Hey man thanks for making it super simple to understand. I had a question though, does the speed of the computer you choose to use matter for the file share? I was thinking about using my old laptop as you said but it has an old 5400 RPM hard drive. can you also put that laptop in sleep mode while you play games? like close the top. I just got a ps2 slim and i think the disc drive might be giving out, so im gunna give this a shot.
I'm glad it was easy to understand! As for the speed, the PS2's disc drive speed is about 3.6 MB/s so if you want to see performance equal to the disc drive your data speed needs to be at least that (this includes HDD read write speed on your computer AND network speed over the ethernet cable). If you're linked up directly with the ethernet cord as shown in the video then network/ethernet speed should not be a problem. As long as the hard drive on your old computer isn't dying then you will easily be fast enough. You could download tools to test HDD speed but I'd say as long as the computer functions and doesn't crawl like a turtle anytime you're editing files then it will probably work. Unfortunately, if the laptop is asleep the network share will no longer work. You could, however, make it so that the computer doesn't shut off or sleep when you close the lid in windows power settings.
You can technically do this using a Mac since it is possible to create SMB file shares on Mac as well but this video only directly applies to Windows machines.
Hey man thanks for making it super simple to understand. I had a question though, does the speed of the computer you choose to use matter for the file share? I was thinking about using my old laptop as you said but it has an old 5400 RPM hard drive. can you also put that laptop in sleep mode while you play games? like close the top. I just got a ps2 slim and i think the disc drive might be giving out, so im gunna give this a shot.
I'm glad it was easy to understand! As for the speed, the PS2's disc drive speed is about 3.6 MB/s so if you want to see performance equal to the disc drive your data speed needs to be at least that (this includes HDD read write speed on your computer AND network speed over the ethernet cable). If you're linked up directly with the ethernet cord as shown in the video then network/ethernet speed should not be a problem. As long as the hard drive on your old computer isn't dying then you will easily be fast enough. You could download tools to test HDD speed but I'd say as long as the computer functions and doesn't crawl like a turtle anytime you're editing files then it will probably work.
Unfortunately, if the laptop is asleep the network share will no longer work. You could, however, make it so that the computer doesn't shut off or sleep when you close the lid in windows power settings.
Can this be done on a mac? Also, where do i download all ps2 games?
Myrient
You can technically do this using a Mac since it is possible to create SMB file shares on Mac as well but this video only directly applies to Windows machines.