PS2 OPL won't recognise my USB memory stick

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Oenone575

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Apologies if this is a silly question or covered by an FAQ, but I've tried everything I can think of and Googled everything, and I can't figure this out so I need to ask for help.

I have installed McBoot on to a memory card, and this is working fine. I have an 8GB USB stick that has been formatted in FAT32 format using guiformat.exe. On the USB stick I have copied the files for OPL as obtained from the "Mega" link from the Open-PS2-Loader GitHub page, and a folder named DVD into which I have placed an ISO image.

When I boot the PS2 I use LaunchELF to launch OPL, which initially opens with its main menu. When I try to access the "Games List", nothing happens. If I open the Setting menu, there is no mention of USB whatsoever, I have only options for "BDM Start Mode", "HDD Device Start Mode", "ETH Device Start Mode" and "Applications Start Mode".

If I activate (e.g.) HDD and ETH, I can then get to the games list, but it's completely empty and I still have no option to access the USB -- it looks like there is an icon for it, but it's grey and inaccessible.

What silly mistake am I making? :-) I'm puzzled as everything else seems to be working perfectly with the USB drive, it's just OPL that is not recognising it.

Thanks in advance.
 
Aha! The lightbulb moment finally arrived. BDM *is* the USB device, switching that on causes the files to appear and suddenly everything is working perfectly.

I have to say I did not find that to be intuitive, and all the tutorial videos I saw all showed "USB" as they are all running older versions of the software.

Anyway, that's the answer, just in case anyone else finds this useful.
 
Thanks for the tip -- that sounds much better than FAT32. However I just tried reformatting my USB stick as ExFAT, and the PS2 completely failed to recognise it. Nothing showed up in OPL, and when I opened the file browser in LaunchELF, it showed the MASS device as empty. Any ideas?
 
I was going to open a thread about that too, but then another issue happened to me: though I'm sure my flash drive worked perfectly before formatting it. Hell, I was formatting it to defrag it, and since it had high enough space it defaulted to formatting to exFAT, which I thought would be fine, but it just didn't get recognized by the console.
 
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