Timeline for Free MCBoot on 70000 series PS2 - White screen (of death?)
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| Aug 10, 2023 at 3:07 | history | edited | galacticninja | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2017 at 9:39 | comment | added | Alison E.E. | @KirkDCO I'm happy to help whenever possible :) | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 12:26 | comment | added | KirkD_CO | Thanks for the details. You have needed incredibly helpful. I truly appreciate all your guidance! | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 12:06 | comment | added | Alison E.E. | continued ISO from your backup directly that way. Also keep in mind that the PS3 has near perfect backward compatibility with PS1 games. If the PS1 emulation on a computer interests you, you will need a BIOS dump from your own PS1, if you don't own a PS1 you could dump your PS2 BIOS and use that to emulate your PS1 games in a PS2 emulator instead (let me know if you want info on how to do this). | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 12:02 | comment | added | Alison E.E. | @KirkDCO While almost any PS2 game should boot using OPL either locally or over a network, it does not have the ability to launch PS1 games. On top of that the structure of a PS1 game is different and will not work with USB Util. I do not know of any USB or network loaders for PS1 games, and have only found one disc based loader for backup PS1 games, which requires a proper PS1 disc, a modified save file for said official PS1 game, and does not work even still in my experience. Most modern computers are more than capable of emulating PS1 games very easily, so I would recommend just playing the | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 0:20 | comment | added | KirkD_CO | Partial success! I got a new USB drive that is specifically 2.0/3.0 compatible, and it is working now. I was able to rip a PS2 game, but I haven't gotten a PS1 game working yet. Is that out of scope? | |
| Feb 26, 2017 at 0:19 | vote | accept | KirkD_CO | ||
| Feb 23, 2017 at 1:23 | comment | added | Alison E.E. | @KirkDCO another step which might seem trivial but could make a difference is to make sure the disk is plugged in to USB port 1 (left most). For some reason Sony has a tendency to make this the port that can actually load data (for example it was also the only one that could be used to mod COD 4 on the PS3, and is also the one you have to use for firmware updates on either console.). | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 1:15 | comment | added | KirkD_CO | @Allison E.E yes, I did the defragment step, but I have not tried another flash drive. I'll give that a try and report back once I've had a chance to try it. | |
| Feb 23, 2017 at 1:10 | comment | added | Alison E.E. | @KirkDCO did you make sure to defragment all the game's file using slots 1-4 in PowerDefragmenter? If so you might try using another flash drive if you have one to spare, some USB 2.0/3.0 disks don't work properly (for example both my USB 1.0 and one of my USB 2.0 disks work fine, but the other 2.0 disk and my USB 1.1 disk dont). Also make sure the partition table on the USB disk is MBR not GPT. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 3:06 | comment | added | KirkD_CO | Bummer. Same problem. I used USBUtil to copy the content to the USB stick and things look more or less like what you showed in the picture. I started up FreeMCBoot and went to OPL (which is version 0.9.3). I can see the game listed and when I select it the screen fades, the usb stick flashes, the screen turns white, and then....nothing. Same problem as before. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 22:55 | comment | added | Alison E.E. | @KirkDCO glad I could help, be aware that (at least on macOS) running USBUtil in Wine will cause it to think the amount of free space on your USB drive is the same as the amount of free space on your first HDD. Obviously not a huge problem unless you have paritcularly little free space, just something to keep in mind. Also have recently test the GUI for PowerDefragmenter_3.0 works fine after all, but make sure you choose to defrag files, not the whole disk. | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 22:28 | comment | added | KirkD_CO | Thanks for the great info! Regarding the ripped/named files, that was exactly what another source said to do. Clearly not such good information. I downloaded both Windows EXE files and I'm running USBUtil through Wine now. I'll post back once I've had a chance to try it out. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 9:43 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Feb 15, 2017 at 9:24 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 15, 2017 at 9:20 | history | answered | Alison E.E. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |