The software you need is all free and legal, but I won't post links here, in case that's against the board rules. + a USB stick (for transfering the software to the PS2, and then the same or a different USB stick(s) for loading the games from), + a PS2, either a fat or a slim, either will work as far as I know, To play games from a USB stick, you need: Otherwise you can boot from DVD as usual, but then you'll need a commercial boot disc, like HDLoader. + a memory card (game save card) if you wish to boot from a memory card - it uses up just less than half the space on the memory card, and you can use the rest of the memory card (and any card in the other card slot) to save game saves as usual. + a USB stick (for transfering the software to the PS2, afterwards you don't need the USB stick, so you can just borrow one if you like), IDE drives are very cheap, though getting harder to find, as SATA drives are becoming more common, and you can't use a SATA drive in the PS2 (well, maybe you can now, but you couldn't when I bought this hard drive, so check first)
I think the software can be made to see larger than 220GB on larger drives, but I've not yet looked into it, as 220GB is more than enough for my current games collection. + an IDE hard drive, most will do, I currently have a 250GB in mine, though only 220GB is seen by the PS2. + a fat PS2 (does not need to be modded), To play games from a hard drive, you need: Also, in my experience, some games don't seem to work from a USB stick that work from the hard drive, but I didn't delve deeply into this matter as I had enough space on my PS2's hard drive, so maybe I missed something, and anyway that was a long time ago and no doubt the USB support in Open PS2 Loader has been improved in the years since then. Slim PS2's can only load via the USB port, both USB stick and (so I've heard) USB hard drives, but the speed will only be a fraction of a fat PS2 with an IDE hard drive. For a real speed increase, you need to use a hard drive which only fat PS2's support. You can also load games from a USB stick, these are very common and cheap nowadays, but since the PS2 only supports USB standard 1.1, then it's very slow, around the speed of loading from a real PS2 disc. Many games still need to load and save from the memory card. only some games can be made to save and load gamesaves from the hard drive (using the virtual memory card feature). not all games work from hard drive, but every game I've tried does, and the compatibility is being increased all the time as work progresses on the loading software, you can't play PS1 games like this, PS1 games must be played from the original discs (though this might have changed by now, it's been years since I looked into the matter), I don't even use a disc in my PS2's DVD drive any more when I turn on my PS2 it boots up almost instantly, from the memory card in slot 2, then comes up with a menu on screen allowing me to load any game from hard drive, and whilst I'm playing any game, I can press a certain combination of joypad buttons to reset the PS2 (at any time) and go back to the menu to load a new game. But as said, you want a hdd that is not external, for the usb 1.1 is close to the equvilant of the sd loaders for dreamcast (without the cdda problems).Ī fat PS2 running Free McBoot (which lets you boot up from a memory card) and Open PS2 Loader, a network card, and a normal, IDE hard drive, is fantastic, as thereby you're not only speeding up loading immensely and also stopping all loading errors, but also saving wear and tear on the PS2's DVD drive, as once I've installed the game(s) to the hard drive then I never need to use the game disc(s) again, so I put them away safe in my cupboard. I think any HDD that fits and meets those older standards (not too new, not too high allocation but I really dont know what exact specs) should work. Might be easier if you buy a preinstalled memory card (might be willing to set one up and sell it at the cost I got it if you dont want to mutilate your ps2).ĬD-R and DVD-R are ideal (DVD+R might work but is better for new tech) for swapped games.
HOW PLAY PS2 USB STICK INSTALL
From there, you can run other elf files (via cd or flash drive) to install open ps2 loader or anything else. To swap disc, you need a old credit card and cut a little slot to latch on the disc tray to manually open it and close it (once you've done it a few times, its real easy). Just want to say, the way i installed freemcboot was by getting swap magic, take the front part of the disc tray off (where the logo is), and burned the installation disc to install freemcboot on my memory card.
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