Your This Network Configuration
Remember the Network Adaptor Start-Up Disc? This utility disc came with the PS2 Network Adaptor at retail and included demos of online-playable titles Madden 2003 and Frequency. It also featured videos for Tribes Aerial Assault, ATV Offroad Fury 2, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. The utility it also had was used to create a profile on a memory card to allow online playable games to connect up to your home network. Every game I’d played since getting that disc had its own software to create a profile, so I never really had a use for the disc again.
I recently had to dig this fossil up out of storage because Marvel Ultimate Alliance for PS2 can’t create these profiles by itself. Not only that, but the text the game uses to tell you as much definitely missed proofreading day during testing at Activision. It started off with “Your This Network Configuration”…was made using another PlayStation 2, or something to that effect. An easy mistake, but one that threw me for a few seconds: “My what network configuration? This This as in this session? This memory card?”
What happened to my old profile? It was made using my old, broken PS2. The security software SCEA uses for authentication uses information in the PS2, it seems, not just the Network Adaptor (for those of us not running slimline PS2′s), and won’t let you use a network profile created on another machine, even with the same Network Adaptor.
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