- Open ps2 loader smb setup install#
- Open ps2 loader smb setup Pc#
- Open ps2 loader smb setup iso#
- Open ps2 loader smb setup plus#
Installing games to the HDD via HDL Dumb (and an IDE to USB adapter for your PC). (You’re backing up your own games, right?) This process is self-explanatory, just follow the obvious functions in the UI.
Open ps2 loader smb setup install#
With my adapter, I need to keep trying until I hear the usual Windows USB chime, without an additional drive appearing in Windows Explorer.) Once the HDD is properly connected, run hdl_dumb ( note: run as Administrator!) to install whatever ISOs you happen to have on hand. Sometimes apps can recognize it, sometimes they can’t. (This part is finicky for me, sometimes the drive powers on properly, sometimes it doesn’t.
Open ps2 loader smb setup Pc#
Connect the drive to your PC via your USB adapter. So, power your system down, remove the HDD, and place the jumper into Slave mode.
Open ps2 loader smb setup iso#
Unfortunately, you can’t just copy ISO files over to your HDD like any other file and have them be playable.
I connect it to a 32″ JVC D-Series via component cables.
Open ps2 loader smb setup plus#
This took a mix of items I already had on hand, plus a couple of cheap new additions to “the lab.” In all, I spent about $25 – remarkably cheap for everything the system is now capable of doing. I wanted to be able to play games from any region without having to keep a stack of discs on hand and also wanted to explore interesting homebrew.
My goal was to have a handful of unique, rare, or otherwise interesting games available to play on my launch-day (NTSC, SCPH-30001) PS2 without needing to open the system or do any physical or permanent modifications. So with that out of the way, let’s document my setup for future reference or for anyone else who might be interested in doing something similar: Target State (Really, the true impetus for this project was probably that I’d been wanting to try out Gregory Horror Show, but didn’t have a PAL system to play it on!) For whatever reason, I recently took an interest in exploring it more. Regardless of my own interest in it, the PS2 is a system that really came into its own after a few years on the market and is undeniably one of the biggest successes the industry has ever seen, so even I ended up with a nice collection of games for it. I still distinctly remember getting one on launch night, playing some SSX and TimeSplitters and thinking “that’s it?” It felt like a letdown after how mind-blowing the Dreamcast was on release the year before. Or maybe the system just never really captured my imagination. Or maybe because the PS2’s peak was in an era where I was less active with video games. Why is that? Maybe it’s because my PS2 has spent a decade in storage, in favor of a backwards compatible PS3. And yet, it never really occurred to me to try to do it. It’s been possible, even downright easy, to soft-mod a PlayStation 2 for years now. PS2 Soft-modding materials: A PS2, an old IDE hard drive, a PS2 HDD adapter, and a memory card preloaded with FreeMCBoot.