/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9953608
Yeah I have experience with it. It was a pain-in-the-ass and took months to get working lol
I use a separate memory card for FMCB and try to keep all my saves on another memory card but sometimes I accidentally save to the FMCB card, but it hasn’t been an issue (yet).
I use FMCB to load games from my SSD. It works well but took a lot of troubleshooting so beware which SSD/HDD you buy lest it’s incompatible/not entirely compatible with PS2.

>>9953621
I was going to use a USB stick lol. Do you think it has to be a HDD/SSD? A Youtube tutorial I watched used a USB. It also said it has to be formatted to FAT32.

PS2 Slim: FMCB on the memory card
PS2 FAT with internal HDD: You clone an image to the HDD that already has all you need. No need for memory card.

In terms of speed / compatibility: Internal HDD >> Ethernet >>>>>>> USB

>>9953629
>You clone an image to the HDD that already has all you need
How would I go about doing that?

>>9953634
https://gbatemp.net/threads/tutorial-install-fhdb-from-pc.582307/

>>9953608
use this script https://github.com/GDX-X/PFS-BatchKit-Manager if your not completely retarded you should be able to follow along and get a working HDD loaded up with OPL and a bunch of other stuff.

>>9953626
USB sticks are the worst option the PS2 uses USB 1.0 and it's just not fast enough to load games from there.

Yes you clueless retard why even bother asking here

I use freemcboot with OPL and popsloader for ps1 and ps2 ROMs I'm better than everybody in here

Fuck you

>>9953675
Ah, okay. Good I asked before going through with it.

>>9953640
Do you need the PS2 Network Adapter for this to work?

>>9953680
>why even bother asking here
hurr durr /vr/
How do you load them?

>>9953686
>Do you need the PS2 Network Adapter for this to work?
Of course. That's where you plug in the HDD.

>>9953680
uhm actually sweetie popsloader is a psp plugin, and popSTARTER is a fucking piece of shit

>>9953690
Damn, I don't have one of those. Might have to get an external SSD lol.

>>9953696
usb isn't really recommended see >>9953675

>>9953702
Derp.
Guess I need to get my hands on a network adapter.

>>9953692
Who gives a shit what it's called I set the thing up and I did it better than you could and I play everything I want with no problems

Holy shit you are retarded. Who let you out of your cage?

>>9953737
I just burn everything onto CDs and DVDs and use ESR and Tonyhax to play them wwwwww早

>>9953705
There's two kinds, official and "gamestar"
Official Sony only takes IDE, not SATA so it's kinda inconvenient. Although it does have mods for it that remove IDE and add SATA. Official ones also have ethernet available, that's why they're called network adapters.
Gamestar is chinesium but I get the feeling it's what most people use these days. The ethernet port on them is fake. Comes with SATA only.
I went with official and an old IDE drive, never touched the ethernet.

>>9953752
It seems like they're for sale on Amazon, weirdly enough.
https://www.amazon.com/VBESTLIFE-Interface-Network-Adaptor-Playstation-2/dp/B0778HN4KQ

>>9953608
If you have a fat PS2 you can clone an image to an HDD and by using a USB stick with the necessary software you can create your own FreeMcBoot memory cards.

You can also setup HDGameloader to FTP PS2 games to your PS2's HDD and play games off of it

>>9953765
Just note thats only a SATA adapter basically, no network functionality comes with it.

>>9953778
That's fine for me. SATA means it works with SSDs, right?

>>9953742
Why would you prefer physical disks with no art or cases over easy digital ROMs?

>>9953816
I was playing along with the other anon. In reality, I just use OPL like a normal person for PS2 games when I do play them. But for PS1 I actually did to just burning a CD and playing that way. It's really not hard to: even if yes, it isn't as easy as fucking dragging and dropping an image onto a hard drive, it's still not a lot of work with my setup and POPstarter's compatibility will always be compromised since it's rather dated software emulation on an already weak system.

