What was your reason to NOT mod a PS2 and save the already dying lens?

PS2 emulation is better

>>11885796 (OP)
I use fmcb + ethernet port of my ps2slim. the ps2 fat is to loud for my taste. doesnt work with ps1 games which is a bummer

>>11885807
>doesnt work with ps1 games
Yeah shit just fucking sucks, I don't understand this frankly but I'm a tech noob. Like my hacked Wii runs Gamecube games off of a flash drive, why can't my PS2 do the same with PS1 games?

>>11885796 (OP)
tranime people are so stupid

>>11885796 (OP)
What is this fucking troon bullshit?

>>11885796 (OP)
i have money and i like physical games faggot

>>11885869
>flexing a collection of $5 each games

>>11885814
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/10597740/#10600216

>>11885796 (OP)
How does this shit even work? You just play games right from the HDD instead of the optical drive? Been thinking about getting into PS2 again but I got soured on the whole thing after going through three consoles with cursed ribbon cables. Honestly PCSX2 is so good at this point that it would have to be peg-in-hole baby simple for me to bother with real hardware again.

>every notable ps2 game has a 60 fps and/or widescreen patch
>early 3d but not too early - so it benefits from upscaling, nevermind adding custom fan made textures to a bunch of games

i used to have a ps2 and sometimes i'm tempted to buy this dude's ssd-upgraded ps2 rig, but then i remember that i like playing black at 60fps, or not bothering with extremely long save-die-reload etc processes

some games are brutal regarding the above

if i'm in an unwinnable battle in a jrpg, i don't want to wait 5 working days to be able to restart the dungeon or whatever

>>11885796 (OP)
>What was your reason to NOT mod a PS2 and save the already dying lens?
Dude, I modded mine back in fucking 2004 or so.

>>11885814
My hacked wii can run PS1 games. PS2 can't?

>16 tb
hold on, can't it only accept 2 TB?

>>11886194
The PS2 can easily run PS1 games... off the disk.

>>11886194
>My hacked wii can run PS1 games.
poorly

>>11885796 (OP)
>save the already dying lens
What am I preserving them for?

>>11885796 (OP)
>freemcshit
>16tb of shovelware
>end up playing the same 3 games when fmcb feels like booting up
meanwhile i boot directly from the internal 500gb hdd without fmbc or fhdb and boot my games using browser 2.0.
the drive is half full and already have nothing else to play.

>>11885796 (OP)
>16tb
Does that even work on PS2
I thought it had a 2tb limit

>>11886198
youre thinking of the PS3

>>11887479
Unless there was a newer update on OPL it could only do 2tb

Fat PS2s are becoming less common and more expensive due to the hard drive thing. I can't even find any in my area, just a bunch of slim PS2s with FMCB and trashed disc drives.

>>11885797
pcsx2 is awful if you've ever played on real hardware

>>11886186
Widescreen patches are horrible as they stretch the UI elements. Just fucking play it in 4:3 as it's meant to be.

>>11887487
GrimDoomer has enabled the use of ExFAT formatted hard drives with OPL which wasn’t possible before. And with this new capability, ExFAT formatted drives allows us to use capacities up to a theoretical limit of 144 PetaBytes.

>>11887589
Poor PS2
I wonder how long that takes to load the list

>>11887590
It's a big list.

>>11887590
Not that anon, but OPL has an option called "Cache game list". Once you finish adding all the games that you want, you turn that on and opl will create a file with the names of all the games. From then on, every time you boot your console, OPL will load almost instantly regardless of the size. The only downsize is that if you want to add games later, you won't see them on your list until you delete that file but it's not a hard process.

>>11887523
I've played on real hardware back in the day, still own both an OG fat and a slim model of PS2, and prefer to just emulate at this point. I see no reason not to since the emulation is so good now.

>>11887614
It's great you feel that way
I think games look way better on real hw and a CRT

>>11885796 (OP)
I'm Lazy
I still play the games i bought over a decade ago
It's a slim
The lens' not dead yet

I have only 1TB in mine.

Also I'd still have to rely on CDs if I want to use it to play PS1 games (although I'm gradually starting to lean towards using a PS3 for that).

>ethernet port stops working on pic-related
>SATA modded but it worked fine for a time
>Tested other cables and other devices and the router picks them up fine, just not getting anything from PS2 ethernet
>Bought another network adapter on eBay
>Fucking thing is DOA PS2 doesn't even detect it when plugged in
>Try sourcing ethernet port from it to my network adapter
>Same exact fucking problem

Are these damn things known to have really high failure rates? Before I try Frankensteining this piece of shit together with more parts from my other network adapter am I just missing something?

>>11887807
You get a real one or fake one?

