That 64mb Storage was a dream to like many gamers in 2000

Man this is just freaking awesome! 😀I was going to get a ps5 as soon as lockdown ends and the shops reopen again, but I'm just going to get this instead, enjoy all the classics and wait till Ps5 comes down in price. I'm going to order a good condition fat PS2, an HDMI adapter, the mcboot memory card with sata adapter, a ps1 memory card and an extra controller with 2 extension lead cables. I'm going to put a couple of hundred of the best ps1 games and around 500 of the best PS2 games on a 2 tb hard drive. Thanks for the inspiration wicked! 😀👍

The combination of FreeMcBoot and a hard drive seems the ideal mod for the PS2 FAT.

i bought a PS2 at goodwill today surpisingly it had the network adapter with it i couldnt say no lol

I've been running my PS2 games from a 400 GB IDE hard drive for about 8 years now. I agree that configuring everything is a royal PITA, but once you have everything right, it's well worth it.

I just bought one of these! Keep up the awesome videos.

Always waiting for new vids 😁 regards be safe be positive 😄

All videos make me smile. Your so funny. "but first a litle bit of ASRM"

Great video i like how you combined McBot with the HDMI dongle

I bought a FreeMCBoot memory card a while ago and it's hands down the best thing I spent money on. One thing I was also able to use it for was to make a copy of my PS2 bios and use it on PCSX2. that's specifically why I got the memory card. Then I found out about playing PS2 games from a micro SD card with the MC2SIO memory card. And the coolest thing about it, it doesn't need to be chipped

There were many different MB variations for the PS2 Memory Card in 2000 besides the 8MB. The 16MB, 32MB, and as usual the 64MB, and finally the 128MB. But some people tend to have problems with the 16, 32, 64, and 128MBs such as taking forever to load a game or cheat code enhancer disc.

I just bought one of these, they're on Amazon Prime, It was delivered today. Now I'm just waiting for the hard drive adapter.

I love how everytime he says any package from china, he's just like "Op! sent from CHINA!!"

Been using free mcboot in my ps2 with a sata drive for a while now. Haven't had a problem yet, love it

One important issue I would stress is make sure memory card is magic gate. My FMCB magic gate card is problem free. Non magic gate fmcb card has hiccup and other non magic gate card won't accept FMCB- Non compatible so for trouble free, stick with magic gate cards. I followed youtube tutorials on how to make your own FMCB card from internal hard drive and from other FMCB card and that's what I learned and was stressed!!! I swear by my 64mb memory card in first slot for game saves. 1.966 FMCB magic gate card in second slot. 500 GB sata card plugged in by network adapter. FMCB OPL to play games off of sata card. Never knew phat ps2 was so great!!!!

got like bundle of these laying around faulty, well as long as the mainboard works i would just grab one plug it on the network. got a crappy router somewhere with an external attached to it and fires up OPL. works like a dream. Coupled with component out for better quality, awesome stuff. Use to play some divx files from back it the day but now mostly emulators.

Cool N all got the full shabang setup myself, but nothing can beat physical CIB copies with artwork, game manuals and guidebooks

I've found a Network Adapter for very cheap in a pawn shop. Nowdays, i moved out in France but i brought my PS2 with it, along with the Network Adapter, an Hard Drive and most of my games stored on it.

can't wait for the next video!

Little tip connect the hd to the pc and use winhip to install on the drive, rip the iso on pc it's much quicker and saves the ps2 laser.

Note: The USB option for the Slim model is a bad idea, because some games require high bandwidth to stream FMV in full speed which will stutter. A mini-router with SMB server capability (that includes a USB port) is great to stream games directly into the Etherenet port on the back of the Slim console, as well as migrate it hassle-free to any other another PS2 console, provided you've got the appropriate FMCB card or mod chip ready.

Nice video I got a phatie for free but was kinda dummed when I realized I needed to burn a disc with freedvd I bought a memory card and hopefully it will work

Bought a PS2 with a modbo chip a year ago for pretty cheap on eBay literally one of the best decisions I’ve ever made 🤟🏽

Recently got a PS2 Slim for free since someone was just going to toss it out. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be able to read discs. I was hopeful it was simply the mechanism that detects if the lid is shut that was the problem, but the laser assembly also seems to be damaged. Still, while I won't be able to use the system to create a McBoot Memory Card, the prices for them are quite reasonable even compared to blank memory cards. This will also give me the option of using my original Phat (which has a hard time reading dual layer DVDs) and doing an something like an IDE to SATA to solid state solution. I've also heard that network storage is a decent option, so whichever way I go about things, it will breathe new life into these systems.

DOA2 and SSX lots of childhood memories there :)

I made a few of the Free McBoot Memory Cards and even had the PS2 running games from a Hdd, very slow My Oldest son has that PS2 and all the extra stuff

Hey luv your videos question would this work on the original Japan consoles?

Love this free mac boot I have some thing like this on disc back in the day was a god send to a teenager for playing backup of your games

Been using free mcboot for a while now and its v good

For an added layer of drive options with the network card adapter, getting an ide or sata to SD or microSD card adapter?

