General Jewel wrote:Can someone please tell me how to exactly put over 4gb ps2 games on a external fat32 hdd. All games under 4gb are fine but trouble getting I.e gta3 on my hdd cos of the limit! All I see is usbutil but never in what to do or how to use:/U must format external hardrive to nfts and then copy the games I have seen a slim ps2 read games frm an ntfs eternal hardrive and usb. Bt havet done it kyself still struggling to get my fat ntsc ps2 or slim pal ps2 softkodded 007 games are immposible to find ere in south africa. Since need for speed ug2 does not work for the modd.
Grantf28 wrote:Hay threads been helpfull. Can anyone help me I hav two ps2 fats pal both broken lenses and a fullyworking ntsc ps2 fat.
Just installed fmcb on two memory cards with my ps2 slim pal and I want to gt it on my fat ntsc bt apparently thats imposible since I dont have compateble games to do disc swap on my ntsc fat ps2. Bt since I hav parts of two old pal fat ps2 cant I use my ntsc disc box thing on my pal ps2 fat that has a broken lense and then install fmcb on that frankanstein ps2 fat.lol plzSince you have it on your memory card, just use the card on the fat. Easy as that! I used a different way of installing Free McBoot WITHOUT using 007: Agent Under Fire, which I couldn't find. I used Cogswap to run a uLaunch DVD, then ran the FreeMcBoot installer from a USB stick. The game I used to launch Cogswap was FIFA2003 PAL Platinum Edition. My PS2 is a Slim SCPH-77002, and I had covered the sensors for my swapping.
I guess this could work for any game really, as all you are using is the games disc verification, but I have only tried this one. The guide I looked at recommended that the game you use have an LBA of over 1000000, check this using Apache.
I couldn't get the standard disk swap + ELF replacement to work, but this did the trick.The process was to change the filesize of SLES5911.97 on my ripped ISO to match that of cogswap.elf(or driving.elf if you use my dl link), then rename cogswap.elf to SLES5911.97 and update the files on the ISO, all using Apache. I then burnt the updated ISO to a DVD-R.I then downloaded a uLaunch 4.12 DVD iso, and burnt that to a DVD.The last thing to prepare is a USB stick, formatted it to FAT32.
I copied the necessary FreeMcBoot files to the USB drive, resulting in freemcboot.elf and an INSTALL folder in the root.It took me a while to figure out, but you only need to swap TWICE to get this working. Thats original CD Cogswap original CD. I guess other people knew that already, but it was hard to glean from various tutorials.Put the original disk in the PS2, then wait until AFTER the Playstation2 screen comes up. The laser should be towards the centre of the disk here- IMMEDIATELY when it moves to the outer rim, swap to the Cogswap disk, then IMMEDIATELY when it goes back to the centre, change to the original disk. I tried swapping so many times before I tried this, now I can get it straight away. Your original disk should be in there at the end with cogswap on the screen.
The timing is sticky with this, practice for a while and you should get it.Press X in Cogswap to run your original disk, then when is says USE COGSWAP, put your uLaunch DVD in. Navigate through the file browser to MASS which is your USB stick, and run freemcboot.elf.
In the McBoot UI, select install. Now you can turn off your PS2, take the disk out, and turn it on.there should be some nice extra menu options there for you! Now any time you want to play a burnt game, just put it in and turn on the PS2, and Mcboot will run it for you!Remember, burnt games must be patched using ESF patcher, it is included in the package.I used most stuff fromEXCEPT uLaunch, I used 4.12.
Ps2 Elf Files
I'm not sure under which license cogswap was released, so i can't upload it for you. But when i tried it, it didn't work for me. What worked for me is the simple swap trick that only works on V9/10 ps2s:- Insert original ps1 disc with high TOC(=larger.iso size than the backup)- Launch uLaunchELF- Make it stop the motor- Swap the discs(=change without the ps2 noticing the change)- Select boot disc in uLaunchELFOn my V9 it works, on my V3 and V7 it froze on the psx logoI guess the cogswap method also requires an original ps1 disc with high TOC and the same ps2 model, but i can't say for sure.