The ULTIMATE Guide To Play PS2 Games From A HDD
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Wait a second. A full, up to date guide that’s also applicable to 2TB HDDs?! Holy moly, Blaine, you actually did it - I think you’ve just created the only complete (and current) PS2 HDD tutorial on all of TH-cam! Nice work, man! 👍🏻
obsolete again with GrimDoomer's version.
@@rationalthought That version is dead, though.
I remember when you did a video like this some time ago and I was very scathing! Apologies if I was unkind in my comment. You've become someone I really trust with this stuff since then. Great work.
Excellent guide, thanks! Appreciate that you go over every step in detail and don't gloss over any detail under the assumption the audience knows what they're doing. Was able to get my PS2 running games in about 40 minutes of watching some sections again to make sure I was doing it right.
Every time you come up with something new, wonderful and useful. Thank you very much for your great great effort. . all the respect
I've watched lots of videos about this, and yours is the clearest and easiest to understand. Thanks.
Great video! One thing that would make the last part with artwork much easer:
Leave your HDD plugged in and have OPL Manger read the games off of it and get artwork that way. It’s the rightmost option of the 3 options at the top of the app screen. It makes an ART folder inside the OPL Manager app folder. You can then copy that to the PS2 with a thumb drive. Removes the step of cutting ISOs and moving them around on your PC.
There is also an app that will move the ART files files directly to the HDD, but I couldn’t get it to work.
This should be pinned
So you never make the OPL folder on the desktop? Just access the directory structure on the PS2-formatted drive in the SATA-USB dock?
Yeah. Copying games to the desktop is an extra step you don’t need to do.
What if I didn't rename them? am I SOL?
Man you are the best! After using my macho nachos instructions my HDD wasn’t showing the games list. I found this video and got everything working now! You have great tutorials man!
To be honest, I didn't think I'd learn much from this video. I was wrong! Adding artwork was something I hadn't even considered until now. Great job👍
I'm glad I found your video. I had everything to set up my ps2 project, but when I found out that winhip was no longer supported I was in a stump. Once I saw this video it brought my confidence up to proceed with it. Only downside was that there wasn't any extra steps on putting ps2 games that were on CDs to go with OPL manager. Looking forward to your next video.
Been wanting to do this for a while and seems like a great use of an SSD I've had laying around. Can't wait to take this on, thanks for the easy to follow tutorial, looking forward to breathing some new life into my 24 year old PS2!
Perfection! Followed it step by step and it works wonderfully. I also chose the most chunky of my old SATA drives to fit in the expansion bay.
Thank you for your video! I had to use a different elf loader to format my 2tb drive but following the rest your video got me setup and running!
I put an ssd inside my ps2, everything works perfectly thanks to your tutorial. Great channel.
Blaine saved me so much time thanks
Thank you so much for this extensive tutorial. Time to give my old PS2 a memory makeover!
amazing tutorial, everything still works, thank you Blaine so much. amazing stuff
Thank you! So glad it was helpful. Enjoy!
Thank you so much for this guide! I have a very old model PS2 with a dying disk laser and I've wanted to put a hard drive in there for a while. This was very helpful.
Superb video! thanks --- would be nice to have another short vid on how to setup internal saves in the hdd
Great video. Only noticed two things that could be improved. First bin/cue files need to be converted to .iso to get artwork to be found. Second, while the audio is correct about the size of the drive, your on screen text regarding greater than/less than is backwards
Brilliant, the best guide out there!
After watching nearly a dozen videos, this one got me up and running with my 2TB drive. Just need to figure out the CD-ROM games. And I have tonyhax on my PS1 but will check out your PS1 USB video next. Thanks so much for your efforts.
That's awesome! I love reading success stories. We're all in the mod scene together and I'm glad you are enjoying your PS2 in a whole new way now. :)
perfect timing. thank you!
Great tutorial mate, thanks!
Great guide! I got mine working in no time. I use the Sony original HDD adapter and SD to IDE Adapter (a short IDE extension cable was necessary)
Very helpful, thank you!
As helpful as ever Blaine!
Just finished it up, can't ask for a easier walkthrough.
Thanks a lot! Great video!
Thank you for this! ❤
This is one of the most professional, educacional videos i have ever had the privilege to watch. Congratulations and thank you, cheers from Brazil.
Thank you! FINALLY! :)
dude, you are a legend !
Thanks for the Help !!
You make hands-down the best tutorials on console mods. I had been struggling for multiple days to get my PC to recognize the PS2-formatted SSD I installed until I found this video. Ten minutes later, I'm in business. Thank you for everything you do!
My pc cant detect my hard drive its already formated
Did this last weekend using this guide and though there was a bit of a hiccup at the end that nearly made the whole process all for not, thankfully everything ended up working out, so thanks a lot!
Quick question: In the case that I want to add more roms to the hard drive, do I just have to use HDL and then OPL for the art like in the initial guide or do I have to do a bit more?
9:40 to fix that, open properties for HDL Batch Installer and in the compatibility tab, tick disable display scaling on high DPI settings and also run this program as an administrator if you want too
Hey Blaine great tutorial. I hope you're working on the update for playing PS1 games on the PS2 cuz people are struggling to get it to work.
