memory card manager so that you don't have to take it out if you need to manage your memory cards.
Or use a PlayStation 2 with a FreeMCBoot memory card and use wLaunchElf.
(Because TonyHax wasn't a thing three years ago when you made this comment)
@@KopperNeoman TonyHax is for the PS1 and it uses the same exploits as UniROM, but it's much less convenient since you have to boot a different game to use it first.
Man That Was Sick & Wild
So glad you found a peripheral you always wanted! For me, it was the SNES Super Scope which I wanted for the longest time so I could finally play Yoshi’s Safari. And I knew it was a crap shoot as to whether it would work or not from eBay especially. Luckily, it did! And it only took six AA batteries!
The Spyro games didn't have PocketStation support removed, it was added specifically to the Japanese versions, which were released after the US versions.
Yes, this is correct,
I did not learn this until after I finished the video. But I'll make a note in the video description.
Would absolutely love to see a follow up video to this one! super informative, helpful, entertaining! subscribed ^_^
woahh the pocket station transfer tool looks craazy
Confused by the compatibility. Does it work as a memory card for all titles, but the ones listed include the mini games?
yes, it always works as a ps1 memory card.
But select games will detect it as a 'pocket station' and will allow to transfer mini-games
@@bobdotexe That’s great! I needed a memory card for my two PS1 games I have anyway, so I ordered a PocketStation. Excited for its arrival. Thank you for the very informative video!
Fun fact: In 2013, Sony announced that it would be revived as an application for the PS Vita, and it replicates our childhood memories.
Got the transfer tool working on my PSIO, but I can't find PocketStation games anywhere to download! Any links to save files or homebrew?
You can find some homebrew/tech demos here:
onorisoft.free.fr/retro.htm?ps/ps.htm
theyre not games.....
Thanks for the video, just set the date and time on mine. I loved the VMU's and I decided to give this a shot since I started collecting to play Playstation 1 stuff. Might try to add homebrew stuff, but it's just cool to have. I also like collecting memory cards tho.
5:58 i think is a mistake, you can use this woth ps3 with the official ps2 memory card adapter fpr ps3 from sony. Even logo for pocket station comes up on ps3.
Thank you for the great video! I have had PS1's for years since around 1999 (I first had a Saturn) but never had a Pocketstation. I just ordered one from ebay :)
You can *sorta* use it on ps3 with the memory card adapter. I use it for ff8.
Where u found the 100 volts To 120 volt adapter?
At 1:28, what’s the minigame with the bunny and the arrows called? It looks so cute!
I think it's the transferable mini-game from "Puyo Puyo~n: Car-kun to Issho"
@@bobdotexe thank you!! Honestly didn’t expect a response, but thanks for answering! Doing research after I posted this I think it is the Puyo Puyo game
SaGa Frontier 2 also has a PocketStation game in the NA region, I got it specifically to item farm using the Go Go Digger! minigame...
Great video man.
I was today years old when i found out about this O.O
Several games in the Densha de Go series are Pocket Station compatible too.
Great guide, thx!!
1:00 What is that game ? That character looks like Shampoo from Ranma 1/2.
Always wanted one for RR4
I'm about to start ff8, maybe I'll get one
Great video
One small correction is that you can read pocketstations on a PS3, you just need the (now expensive) adapter. I back up my pocketstation on my PS3's virtual memory cards.
I see your point, but backing up the pocketstation, and actively using it with games is a little different.
For example, as far as I'm aware, you can't actually run a pocketstation ps1 game on your PS3, and transfer the mini-game directly,
you can only backup and copy data, as you would with a normal memory card.
Good video, thanks!
A memory card that can be used as a little handheld device eh? Nice idea.
Someone somewhere on the internet has to have a dump of all the Pocketstation games right!? I’d love to have one of these. I remember seeing one in a magazine back in the day but then we never got it in the US
The PlayStation 2 has a 3d polygon model of a PocketStation when you put in a 3rd party Memory Card but if you put the real PocketStation it will work
Don’t you mean they added PocketStation support in Spyro 2, because it was released in the US first, then Europe then Japan.
please reply i have a question can you use pocketstation for a ps4 memory card
I don't need it. I don't need it. I definitely don't need it... I need it!!!
I never even knew the pocketstation existed until know
There's at least 4 Pocket Digimon World full of monsters to evolve... They are complete V-pet games discs for you to play and train on Pocketstation that you can use to battle on the PS1 after training them.
They are awesome games but in japanese only.
But it's fun.
What kind of game is called on 3:42
I believe it's called "Car-kun" or something, it's the mini game from puyo puyo on ps1
You can learn how to unlock it here:
puyonexus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3551
It was basically PSP BEFORE PSP, even if it looks like a Game Boy clone, just like the Dreamcast memory Card. But it's okay. It was still kinda cool. Also Dreamcast did a home console with two screens, one bigger, one smaller, kinda like a 3DS, BEFORE WiiU
It costs way less to import JPN games now. Go ahead and get one of these guys
who is here because of astro playroom?
4 likes= only 4 people own a PS5
I have a question. How do I play this device games?
This is covered in the video.
1. download the pocketstation mini-game, from your ps2 game
2. start the mini-game from this menu.
Does it work without the PS1?
Will it work on and American ps1 ?
yes, you just need a game that's compatible with it.
How do you get this!
Does it come with games or without
They don't come with games installed.
Thx
i have one! it’s white and with the japanese game Pocket rock
There is something about this egg shaped thing it’s almost like you really gotta get one of them idk why.
Anyone know why my ps1 memory card I got is coming up as a pocket station
ayy i saw policenauts save files on your pocketstation
SaGa Frontier 2 is also compatible.
Gaming, in general, is somewhat of a cosmic joke.
You have an era of strange paraphernalia, which could've added so
much value to your console but the technology wasn't so far ahead at that time
OR
you have an era where it's now possible, but nobody cares anymore.
WAIT can i use that for a memory card on ps4
no. the ps4 does not support ps1 games and memory cards
awwwww
everybody who bought final fantasy VIII for the original playstation, knows about this device and are still waiting for this to release stateside lol
Got it super cheap in japan usa sellers ripping you all off for japanese products my advice if you visit japan buy it yourself avoid ebay👌
what about digimon?
Use this with an xStation and you're golden
Jojos bizzare adventure on the playstation?
"There's no way to use it on PS3"
Semi-False. Sony released a memory card adapter for PS3 that supports it. It even shows up with it's own icon on the XMB
The True part is, games won't use the adapter directly, so they'll never detect the PocketStation and thus never save to it.
That's pretty much what I meant,
Since games can't read to/from it you can't even download new mini-games, you can only backup/restore existing data,
And I don't really consider that 'using' the Pocket Station in any meaningful way.
Dreamcast was king
It runs doom? Sold.
why did people dislike
3:12 rockman?
XDDDDD İTS MEGAMAN LOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOL
He's called 'Rockman' In japan, so all the JP releases are titled Rockman.
@@bobdotexe Okay.. It was a joke
Sony PSMU
Fyi, Chocobo's are no monsters! 😠
This sucks. Its just a rip off of the vmu.
Bruh,this was made before it
Think before you speak bs
No, this came after it. This came out in 1999 but the VMU came out in 1998.
@@metromodernism oh sorry then
Voicila Alex
Think before you speak bs
damnnnn. tech was shit. im sorry but i dont feel entertained at all with this machine.
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