Just have to ask; are you from the Netherlands? You sure sound like you are 😉 great content though 👍

idk if you still read comments here. First of all thx for the whole tutorial. I wanted to know how you have the whole PS2 connected to get that quality of image, are you using the Component cables with the HD adapter?

당신의 영상이 좋은 가르침이 되었습니다. 감사합니다.

You can use opl to play games off a network drive and that's much faster than the old USB ports

Can you use the fmcb memory card to play disc backups without having an external hard drive on the slim? I'm not interested in storing games or using emulation, I have a xbox for that. I just want to use game disc backups. Feed back is appreciated

6:45 I tried to play doa2 aswell my left analog wouldnt work but it worked fine for other games but not fighting games

Great!! Bro can you show us how to download the games and add them to your hard drive if I already have a rmcb memory card ( what do I need to install in the drive and from where can I get the games )

Nice, I would like to learn how to do this with doth my ps2

the ps2 games that you are testing has a good resolution. what kind of minitor are you using? or are you using and upscaler

Are these mcboot cards plug and play or do I need a pc to use it? I don’t really understand the other tutorials on KZfaq because they all seem to be “how to install free mcboot to a card” but not “how to use mcboot card”. I don’t have one so maybe it is plug and play for ps2 games.

So if I get this and put it in a ps2 slim it will allow me to play a ps1 game via component to hdmi on a new hdtv? Cause I tried putting in a ps1 game in today via component and it went to no signal but plays all my ps2 games fine .

I bought a Gundam Gold edition Ps2 and I’m getting the Red screen of death. Would this help,or does it need to be cleaned? Please help 🙁

Me likes it me thinks nice little solution thanks wicked

I should google :) , but when getting the mods for the fat model so you can have games on a sata drive, what are the options for transferring games to the harddisk? First probably format the HD a certain way (fat32?), then before installing into the ps2, hook it up as an external drive to your pc so you can drag & drop iso's? Can you use a FTP program to connect the ps2 with your pc? Are there options on the free mc boot card to rip games from the dvd drive onto the installed harddrive?

I been using free mcboot for long time its great

Hello, First of all I have slim version and all I need is a memory card from the link and some external HDD, is that correct? Thanks for reply

I have this free mcboot ps2 modded..i love that i can play many good ps2 games from back in the day. 👍

I should do something like this since my beloved ps2 died [the optical lens stopped working, and trying to clean it i even damaged the tray]

I bought the 64mb variation after putting it in it did not launch FMCB by itself. I clicked on browse and looked what was on the memory card. after that I press O to exit and the menu opened. I turned it off and got my USB out to put games on it. I put Need for speed most wanted on it and put the USB back in powerd the PlayStation again. and now I doesn't open de FMCB menu anymore. Could you help me?

Wish I had a mod man making xcellent stuff 4 me an da masses

Brook ps3/Ps4 to PS2 adapter is really great. It cost $40 but it works perfectly and let's you use ps3 or ps4 controllers wireless on ps2. Just be sure to connect the adapter to pc to update the adapters firmware. The adapter can be found on Amazon.

There's a raspberry pi image that will let you boot games from the network on ps2 slim. This works much better and fixes the loading issues!

Random question but... You Dutch? 👀 Edit: Never mind. Saw that configuration screen. Goeie video man!

There is interesting Chinese network style adaptor I came across a year or 2 back on aliexpress. It works like the standard cheapo adapter but it also has a USB slot built into the back. So not only can ypu run games off hard drive but you can put USB sticks into the back as well. And it's USB 2.0 as well so ypu shouldn't experience the issues ypu would with the built in USB ports on ps2. The adapter is a lit more expensive than the standard cheapo version though. Another benefit of booting games from a hard drive is you can also use some of its space for game saves as well. So no need for a memory card anymore. For ps2 slim you can use the ethernet connection and boot games from your pc over local network. Iv never used that method myself though but I imagine it would allow for faster transfer speeds than the built in USB port. Mr. Mario on this here youtube has an excellent tutorial on how to set up all aspects of free mcboot. Tech James has some useful tutorials also. I found both of those invaluable for modding my ps2

I got mine setup with FreeMC Boot and a network adapter and a IDE hard drive

Just wondering how the SMB share (playing games over network on the slim) compare to the internal HDD on the fat PS2. edit: found some interesting info for anyone interested. *HDD ATA interface: ATA-66 (Roughly 66MB/s). *Ethernet interface: 100Mbit (Or 12.5MB/s). *USB 1.1 interface: 12Mbit (~1.5 MB/s). *CD/DVD drive: 24x speed CD-ROM [3.6 MB/s], 4x speed DVD-ROM [5.28 MB/s]. The ethernet at 12.5MB/s is still considerably a lot slower than the PS2's internal HDD's 66MB/s, but faster than USB 1.1 and even the DVD. That's if games actually do load at 12.5MB/s. 🤔

how does your game look so good? what kind of cables are you using

This is awesome especially for those blue disc that the fat ps2 can't read anymore.

Can I ask if the FMCB v1.966 version in the video can download 4gb or larger game iso files? Because I have a fat32 format ps2 gaming hard drive, or do I have to split the iso file into multiple files to run the game?