Nowadays, I just play PS1 games on a PSOne with FreePSXBoot and it just werks for me. Having no nice art sucks, but it's a small price to pay for being able to play ROMhacks or games that cost $100 on eGay.

>>9953765
yeah that's one of the chinesium ones
I thought they all said gamestar on them but maybe I remembered wrong or they updated them

>>9953737
Literal retard lmao, that emulator is absolute dogshit and barely any game works properly

>>9953752
The chineseum ones are cheap, common and work with sata out of the box but there is no network. I had that first then I wanted the network and had to get a pata to sata adapter and made a custom shelf for holding the hodge podge of things together. I am not suggesting anyone do what I do unless they really want the network.

>>9953895
Can you use the network for anything nowadays?

>>9953917
There are about 60games that support lan play and you can use xlink kai to connect over the internet.

>>9953917
you can set it up to put games on there with network storage. I never tried it though I just use the thing with an IDE hard drive and call it a day
the lucky thing is that there's plenty of official sony network adapters. they must not be region locked and imported from japan

>>9953608
I've done it many times. It's very easy. You may want to look at how many faggots ITT have problems and reconsider whether this is a good place to be asking about anything more complicated than putting on velcro shoes.

>>9954265
How did you load your games? Did you use a hard drive?

>>9954307
>How did you load your games?
Many ways, because I've done it many times.
>Did you use a hard drive?
I did. There are many ways of doing that

i got a mcboot to play ps1 games on cd-r

you can play ps2 games with a slim, you jus patch the games and burn them to dvd-r

What the one where you can make a jig with a card and load your file from the memory card? No hardwaremods, it worked for me.

>>9953608
Any model after the 7000 series is unsupported (PS2s manufactured after 2007), it's easier to spend $5 on an unofficial memory card with FMCB preinstalled. It's great for loading gameshark codes onto your favourite games and doing cool shit like fly hacks, playing your games on an SMB server instead of wearing out your laser, using an upscaler to play your games in HD (need a decent adapter). Definitely worth it.

Opl is shit, get a 100 stack of verbatim azos and use freedvdboot. Burned games play perfectly (unlike opl which is a fucking nightmare software for anybody wanting things to play right)

>>9956113
>i couldn't get it to work so it's shit

Just a reminder that (at least in beta) exfat drives are now supported through OPL, making transferring games to get HDD/SSD effortless.

How good is the compatibility with games?

>>9955649
This is my story.
>Read a bunch for a month.
>Spent $6 for a preloaded FMCB.
>Spent $15 for a chinese HDD adapter.
>Got old HDD
>Put games on HDD
>Just worked.

Getting filtered by the most user friendly hack must feel bad. Really it is a low threshold IQ test. If you can't do this then can you even operate a videogame controller?

>>9953621
>It was a pain-in-the-ass and took months to get working
You're retarded. I'm a normie and even I made it work in like two days

>>9956279
I saw those memory cards that have FMCB pre-installed on Amazon. I'm going to order the network adapter off Amazon anyway so I might as well get the FMCB card from there too while I'm at it. Are they any different from custom install memory cards?

>>9957365
You don't even need the pre loaded memory card, see >>9953651
its piss easy.

>>9957418
It uses a virtual memory card for each game? that's pretty sweet. Is it stable?

i put a cheap chip into my slim forever ago, still works. been giving people fmcb and games since, it just werks

>>9957478
With FMCB does the hard drive need to be formatted as FAT32?

>>9957473
So far so good, I'm using a 1tb HDD with 300 odd games. Some games don't work with the virtual memory card so watch out for that, its not many that are incompatible resident evil 4 is one of them.

>>9957520
i dunno, never tried hooking up a hdd to a slim i just burn games and thats how i give them to friends even with fats. any extra effort they can sit down and learn how to do it

>>9957520
Here you go... All of the cheap preloaded FMCB cards have OPL this is what you are gonna use to load off of internal hdd or usb.

https://github.com/ps2homebrew/Open-PS2-Loader

>>9957520
it used to be a requirement, now they say exfat works too
I just use fat32 and winhiip to put the games on there and it works fine

>>9957617
Isn't USB on the PS2 really slow?

