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The Future of the PlayStation 2 Internal Hard Drive We have recently started 2023, and the so-called PlayStation 2 console scene is surprisingly still doing well, yes, even better than ever before and better than on not one newer platform! And one of the leading projects that anyone interested...

Hello there! Currently I have an APA-parted disk and have HDDOSD (Browser 2.0) and OPL installed. Now I'm looking for woalthroughs for installing linux on a PS2 and have some questions: According to kernelloader's readme, The HDD should be formatted with mbr partition table, but it is also said...

Similar to HDD Decryption Helpers for PS3 and PS4, I want to make one also for PS2. However, due to lack of native tools, it is quite more challenging and for now I'm stuck. So first, what we can use currently? We have HDL Dump which can serve disk toc and with dmseutp, creating mappers but...

Tonyhax International is the first universal softmod that works on all regions of Playstation 1 consoles, and all regions of PS2 consoles up to the SCPH-39000. Building off of the original Tonyhax, Tonyhax International includes even more features and capabilities then it's predecessor. The...

Since we have BDM support in OPL, and since native Aligned Partition Allocation mechanism is broken by design (i.e needs to round every partition to 128MiB multiplication and max partition size is 128GiB, it wasting a lot of user space), I have idea how to making hybrid drive. So, to keeps...

Proof of concept. A GUI for none existent awesome app. ;)

Does anyone have it? WebArchive unfortunately not. http://code.google.com/p/ps2fs-tng https://www.openhub.net/p/ps2fs-tng

Virtual HDD can be emulated in PCSX2 by MegaDev9 or CLR-DEV9 plugins (I tested only MegaDev9 v1.01). Well, that's nothing new. But if someone is curious I have few advices: It is not worth to create virtual HDD in plugin menu. It is horribly slow. It creates just dummy file filled by only...

If Your HDD partition index or OPL partition goes broken, PS2 will not read it it's contents, nor any PC tool. Yet still there is a way to safe game saves. And this cover up this mini tutorial. Open PS2 HDD in hex editor (any, I prefer HxD). Take to Your hands game box or game disc and read the...

I was just curious if uLE would read FAT32 just like for "mass:/" but unfortunately no. The reasons behind it? Well, since FAT32 is much worst than PFS and we have PFS Shell across Windows and Linux, no reason. Just for fun and test @pink1 APA Partition Header Checksumer. ^^" At least I proved...

A small app from @Berion & I to calculate the checksum for a APA partition header. If user is not happy with partition name, type etc. he can just change it and thanks to this app, correcting checksum to not break partition chain list. A special thanks to uyjulian for PFS Shell fork and...

How is this possible in the first place? I was sure that in specification, size can be minimum 128MiB but when I choose formatting HDD in uLE, which is limited by HPA to 768MiB (I was curious what will happen), it creates "__mbr" and "__net" in standard 128MiB size, but the rest are equal 16MiB...

I have changed partition ID type from 0001h (PFS) to 8300h (Linux) in hex editor and now partition in uLE disappear from list in HDD Manager (it obviously disappear from file manager, but why disappear from HDD Manager menu?). There is some kind of checksum (or something like that) for each APA...

Would someone kindly share with me HDD images from below devices? any DESR models any DTL-H (debug kit, not devkit ;)) models any IMAGE.DAT from any game which already installed there something (file is used by PS2 virtualizer on PS3) I want to know how partition mappings looks like on DESR...

Here it is a huge tutorial covering up various of topic related to HDD and partitions on PS2. It is written in Polish. Tutorial covering up: Basics of logic structure of HDD (APA, APAEXT and APADVR) Formatting HDD Why Your HDD could be not recognized? Free HDBoot Installation (including...

What's is the difference between partitions with various prefixes? Let's say that "__" is a system kind partition, and "+" is user kind partition. But what about "PP."? And from where those crazy names come from? :) I see that unofficial LaunchELF v4.43a (2019-01-11) allow creating only "+"...