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I have this setup, it's pretty awesome. Afaik you can't put a HDD bigger than 1TB in a PS2 so it's the only way to go if you want the set and forget experience
by p1necone 3y ago
I have this setup, it's pretty awesome. Afaik you can't put a HDD bigger than 1TB in a PS2 so it's the only way to go if you want the set and forget experience of just having the entire PS2 library available to you.
You can load games from an external drive over the USB port too but the transfer speeds are much slower than the disc drive so most games have issues. MC2SIO recently came out though, which uses the memory card interface to access games on a microsd card - my understanding is that the transfer speeds over that are much better so it's also a good option.
- Cloudef 3y agoThe 1TB limit was removed lately by software update, also you can nowadays use exfat filesystem which removes that slow game install process with that one tool.
- RajT88 3y agoI have it as well. PS2 softmods are getting better and better - you can now use PS4 controllers over Bluetooth. Ps1 games all can be launched from OPL since they are not run via emulation.
- p1necone 3y ago> Ps1 games all can be launched from OPL since they are not run via emulation. I think you've got this backwards - the only way to run ps1 games from OPL is via POPstarter, which is an emulator. Speed/compatibility is not great for a lot of titles either. The reason for this is that when you put an actual PS1 disc into a PS2 the system uses the PS1 CPU inside as the main CPU (it's used as an audio co-processor when in PS2 mode), and there's no way for OPL to trigger this while still loading from the ISO in the background.