Yeah I highly recommend the Original PS2 over the Slim any day just because of the Hard drive bay at the back, a internal HDD will always be better than using a external HDD on the PS2, you have to remember this is a video game console released in the year 2000, the UsB ports are only 1.0

So basically this is way too naughty for a purchase hmmm 🤔.

Hi thank you so much for this video explainer, quick questions, can you use downloaded ps1 games with this method as well? Also, can you play roms such as snes, sega genesis, n64 roms etc from the hard drive too? And how does it work with multi disc ps1 & ps2 games, does it run like a regular ps2? And finally, do you know how to transfer save games from another ps2 memory card onto an fmcb one, or is it best not to have save games on that memory card?

So I just bought a Japanese PS2. Will I need this to play the American games? And will I need to keep this in to play them forever?

We have a modded PS2 slim (later model) and I want to access GMS somehow. Do I need a DVD burned?

Help when whenever I use my ps2 controller on fmcb and i boot up a fighting game my left analog dosent work i tried on 3 different controllers

hello i'm a bit confused if you could help me. Will this run the games on good speed through the HDD on slim ? or it can have problems like that dreamcast solution with the serial. Just to make sure. I wanan get a ps2 and use this as i left my ps2 back in a different country i was living T_T.

you've used the IDE hard disk or the USB hard disk? just asking

thanks man

I have a question so I just got a ps2 and I’m playing one of my childhood games which is lord of the rings but the movie skips would u recommend me get a free mcboot?

How does all this work with normal save files? Anything different? Save states? Or just like normal with the memory card in the other slot for saves?

I have one of these, using a Hard Drive is better than using a thumb drive. With a thumb drive, FMV can be a bit choppy.

awesome

Can you show loading times using a USB drive? Also,I think it's worth noting that they sell the SATA adapters to replace the IDE connection on the official ethernet adapter so that you can still go online. The aftermarket SATA Ethernet adapters they sell don't let you go online.

I have a problem had my fat PS2 stored away for about a year when I went to use it again with mcboot 1.8 mem card and boot a game that requires dualshock 2 feature it doesn't want to recognize the 3 of my controllers and it use to work fine.

I bought a ps2 off of my cousin and whenever I click on open ps2 loader, it says the hard disk isn't detected but it was just working at my cousins house idk what to do and I suck with stuff like this

Can anyone tell me how can i save game files while using fmcb. I have regular 8mb in slot one and fmbc in slot two

👍👍

what are you using, is it a pc monitor or a led tv, can you tell me the type of samsung it is?

Will the mcboot keep the changes after being removed? I cannot check for myself because I had only ordered the mcboot.

Kan je ook imports usa games afspelen met deze memorycart ?

Nice 64mb. I could only get my Sony brand memory cards to post. (The 8mb model) I tried using this 128mb but to no avail. It being off brand sometimes it takes 2x as long to save. It also doesn’t work with some old games anyway, after I did a bunch of testing with it.

I have a ps2 slim and i use fmcb but only problem is black edges on the sides. When i play normaly whithout fmcb i have a full screen image.

I bought a freeMcBoot memory card a while back and it has all the files but the ps2 isn’t booting into FreeMcBoot am I missing a step?

6:07 "convert in special program" what? I heard you can use HD Loader to create an image when the disc in inside the PS2 directly to the hard drive

This is cool and I have a fat ps2 with an internal hard drive using the newtork adapter with freemcboot.Only problem is a handful of ps2 games dont work for some reason and the emulation isnt very good for retro consoles.Only NES and older really run right,everything else runs slow and you cant do much about it

I New it exits,But I’m not a fan of setting it up with ISO’s and configuring.

Work for scph 90006 or need to install matric chip.

Just watched this video for someone like me that's not tech savvy how much would you charge to put all games on and everything on a 2tb USB stick coz I'm only really after persona 3 FES and persona 4 but would be happy with other games too

I have done FreeDVDBoot when it first appeared last year but I still rather play my modded PS3 slim. It’s much better experience but it’s cool to have a PS2 slim that can also play burned ISO files.

There are boxes out there that take the RYW cables and convert to 720 and even 1080p hdmi out.

Stupid question but if I just bought the mcboot and a PS2 could I just use it to remove the region lock and that's it? I wanna place some us games on a pal console

Hello i have a ps2 slim when conect the disc external the games of ps2 works perfect but the ps1 games doesnt work , do you know how to solve the problem?

I have a PS2 slim and was wondering if I could use this McBoot, uLaunchELF and play any region game. I have a region one unit but want to play region 2 games.

How did you store games in hard drive? and whats format?

Can This be used to play ps1 games as well?

Have you really tested it on SCPH 9000X (slim) ???

My question I have an IDE 500 gig want to know where do I put my pin at do I set it as master or slave

What does it mean if your ps2 slim is stuck on browser and configuration it doesn’t make a sound when I turn it on

If I buy a memory card with mcboot + OPL can I remove my matrix chip from the PS2? the cables and the chip?

If I have a Japanese PS2 and want to play physical disc US ps2 games on it is this all I need?