PS2 Play Games From HDD SATA Hard Drive Complete Guide

do you have one of these and you want to put in one of these so you can play these right from this well you have come to the right video because I'm going to show you everything you need to do to put an internal hard drive in your fat PlayStation 2 and play your games right from that hard drive and it starts right now hi if you're new here my name is Blaine and my channel is all about helping you get the most out of your video game experiences so if you're into videos about restorations repairs mods reviews and other great video game content smash that subscribe button and ring the bell so you don't miss any great original content let's get into it you're gonna need some things to get this done you're gonna need a SATA hard drive I'm using the Western Digital one terabyte SATA hard drive for this video a SATA to ps2 adapter a USB thumb drive and a free mcboot card you'll also need a way to connect the hard drive to a computer the easiest way is through a SATA to USB dock or you can use a SATA PC cable in other words the ribbon cable inside your desktop machine but it's inconvenient you'll also need a piece of cardboard and a pair of scissors if you need them the SATA USB dock the SATA 2 ps2 adapter the hard drive and the free mcboot card are all listed in the description below before you go out and buy a hard drive make sure you check the ps2 hard drive compatibility list and it's linked in the description if you go out and buy a hard drive and it's not compatible you won't get past a wind hip stage much less be able to get it to read in your ps2 the Western Digital blue one terabyte hard drive is an excellent choice it's compatible a hundred percent and I've linked it in the description below to make it easy to find and purchase you're gonna need to download two pieces of software to get this done the first one is win hip and the second one is OPL I've linked them in the description below to make it convenient to find so go to the wind hip site and just scroll down and click on download right here it's a RAR file so you'll need to extract it once you get it downloaded so once you've got one hip downloaded go grab OPL only go to opl manager's official website and that's linked in the description so just download it right here from the OPL page then you can close out your internet browser in your downloads folder you'll see that the OPL folders already extracted but when hips not you'll need to extract it i'm using zip we're because it happens to be free and easy and does a pretty good job extracting RAR files but you can use any extraction software you like I think it's good practice to delete the archive files once you extract them it just eliminates clutter [Music] before you run wind hit for the first time I think it's a good idea to look at the hard drive you intend to use for your PlayStation 2 so with it connected to the computer type in Disk Management into Windows search and you'll get this pop up inside this pop up you'll see all of the drives connected to your computer make sure you pick the correct drive or you can end up wiping your master hard drive in your computer which is going to suck right-click the drive info and pick initialize disk from here make sure Master Boot Record is selected this is basically just clearing the decks on the hard drive you're going to put in your ps2 so that when hip can format it in ps2 Master Boot Record format that's coming up in just a moment at this point you should have a newly initialize drive with none of the space allocated that is exactly what when hit needs if you see any space allocated here right-click it and delete it if any of the space is allocated when hip will flop now that the hard drives initialized you can run win hip for the first time make sure you right click and run as administrator if you don't win hips gonna run into some problems all right I'm just gonna minimize the file explorer just to clean things up a little so click OK on win hip select the drive for your ps2 let me tell you it's never drive 0 that's always your system driver click OK through this error message we're gonna fix this in just a moment click options and select 48 bit HD loader this just empowers the ps2 to be able to read this large size drive and then pick ok now click format make sure that HD loader 48 bit is selected here so they can format the drive correctly then click okay yes and okay and voila you'll have a hard drive formatted for PS to use then click okay and okay through the next message that comes up before you use wind hit to start copying files over it's easiest to just go into OPL and let it set up some folders so go to opl and right click on OPL manager and run it as administrator remember always run these things as administrator now OPL is gonna open up which is cool all you need to do at this point though is just go ahead and bypass the messages that come up we'll set all the stuff up in just a minute we're just interested in setting up some folders which OPL is going to do automatically so just open and close OPL what you'll get is this big long list of folders on your desktop no worries just make a new folder right there on the desktop call OPL then grab all of those newly created folders yeah all of the newly created folders and throw them right in that OPL folder you just made with your iso files on your portable storage or stored on your hard drive whichever you like go into that OPL folder you just made and then go into the DVD folder this is where you can paste your iso files i'm doing two of them