>>9953696
You can get an aftermarket one fairly cheap online with a SATA connection, stock comes with an IDE. Aftermarket one doesn't actually have a CAT5 connection(at least none of the readily available and cheap ones which is all I've seen). That will save you the trouble of finding a good condition IDE drive. They also make a replacement board for the official network adapters that replaces the IDE connector with a SATA connector so you can use a modern drive. I think the last stable OpenPS2Loader only supports up to 2tb but I think they've had success with larger drives in some of the more recent versions. Or at least I read that on the internet.

I got a FMCB card with different versions of HDL/OPL already loaded and an aftermarket SATA network adapter off Amazon for like $25 total a while ago. No network adapter but I didn't intend to or have I wanted/needed to try network loading.

If you like 6th gen games it's definitely worth doing. It's nice that you can play most 6th gen games on original hardware with no mod chips or original copy.

How do I play cd-r ps1 games on ps2?
I tried tonyhax but it won't recognize when the disc drive is opened/closed

>>9957627
Games can be loaded off of USB _OR_ HDD. Check the compatibility lists. Links have been provided.

>>9957879
my chip reads them fine as did fmcb last i tried - every ps2 is capable of running ps1

>>9958029
so I just start up with fmcb and then launch the disc from there or do I have to do something else?

>>9955649
>Any model after the 7000 series is unsupported (PS2s manufactured after 2007)
Blatant untruths from a dumb namefag. Any model up to 90K works fine with FMCB, and 90K models below a certain date code (8C IIRC) work with FMCB too. Source: own a 90K that works with FMCB.

>>9957625
Winhiip is outdated boomerware, HDL batch is the current software of choice.

>>9958131
>a dumb namefag
Is there any other kind?

>>9953621
>Yeah I have experience with it. It was a pain-in-the-ass and took months to get working lol
You might be retarded I'd go apply for some neetbux

It works fine for just playing ps2 iso's from an hdd.

The config options are pretty shit compared to swiss on the gamecube though. Using custom resolutions (GSM) always fucks up the centering and scaling of the video output. Half the games won't even boot properly with non-default resolutions. On the gamecube with swiss it just works.

>>9959440
Can it play PS1 games too?

>>9958080
>>9958029
yeah, I tried it, doesn't work
there must be an extra utility to install to get it to work

>>9957627
Yes, the PS2 has USB 1.1 ports that are literally slower in terms of data transfer speeds than its DVD ROM drive.

Most games won't run at all from a USB stick, and the ones that do will have extremely long loadtimes. It's the objectively worst way to play PS2 games. If you're stuck on a slim than either burn games onto physical DVDs or look into network loading (which has its own set of problems).

>>9959709
That's what I thought. OPL looks cool but playing off the USB port doesn't sound like a good idea.

>>9959758
OPL is what you use when playing off of a hard drive as well.

The compatibility is pretty good these days, and the side effect of having significantly reduced loadtimes (even the slowest ancient IDE hard drive strill transfers data much faster than a 4X DVD-ROM drive) is pretty nice as well. It also bypasses region locks, so it's a nice way to be able to play import games on native hardware.

Even if you're stuck on a slim it's still nice to softmod it, you can use stuff like ESR to run burned games without any hardware modifications, and while the homebrew scene isn't huge there is some fun stuff to be had (including weird shit like a native port of Mario 64 and other stuff like Beats of Rage). There are some emulators for older systems, but nothing mind blowing. Lastly you can use SMS to run standard definition movies or play MP3s if your PS2 is hooked up to a better sound system than you computer is for some reason.

>>9959472
What game/tonyhax version are you using? There was a closed issue on github where it didn't recognize the tray opening/closing with some games. It doesn't need anything other than the save file exploit and program file on the memory card.