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PS2 HDD Questions

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  • 08-09-2013 9:26pm
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    mr.noobie
    Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭


    Was thinking about dusting off my old PS2 and throwing a HDD in it, its got a great library of games, better than any of this gen in my opinion anyway some questions

    Anybody know the most compatible loader?

    Whats the max size IDE hard drive you can use?

    Is it possible to use a SATA hard drive?

    Whats the most efficient way of transferring games to the hard drive?


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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    mr.noobie wrote: »
    Anybody know the most compatible loader?

    I find hdloader in conjunction with the free mcboot softmod works very well
    Whats the max size IDE hard drive you can use?

    I think it's 120GB, could be wrong though
    Is it possible to use a SATA hard drive?

    Only via a usb adapter, in which case you're stuck using the usb 1.0 bus speed. That causes cut scenes etc to skip because it's too slow
    Whats the most efficient way of transferring games to the hard drive?

    Hdloader has a dumping tool, though it will only dump original discs & not copied ones. You can also connect the hdd up to the pc & use a windows based too to transfer the images over


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    mr.noobie
    Registered Users Posts: 362 ✭✭mr.noobie


    EnterNow wrote: »

    I think it's 120GB, could be wrong though



    Only via a usb adapter, in which case you're stuck using the usb 1.0 bus speed. That causes cut scenes etc to skip because it's too slow

    I seen this on deal extreme, familiar with these by any chance?


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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    mr.noobie wrote: »
    I seen this on deal extreme, familiar with these by any chance?

    Ah, never knew about those. They're not official, but I presume work as they should.


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    roast
    Registered Users Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭roast


    Spotted this also and had a quick read up on it. Seems like a viable all-in-one HDD/Network adaptor/Modchip/loader jobbie.

    http://dx.com/p/hd-pro-network-adapter-for-ps2-90xxx-116907


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