here godhand and takun no need to watch cold molasses run up till twelve hundred percent speed-up in effect you'll probably want to grab the art files for the games because it makes OPL look really great on your PlayStation 2 so go back into the OPL folder right-click on opl manager and remember to run as administrator so this time inside of OPL let's go ahead and set up everything that you're gonna need to run OPL so again when those pop-up messages come up just go ahead and bypass them for now what you want to do instead of using the popups is actually come up here to options and then pick change mode OPL folder once this pop-up comes up click on browse you'll get the standard browse for folders window that pops up in Windows 10 so just come down to OPL and pick the root OPL folder click OK on this bad names message because we're about to fix this click on the first two good games in this case it's got hand then click on get title from dB this should happen pretty quickly then slide right and click on try update file date the purpose of this is to be able to access the art database but it's got to have the proper file names in place because if you've downloaded the ISO as they could be named anything go ahead and click yes here to change the name now you'll notice that godhand disappeared from the bad file named list and that just leaves tacket so just repeat this process with every game that you have you can do this in batch as well but for the purposes of this I just wanted to show them one at a time just to make sure the steps are clear and that I can explain to you why you would want to do this process see now both the games have been moved over to the good file name tab to get the art come over to batch actions and come to art download you can click every single one of these if you want I did in this instance because it literally just adds every potential piece of artwork into the user interface and OPL once you load it up on your ps2 when you have everything selected that you want to download just click the start button and the magic happens [Music] there it is a download of the artwork for godhand just click OK to continue and you can repeat that process individually for every game or under batch actions you can literally just have it search for all of the art files at one time so if you have a large volume of games that you want to address do you want to use batch actions because it'll save you from having to go through the point-and-click operation over and over and over but one thing to consider as you see right here for example you'll have to go back and check those checkboxes for what you want to download on each individual game now if you do this in batch actions you'll be fine but if you do this on a game by game basis be prepared to also click each one of the checkboxes you rarely ever know who makes this kind of software because the programmers use an alias but I tell you what they're geniuses and they certainly get my respect now that everything's downloaded just go ahead and click and you can exit opl at this point now that the art files have been created go in to the OPL folder and the art folder on your desktop and you'll see the art files that you just downloaded so grab just the art folder inside opl just in our folder and send it to a removable drive a USB thumb drive and just put it right on the root of the drive we're gonna put that in the ps2 here in just a bit and transfer them over now you're ready to move those ISOs over to your playstation 2 hard drive using wind Hill so go back to window downloads when hit folder right click on window and run it as administrator from here click ok go to select drive and make sure you pick the proper drive for the ps2 this time it'll come up and say ps2 so you'll know you're on the correct drive it's tremendously helpful I've actually got the regular C drive for Windows the USB Drive with the our files still plugged in in a ps2 at this point you can click Add images to start loading up your games in the pop-up click add images again this will take you to the normal windows file manager view so just go to the opl folder on your desktop and you've copied over the image files to the DVD folder inside OPL so that's where you want to point at that point you can just drag over all of them or control a over all of them and pick them all and click OK then slide over and click on start this process of copying the games over can take quite some time if you have a lot of games I'm only using two games then they're not terribly large so this goes by pretty quick in a 2000 speed instead of using an i7 chip it's like using an IEEE 77 chip you know except that they haven't been invented yet close out win hip and disconnect any USB connections to your computer time to put the hard drive in the ps2 let's go ahead and put the hard drive in the PlayStation 2 you're gonna need to go ahead and grab a few things here first you're gonna need the sad at a ps2 adapter of course the hard drive itself a piece of cardboard I'm going to demonstrate why this is necessary here in just a moment and a diet coke oh wait that's me I'm the one that needs to die coke to insert the hard drive take off the back door from the expansion bay you're not going to need to replace it but go ahead and save it because it is still an original part of your original console to connect the SATA hard drive to the SATA 2 ps2 adapter just push that bottom connector into that bottom port on the SATA drive now what you'll notice right away though is that it's kind of floppy and this isn't good for the