Not much progress today, aside from a couple more Picross DS puzzles. Instead I finally picked up an Action Replay MAX disc and fiddled with it for a bit.

Normally it’s used to apply cheat codes to games, but that’s actually not what I wanted it for. What I’ve been looking for is a way to back up the save games on my PS2 memory cards, since I’m running low on room on them, don’t really want to buy any more, and am becoming a bit wary of losing my games after seeing reports of cards go bad. Fortunately it looks like AR MAX will work just fine for that, as it’ll let me copy the saves to a USB thumb drive. I apparently just have to watch out for the ‘delete’ and compression options, which can supposedly corrupt the card, but plain copying is fine.

The only problem with it so far is that going into the memory card manager part of the program causes the video to roll vertically on my TV, which makes it somewhat hard to use. I’m not sure if it’s assuming my TV can take progressive scan (it can’t) or what. It works when hooked up to the composite input on my LCD monitor, but it’s still an annoyance.