PS2 OPL problems

[Anonymous No.7092853]

I've got a chink clone HDD adapter connected to an SD card, and for some reason I just can't get this shit working with OPL. It works fine with HDLoader, I can see it in uLaunchELF and format it, but no matter what I do, OPL can't see this fucking thing.

Is there some recommended version of OPL or something?

[Anonymous No.7092858]

>>7092853
It only works with HDDs afaik.

[Anonymous No.7092864]

>clone
>connected to an SD card

[Anonymous No.7092879]

Use a hard drive or a SSD

[Anonymous No.7092881]

>>7092853
>I've got a chink clone HDD adapter connected to an SD card
nigga you fucked up

[Anonymous No.7092882]

>>7092864
There are adapters. I've seen people using those on the Wii, dunno if it works with PS2.

[Anonymous No.7092886]

>>7092882
Obviously it doesn't.

[Anonymous No.7092897]

>>7092858
I see other retards using this setup fine.

>>7092879
No. They're a pain in the ass to get games on, I can't be fucked plugging my PS2 into my network switch every time I want to swap games. With an SD card, it's easy as shit, I don't even have to unplug the adapter.

[Anonymous No.7092901]

>>7092897
So why don't you ask those retards to enlighten your genius self?

[Anonymous No.7092905]

>>7092901
Yeah, I shouldn't have bothered asking you retards. Looks like the issue is just that OPL is a piece of shit and I have to use an older version that supports this crappy clone.

[Anonymous No.7092912]

Look, I'm not trying to say that you're a retard.
I've had a modded PS2 with HDLoader since 2006, and I've never even heard of it working with an SD card adapter. Whatever witchcraft they've done to make this work wasn't really that well done.
What I mean is, OPL probably _expects_ to be an HDD in there. A chink adapter won't fool the console like that. The HDD itself isn't a mod, because the console itself accepted HDDs. Mods are stuff like playing through USB or Network.

I don't know if this helps you, but what most likely happened is that OPL doesn't have the drivers for your SD adapter.

[Anonymous No.7092917]

>>7092905
Good luck with that, big brain.

[Anonymous No.7092920]

>>7092912
>and I've never even heard of it working with an SD card adapter.
This is because you're retarded. It works fine, there's no fucking "witchcraft", and this is a pretty recent innovation. My problem is the cheap chink clone HDD adapter, because the chinks chink'd me and used fake images on the listing. Got my money back, at least, but it's a shame this thing is probably completely worthless.

An IDE drive isn't that complex.

[Anonymous No.7092927]

>>7092920
Try a CF adapter. CF is literally IDE so your adapter won’t need to fool shit.

[Anonymous No.7092931]

>>7092927
Sometimes I really wonder if half this board is just bots or something. Can you not read?

[Anonymous No.7092936]

Lol he's whining about getting riced now.

[Anonymous No.7092942]

>>7092931
>it can’t possibly be all this dodgy hardware and adapters giving me a problem
>this software must be shit
>4chan listen to me bitch about my self inflicted problems!
>no I don’t want solutions I just want to bitch about chink clones and pout

[Anonymous No.7092946]

>>7092920
> and this is a pretty recent innovation
There's your problem. When was the last time OPL, or pray tell, HDLoader got updated?

[Anonymous No.7092953]

>>7092946
Dude, can you not fucking read? The games work fine in HDLoader. The issue is with OPL, because they changed some shit around and broke the clone adapters. I just copied across the old version, it works perfectly with fucking Hungry Ghosts.

>>7092942
I solved my own problem, cunt.

[Anonymous No.7092957]

>>7092953
It works fine with HDloader because the last version is from 2007 or something. So of course your chink adapter can fool it.
OPL's latest version is from 2020, so I guess you need to downgrade until you find something that works.

[Anonymous No.7092961]

>>7092957
No shit, retard. I've already done it, version 1005 works fine with my clone adapter. But hey, keep pretending you had a fucking clue what you were talking about when you started whining about my fucking SD to IDE adapter instead because you're as thick as pig shit.

[Anonymous No.7092976]

>>7092961
Says the guy begging 4chan to help him wipe his own ass.

[Anonymous No.7093278]

>>7092853
>chink

really wish edgyposting was dead

[Anonymous No.7093345]

>>7093278
brown hands typed this post

[Anonymous No.7093373]

>>7093345
feminine hands typed this post

[Anonymous No.7093384]

>>7092853
>chink clone HDD adapter
I'm glad OPL devs aren't supporting this retarded edge case you just created in their software. Did you know there are plenty of hacks in it to support chink NAs already?

[Anonymous No.7093428]

>>7093384
>Did you know there are plenty of hacks in it to support chink NAs already?
Clearly not, given they just gave up on supporting anything that wasn't gamestar 2-3 years ago.

