Hmmm, PS3/ PS4?
Are they successors of the PS2 port?
Do people still use these ports for their keyboards & mice?

Why not use USB, are you living under a rock or something?

ps. USB is an amazing upgrade, you should try it. ;)

I did, but the fact that the connectors appear symmetrical but aren't on the inside killed it for me.

You could download it compressed. As long as the RAM is empty, it should compress pretty well.

Now i'm reminded of a few of the videos where they showed how to compress like 4GB of data to this tiny size, which only works if all the bytes are identical...

LOL.

But there's another word for that: Micro-SD ;-)

You may need to disable your anti-virus, however; it compresses so well that your anti-virus may flag it as a decompression bomb.

(On a more serious note, some Linux Live CDs contain what anti-virus sees as a decompression bomb; that's because those live CDs contain a compressed image file containing the OS that is made writable with some device mapper trickery. If you are interested in how this works, see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LiveOS_image
)

thanks and a late happy new year. i was busy with some covert cia ops to prevent a massive .... oh well its all top secret. but there is a reason why gog started to use squirrels a their new mascots, full channel here is there also a place to upload the old mainboard, ram and other hardware?

I'd much prefer to use SquashFS for the readonly images of the drives, i've loved the FS since i saw it back in... 2002?

Still i'll have to read through that link given.

That's good. Last i remember they were still compressing the raw images and using a loopback device with -cloop to denote it was compressed so it would decompress on the fly.

As for the writeable trickery, i have a basic understanding of how it should work, mostly layering the filesystem or having a COW (Copy On Write) configuration allowing you to save changes.

Abandon ware?

Thanks for the reminder, i still intend to get stuff from him/them at some point...

Amazing is right. My ps3 turned in to a cool brick. I can use it as a paperweight without almost any v-sync issues.

i got a pillz-e puppet from his store last year, its great. but sadly the foamy puppets are sold out :(

You mean apart from the fact that his channel description starts with this?