- TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 HOW TO
- TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 INSTALL
- TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 MOD
- TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 PASSWORD
- TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 ISO
Step 8: Now your SMB share is ready for connection from PS2. DISCLAIMER: I don’t support piracy, so if you do this I recommend you do this with games you possess.
TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 ISO
The files accepted by OPNPS2LDR are ISO files. You need to rip your CDs and DVDs into ISO format. Step 7: Copy the games to the DVD folder.
TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 PASSWORD
# enter the password # type dir and you should see the DVD folder listed
TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 INSTALL
All you need to do is install the samba server and configure it so that it supports the PS2’s expected format. This laptop has a 100Mbit ethernet jack which is enough for the PS2 which also has a maximum 100Mbit capability. I used a 10 year old laptop ( re-use everything) and have Linux Mint 18 installed on it.
Here is how I setup the samba server on Linux to provide the SMB share so that the PS2 could find it. Setting Up the SMB Share on Linux Securely
Select any game, wait a few minutes for it to load over the network and you should be ready to play it. You could use an old router for managing the subnet and an old computer for hosting the various games you may have on the share.įinally, press X and go back to the games list and if you have setup your network share correctly as described below you will see your games listed as in Figure 8. This also lets you isolate the PS2 and SMB share completely from the network by placing them in their own subnet, if you so desire for security reasons. In my case, I set a static IP for the PS2 and also for my SMB share so that it would be easy to find. You may need to hit the Reconnect option. We setup the SMB share with a username and password so enter those values in the network config ( Figure 7) and save changes as in Figure 6.
TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 HOW TO
The below section describes how to setup the SMB Select Network config in the main menu ( Figure 4) and set the IP address of your PS2 and also the IP address of your network share (SMB share). Now we set the network settings so that the PS2 knows where to connect to. Remember to hit OK using the O key on your controller, and then go back to the main menu ( Figure 4) and select Save Changes using the O button on the controller as seen in Figure 6. Hit the O button on the PS2 controller to select the Settings option first.īy default, Ethernet is disabled in this menu and we want to enable the ETH device start mode and set the Default menu to ETH Games as seen in Figure 5.įigure 5: Enable ETH device start mode in the OPNPS2LDR Settings Menu Hit the Start button on your controller to go to the settings menu as in Figure 4. You will see that it opens a screen with an error saying No HDD detected or similar. Select this option by pressing the X key on your PS2 controller. This special program allows the PS2 to use its ethernet connection to connect to a SMB share on your network. To boot a game off the network you need to select the OPNPS2LDR option which stands for the Open PS2 Loader.
You will see the FMCB splash screen as in Figure 2 and then it continues to the FMCB bootloader menu as in Figure 3. The first step is to plug the card in the first (or left-most) memory card slot in the PS2 and restart your PS2. As of this writing the FMCB version I used was 1.966.įigure 1: 64MB PS2 memory card with FreeMcBoot installed I tried and failed since my PS2 was not hacked or modded to install uLaunchELF so that it could read FMCB off a USB drive, and therefore purchasing the memory card is the best way to go about maximizing use of If you do want to make this card yourself you need to follow the tutorial on the FMCB link above and try. It is amazing that people sell these things even today and that the prices are quite low relative to trying to do this yourself and buying a nearly $100 PS2 memory card adapter on eBay. I purchased this memory card ( Figure 1) onĪmazon for $17 including taxes.
TUTORIAL FREE MCBOOT PS2 MOD
However, since it did not have a hardware mod-chip installed I decided to try to do a soft mod by using a hacked memory card with the FMCB firmware pre-installed. I had a PS2 Slim model SCPH-77001 which is supported by FreeMcBoot (FMCB). You have to use a wired ethernet connection for this. The CD/DVD reader had stopped working and after a few tries I gave up and decided to use the FreeMcBootīootloader to modify the PS2 so that it could load games off an SMB share on the network. Keeping the theme of re-using old hardware, I decided to take the non-working PlayStation 2 (PS2) off my brother’s hands and try to get it to work.
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