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Title: PS2 Slim and storing games on a hard drive??
Post by: stace on December 28, 2009, 04:28:14 am

Guys,

Apols if this has been answered before, I have done a search.

I haven't switched on the PS/2 for years.  We were playing Buzz at a friends last night and it got my interest back up, I'm sick of Scene-it on the 360.

I've found you can buy wireless buzzers, is there any way to configure the Slim PS2 with a hard drive and load all of my Buzz games up on it so I don't need to mess around with the discs etc???

Thanks in Advance

edit:  I looked at all of the Mod Chips but I'm not interested in playing backups, I just want my games on the drive....not sure if that changes your answers!!  :)

Title: Re: PS2 Slim and storing games on a hard drive??
Post by: crashwg on December 28, 2009, 12:06:41 pm

There's this thing called "USB Loader" for the PS2 which is what you would need to get up and running to try and play the Buzz games from the HDD on a PS2 Slim.  I say "try" because I can find anyone who has tried it already with USB Loader to confirm it working or not and the program is, I believe, somewhere in the region of less than 75% compatible with PS2 games...

To get USB Loader up an running you are going to need to get "Free MC Boot" going first.  Basically you need to get some hacked files on a memory card.  When the PS2 boots it reads those files and then your PS2 will boot the USB Loader program among other things that are available for the PS2 like a media player if that's the sort of thing you're in to.

Getting Free MC Boot up and running can be a challenge.  Basically it comes down to you need access to an already modified system.  Either via modchip or a memory card with the Free MC Boot already on it.

If you send me a PS2 memory card and funds for return shipping I will gladly install the Free MC Boot files and even the USB Loader files.  It only takes 5 minutes and once you have one memory card with FMCB on it it's easy as copying files in a file browser to make another and another...

Of course you may end up finding out that the Buzz games are not compatible...

Title: Re: PS2 Slim and storing games on a hard drive??
Post by: Silver on January 05, 2010, 05:40:30 pm

You can - if you are keen - rip out the CD drive, and fit a 2.5" drive inside the PS2 Slim. Then you can use HD Loader, instead of the USB one, which works with basically all games.

For less fiddly soldering/hacking, get a cheap non-slim ps2 and add a HD with the ethernet adapter...