What does the PS2 firewire port do?

[MrCraphead]

I have a Sony Notebook that has a firewire port, and my roommate just got his PS2, so I was wondering if there was any purpose for the PS2 firewire port or not. I plugged it into my notebook, but nothing appeared on the device manager.

Any thoughts on what it does?

 

[StageLeft]

Put a wire into it and it catches fire!

Right now it does nothing, there is no support for it (I think). Its pretty though...

 

[Modeps]

sooner or later it will have dope devices that you can connect to it, like cameras and stuff... in addition with the harddrive/ethernet adapter coming out, it'll be a miniputer that can do all sorts of fun stuff. it'll be a while though untill we see stuff for it...

 

[Raspewtin]

i saw a ps2 firewire cable at the store that said you could connect 2 ps2s together over firewire

 

[MrCraphead]

<< i saw a ps2 firewire cable at the store that said you could connect 2 ps2s together over firewire >>



What, in turn, would that do? What advantages will that have? just curious.......

 

[Raspewtin]

<< What, in turn, would that do? What advantages will that have? just curious....... >>



i have no idea. i doubt distributive computing is possible on it, and probably most games will never use the feature.

 

[Oyeve]

By the time any devices come out for it we will probably be using the PS4 or x-box 6.

 

[Soulflare]

It is for &quot;iLink&quot;, which basically allows multiple PS2 units to
attach to each other and play the same game. With GT3 for instance,
6 players will be able to race against each other over iLink...
you'll only need 3 TVs, 3 PS2s and 3 copies of GT3. I believe that
Unreal Tournament is the only PS2 game which currently supports
this feature.