Even the saves for games are still done on memory cards and in all aspects of interaction with the game itself, nothing is any different except for the fact that the disc doesn't need to be inserted. Of the games that we've tried so far, the only one that the system couldn't load was Half-Life, although more are listed on the official website, Once the games are loaded onto the hard drive, playing a game is a matter of selecting a game from the list and starting it up as if it were a normal game. The time doesn't double because the reading speed starts around 600 Kb a second and as the laser moves towards the edge it can go up to 1,600 Kb a second.

For larger games like Grand Theft Auto 3 or GTA: Vice City that weigh in at 4 gigs, the ripping time extends to just shy of 23 minutes. If you chose to sit and watch, however, the ripping process takes about 14 minutes and 30 seconds for a 2 gigabyte game like The Mark of Kri (an excellent game, by the way) or Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (again, excellent). This takes some time so rather than sit around and watching the status bar crawl along, we recommend grabbing a snack at this time or taking up a new hobby. After that, the program rips the game to the hard drive. Installing games was a no-brainer affair of selecting the 'Install' button and then punching in a name for the game.

Once the menu screen has come up, the disc can be removed and a regular game can be placed inside. After that, it was just a matter of putting the HD Loader disc in the tray and starting it up. iso image onto the HDD via Winhiip.We attached a 5400 rpm 40GB Maxtor drive to the Network Adaptor and slid both inside a PS2. iso to a DVD-R but then I discovered this video on :Ĭant really make out what the hell the kid is actually doing but form what I can tell you can just put the. I think (not sure) that I should be able to rip the. Instead I brought a 'MEMOR 32 (MOD CHIP & MEMORY CARD IN ONE)' Here is the description on them via the auction: But I was told by the preson who does all my modding said that chipping a Fat PS2 isnt recomemended. I've also read in alot of places that you may require a mod chip so that all formatts of DVD's/CD's can be reed. From my understanding the PS2 has a cry at anything other than an offical PS2/PSX disc, so that crosses out the whole 'burn it to a DVD-R disk'. I currently have a comptiable harddrive, an offical Sony Network adaptor, and an.

Hay there I have a Fat PS2, and I want to get my copy of HDLoader onto it.

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