>>11887818
It's real. The Gamestar adapters don't even have ethernet jacks on them they just have a sticker in place of where they're supposed to be.

SNESstation is fucking ass tho. FREEmcboot is good but I use it for PS2 exclusively

>>11887614
I like pcsx2 overall I just find it unplayable compared to real hardware since it has 20+ frames of input lag on every game. No other emulator I've used has the insane input lag pcsx2 has

>>11887807
your ps2 may be the problem.
check the expansion bay fuse.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ps2/comments/lbgu9u/successful_ps2_fuse_replacement_start_to_finish/

>>11888104
What if the hard drive is working okay?

>>11888104
I should also probably note I recently replaced the PS2 CPU since it wasn't getting power at all.

>>11888362
PSU I mean. Goddamn spellcheck

>>11888324
there are 2 fuses.
1 for 5v.
1 for 12v.
i bet you are using a 2.5" drive or ssd or a sdcard adapter of some sort and not a full size 3.5" hard drive. those only use the 5v rail.
just check the fuses.

>>11888660
I'll open them and check it, but I'm not an electronics expert. How do I tell if said fuses are fucked?

>>11885807
This is what I do, I just run PS1 games off disc on my PS1

>>11886186
>le 60 fps and widescreen
Fuck off, zoomie

>>11885796 (OP)
>Le dank meme

So you know it's bullshit.

>>11886330
I was going to try to make some recommendations but if you've played through stuff like Pop n Music and Rule of Rose you've then you've played way more PS2 than me.

What are your favorite ps2 games senpai? any fun suprise games?

>>11888861
easiest way is with a multimeter.
if you don't have one, a visual inspection could do. if it looks charred, it's bad.

>>11888935
Where would I get a replacement?

>>11887807
I have never heard of a Sony network adapter failing in any way. Even chink knock offs work flawlessly, after they fixed some early issues from 15 years ago (which some people parrot to this day)

>>11889014
There are fuses inside the PS2 console that can fail from improper handling of the network adapter. These are surface mount and replaceable.

>>11889017
No soldering needed then? Where can I find replacements?

>>11889086
They're soldered, but it's an easy solder job.

>>11888996
>>11889086
>No soldering needed then?
you wish.
as for replacements. dunno where you are from so i can't give you a recommendation of where to buy.
but i can tell you to look for fuses rated for 2 amps and the same or more voltage (but not that much, 16v for the 12v fuse should be fine. mostly size concerns) than the ones installed.
so 12v 2 amps and 5v 2amps.

>>11889121
Thanks anon. Getting to work on it now. I have a soldering iron so it's no big deal as long as I know where to get replacement parts, second time I've used this since installing a Picoboot for my Gamecube.

>>11889121
I just did a full dissassembly for the first time. Not seeing any evidence of blown fuses but how would I go about testing with a multimeter? What setting should it be set to and what should I be looking for

>>11889286
No resistance between the fuses. It was admittedly a bit dirty when I first opened it up but that wouldn't cause the problem, would it?

>>11886156
So basically an ide is the only way? If someone can get a working ide for PS2/ps1 games on a PS2, it'd sell. PS1 doesn't have a good solution either. What a cluster fuck. I usually just burn PS1 games and mod PS1s. PS1 replacement lasers are also available, but having an ide of some kind seems like it should've happened already. PS1 support on both ps1 and PS2 is lacking more than Xbox emulation. Why hasn't some team of hyper autists figured this out yet?

Is there any way to mod a PSOne with a dead laser? i have 2 that just wont read even original CDs and i wanna put them to use...

>>11889286
You just check for continuity. It's the little side-ways wifi symbol lol. You hold the probes onto both ends, if it beeps you have continuity. If not the fuse did its job and needs to be replaced.

>>11889430
My multimeter is a cheap piece of shit that doesn't beep but it read 0 which also indicates continuity, at-least from what I read unless I did something wrong.

I'm beginning to suspect I just got extremely unlucky with the other network adapter I bought that also has a dead ethernet port. I'll reassemble it after a cleaning and see what happens I guess.

>>11889439
Only other thing I can think of is you have to clean the connectors.

>>11889442
Yeah I'll do that too. The connectors connecting to the network adapter looked fine but the metal rails on the inside going to the connector were pretty dusty.

>>11889394
i found this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8tw70XIRx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZkGLgukjoc
but looks extremely difficult.
good luck if you wanna try it.

>>11885796 (OP)
>16TB
Why waste money on a bigger HDD when you can fit every PS2 game that's actually worth playing on a 2TB? Nobody is modding their console to waste time downloading the thousands of yearly sports games and movie/ cartoon shovelware that makes up the bulk of the PS2 library

I have a fat ps2 and have used an opl but some games dont load like the Raidou games or stuff like Van Helsing but I am using the one with a flash drive.
Any simple guides out there? Feel like most are very obtuse.

