How can I play games on my PS2 using an external HD?

[Anonymous No.10079814]

Is this black magic possible without discs? O_o

[Anonymous No.10079831]

>>10079814
use an internal hdd or something similar.

[Anonymous No.10079834]

>>10079831
?

[Anonymous No.10079837]

>>10079834
ps2 has an hdd bay which you can install a hard drive into and load games off.

[Anonymous No.10079840]

>>10079837
Can't I do that with an external one or a pen drive?

[Anonymous No.10079843]

>>10079840
It would be very slow for most games and will have issues with FMV stuttering and some games may not work at all.

[Anonymous No.10079845]

>>10079814
>>10079831
Assuming you have a fat model. An internal will have a much faster read speed than an external one and will not suffer from stuttering during fmv cutscenes or streamed voice acting.

[Anonymous No.10079856]

>>10079843
>>10079845
Yup, mine is one of them fats, but I didn't wanna spend money on an internal hdd -_-

[Anonymous No.10079883]

>>10079814
You need the hdd adapter (for fat ps2) and freemcboot or equivalent, there was another good mod but I forgot it's name

[Anonymous No.10079890]

>>10079814
yes

[Anonymous No.10079896]

>>10079814
https://www.psx-place.com/threads/how-to-hack-playstation-2-in-2022-roadmap.37271/

found a list of all current exploits

Mechapwn seems really good for slim

[Anonymous No.10079909]

>>10079896
This is so complicated :|

[Anonymous No.10079917]

Are you willing to buy a network adapter or do you have one? Consider sharing your games over your home network to your PS2 via SMB. However, you're asking basic bitch google-able tech questions and using emoticons like a woman, so this is probably too advanced for you. External drives are too slow on PS2, though, so suck it up and learn SMB or buy an internal drive.

[Anonymous No.10079920]

>>10079909
>I'm gonna reject all advice as too complicated and use stupid smilies
Bad faith troll. Any sort of PS2 piracy is too complicated for you, so fuck off.

[Anonymous No.10079921]

Just get your boyfriend to do it.

[Anonymous No.10079937]

I just wanted to play PS2 games without having to collect the original discs, but all this is too much for my smol brain @.@

Is it easier if I just burn then isos in a disc? Will this damage my PS2?

>>10079921
He doesn't play videogames.

[Anonymous No.10079938]

I use a usb thumb drive to play games off of, if you stay away from the moviegame shit you should be good, never had issues during gameplay with stuttering and such.

Also you need an FMCB'd memory card ofc

[Anonymous No.10079959]

>>10079920
pls no bulli, I'm just wanting to play ps2 games

[Anonymous No.10079969]

>>10079938
>just use shit and cope like I did
Or SMB, retard.

[Anonymous No.10079980]

>>10079969
>BUT MUH MOVIEGAMESLOP
Kys retard, games are for playing not watching

[Anonymous No.10079983]

>>10079980
Dude so many games have prohibitively long loadtimes over USB that aren't 'moviegames'. You care about playing games and not waiting, right? You're a coping fucking dummy who is dealing with it because you either didn't know or refuse to learn.

[Anonymous No.10079986]

>>10079980
nevermind that anything streaming in an open world is gonna be an absolute shitshow.

[Anonymous No.10079993]

If it's a fat PS2, I highly highly suggest getting a network adapter that lets you install an internal HDD instead. It has been a while since I checked on the state of using a USB drive on a PS2, but when I last did it was a mess, huge compatibility issues and games load a lot slower due to the USB ports being slower than the disk drive, with some games having stuttering because it can't play videos off the drive fast enough.

[Anonymous No.10080008]

>>10079993
What about >>10079937?

[Anonymous No.10080013]

op since you seem so dead set on the easiest route get a fmcb memory card with OPL on it
try your best to find out how to update OPL (google this) and after that just use a usb flash drive. Some games won't work, some games will be slow to load but work fine.

The FMCB memory cards are like $5 or something these days. USB drive a 64GB is like $10 right? Should be good for now so you can play some things but just know it's not perfect.

[Anonymous No.10080023]

you seem to be completely incapable since you're not even looking at youtube or google so I suggest just buying a preloaded stick or card and play that

[Anonymous No.10080072]

>>10080008
Do you even know how to setup your PS2 to play burned disks? And how to properly burn them? Or where to get decent non garbage-tier blank media? IMO it's much easier to load from a HDD if you have a fat model.

[Anonymous No.10080147]

Would it technically be possible to install a modern USB port into a PS2 or is that the same level of skill required to make new CRT's and it would be prohibitively costly to do so?

[Anonymous No.10080170]

>>10080147
>Would it technically be possible to install a modern USB port into a PS2

No, it has nothing to do with the physical port. USB 1.0 and 2.0 ports physically are the same, it's the underlying hardware that is different. You would have to wire up a completely different set of USB controller hardware to get 2.0 or faster speeds.... if the PS2's CPU can even keep up, and you are likely going to break a lot of existing software by doing that. It has nothing to do with "cost", it's more like arguing "Can you re-wire a Pentium 3 motherboard to accept a Pentium 4?"

[Anonymous No.10080181]

>>10080147
The port isn’t the issue, it’s the processor/bios/many other hardware limitations of the ps2 that would bottleneck the speeds of a modern port. An internal drive is your best bet, especially since they now support Exfat partitions, which allows you to load games on to it simply by plugging it in to your PC.

[Anonymous No.10080185]

>>10080170
>Can you re-wire a Pentium 3 motherboard to accept a Pentium 4?
You can.

[Anonymous No.10080324]

>>10079856
If you already have an external HDD you can shuck it. Unless it's one of those devilish ones that come with USB port soldered to the board.

[Anonymous No.10080369]

>>10079856
Do you already have the network adapter? If you don't want to fuck around with HDDs you can install games to an SD card, which I've found to be much more convenient (and probably longer-lasting). You need a male 44-pin to 40-pin IDE adapter, a 44-pin IDE to SD card adapter, and an SD card extension cable, all of which you can get on eBay for around $30 total. And then just use whatever SD card you want.

[Anonymous No.10080375]

>>10079890
USB 1.1 is slow as fuck. HDDs are much better for load times/streaming.

[Anonymous No.10080426]

>>10080375
I know but that what OP asked for. He's even whining when presented with better options because it's "so complicated" and "doesn't want to spend money"

[Anonymous No.10080663]

>>10079856
>-_-
>>10079814
>O_o
go back to gaia faggot

[Anonymous No.10080676]

>>10079814
If you don't want to go with an internal hdd. (I'm making one for my brother as I type this, its super simple.)

This is another route i tried. That uses memory cards, but the compatibility is not the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fqhS1QuGcs

[Anonymous No.10080710]

>>10079814
its possible but you need a triple digit IQ