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* **USB** is slow, as the PS2 only supports USB1.1. Device support isn't great either, and if you don't use particular tools you will get errors relating to the disk being fragmented. Still, it's pretty easy to chuck games on a USB and not have to worry about buying other hardware. Because it's limited to reading the FAT32 filesystem files have a size limit, which means some games will have to be split into smaller chunks | * **USB** is slow, as the PS2 only supports USB1.1. Device support isn't great either, and if you don't use particular tools you will get errors relating to the disk being fragmented. Still, it's pretty easy to chuck games on a USB and not have to worry about buying other hardware. Because it's limited to reading the FAT32 filesystem files have a size limit, which means some games will have to be split into smaller chunks | ||
* **HDD/SSD** is the best speed-wise. You'll need to buy a [[sony_playstation_2# | * **HDD/SSD** is the best speed-wise. You'll need to buy a [[sony_playstation_2# | ||
- | * A local **Network** can also also be used, and games loaded from a Samba share. This is the method I like, because it means I can chuck all my games on a NAS and not worry about space, and it's real easy to add things. Loading times aren't as quick as the hard disk option, and it also requires the Network Adapter. Instead of using a NAS you could create a Samba share on a Windows PC, if you don't mind haveing | + | * A local **Network** can also also be used, and games loaded from a Samba share. This is the method I like, because it means I can chuck all my games on a NAS and not worry about space, and it's real easy to add things. Loading times aren' |
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+ | A handy thing OPL provies is the ability to quit out of a game back to the menu with the key combo '' | ||
- | A handy thing OPL provies is the ability to quit out of a game back to the menu with the key combo '' | ||
===== Setup ===== | ===== Setup ===== | ||
- | OPL expects | + | OPL expects |
==== Games ==== | ==== Games ==== | ||
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All games need to be in ISO format. This is usually what DVD games come as, but CD ones tent to be Bin or BIN+CUE. | All games need to be in ISO format. This is usually what DVD games come as, but CD ones tent to be Bin or BIN+CUE. | ||
- | To convert these to ISO I use [[tool: | + | To convert these to ISO I use [[arch>bchunk]]. Usage is no-fuss: |
- | < | + | < |
If there' | If there' | ||
- | < | + | < |
TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 | TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 | ||
INDEX 01 00:00:00 | INDEX 01 00:00:00 | ||
</ | </ | ||
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+ | Another option for conversion is [[aur> | ||
==== Network ==== | ==== Network ==== | ||
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The problems I had were with the password, because there' | The problems I had were with the password, because there' | ||
- | The ' | + | The ' |
===== Problems ===== | ===== Problems ===== | ||
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I've got this error when loading games over USB, Bit of a funny error to run into in flash memory land, and I'd forgotten about disk fragmentation since moving to [[Linux]], but anyway... | I've got this error when loading games over USB, Bit of a funny error to run into in flash memory land, and I'd forgotten about disk fragmentation since moving to [[Linux]], but anyway... | ||
- | The easiest way to fix this on Linny is to grab a program called [[tool: | + | The easiest way to fix this on Linny is to grab a program called [[shake]] ([[arch> |
===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
* [[github> | * [[github> | ||
- | {{tag> | + | {{tag> |
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