>>11887856
LRPS2 has way less input lag but sadly it's not compatible with as many games as PCSX2 yet
They added a Vulkan LLE renderer (paraLLEl-GS) that allows you to upscale some games like Ridge Racer 5 without any visual glitches (something PCSX2 can't do for now), so at least they're working on it

>>11889708
Someone took a look at Redump data and the average PS2 game is 2.348 GB
Even if you'd round it up to 3 GB, just 512 GB would still give you 171 games which I'm pretty sure would need you to start including some less than stellar games to fill the HDD
17.741 TB is every single release, including every single region, re-release and revision of every single game
So yeah, as you said, unless you suffer from some extreme form of crippling autism, hoarding 16 TB of PS2 games is just retarded

I still have 7 working PS2 consoles with laser still going, so there’s that. Plus I mostly play PS1 games and they pretty much need to be played from disc.

In reality I do use mods though, but MMCE cards are fine for most PS2 games and then I’ll just use disc for the few games where FMV’s stutter.

>>11885834
Are these reliable yet?

>>11889859
>So yeah, as you said, unless you suffer from some extreme form of crippling autism

>>11889859
shit 400gb covers more than enough good games and enough mid favorites

>>11889708
The GBA game is surprisingly good

>>11885796 (OP)
>16TB
i seem to remember the max it would even recognize as a HDD was 120GBs.
tho tbf i did it like 15-20yrs ago

i still remember how, too. you had to beat the first mission of 007 agent under fire, then right at the exact moment that the second level was still loading, you had to use a "key" made out of a cut up credit card, and use that to unhook and open the disc tray, then put the freemcboot disc in, and all before the game froze/loaded the next level.
absolutely maniacal. i remember it took me like a dozen attempts, and you had to start the whole mission over every time if it froze

>>11890045
The PS2/Gamecube game is actually kind of fun too, surprisingly.

Just my luck. the main PS2 modding thread died after I asked something.

I tried my shit audio-video cables on a flatscreen but the image is fucked up, I hope it's just the cables being old and rusty.
"Whats a good option for connecting my Slim PS2 to a modern TV that will not break the bank? This TV's only got HDMI in and some optical port."
I'm looking at picrel. How bad can it be? It's $7. It's a 50 inch tv, lol.

>>11887856
>>11889828
I performed the following test just now:
PCSX2 and Retroarch-LRPS2 open simultaneously. splitscreen. both receiving input.
Ape Escape 3 running. pressing up using the dpad in the pause menu.
Recording my screen at 120fps
when i go frame by frame, LRPS2 is 1 frame faster rarely, but 3/4th of the time, they are identical.
so it seems to me PCSX2 and LRPS2 have basically identical input latency

>>11890960
don't get those.
those take composite video. i believe you can unplug the cable from the hdmi conector and reveals a 4 pole 3.5mm jack. so at least you can use it with anything that outputs composite video if you get the correct cables.
you want something like pic related.
these take component or rgb and output 1080p.

>>11890998
also, LRPS2 had 5 more frames of audio delay, as opposed to PCSX2.
maybe my retroarch settings are just configured completely retarded, but you can check for yourself, all you need is a screenrecorder and a videoplayer that can go frame by frame

>>11885796 (OP)
my ps2 is chipped and I can't do the hdd meme apparently

>>11891043
you can. just avoid freeshitboot.

Would an SSD not offer any advantage or is it not compatible?

>>11891168
it offers the disadvantage of dying early because ps2 doesn't do trim.
you don't need extra speed because you want to limit it to dvd read speeds anyway to avoid glitches.

>>11889596
nahh, im going to make a mess. guess they will just sit as furniture forever, is really sad how this little cute machines cant be put to use because nobody is selling or making reliable brand new laser assemblys.

only hope is someone making an FPGA or Raspberry solution ala Picobot on the GCube. Its the only reason why i use my modded PS3 for PS1 games.

>>11889378
Anybody?

>>11891471
You would need to time travel and redesign the ps2

>>11891481
That's the most basic bitch excuse. I bet you shower with the lights off.

>>11891453
after i posted those videos i got my hands on the schematics and it doesn't look as difficult as i thought.
the chip you need to solder to has big legs and the other points are far apart from each other.
it is tedious though, since you need to make a lot of connections.
i would try it if i had a psone.

>>11891003
Thanks bud, that particular one is 25$ bucks so won't break the bank. Very informative picrel, too; thanks a lot.

