mechapwn rules, i can run my ps1 backups on ps2 now and not have to worry about the ps1’s old dying laser or popstarter bs on the ps2
my hands actually work now so i started playing castlevania chronicles. extremely fun
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the state of the art in PlayStation®2 game loading appears to have progressed to: attaching an SD card directly to Memory Card slot 2
https://www.trisaster.de/page/index.php?topic=575
makes sense, given the PS2’s ports use SPI, a protocol all SD cards support
my understanding is that the memory card and controller ports each share a “chip select” pin, which potentially means all the SD card commands also get sent to your controller, but I’m guessing that maybe controllers do actually just ignore any SPI packets which don’t start with a controller command header
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How does the speed of this compare to loading off a disc? That’s always been the big thing I’ve wondered about memory card based loading approaches.
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They allege (on the linked page) it could be as fast as 24 Mb/s, which while twice as fast as USB 1.1 (12 Mb/s), is still much slower than the theoretical maximum the PS2’s ATA-66 (66 MB/s) bus can handle (though that bus speed is likely more than even the best transfer speed of any DVD drive in a PS2 - solid state storage attached over ATA will likely remain the fastest choice, if it’s available to you)
In their early tests they have clocked 1.7 MB/s, which is faster, though only slightly, than USB’s theoretical rate (which translates to 1.5 MB/s)
Oh yeah it’s clearly better than USB but I’m curious about it compared to the optical disc’s read speed.
part of the issue is people who are going out of their way to avoid using IDE seem to be satisfied with wobbly loading performance, so don’t tend to do proper comparative testing for that, lmao
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I want this! It says I need FMCB 1.966 multi-install. Do you know how I can figure out what version of FMCB I have installed?
Edit: nvm, it doesn’t display the version number, must be ancient.
Oh, and here I was thinking this hadn’t been posted yet. Oh well, here’s a video covering it anyway
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I remember being so dejected when I found out I couldn’t just save my games on a USB drive with my PS2 slim
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Oh hey y’all.
I love modded Game Boy systems, and I seem to have found out something somewhat subjective that might be useful for folk to know
Diagonals are kinda shit on modded Game Boy Color systems.
Here’s what the buttons of a modded Game Boy DMG look like
Here’s what the buttons of a modded Game Boy Color look like
In addition to being larger, internally the d-pad for the DMG is a full circle.
The d-pad for GBC has a little indent on one side, and for modded systems opposite of that indent there also has to be a part of the circle cut off to accommodate the larger size of the modded screen.
There is probably some variance from unit to unit but,
My modded DMG has smooth diagonal movement. Works great for everything including shooters like Aerostar in which reliable and frequent diagonal movement is required.
My modded GBC almost feels like it has a four way gate. It’s difficult to make diagonal movements and it doesn’t reliably register them. It works great for four way movement games like RPGs and actually a lot of the Megaman like action platformers, it even works ‘okay’ for games that require some diagonal movement such as Operation C, but Aerostar and presumably most shooters become totally unplayable.
I haven’t seen/heard this mentioned anywhere, probably because shooters aren’t very popular.
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You only think you’ve modded a Game Boy
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I got sufficiently irritated at running the program to install PS2 games over the network in CrossOver that I put it in a Docker container on my NAS instead so my laptop doesn’t need to do any of the work and it’s honestly pretty great
I get this weird little Windows 2000 desktop instead and I can install stuff directly from the NAS’ drives (where I tend to store my backups anyway)
this is an excruciatingly niche solution but hey it works for me
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we should have a thread for just these, I absolutely love them and I suspect everyone here has at least one.
maybe i should make the thread
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So, looking into the newish method of running PS2 ISOs from an SD card inside a memory card, seems there might be enough games that aren’t compatible this way to discourage me. Thinking I might go with the old fat model + HD adapter + Free Mcboot setup, maybe hit up a seller like this if I’m too lazy to do it myself. Is this a good way to go these days?
Also from what I understand, if I wanna play PS1 games as accurately as possible on a PS2, it’ll have to be from (burned most likely) discs, the HD/McBoot methods require some kind of emulation middleman like Popstarter/OPL?
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running games from internal storage is pretty reliable on the PS2, yeah, I’ve got an IDE to SD card adapter in mine and it works great
PS1 games are a pain, though, yeah, there’s no way to put the PS2 in true PS1 mode while still reading from the internal drive, so your only option for that is emulation. the emulation (which, to be clear, is based on a hack of a Sony emulator, and said hack is entirely unmaintained since ~2017) is okay if your game is compatible, but it’s much less common than with PS2 games
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this feels like a silly question but I just got Hekate/Atmosphere running on the Switch and used the telemetry-blocking DNS, but now the games I want to dump for emulation are on a different SD card/non-emu-eMMC, and DNS blocks the eShop, so how am I actually intended to download the games I own?
https://twitter.com/pixelfxco/status/1682397682428440577
PS1/PS2/N64/DC mod for HDMI out, same board for each + different flex cables to solder on
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I’m trying to fix a GBA SP’s unresponsive shoulder button. Rubbing alcohol in it fixes the problem for a couple days but then it doesn’t work again.
Is there a better solution, like some kind of conductive lubricant I could apply to the micro switch that lasts longer?
try blasting it with some quick dry electronics cleaner, that stuff works way better than mere rubbing alcohol