[Anonymous No.7093607]

If it works why not just stick with hdloader? Are you one of those retards who loads ps1 games on opl and uses a dualshock 3 or even worse, a dualshock 4 wired?

[Anonymous No.7093640]

>>7093607
HDLoader has inferior support given it hasn't been updated for 5+ years, I figure. But hey, who knows, if they can't be bothered supporting all the HDD adapters, maybe they can't be bothered supporting half the games either.

[Anonymous No.7093651]

>daisy chains a bunch of incompatible hardware together
>asks why it doesn't work
>berates every single anon giving him advice
grats on your (you)s OP

[Anonymous No.7093656]

>>7093640
Every game i've thrown at it works, even cd based ones (ico, assault suits valken, gradius v, hoihoi-san) after converting them to iso.

[Anonymous No.7093684]

>>7093651
>daisy chains a bunch of incompatible hardware together
A bunch of perfectly compatible hardware, you mean.
>berates every single anon giving him advice
Because half of them are posting literal retard shit like "uhh you can't use an SD card on a PS2, SD cards weren't invented when the PS2 came out!".

>>7093656
I figure there are edge cases, and OPL has a community of spergs who test all the options so if I run into one it won't be hard to fix.

[Anonymous No.7093708]

>5 hours later the retard is still trying to justify his poor decisions

I love this board so much.

[Anonymous No.7093712]

>>7093684
>A bunch of perfectly compatible hardware, you mean.
Anon. I know you think this is hot stuff, but believe me when I say that some games or software for the PS2 just doesn't know what to do if they're not running from a DVD.
There are a few edge cases, but they're there. For example: Super Robot Wars Impact has problems running in HDloader, but it runs in OPL (albeit with audio problems). Gundam Zeonic Front runs perfectly in HDLoader, but it'll give this bizarre error in OPL, where 99% of the time, no textures will load, except for the main robot. So you'll be playing in a weird void. The buildings are solid, they just don't have textures so you can't see them. Another Century's Episode 3 runs in HDLoader, but it loads every stage for more than a minute, while OPL will hang on specific stages, there's no way around it.

The best case is Tales of the Abyss. Aside from a few specific OPL versions, there's a boss battle at the beginning that'll only load if you're playing from a DVD. You can load it off HDD, USB, Network or your SD Card, it'll never load correctly.

One anon above said something about OPL not having the drivers for your SD adapter. This usually happens with homebrew, and it isn't even that rare. Did you know that, if you load uLaunchelf from anything that isn't a CD/DVD, you can't use a USB Keyboard with any homebrew loaded from it? The drivers are loaded, but I guess they're blocked. Many edge cases.

[Anonymous No.7093815]

>>7092853
The weak link is the SD card adapter so the easiest fix is to just order $40 1TB SATA HDD in there and download all the ISOs you want while you wait for it to ship.

>>7092897
>no it's a pain in the ass to swap games
You can put 256 games on it. Name 257 games you want to play to justify you needing to swap it out.

[Anonymous No.7093874]

>>7093607
>not loading PS1 games through OPL
What the fuck is wrong with you

[Anonymous No.7094920]

>>7092853
>Is there some recommended version of OPL or something?
I recommend tards not use OPL.

>>7092897
>I can't be fucked plugging my PS2 into my network switch every time I want to swap games
Then leave it plugged in fucktard

>>7092920
There's plenty of "witchcraft". You just don't see/understand it because you're retarded. So retarded you think an SD to IDE adapter is "a pretty recent innovation". I have ones that are nearly 20 years old. Are you even that old? An IDE drive is very complex. It's literally a HDD with the entire controller attached.

>>7092942
this

[Anonymous No.7095361]

>>7093712
I ran into one in about 2 minutes, Time Crisis 2 works fine through my old version of OPL, but has horrible sync issues on HDLoader.

>>7093815
>>The weak link is the SD card adapter
No, the weak link is my fucking chink HDD adapter. There's nothing wrong with my SD card adapter.

>>7094920
>Then leave it plugged in fucktard
No. I like my PS2, but I also like putting it away, and I can't be fucked buying another network switch and finding a power socket for it because I already have daisy chained extensions for all the other shit I've got plugged in. You might as well argue about why I'd even bother using a drive, why don't I just SMB the games over my network like a slim peasant!

>An IDE drive is very complex. It's literally a HDD with the entire controller attached.
That's precisely why it ISN'T complex from a software perspective, you dumb cunt. As long as my adapter is properly simulating a generic IDE drive, which isn't hard, it'll be recognized by anything with an IDE port and the appropriate driver set. The only limitation for my SD card is it has to be under 128gb, but I don't really want to have more than 50 games on my console at any one time, look at all the retards who download full romsets and then never play anything because they've got too much choice.

