How to hack your PS2. Official Write up.
 

this will only work with the old playstation 2, so if you have the new one, punch yourself in the face.

Get your playstation.
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Get yourself a hard drive, either 120 gigs or larger. Maxtor or Western Digital work the best.
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Take hard drive out of box.
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Take network adapter off the back of you PS2.
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Plug network adapter directly into the hard drive.
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Put the hard drive that is now connected to the network adapter in the expansion bay slot on the back of you playstation.
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Get out your HD Advance or HD Loader disc.
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Hook up your playstation and insert the disk. You can get the disks at www.consolesource.com in the ps2 mod chip section. They only take a week to ship.

Pretty soon, you screen will look like this.
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All I do is rent games and save them. The only drawback is that not all games are compatible. For a list of compatability go to www.ps2hd.com. Also, don't use the reset button anymore, jsut the power switch. Any questions, post them up. I'll be glad to help out. Oh, and yes i know the pics are somewhat big, I'm too lazy to resize them.

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Does it come with RBI baseball? If so, give me your paypal.

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thanks for the info...... how much do the hard drives run?

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http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Produ...mpareItemList=
or check your local ads they got good deal on hard drives after mail in rebates and ----.

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thanks for the info.....do you know if those hard drives are compatable with ps2??

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my roommate has this on his xbox. its amazing

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what do you mean by first ps2? like the first batch of ps2's or all of them except the new slim one?

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HOly shizznit!! Looks like I'm gonaa have to be trying this out. So how do you save the ---- onto the harddrive?

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what is that exactly

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thats what im wondering... ???

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does it look like you can stick a hard drive into that small ass PS2? ::)

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good ---- :D i'm gonna have to try this some time

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the first style ps2, not the little shitty one.

the hd advance or hd loader disk formats the hard drive to copy games. this isn't like a hacked xbox, no movies or music, just copies of games. still worth the money if you don't want to hack the xbox

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thanks boostedaccord i went to consolesource and bought the program and hard drive for $127ish shipped

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right on, its extremely easy, you're gonna love this ----

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can you still play games online?

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i don't play playstation games online, that's what my xbox is for, but i'm not too sure if you can play them off the hard disk. i wanna say no, but there are sites online that you can use, just like people with hacked xboxes do.

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If you can't play them off the hard disk then what is the point?

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how many games can you store on the 120gb drive before you run out of space?? I looked on the site under the combo they sell and it never mentions approximately how many games you can store on it...

also, is there a known list of non-compatible games with this stuff??

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I think he's talking about being able to play online with saved games. HOw much faster is the loading and overall is it just faster from not having to read from the disk and straight from the HD?

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a ps2 disc is a DVD. if it's a single layer dvd than its 4.7gb MAX if its a double layer dvd than its 8gb.

so either 120/4.7 or 120/8

;)

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i went on the site boostedaccord posted for the list of compatable games and most of the game sizes are no more than 4.5ish gb (example: gta:san andreas is 4.7gb and everyone knows thats a pretty big game)

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so... how does this work.. can you get a pic of the back of the network adapter?

does the network adapter have an IDE interface AND a 4pin power molex?

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if you talkin to me...sorry homie but im in class(so i cant get pics) but the pics that boostdaccord posted are pretty helpfull (to me) *my order is waiting for shipment... i cant wait to get it it says 3-5 days so ill have to wait :-[ but it looks like it will for sure be worth the $$$

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what happens if you use the reset button? I didnt fully read everything.

why dont u just make a hard drive copy of those cd's and put it up on the net! >:D

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you can use the reset button, but doing so doesn't always load the hard drive. you just rent games, save them, and play them directly from the hard drive. loading time is drastically reduced, and most games only take up 4 gigs or less. the compatibilty list is found at www.ps2hd.com, the hard drive plugs directly into the network adapter. if that's the interface that you're talking about.

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I'd say based on the shitload of games I've downloaded, the average PS2 game is a tad bigger than 2gigs. That's the dvd-based ones, the blue cd-based discs are 300-650megs each. There's only 4 or so dual layered discs that work with HDAdvance, but you need to do a shitload of stuff to get it to work. No offence, but it's most likely over the top of most of the heads here. And I know the question will come up, yes, GT4 works, but only if you put it on your computer with the proper software, apply a complicated patch (extract and rebuild the dvd image), then transfer it from the computer to the ps2 hdd using specail software. www.ps2-scene.org gives loads of info in their forums about it all.

The problem with having 40+ games on the HDD is that when you turn on the ps2, it takes a minute or two to read and list all the games. No you can't use the internet part of games, yes, certain games won't work.

The network adapter was MADE to interface with a normal harddrive, that's how you play Final Fantasy 11 on it, it comes with a Sony PS2 drive. There is a solder-on connector for the new slim ps2 to put a full-speed IDE harddrive connection on it, but atm, you can only use USBAdvance. Thats the program that lets you connect a harddrive to a ps2 with a usb port/encosure.

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well i think my roommate has a 160 GB hard drive on his xbox and he has: like 30+ xbox games, 25+ movies, all the family guy episodes, all the NES games ever made, all the Super nintendo games ever made, a good chunk of all the N64 games, the media player and a media center and he still isnt close to filling up his hard drive... It holds alot

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awesome info, i never knew this would work on the ps2, i've only seen it on the xbox! gives me a project for the weekend.- thanks!

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My boy has a PS2 with a DMS modchip, it works great, just make copies of the games after you get blockbuster game pass. http://www.dms3.com/