This subreddit is dedicated to the best selling video game console in history, Sony's Playstation 2 We are all about the games, discussions, news, questions or suggestions related to the PS2. Tell us what you love(d) about it, what game you hated, when you first got your system, or if you're completely new to it! Remember, 'Live in your world, play in ours!' Looking for interesting games? Game of the Month - December 2017: • NEW • Notice about Sony DNAS shutdown On March 31st, 2016 at 14:00 GMT, Sony shut down their official DNAS servers for the PS2.

This affects any games that use the service to authenticate for online play for first and third party servers. Games such as Battlefront 1 & 2, COD:BRO, FFXI and MGSO, among others, may not be able to connect to any online functionality. Wondering how to play backups on your system? • This guide covers both PS2 backups through OPL and PS1 backups through POPStarter! FreeMcBoot / Softmodding Information • • Install FreeMcBoot Yourself • • Install FreeMcBoot onto an Internal Hard Drive • *Or, skip softmodding it yourself altogether. Buy a memory card with a complimentary installation of FreeMcBoot v1.95 for $10 US! (plus $3 US for shipping) PM to order yours today!

I load my games from a hard drive (using Free McBoot to boot from a memory card, and Open PS2 Loader to load the games) so I don't have to use game. Need a fat PS2, as the slim PS2 can't use a hard drive, though you can use a USB hard drive or USB stick instead, though since the PS2's USB is v1.1,.

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Haiku bot) will be PERMANENTLY BANNED on first sight. Please report any bots you may see as they will help us get rid of them. So I've been pulling my hair out trying to get this game to work off of a USB device. I've verified the checksum of my iso with that over at redump. When I launch the game off of my USB, I see the colored debug lightshow, the copyright screen, another lightshow and then.nothing. Black Screen of Death.

I've played around with the various MODE settings and none of them are booting into the game. I used USBUtil 2.00 to install it to my USB drive.

What am I doing so wrong to where this game won't boot? Any effort to google my problem doesn't help because the threads are so old and the information isn't related to my problem. Can you help me out? I just wanna go fast.

EDIT: A solution has been found! Turns out I just needed to defrag the game after installing it to my USB. Hope this helps anyone else who stumbles upon this post!

Funey touched on the pros/cons in a previous article but I want to tidy that up, fix pretty much everything and add more to it with this. So, what is Free McBoot, then? Free McBoot is Free Memory Card Boot, a homebrew exploit allowing for unofficial apps. What kind of apps? If your TV has a bad scaler (or you’re using VGA and want to force a proper resolution, for example) you can use GS Mode Selector [GSM] to force video mode outputs.

If one of your game discs is scratched, no problem – use HDLoader to boot the game from a HDD [fat ps2s only], or use OpenPS2Loader to boot games from USB, SMB (network) or HDD – with per-game options. Alternatively, if you’d prefer to burn the game to a blank DVD (this could be easier in some cases), ESR can trick your PS2 into thinking it’s a DVD movie and boot the game. Core Features Free McBoot [or Free HD Boot/FHDB, if using FMCB off a HDD] bundles in a few core apps in their recommended package; uLaunchELF [unofficial ELF launcher, probably the most important part], HDLoader, ESR and SMS [simple media system]. So what’s uLE (uLaunchELF) and why is it so important? Well, it is basically a file browser with settings that will affect the system. You can browse your USB/HDD/memory card etc.

Using uLE and launch ELF [app files] from it. You can also copy, paste and move files – even memory card save files! HDLoader is Hard Drive Loader; you boot games from the HDD, simple as that. ESR, as mentioned before, boots burned games from a DVD. SMS is a simple media system [hence the name] that will play/view basic media files. That’s basically it for core FMCB – but where it gets interesting is in the apps you add.

Above: uLaunchELF Apps Free McBoot has a plethora of apps to choose from. As mentioned, there is GSM to force outputs, from 480p to HDTV 1080p. Open PS2 Loader [OPL] is a really nice app; you can add information for your favourite games (such as release date, description, age rating, screenshots, backgrounds etc.), and you can have custom configurations for every game – you can make a virtual memory card on a USB/HDD with OPL’s “+VMC” edition, or force outputs [this is really helpful if you’re playing an American[NTSC] game on your European/Australian[PAL] console, for example]. Along with this, you can update OPL over your network.

You can also play games – you can play classics like DOOM directly ported to PS2 or you can use emulators to emulate classics, like NES/SNES games. Or you could play fanmade games – like Super Mario War. There are so many useful apps using FMCB, but listing them all here would take far too much time. Above: Super Mario War Is there any reason not to get Free McBoot? The truth is, there really isn’t any good reason not to get Free McBoot. Yes, it will void your warranty, but what good is a warranty for a 16 year old system?

That aside, if you’re worried about bricking your system, don’t worry, that won’t happen either – it’s a softmod, there’s very little that actually can go wrong. Lastly, if you ever have second thoughts about FMCB, no worries – simply take out the memory card FMCB is on (or if it’s on your main memory card, uninstall it) and voila, no more FMCB. You can put your FMCB memcard back in at any time to restore everything, too.

So, in summary, try Free McBoot. Buying memory cards with FMCB on them off of eBay is not a good idea, as you can get it installed for free thanks to the many free FMCB install services – the only thing you need to pay for is shipping, no new memory card needs to be bought.

They’re trustworthy too – they’re FMCB veterans who’ve usually lurked around the scene for a long time, assuming you’re looking for the service off a dedicated forum. If you’re willing to do a small, quick mod to your PS2 [at least on the slimline version], you can remove a spring and cover 2 sensors [not going to cover how to here] to make discs keep spinning and reading even with the tray open. Then you can burn a version of a supported game to a blank disc – but the burned version has a FMCB installer, and you load that by doing whatever you have to do to get to the FMCB installer ELF [launch file, used in some ps2 games]. That’s the basic idea behind the exploit, and it’s pretty easy once you know what you’re doing. If you have a Free McBoot memory card (that you can buy off eBay) you will be able to boot programs such as OPL. Every PS2 model except SCPH-90000 models supports Free McBoot; Sony fixed the exploit on the 90000 PS2s (the PS2s which is half glossy). I recommend using OPL on the FAT PS2 (ie.

SCPH-50000 and before) since you can install a hard drive with ease which allows you to have faster loading speeds, but it will work the same on a slim; but on a slim you cannot install a hard drive without complicated mods.