All Auction Buy It Now. View: Gallery View. Region Code. Storage Capacity. Buying Format. Free shipping. PS2 Mod Brings a New Level of Enjoyment to a Classic Gaming System A search through eBay reveals a multitude of listings where gaming systems have been enhanced by mods to further the user gaming experience. What are the benefits of a modded PS2? Game library : Increase your game library with many more games available to your system.
Patched games : Be able to play older bugged games with bug fixes and also be able to play non-regional translated games. Drag or copy of the folder over to your USB drive. It should look something like this: —. We will then be inside the installer for Free Mc Boot. This time, pressing X, choose Install. Choose what memory card slot you want to install Free Mc Boot to and press X once again. You will be prompted for what type of installation you want, Normal, Cross-regional or Cross-model.
Unless you intended to use this Free Mc Boot installation on another console, choose Normal. Free Mc Boot will begin to install to your memory card. Once completed press X to select OK and head down to exit. Tap the power button to reset the console and Free Mc Boot should now automatically launch from the memory card. We no longer need the disc anymore! If you want your PS2 to launch stock simply take out the Memory Card. To do this we need to download and extract the files just like we did with the FMCB installer.
You can download OPL from here. Inside head down to the. This will take a few seconds to copy across from your USB card to your memory card. Press X once again and in the next page, we want to set a name and also set the path of where we put our OPL file. Head down to exit and press X. Press O to go back, scroll down and you will now notice we have successfully installed OPL to our memory card. Now we have OPL installed we can get some games running, but first we are going to need an ISO file of the game we want to load.
For the sake of this tutorial, I will be making a backup of the second-best Silent Hill game, Silent Hill 2. Click the icon in the bottom left corner to begin copying the game. The amount of time this will take varies on the speed of your drive. For Silent Hill 2, this took my machine about 8 minutes.
Try not to make the name too long or use any special characters as OPL may not like this! We need to quickly change a couple of settings. If they are not there then create them manually. Press OK and then head down to Save changes which will save your config file. From here OPL should see your game. Open Apache. Once your ISO is open in Apache1. ELF file that we renamed above in bytes. The goal here will be to disable the PS2 slim and prepare it for modding by taping down the two switches that tell the unit that the disc drawer is open.
You can do so with a sharp knife or small flat headed screwdriver. The top now just pulls off. You do have do so some wiggling to get it free. Luckily this is as far as we have to go with the disassembly of the PS2. Sony got wise after how easy it was to do the disc swap on the original PlayStation, so instead of one door switch we now have two to deal with. One is in the front of the unit directly behind the power button. Instead of tape I heard one guy say that he used a substance similar to silly putty to hold his buttons down.
That would be a viable route as well, but scotch tape worked fine for me. Be careful of the ribbon cable that goes between this board and the motherboard.
The rear button is a little tricker to get to. This switch is tan. Luckily there are no delicate connectors near this unit, but still be careful. Hook your PS2 slim up to your TV and connect power to it. Insert your 8MB memory card. Know that during this process your memory card will be wiped, so you may want to make a backup of it on to another memory card before you begin this process.
I have a pair of Logitech wireless controllers, which work great, but during this process they were a pain. I have to say, this frustrated me to no end. Essentially these are the steps. When this screen appears, the legal PS2 game disc will stop spinning. When you do that, the PS1 disc will spin for a second and then stop spinning.
Your screen will change to this:. Press X on your controller and the system should launch the main screen for uLaunch. I formatted a Staples branded flash drive as explained above and put all of the required files on it and the system refused to read it.
The light on the drive would just blink and the screen was black. I tried again with a PNY drive and it worked fine. After this screen comes up, press Circle on the controller to launch the file browser. ELF file and press Circle on it to launch it. Installation will begin and should take minutes to complete. Be patient. Press X to choose Ok. At this point you can power off your PS2 and remove the disc. Power it back on.
The method above is one of the oldest methods to soft mod. The down side is that you have to be perfect with your timing when swapping discs after the PlayStation 2 logo disappears. This video shows someone pulling the trick off. If you already have Agent Under Fire, you may want to go this route. At this point you can re-assemble your PS2. Keep in mind that the software that makes this work is installed on your memory card.
You should label it as such. When you remove the card from the machine, it will act like a normal PS2 slim, as nothing on the console itself has been modified. The console will still play retail games just fine, and you can use either the open space left on the Free McBoot memory card or another memory card inserted in to the second memory card slot to save games. Thank you Jason, this was the clearest guide I found on how to mod the PS2. Instead of booting to cogswap I booted to uLE and then I followed your guide successfully.
Thank you very much! What should I do? Great work! Does this work on model SCPH? I think that it was modified right away after it was bought. Hope you can help me, thanks! Your guide was a great help. I got it to work on my 2nd or 3rd try with that game.
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