PS2 How to properly format USB?

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xnnonz

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Im not sure if this is the right place for this question but, I use my USB for other things than just playing PS2 opl games
I use it as to watch movies on TV and sometimes as bootable OS installation, now something gets messed up with my USB flash
after destroying creating partitions, converting between GPT and MBR than the other thing with NTSF and Fat32. What I want to ask is
there a full guide on what to do to properly format USB so games don't get stuck in black screen when you launch them? its very annoying I don't play so often ps2 games and whenever I want to I always end up wasting few hours to few days on figuring out what to do with USB to make it usable. I tried formating it default windows tool for that, I formated it with rufus to MBR, that got me Backyard wrestling to work with OPL, I am now trying to launch jak and daxter (you guys helped me with that on page 43 with PS2ESDL 0.821) and now I am doing that what I did 3 years ago but this time I have no success launching the game, it always ends up in black screen. Also
If I forgot to mention I tried to defrag the USB with Auslogics Disk Defrag app.
 
xnnonz said:
Im not sure if this is the right place for this question but, I use my USB for other things than just playing PS2 opl games
I use it as to watch movies on TV and sometimes as bootable OS installation, now something gets messed up with my USB flash
after destroying creating partitions, converting between GPT and MBR than the other thing with NTSF and Fat32. What I want to ask is
there a full guide on what to do to properly format USB so games don't get stuck in black screen when you launch them? its very annoying I don't play so often ps2 games and whenever I want to I always end up wasting few hours to few days on figuring out what to do with USB to make it usable. I tried formating it default windows tool for that, I formated it with rufus to MBR, that got me Backyard wrestling to work with OPL, I am now trying to launch jak and daxter (you guys helped me with that on page 43 with PS2ESDL 0.821) and now I am doing that what I did 3 years ago but this time I have no success launching the game, it always ends up in black screen. Also
If I forgot to mention I tried to defrag the USB with Auslogics Disk Defrag app.
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On J&D you have to enable MODE 1+3+6
 
no, on SCPH-50004 you can play JD1 with modes 1+3+6 but can't save, with PS2ESDL 0.821 you can both play and save. I am using the same flash drive and installing the game same way like always and now for first time I can't get game to launch at all, on start it just gets stuck on black screen. So I was wondering if there is full guide on how to prepare flash drive for PS2, I did everything I saw online both youtube and googling and nothing helped so far. I used this flash drive to make bootable win installation of it, maybe that changed something? I formatted it to MBR Fat32 with rufus ,and default windows formating, also tried defraging with auslogics disk defrag and nothing worked, game won't launch. I also remember some program split my flash drive into two partitions so with diskpart I destroyed them and created one primary partition.
 
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xnnonz said:
no, on SCPH-50004 you can play JD1 with modes 1+3+6 but can't save, with PS2ESDL 0.821 you can both play and save. I am using the same flash drive and installing the game same way like always and now for first time I can't get game to launch at all, on start it just gets stuck on black screen. So I was wondering if there is full guide on how to prepare flash drive for PS2, I did everything I saw online both youtube and googling and nothing helped so far. I used this flash drive to make bootable win installation of it, maybe that changed something? I formatted it to MBR Fat32 with rufus ,and default windows formating, also tried defraging with auslogics disk defrag and nothing worked, game won't launch. I also remember some program split my flash drive into two partitions so with diskpart I destroyed them and created one primary partition.
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You can save on J&D also with OPL using a normal MC. I think I even used VMCs without problem on it, maybe VMC issues were present on certain OPL versions.

I don't know what your problem can be if your setup is exactly the same (same Ps2, pendrive). You just have to format the device to Fat32 (windows utility is perfectly good under 32GB) and create a CD and a DVD folder on its root to where copy the games. Everytime a game is copied you have to check if it needs to be defragged, that's all.

So if you done everything correctly (also check the game's MD5 on redump.org to be sure the ISO didn't got corrupted someway) it could also be some pendrive or Ps2 usb hw fault.
 
Get the newest official OPL Beta and done.
  • No need to Defrag.
  • You can use FAT32 as well as ExFAT.
  • No splitting needed.
  • Your game should work...
 
  • You can use GPT with MBR blob or MBR alone. But not GPT alone because none of PS2 software support it.
  • You must use partition table MBR. Filesystem alone will be not recognized.
  • You can use FAT32 partition and it will be recognized by everything what supports "mass:/" (USB). exFAT is latest achievement and only OPL 1.2.0 beta versions support it and some wLE builds like eg. uLE ISR.
  • Defragmentation is needed only for games and only for OPL older than any 1.2.0 beta and all old homebrew like USBA, USBE, PS2ESDL and I'm not sure but maybe POPStarter too.
 
Berion said:
  • You can use GPT with MBR blob or MBR alone. But not GPT alone because none of PS2 software support it.
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AFAIK, it can be "headerless" as well!
  • You can use FAT32 partition and it will be recognized by everything what supports "mass:/" (USB). exFAT is latest achievement and only OPL 1.2.0 beta versions support it and some wLE builds like eg. uLE ISR.
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wLE ISR
  • Defragmentation is needed only for games and only for OPL older than any 1.2.0 beta and all old homebrew like USBA, USBE, PS2ESDL and I'm not sure but maybe POPStarter too.
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Not quite correct... NOT "any" OPL 1.2.0 Beta, but newer ones.
USBAdvance does NOT require the games to be defragmented!
USBExtreme is the PC Installer AFAIR, but I have seen some PS2-Discs with that name... I think it is only an offshoot of USBA anyway.
AFAIR, POPStarter does not need defragged ISOs either... @krHACKen would know it for sure.
I am not sure about PS2ESDL, but it is possible...
 
What do You mean by headerless? USB modules support only MBR, nothing else and it must exist.

wLE is not official name of fork (forks family). This is the naming stuff which wasn't standardized. In theory it is "double unofficial Launch ELF" but in app title it is still ule, even in most of forks, version on which based wasn't changed. So IMO using uLE and wLE names are both ok.

USBE was USBA ripoff. The same app but with exchanged bitmaps.
 
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