[Anonymous No.7095613]

>>7092853
>chink clone HDD adapter

that's the problem

the chink clones don't work

even if you get a game to load it'll just freeze up at a loading screen 80% of the time

get an official adapter and a mod kit

[Anonymous No.7095626]

i've heard people having problems with chink aftermarket hdd adaptors but mine has worked without problems. i use 7200rpm sata3 hdd, low profile laptop size so it is easier to remove and plug to my computer if i wanna add/remove games.

[Anonymous No.7095695]

>>7095613
I mean, mine's worked fine so far now I've got an old version of OPL. No problems with the half a dozen games I've played so far.

Well, there is one, but given 90% of the replies to my last question were "STOP USING SD CARDS", I really doubt anyone is going to tell me why the Japanese versions of all the light gun games are Guncon2 only when most of those games work fine with Guncon1 in Europe. Guess the japs just really fucking wanted people to buy the newer, inferior gun.

[Anonymous No.7095834]

>>7092853
there's no HDD sd adaptor for the ps2 you retard lmao. don't blame the chinese for you being a dumbass and not researching it before hand

[Anonymous No.7095853]

>>7092853
>connected to an sd card
Poor, tortured thermals.

[Anonymous No.7095904]

>>7095361
Like I told you, list 257 games you want to play to justify the SD card adapter.

[Anonymous No.7095975]

>>7092853
>I've got a chink clone HDD adapter connected to an SD card
How do you even come up with such a fucked up jerryrigged setup? No shit it doesn't work. Just buy a hard-drive, they cost nothing. I have the same one in your picture and it's worked fine for years.

[Anonymous No.7096058]

>>7095361
>i want to do things stupid and no one can convince me otherwise
Zoom. Not even once.

[Anonymous No.7096063]

>>7093278
Based. Fuck racism.

[Anonymous No.7096068]

>>7095695
>why the Japanese versions of all the light gun games are Guncon2 only when most of those games work fine with Guncon1 in Europe
Because hard coded gun controller support.

[Anonymous No.7096473]

>>7092864
That's pretty much my setup too. No moving parts. It works well and putting more games on my SD card is easier than hooking up and ide to usb adapter with external power.

[Anonymous No.7096553]

>>7096063
Back to plebbit, s○ycuck.

[Anonymous No.7098095]

>>7092853
>chink clone
Are you learning yet?

[Anonymous No.7098414]

Ps2 games work great over SMB but the Ps1 games either don't work at all or are pretty choppy
I spent a couple hours batch converting and renaming them all to work with Popstarter/OPL and it's dawning on me the "perfect" compatibility is probably sub-20%, versus like 80% which is what the compatibility list suggests. I'll probably blow some time playing Civ II but apart from that I think I wasted an afternoon. I don't know who blew their time retrofitting Popstarter into OPL, it just doesn't work the vast majority of the time.
I know using burned discs is better but I already fried a laser on another PS2 that way lol
This whole scene kind of seems like a mess. Reading the PS2Home forums it's apparent most of these people were insane or at least somewhat petty and a ton of the work was probably left undone. Not to mention the forums themselves are the worst of Web1.0 multi-color text-walls, and the links can only decay from here on.

It's a shame that Sony controls these two massive game libraries and all their future consoles are both ultra-locked down and pretty poorly receptive to backwards compatibility at all.

[Anonymous No.7098421]

>>7098414
You have to understand that some people who create those compatibility lists are the same kind of fag that comes here and say that "this emulator works 100%", but this 100% is just 100% of the games they know, which is like 10 games. If you look at the PCSX2 or RPCS3 compatibility list, they list as "Playable" stuff that only outputs image and plays at 2fps. And then other people, without ever bothering to counter the "playable" claim, will chime in and say "I've never had any problem with the games I tried", which is usually the same 10 games that "work 100%".

I've had in my mind a project to at least revive PS2/PSP hacking, by means of a project that finally tries to solve the compatibility list problem, and try to update the jurassic software that's still being used nowadays. I'll probably fail, but it's better than doing nothing.

[Anonymous No.7098431]

>/vr/ letting OP get away with being a gigafaggot

...the new rules were a mistake

[Anonymous No.7098638]

>>7098421
This. Compatibility lists are the fucking worst as it always comes down to idiots on forums saying "works on my machine lol :)", in the specific case of Popstarter it's TERRIBLE. The best thing to do is not bother with it, less than 10% of the library is playable to a respectable standard.

[Anonymous No.7100313]

>>7092853
many if not all IDE to SD adapter doesn't follow IDE/ATAPI standards and corruption can occurs. If your OS is aware of it that could be fixed but in embedded systems it's a real PITA. I'm not surprised to see it not working on a PS2. Try a HDD or at least an IDE to CF adapter