PS2 chipping

[MegaZoid.]

Swap magic 3 is great can it plays anything i throw at it.

[The Caffeine Kid]

Has anyone tried Free McBoot? You have to rip your games and then patch the iso and burn them again I think though because of how it works?

[MegaZoid.]

http://www.swapmagic3.com/

[Capybara]

So what stops the laser from zapping you in the eyeball for fun?

I know Sony take their copyright seriously, but this is going too far

[SiN]

See, SwapMagic seems neat, but also like a lot of trouble. I'm a bit lazy.

I just want to be able to ...
(a) stick a burned dvd in the drive
(b) hook an ide hdd up and play games off that
(c) best case: connect my usb hdd to the thing and play games off that

Or do my dreams of awesome technology exceed what is currently available?

Mo

[nige]

Has anyone tried Free McBoot? You have to rip your games and then patch the iso and burn them again I think though because of how it works?

Yes, it works very well. I use it to boot HDLoader from the memory card. You do have to patch any ISO images before you burn them but it's a minor inconvenience.

The biggest problem with Free McBoot is getting the bootloader onto the memory card in the first place. I used a chipped PS2 to prepare the card - I'm not sure how you'd do it without a mod chip.

Alternatively try a Memor32 with its 'special' firmware.

[Kamineko]

If you want to get stuff like LaunchELF and HDLoader on your memory card, I can help. I don't know about the game patching you mention, I've only ever had to do it once.