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Just bought a fat Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:04:00 2017 No.3866503 [DELETED]

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How do I turn it into a PS1 image playing machine?

babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Sat Mar 18 00:37:55 2017 No.3866553

You need to get Free McBoot on your memory stick and a way to swap discs. I have a fliptop case but they're kind of hard to come by these days. There's a tool called a "magic slide" that you shove under the tray to force the gears to turn and eject it without triggering the mechanism. You can buy it together with a utility disc that makes it easy to get the software from a USB drive onto your memory card.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:39:56 2017 No.3866557 You can use POPSTARTER to play isos from the Internal HDD, learn2mod your fat to play discs or this >>3866553

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:43:39 2017 No.3866561 >>3866503 modchip and cd-r,

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:47:28 2017 No.3866565

>>3866503
You fucked up if that was your goal. The only way to play PS1 games from image files on it is through a couple of the shittiest PS1 emulators ever developed, neither of which take advantage of the actual PS1 hardware.

Have fun burning and swapping games like it's the 90s again. Or you could buy a real PS1 and a PSIO, if you feel like throwing money at the problem.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:47:52 2017 No.3866567 >>3866557 can you post a tutorial for this? been interested in buying a dedicated HDD just for PS1 games on my PS2.

>>	babbage's gramps !RATGzMALLY Sat Mar 18 00:50:13 2017 No.3866571 >>3866567 Don't. As >>3866565 explained, popstarter is just a PS1 emulator and not as good as the emulators you can get for PC. The only way to play PS1 games in native mode on a PS2 is from CD.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 00:53:06 2017 No.3866573 >>3866557 this was what I wanted to do in the first place. Also I have a pal unit if that is going to be a problem

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 01:25:10 2017 No.3866596

>>3866503
You can turn it into a ps2 iso machine with a $10 memory card. As other people have said psx games only work via disc unless you emulate. I you can either chip a psx or get a flip top for a slim ps2. The slim ps2 flip top is very easy to install

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 02:08:04 2017 No.3866632 File: 70 KB, 640x598, daffy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3866503 Raspberrypi + A decently large storage drive. PS1 games be big, but they work great on a pi. Dunno about swapping disks, tho...

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 05:04:34 2017 No.3866741 >>3866503 1. get laser-fixes applied, if you got one of those PS2-revisions (SCPH−500xx) 2. get it mod-chipped 3. Use good CD-R media (Verbatim AZO) 4. ??? 5. Profit! POPStation/PS2PSXE is a shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 05:28:55 2017 No.3866752 +1 for POPStarter being an unreliable piece of shit. I got so many corrupted save files with it, and thats on the selected games that actually do fucking work. I'd say compatibility rate is about 60%.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:15:48 2017 No.3866786

It's weird. They have SD card replacements for the optical drives of more obscure consoles like the the Saturn and Dreamcast, but not the PS2? Is there something special about the PS2 where you can't just fake it out? I can't imagine that nobody's tried...

If you could trick trick the PS2 into thinking some SD card device is its optical drive, it'd be pretty amazing for playing any PSX or PS2 game with full compatibility, on real hardware, with high quality video output.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:19:08 2017 No.3866790 >>3866786 the PS2 fat has a mechanical optical drive, as in the tray moves out, the entire mechanism drops and moves up. It's not a simple pop top like those.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:30:31 2017 No.3866803 >>3866786 I guess nobody really cares about it because the PS2 supports hard drives.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:46:53 2017 No.3866818
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>>3866790
> as in the tray moves out, the entire mechanism drops and moves up.
pic related.
And I don't understand why the loading-mechanism matters when an ODE is being plugged into the data-port of the DVD-drive anyway.

>>3866803
only fats and one revision of the slims, though.
and only with a scarce adapter.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 06:50:17 2017 No.3866820

>>3866818
I was talking about the PS2 fat.

And there are several cables. It's not a "Port" like on the dream cast that can simply be plugged in. It's not as simple as unplugging 2 cables on the Saturn or 3 screws on the Dream Cast.

If you ever have worked on a PS2 fat you would know that Sony pulled some serious bullshit with cables, routing, and all that with the different models with the DVD drive. Some have flat flex, while others have straight up wire cables

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:02:04 2017 No.3866836 >>3866818 >pic related This whole thread is about a PS2 fat, do you even read let alone think before posting?!

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:12:30 2017 No.3866841 >>3866836 No.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:26:15 2017 No.3866851 >>3866841 Shocked.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:34:42 2017 No.3866860 >>3866851 ikr

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 07:36:40 2017 No.3866863 >>3866860 Right.

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:03:52 2017 No.3866883

>>3866557
popstarter doesn't use the ps2's hardware level emulation, it uses a shitty software emulator which is trash compared to the ps2's. I don't know if there is a good way to back up load PS1 games without using optical discs which is pretty undesirable because the ps2's lasers lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:14:15 2017 No.3866890 >>3866790 I don't see how that's relevant? That's just one more fake signal for the tray sensor. >>3866803 The PS2 HDD isn't 100% compatible with the entire library and can't do PS1 games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:15:21 2017 No.3866891 Better get a real PS1, some games don't work on a PS2

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:23:39 2017 No.3866902 >>3866891 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_games_incompatible_with_PlayStation_2#All_models Meh.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:27:12 2017 No.3866907 >>3866891 its like 10 or 14 games on the best model of PS2, and a few dozen on the worst slims. Really a PS2 is far better. I think in those 14 games there's like one that's a big deal.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:38:35 2017 No.3866923 >>3866907 >>3866902 >>3866891 I wonder if it's even true, I recently played Gundam Battle Assault on a Slim SCPH-75001, nothing seemed wrong or not-working

Anonymous Sat Mar 18 08:58:12 2017 No.3866945

>>3866923
well, it's straight from Sony.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100309031347/http://us.playstation.com/news/consumeralerts/softwaretitles_75001/index.htm

they wouldn't have listed it if there wasn't something wrong.
maybe it's just a minor problem.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 18 10:42:12 2017 No.3867058 >>3866632 Do you have low standards or are you just parroting?

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