Free MC Boot Released for PS2

[Mooney]

Be prepared for a total rush of complete n00bness...

 

- How do I get this onto my memory card?

 

- If I do somehow manage to get this onto my memory card without burning down my house, is there some way I could load ISOs off of an HDD without buying any other equipment? (I have a fat PS2 and a 160GB Maxtor IDE HDD, btw)

 

Don't skimp on the details, please.

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

Be prepared for a total rush of complete n00bness...

 

- How do I get this onto my memory card?

 

- If I do somehow manage to get this onto my memory card without burning down my house, is there some way I could load ISOs off of an HDD without buying any other equipment? (I have a fat PS2 and a 160GB Maxtor IDE HDD, btw)

 

Don't skimp on the details, please.

 

Alls I know is, once you get the exploit onto your memory card, you should try running HDLoader with it.

[BlackKnight]

Be prepared for a total rush of complete n00bness...

 

- How do I get this onto my memory card?

 

- If I do somehow manage to get this onto my memory card without burning down my house, is there some way I could load ISOs off of an HDD without buying any other equipment? (I have a fat PS2 and a 160GB Maxtor IDE HDD, btw)

 

Don't skimp on the details, please.

1) You need another exploit, or action replay, or access to a modded PS2 so that you can put it on a card.

 

2) You need a Network Adapter as well to connect the HDD. How cheap you find one on eBay is down to pure luck.. I paid quite a bit for mine and that was almost 2 years ago.

[BlackKnight]

Aight, so I'm looking into buying a brand-spanking new PSTwo and a HDD specifically for it. Coupled with this and HDLoader, would I ever have to use the laser?

AxL- you cannot run HDLoader on a Slim PS2. It's not a matter of compatibility being less or anything- you just cannot run it at all without some crazy aftermarket hardware (Combo).

 

You can use USBExtreme, but it's a completely different program, uses different HDDs and its compatibility is piss poor.

 

Get a Fat PS2 used if at all possible. once you have the exploit on an MC it doesn't even matter if the drive is dead- you can just use HDLoader and be up and running.

[ken_cinder]

Be prepared for a total rush of complete n00bness...

 

- How do I get this onto my memory card?

 

- If I do somehow manage to get this onto my memory card without burning down my house, is there some way I could load ISOs off of an HDD without buying any other equipment? (I have a fat PS2 and a 160GB Maxtor IDE HDD, btw)

 

Don't skimp on the details, please.

 

I can't for sure say how others do it, but I bought a PS2 Action Replay MAX and used it to get the IDE on my memory card. With that already in place, I simply ran the Free McBoot installer and popped uLaunchELF into the BOOT folder Free McBoot creates (BOOT.ELF your loader must be named).

 

I'm not sure how to do it otherwise, but theres got to be instructions on that forum linked to in the first post.

 

Yes you can use HDLoader to run games off the HD, but quite frankly I find that silly. You'll easily fill that 160GB drive with several A titles that utilize a DVD9 for instance. And dumping to the HD is pretty friggin slow. You'd be best off putting oft played titles on there, and running others from disc.

[BlackKnight]

IDE? You mean ELF? Basically anything that can boot an ELF for you on the PS2 will do the job- you can just put the file on a USB drive and plug it in and boot it from there.

 

Also barely any PS2 games use DVD9 and almost none of the ones that do are actually more than 4 or 5GB. So space is not an issue- most are sub 1GB. Dumping to the HD is faster than burning discs if you connect it up the IDE cable and use WinHiip too.

 

Finally it cuts on drive wear, but if you don't care about that the load times are insanely better and avoids the need to swap discs ever.

[gavin19]

I got all the exploit files together, including the psx original, then made the iso + burned. I then managed to get a lend of a Swap Magic disc, booted the Independence exploit installer, and that's that. I had a backup MC too, so once I had it set up I made a copy over to the other card just in case.

 

I was always under the impression that HDLoader referred to an external USB hdd, it seems not. I was looking forward to just dumping all my games onto my external Seagate, especially now my laser is fading

 

I just priced a network adapter and they still retail for £35 here! wtf. I think I'll give it a miss

Edited June 15, 2008 by gavin19

[ken_cinder]

IDE? You mean ELF?

 

No, I mean IDE. Independence Day Exploit.

I have several reasons why I wouldn't be bothered using a HD for games besides not caring about laser wear (Mine is still working perfectly, and my PS2 is like 5 years old). One being that per GB, blank DVDs are dozens of times cheaper than a HD.

I also don't play many games at the same time, I'll play an entire game over the course of weeks before switching to another. Kinda doesn't make sense to bother with a hard drive in this case, but I do have one in there with homebrew and emulators etc. Pretty funny, since that drive just died......and the DVD laser is still working flawlessly.

Same deal with my Xbox, 40GB hard drive with only those kind of things on it.

[Fatal Rose]

Great news. Can't wait for further updates.

[solidius23]

cinder what version of HDloader are u using

[ken_cinder]

cinder what version of HDloader are u using

 

I don't use it, I don't play games from the HD.

[Wizard]

I got all the exploit files together, including the psx original, then made the iso + burned. I then managed to get a lend of a Swap Magic disc, booted the Independence exploit installer, and that's that. I had a backup MC too, so once I had it set up I made a copy over to the other card just in case.

 

I was always under the impression that HDLoader referred to an external USB hdd, it seems not. I was looking forward to just dumping all my games onto my external Seagate, especially now my laser is fading

 

I just priced a network adapter and they still retail for £35 here! wtf. I think I'll give it a miss

It's very possible to do it the external HDD method, but it's results are less then steller. Phat PS2s 4 life.

[BlackKnight]

The External / USB Extreme HDD loading method isn't worth doing.

[solidius23]

I got all the exploit files together, including the psx original, then made the iso + burned. I then managed to get a lend of a Swap Magic disc, booted the Independence exploit installer, and that's that. I had a backup MC too, so once I had it set up I made a copy over to the other card just in case.

 

I was always under the impression that HDLoader referred to an external USB hdd, it seems not. I was looking forward to just dumping all my games onto my external Seagate, especially now my laser is fading

 

I just priced a network adapter and they still retail for £35 here! wtf. I think I'll give it a miss

It's very possible to do it the external HDD method, but it's results are less then steller. Phat PS2s 4 life.

something we agree on the phat ps2s rule

[ELXHN]

hi , this free mc boot sounds just great but how do i install it on the 8mb mem card i downloaded 2 vertions 1.4 and 1.5 fmcb but still dont knw how 2 install please help !!