[Tutorials] PS2 Thread: Softmod, game backups, homebrew

[GhettoBeta59]

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Please help me with OpenPS2Loader!

Alright, if you insist. You can download the official release here: http://openps2loader.info/8/
That's the official user guides for OpenPS2Loader, so it should tell you all you need to know on there. Here's just a basic way to install it onto your memory card:

1.) Put the downloaded .ELF file onto your USB drive. You don't need to rename it or anything, that's the good part.

2.) Plug in the USB drive into your PS2. Open uLaunchELF from your Free McBoot main menu.

3.) You can either do 2 things, boot it directly from your USB or copy it to your memory card. To copy it, first locate it. Mass0:/ is you USB device, so press that and find it there. Once you find it, either boot it directly from the USB, or press R1 (I think) to copy it. After that, go to mc0:/, and place it inside the "Boot" folder.

4.) Once it is successfully pasted, reset your PS2. On your Free McBoot menu, scroll down to "Free McBoot Configurator". Once there, go to OSDYS settings, and it should be this settings menu that shows all the things on your Free McBoot menu. Go to an empty space and press it, now you should be at a scree where it has a space for a name and then threee "paths". Name it whatever your want, for example "OpenPS2Loader", and then press the first path. Go to mc0:/boot/OPNPS2LD.ELF and press it. After that, just go back from OSDYS settings and select "Save config to mc0". After it saved, go to "FMCB Restart".

Congrats, it should successfully installed on your memory card. You should just test it out, if it doesn't boot it is probably because it ran out of space on your memory card. Installing games is a whole new thing, but it should just say how to do that on the user guides. Now, when you boot a game off USB, it does tend to be slower than the disc. That's because of the PS2's USB 1.1 interface. The gameplay shouldn't be skippy or choppy at all, but loading times are longer and FMVs are sometimes very choppy, but that is perfectly normal.

[pietro025]

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Installing games is a whole new thing, but it should just say how to do that on the user guides. Now, when you boot a game off USB, it does tend to be slower than the disc. That's because of the PS2's USB 1.1 interface. The gameplay shouldn't be skippy or choppy at all, but loading times are longer and FMVs are sometimes very choppy, but that is perfectly normal.

With OPL 0.8, if you're using a USB Flash Drive, you don't have to use USB Util to install the game. You can use the .iso archive. Just create a folder called DVD on the root of your flash drive and rename your game to SLUS_XXX.XX.NameOfYourGame.iso (the XXX.XX is the serial number of the game, to get it just open the game with WinRAR or 7zip and it will be there). But keep USB Util around so you can rip the game to save some space. Also, this only works with games below 4GB because of the Fat32 limit.

[GhettoBeta59]

^ I usually use this method because it takes less time to convert it to USB format.

[pietro025]

^ I usually use this method because it takes less time to convert it to USB format.

Surely. Do you play Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure? I can't get it to work with OPL....

[GhettoBeta59]

^ I usually use this method because it takes less time to convert it to USB format.

Surely. Do you play Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure? I can't get it to work with OPL....

No, I never even heard of it. You can try PS2ESDL, it is like OPL. It is known for less FMV skipping on USB. Here's the official website: http://ichiba.geocities.jp/ysai187/PS2/PS2ESDL/guide/

[pietro025]

^ I usually use this method because it takes less time to convert it to USB format.

Surely. Do you play Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure? I can't get it to work with OPL....

No, I never even heard of it. You can try PS2ESDL, it is like OPL. It is known for less FMV skipping on USB. Here's the official website: http://ichiba.geocities.jp/ysai187/PS2/PS2ESDL/guide/

It's a pretty good game. You're a graffiti writer and you must fight the city's new anti-graffiti policy (which turns out to be the elimination of all graffiti writes in the whole town). I'll give PS2ESDL a try. Thanks.

[GhettoBeta59]

Sounds pretty cool, I might look into it sometime. And your welcome, I sometimes use PS2ESDL for games if they have compatibility issues in OpenPS2Loader, it sometimes fixes them in PS2ESDL.

[LololoMo]

i have a ps2 slim scph 75004 (PAL) and the swap trick doesnt work with NeedForSpeedUnderground 2...
i dont know where my problem is!
I've made an iso file, set the Size(dec) on the right value, replaced the "NTGUI.ELF" by the "uncompressed_BOOT.ELF" (after renaming) and burned the resulting iso-file on a dvd. The swap trick works until i go on "Online" and then "Add/Edit". Then it's saying: "Please insert a DVD in PS2-Format"

Things that may be interesting:

I used Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 FREE for burning (speed: 4x)
I used: - Daemon Tools Lite
- Ashampoo Burning Studio 6 FREE
- DVD Decrypter

... for making the iso-file
I've got a German NFSU2
I disabled all Sensors to do the swap trick
The swapped(own-burned)-NFSU2 dvd does not work really well, the sound has some breaks and the laser of the PS2 jumps all the time from one to
the other side, i think there could be some Problems...

Where do you think is the Problem?
(Burning?; making the iso-File?; the game?; my PS2?)

Thx for answering!

[pietro025]

It doesn't work with all the games out there. There are some list around there that tells you which games works.

[LololoMo]

It doesn't work with all the games out there. There are some list around there that tells you which games works.

Yeah i know, but NFSU2 is on of the listed ones... :/