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jarrod on 12 January 2011
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Antabus said:
jarrod said:

Not all PS2 fats have HDDs, but they all have expansion bays.  You don't have to buy an actual PS2 peripheral to use it.  

 

Yes, you need a peripheral called the network adapter.

For the rest of your post, the keyword is speculation.


Sony started bundling PS2s with the Network Adapter in 2003 though.  And in 2004 it became standard with the Slim.  And actually, you could use any old modem with the older PS2s too, you still technically wouldn't need a "PS2 peripheral" to play FFXI on a PS2 fat, all the necessary hardware for them are non-specialized.  And that's actually a hardware feature Sony touted early on.

Speculation's all we have to go on right now, there's no actual evidence any DSi or DSiWare games use the upclock speeds or extra RAM in the DSi/XL.  They do use the camera and flash drive in some cases though, but both those could technically be done on the DS/Lite with the proper expansions.  Hell, DS even had a RAM expansion for the Opera Browser too, the only real possible issue is the higher clocked ARM9.  

PS2 slims are actually higher clocked than launch PS2s btw, and PSP-2000/3000/Go have double the RAM PSP-1000 did.  I guess we should separate these systems also, just to be on the safe side. ;)