Play with HDLoader

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Suckage. I couldn't get it to work with any of the mode settings. Thanks for your additional Google-ing.

So what have your HDL experiences been? Possitive I hope.
 
The only problem I have with HDL is that it won't rip discs that have the slightest scratch on them. The disc either has to be perfect or it will report errors with the transfer. Unfortunately, GT3 is one of the casualties that couldn't make it onto my HDD.

I recently installed Madden 2005, it loads under 5 seconds. I can only imagine how long it would have taken by reading from the disc. 👍
 
Look for a program called WinHiip, it will allow you to put the PS2 HDD into your pc and rip games to it. It's allot quicker with access times than reading it via the PS2 DVD drive, well depending on how your pc is configured. I managed to rip a 4gb game in about 5 mins, instead of like 15/30mins.
 
I would do that but I don't have the slightest idea how. I have an extra power cable, but the main ribbon thing has no place on my MB. (Dell)
 
MistaY
Look for a program called WinHiip, it will allow you to put the PS2 HDD into your pc and rip games to it. It's allot quicker with access times than reading it via the PS2 DVD drive, well depending on how your pc is configured. I managed to rip a 4gb game in about 5 mins, instead of like 15/30mins.
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Uh ... neat. So what file system does HD Loader use? Is it something Windows can read? Or Mac OS? Because that would make copying games and sending them ... across ... the internet ... much easier (:
 
I think it's sonys own format, all winhiip does is reads that format and enables you to copy via pc. I think each game is actually a partition so every game you add a partition. It's completely unreadable in windows like a linux partition. I think there is a program that lets you transfer games via the network adapter as well but I don't know what it's called.
 
Viper Zero
DVD9 will still work. Excellent.
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I'll be so happy if it does, because then i'll be able to run GT4 from the HDD. Last version of Winhiip I used with Xenosaga and it didn'twork

Edit: Damn laptop keyboard.

Katamari Damacy ripped just fine.
 
Anyone have this problem? When I'm playing vids from the HDD, i.e. the GT ending credits, the video skips somewhat.....???? HDD problem?
 
Race Idiot
I'll be so happy if it does, because then i'll be able to run GT4 from the HDD. Last version of Winhiip I used with Xenosaga and it didn'twork

Edit: Damn laptop keyboard.

Katamari Damacy ripped just fine.
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My Kat Dam stalled at 99% - were you ripping in the PS2 or in your computer?
 
LoudMusic
My Kat Dam stalled at 99% - were you ripping in the PS2 or in your computer?
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Same here. HDLoader reported 16 errors, but it was still playable.
 
Viper Zero
Same here. HDLoader reported 16 errors, but it was still playable.
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IIIiinnnnnteresting. And I noticed on the compatability page that they claim it still works. So I'll give it another go. Does it eventually stop? Because mine sat for a while before I killed it.
 
No, it doesn't stop, it just stays at 99%. The disc drive stopped spinning and there was no HDD activity.
 
LoudMusic, would an external USB HDD enclosure work for transferring games from PC to the HDD? I have no clue how to connect my HDD internally to my computer.
 
Have you put a hard drive into an external enclosure before? It should be easier to put it internally into the computer.
 
No, I haven't. Doesn't it just hook up and slide in? I'm on a $600 Dell. All I can see inside my case is the 4 Prong Power thing. I don't see any place to attach the ribbon cable. Hooking it up internally doesn't seem like a good way for me.
 
Well, "Doesn't it just hook up and slide in?", that comment will get you made fun of in most circles (:

How exactly does it "just hook up"? Isn't that doing a little work? Same thing doing it internally. Depends on if you want to put it in an little encloser or the big one that the rest of your computer is in.

The hard drive you'll be using is known as "IDE". It uses a 40 pin ribbon cable. So find the hard drive that is currently in the computer and follow its cable to the motherboard. MOST motherboard will have two IDE connectors on them. MOST IDE cables have two connectors on them as well. So technically you could have four hard drives, or CD-Rom drives, or any mix there of, in a standard computer.

So get the software (WinHIIP) installed. Then shutdown the computer and slap a new hard drive in there. It makes life easier if it's a different storage capacity from the system drive you already have in the computer - so it's easier to tell them apart.

There's all kinds of slave / master crap to deal with and some primary / secondary IDE stuff too.

Before you change anything in the computer, check it all out and tell me what you see. We're looking for existing ribbon cables and where they're going.
 
that comment will get you made fun of in most circles
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I'm not a computer geek, sorry. :dopey:

I'm thinking my only option is an external HD enclosure because I have absolutely no place to mount another HD. Here's a picture thing I made.
 
Your options as I see it:
  • Notice that your CD drive and your DVD drive are connected by the same cable. You could do the same with your hard drives, setting the PS2 drive to "slave" when it's in the computer and "master" when it's in the PS2. That will allow you to make no changes to the computer aside from adding and removing a drive occationally.
  • If you wish to leave the PS2 hard drive set to master all the time you could set the DVD to slave and the CD to master, unplugging the CD drive to plug in the PS2 hdd when you want to do have the it in the computer.
  • Do the USB thing. But that's a crappy options as USB's speed is shat and would defeat the purpose of doing disk copying in the computer.
  • Get a PCI ATA controller for like $50 so you can add more drives to your computer. This essentially adds two more ribbon connectors and associated "smarts" to your computer.

Keeping in mind that you don't actually have to physically mount the drive in the computer. When I've had need to move data between machines I usually just leave the drive laying on the floor with the side off the case. The computer doesn't care. And besides, you'll only be unhooking it shortly after you're done (after shutting back down) so what's the point of going to all the trouble of long-term mounting when you're just going to yank it back out. Also, rigging it up for multiple use is not a good idea. You'll probably just rip your collection, then have an occational game once a week to add to the collective, so you can do that at the PS2 instead. Ripping in your computer only saves about 30% of the time you spend at the PS2, so one or two games at a time is no big deal. But ripping a collection of 30 games at one time, screw that - time to go to the computer.

I hope I've made sense. I don't enjoy web tech support (:
 

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