Hey Blaine I love your videos. Can you give us a tutorial for multi disc games? Cause I love your way of explanation :)
Thanks for your compliment! I'll definitely look into it.
I had trouble formatting the HDD at first. The solution was to format it via the USB FMCB elf file, AND THEN go to MISC to format the HDD to add the +OPL partition. Then go back to the USB elf file thing menu.
Thank you very much for the great introduction Blaine, appreciated
It was really helpful, can't wait to modify my own ps2
Blaine, can you do a video of using Grimdoomer's new OPL update that allows you to use hard drives larger than 2TB? You can use exfat formatted hard drives allowing you to drag and drop games right onto the drive. I'd like to see a video of how to set it up for PS2 and PS1 games with artwork.
Look up Macho Nacho Productions
I set my PS2 up with a 500 gig. No more frustration from failed conversations.
I watched one of your other videos where you used Winhiiip and that's what I used. I actually like this method more than using a micro SD card because for that, you need to split these ISO images if they're 4GB or larger. With a HDD you don't need to do that. That and whether it's a micro SD or USB flash drive, they need to be formated to FAT32 and with FAT32 files can't exceed 4GBs
WinHiip is outdated so it makes sense why he created a new video.
Great Vid!
To people going through this process, be aware that HDL Batch Installer uses its own internal name database to name the game ISOs it uploads to your hard drive.
You can work around this by unchecking the "use database" option, or go into the settings and set the database to "external." It'll download it's internal database to the same folder as the application and you can edit it in a text editor, to name your games whatever you want to show in the OPL game list.
So HDL Batch Installer replaces Winhip. I believe it can also install PS1 VCD's in the __POPS partition on the hard drive. Definitely waiting for a video on that.
A question for anyone: we use the HDL Batch Installer to copy .iso files to the ps2-formated hard drive. Then, the next step ~10:49 mark, we use OPL Manager to figure out what artwork to download - and one of the things this program apparently does is rename the .iso files to a name that lines up to the artwork. But how does the art-to-renamed-file work if the files have already been copied to the hard drive? It seems like OPL manager should be run first on the .iso files, rename them if necessary, then use HDL Batch Installer to copy the correctly named files to the hard drive.
I got a question Blaine, in your video you install the games in the hdd before renaming the files with OPL manager. Isn't it important to have valid filenames for OPL?
Thanks so much for this video, Blaine! Would this all be possible with a Chromebook?
is only windows software
Great video. Is there a way to play ps 1 games thru the hdd as well?
I'm sure someone else mentioned it but at 6:23 you have the wrong symbols.
< is less than
> is more than
but you have them in the wrong places.
Should be
< 750GB (Less than 750GB)
= 1TB (Equal 1TB)
> 1TB (Greater than 1TB)
It Was excelent guide really, i just had a question. how to delete the game from the hardrive?
Hey man, can you do a guide as to what the 4.9.0 update on ps3 is about?
can you do an updated video with the fmcb that you have in the amazon carts? I really like what it brings but need help understanding it as well.
How do you install Bin/CUE format this is my issue right now. I can't figure this out because there all seperate files. Do you just install the whole folder or just load all the files at once?
Got a question. On one of your older videos you had a hard drive compatibility chart. WIll any HD work now ? thanks
I give up on the idea of a self-contained PS2 gaming console. OPL crashes everytime when using FreeMcBoot HD. Settled with all the games loaded on Internal HD and boot off of memory card . Thanks for this.
Blaine based on this video since I just finished setting up my PS2 how do I go back to adding more PS2 games with their own cover arts? I don't need to start over do I! Any advice on this would help!
I'm using this method since development on the fat32 method stopped a year ago. I doing the file rename in OPL step first so that my game backups had the correct name as soon as possible. Ideally the new names work with HDL Batch Installer, but I'm not far enough along to test that, yet.
Update. I discovered that if I attached the PS2 formatted drive first, then transfer the games to it, I can put OPL Manager in HDD mode. This makes it so I don't need to rename game files, and can still download the artwork for all of the games on the drive.
I definitely like that better than having to rename the disk image files!
I also tested transferring game files with the drive connected with a USB to SATA adapter, and with a SATA cable. Surprisingly, the game transfers went the same speed! I was copying them from my NAS over the network, so that might have been part of the reason.
Anyway, my games and ART are on hard drive, and the game menu looks great now!
Just finished doing this. Thank you. Only thing I can’t figure out is the opl for some games doesn’t allow for artwork change for some games because it says characters r too long
Heyy!! Ive seen some positive reception on this guide and im hopefull for it working out, but do I need to have that specific usb drive? or will a 500mb one that i reformatted to fat32 work??
Can you add more games to the hdd without taking the hdd out and hooking it up to a computer?
Very informative and helpful guide... but I have a question. Okay so you are setup and running, but what if you want to add games at a later date? Can you just copy the iso and artwork from an USB stick? Or do you have to remove the HDD from the PS2 and do it on the computer?
Because most iso will not be in correct naming format, I'd suggest taking the drive out of the ps2 and hooking up to the computer to transfer using the same programs.
I followed the instructions verbatim but for some reason OPL will only open when I have the mcboot memory card in the ps2. Using the hdboot without the mcboot memory card inserted won't work for me for some reason.
Do you have to copy the renamed ISO files to your HDD in order for the art files to match them or can you just use the original files?
thankyou dearly
What's the name of your OPL theme, I love it! And I can't find it anywhere
How do you delete games from the HDD? I just can't seem to find a way to do it?
Great tutorial! When I attempt to save my OPL settings it's telling me they are being saved to mc0. Isn't that the first memory card slot? How do I get it to save to HDD?
Thanks for your video. Mine hangs for 30 minutes plus when LaunchELF is trying to format the hard drive…I’ve tried it twice now. Any help would be great. I have all the same hardware and software as your video.
I have a question...soo I bought a ps2 that already has all of this stuff for it and it's set up and have games installed in the hard drive. My question is what do I need to install more games to the hard drive? I already have the clone dock, so do I need the installer or no?
For future refrence can we skip the artwork procedure if we dont care much for it ? I feel as if i dont need it.
And can you add roms 5+GB with HDL batch installer ?
Aside from ISO, about the Bin and Cue File if you transfer both files in PS2 HDD.
Will this process work the same for PS1 games?
Can you make a video on how to play normal or pirated games online on the PS3 CFW without any bans?
I would like to jailbreak my PS3, play pirated games, and sync trophies to my account, but I don't know if that is even safe to do.
Can I load PS1 games on to the hard drive as well?
Is there a limit on the size of the hard drive? Does it have to be the 1TB?
I accidentally formatted the mcboot memory card. Is there a way to make it yourself? Or should I buy a new one
This doesn't work for me. When I go to load the HDD after installing the games I have a different menu then you do in the video and open PS2 loader just goes to a black screen.
Hi, I followed this guide exactly but my ps2 rarely boots into the hdd. After I turn it on, the sony computer entertainment logo appears and then it goes to black. Freemcboot launches occasionally but it’s rare. Any suggestions?
at 6:44 when you create the partition you type +OPL and the partition is named ++OPL when I create the partition is called just +OPL why ? thanks so much for your amazing work
Same here. Anyone know why?
Is this better then the usb way plug n play, does it have less stutter n slow downs
there's a new PEX cfw on ps3, you should review it and make a vid on it. it comes from evilnat 🙂
i have a catolog of games on my current hard drive, but i want to upgrade my hard drive to one with more storage. on my current hard drive, i have a lot of games, but i dont have the roms on my pc anymore. is there a way to copy the roms from one hard drive into a new one?
I appreciate the guide, but it seems that if you've just selected "local ps2 hdd" in the beginning of OPL manager startup, you could just download all the artwork directly to the hdd, without having to mess around with ISOs and folders. That's what i did before i watched this to double check everything. Or am i missing something? Edit: Oh, i see, someone has already mentioned this.
Hi Blaine - been using FMCB, WinHIIP, and OPL manager as per your prior video. Tried this method, system seems to boot slower with FHDB then FMCB is this to be expected ? I must have missed a step, how do I get or install OPL to FHDB ?
When you install FHDB and boot with it OPL is in the menu as Open PS2 Loader
Is it possible to still get your game I want to the link you had in this video to download it and it says it's no longer valid
Can the HDD save games so you no longer need a memory card? also can you transfer save data from memory cards to HDD including PS1 saves?
What are you using to connect your ps2 to the TV, it looks fussy on my tv?
The Samsung 960 and 970 SSD work as well just tested on a Japanese system
Do 7000X Slims not support FHDB? I haven't had much success installing it. I even tried to manually install the HDD drivers.
Hi, do I need to divide games larger than 4gb into smaller ones, or I can just drop them into HDD and play? I'm currently using pendrive to play games, and USBUtil isn't working for me at all so I'm forced to play games that are smaller than 4gb.
Hey Blaine can you do a tutorial for box art with OPL using a slim PS2 with Ethernet to a Pi?
It's an intriguing idea. I don't currently have a Pi but am overdue to get one again. I used the last two to build Picoboot GameCube systems. :)
I have just got my hands on MC with 1.953 version of FMCB on it. Does it matter it's not the exact same version recommended here?
Can you do a video on jailbreak ps4 10.01 (Debug Tools)
Do you need windows or can you use Mac?
Hi Blaine! I've watched your videos about PS2 softmod and I don't understand why you use an HDD despite of an SSD.
While I'm watching other videos on this argument I see other TH-camrs use an SSD and they explain that SSD is a better solution because an SSD make less noise, less temperature raising and better performance.
I would like to understand your choice. Thank you if you respond under this comment.
Except this details, I find this video more complete than anyone else. Thank you so much for your work!
Does this method work with every phat PS2? I know some McBoot methods dont work with mine, 35002
Are the performances the same than playing from original disc?
please bro also make video on ps2 ultra slim thank you love u