>>11889442
You think the resistor could still be bad if it's put under load? I'm hesitant to fully reassemble this thing if I don't know whether the cleaning is gonna help or not.

>>11891634
assemble enough to test and measure the voltage going through the fuses and connector.
if all is good, it would narrow down the issue to the network adapter itself. as you initially suspected.
but i still find it too much of a coincidence to have 2 network adapters that partially work.
at that point i would start to suspect the ethernet cable or the device you are connecting it to too.

>>11891807
Yeah I'm really baffled that everything works besides the ethernet port itself. It's either just a symptom of the dirty motherboard if I'm exceptionally lucky or just a really shitty coincidence that both network adapters have faulty ethernet ports if I'm unlucky. I'm gonna try connecting it to another wifi extender and see if I have the same problem there too.

>>11891820
how exactly are you checking the network?
the ps2 doesn't initializes the network until something tries to use it.
don't know if this would be the best way to tell.
but you can try using the official ps2 network adapter start-up disc.
https://archive.org/details/PlayStation_2_Network_Adaptor_Start-Up_Disc_SCUS_97097_Sony_Computer_Entertainme
you can launch it by any means (except smb or udpbd, that you cannot use anyway).
i used it once to setup a config to use with time splitters future perfect.

Is there a homebrew that let's me boot burnt PS1 CDs on a fat PS2 without doing some swap bullshit? FreeDVDboot?

>>11891168
what >>11891175 said except because it wont write to the SSD anyway it wont die early because it doesnt need to TRIM if theres no writing happening.
Advantage is that an SSD uses less power usually, and less moving parts means it dies less soon.

>>11887616
>games look better when you can't see anything

>>11892153
every game copied is a write.
if you use opl, you write to the hdd management partition.
if you copy art to display in opl, you write.
if you use vmc, you write.
if you use popstarter, you write.
there is no avoiding it.

>>11891898
Mechapwn supposedly works for that on the 5000x fats. I've only ever used it on slim models though.

>>11890960
I've only bought a few things from them and it was hit or miss. The dreamcast component cable was really bad (green lines all over the screen) but the standalone RGB to component converter was pretty good for the price.

Piggy backing on this since it doesn't deserve its own thread

Why does my PS2 make a buzzing noise when there is no audio? Bad cables?

Also, do you guys think a clear blue controller would look good with a black PS2?

Thanks


>>11885796 (OP)
Tbh, there is a lot of shitty PS2 games that you don't need to play. I also find that having an HDD in my PS2 makes me spend more time thinking about playing different games and downloading them vs actually playing them.

>>11886160
>You just play games right from the HDD instead of the optical drive

After set up yeah, basically.

Here is a guide on setting up an HDD:

https://www.psx-place.com/threads/tutorial-the-great-ps2-aio-guide.30219/


If you want games, I can't help you there.

On an unrelated note, here's an encrypted string with a racist password.

U2FsdGVkX1/dHtetGX9qG3lA3eUnsnzh4PLZK4+oUroBshpeocYpZFJHJ/PuiNxz

>>11886330
Where can I learn more about browser 2.0?

>>11893654
right here.
https://archive.org/details/PS2_HDDOSD_100J_48BIT
i recommend you to download HDDOSD_100J_ATADP HDD IMG APPS.zip and check the readme for instructions.

>>11893662
What are the benefits of browser/HDDOSD vs OPL and FreeMcBoot?

>>11893654
>>11893662
forgot to add.
to copy games you can use basically any hdl installer.
personally, i like hdl dump helper gui. it doesn't install opl launcher or the icons, but i do that manually since when i install something i do 1 or 2 games at a time through network. so it doesn't bother me.

>>11893675
authentic look and feel and not being dependant on a memory card at all.
also freemcrap can cause problems with modchips and i happen to have one installed.

>>11893683
What if I already have an HDD with Free HD Boot and OPL?

>>11893675
also, with browser 2.0 you are still using opl as your backend to launch games, but it's all hidden.
this is still convenient because for problem games you can just launch opl and set the necessary modes for your games and when you launch them through browser 2.0 it will use them.

>>11893691
then getting rid of freehdboot will restore the standard boot up sequence but nothing much will change other than the way you launch games.
since you still use opl as explained >>11893695

>>11888914
>What are your favorite ps2 games senpai?
dunno, probably kh1 vanilla. most of the extras of final mix are tedious boss battles with millions of health bars that can kill you in 2 hits. not fun stuff.
any fun suprise games?
hardly anything on ps2 is a hidden gem anymore. but if anything, i would say radiata stories is lesser known.
i'm yet to play it properly, but i started it the other day to try it out and i found it pretty fun.
will get to it once i finish my other appointments.

>>11893727
Sub Rebellion