SATA adapter or the port on the set of hard drive in fact if you take it and just put it straight up into the PlayStation 2 it's gonna be a rattle box and that is not good because it can damage the adapter or the hard drive in fact listen to this that is not good for the console the drive or the adapter that's where that piece of cardboard comes in so grab those scissors I mentioned earlier and a piece of cardboard and cut it to approximately the same size of the hard drive then put the hard drive in the ps2 of course paper isn't conductive so it's going to be perfectly safe and it's going to cushion the hard drive to stop it from banging around inside the PlayStation 2 this will protect the adapter the hard drive and the console now listen again and check this out you hear the difference quiet as a mouse now go ahead and secure the SATA adapter to the PlayStation 2 console just grab a flat blade screwdriver or a small coin and tighten the screws down while you're doing this take note that SATA adapter even though it has a mock Ethernet port on it it's not a real Ethernet port it's just there for looks so behind that yellow piece of tape there's an Ethernet port but it's not active it's not connected to anything it's just there to mirror the originality of the original PlayStation 2 hard drive and Ethernet adapter home stretch go ahead and power on your ps2 with the free mcboot card loaded up and the us be inserted into USB port one if you've never gone into free mcboot before there's only a couple of things we're gonna concern ourselves here with the first one is to go to lunch elf and press X the reason I say press X is if you take a look at this it kind of changes the controls up a little circle becomes select and triangle becomes the back button go ahead and press circle to go into file browser you'll see a red highlight on mc0 that just means that the memory card to zero drive just take that red highlight and scroll it down until you get to mass mass represents the USB mass storage device then press circle depending on what kind of operating system you use you'll see some hidden files here just ignore them come all the way down to the only folder that's on that drive which is the art folder and press the right one button on the controller you'll get some extra menu choices and copy will already have an arrow next to it just press circle to copy the art folder now press triangle to go back and once you go back you'll see that same set of drive options again and mass will still be highlighted so just take the d-pad and move it up to HD D 0 that is the internal hard drive of your PlayStation 2 then select it with circle now you'll notice that the path text directly above all these drives above MC 0 just change to a loading message this takes about 20 to 25 seconds and I think it can be longer based on how much content you have on the hard drive I'm showing you this in real time for a reason I don't want you to feel like your system got locked up because it's kind of stuck at the stage for just a little bit but as you can see it'll show you the contents of your hard drive scroll all the way down with the red highlight to OPL it's a partition created on your hard drive and then just select it with the circle button at this point you're done with the d-pad don't do anything else with a d-pad just press right one the right one trigger on the controller and you'll see those extended options come up they will already be on paste with the arrow so just press the circle you'll get a confirmation about whether or not you want to overwrite the art folder yeah you do because there's nothing in the art folder so tell it yes but circle depending on how much art you have it could take longer at this point you're done with launch out so we'll just go ahead and power off your ps2 and power it back on after a few seconds to go back to the free mcboot main menu ready to play your games because this is it so from the free mcboot menu scroll down until you get to opl there it is then press the X button once LPL is loaded you'll be presented with this menu selection I would recommend going into two of them and making some quick changes the first one is in two settings you'll notice you're going back to X now for doing selections so press X on settings there's one setting I think is worth changing and that is going all the way down to HDD device start mode and set it to auto since you're not gonna be loading games from USB you're gonna be loading from the hard drive you might as well set that up to auto it just eliminates a step every time you go to load up OPL then come down and pick okay now come down and go to display settings and there are a few things in here I think that are worth setting up so scroll down until you get to automatic sorting and turn that on come down to automatic refresh and turn that on and come down to enable cover art and turn that on if you don't turn that on all that art copy and stuff was a waste of time so you definitely want to turn that one on come down and pick okay one last thing those settings will not stick unless you come down to save changes in the middle of the menu and press the X button they are saved now press circle to go to the games list and there it is your games will be installed right here you can play them anytime you want right off the hard drive and all of the art files you created will be right there on the interface this process has tremendous value to PlayStation 2 because the optical drives on these classic consoles are dying off and putting in a modern SATA hard drive is more reliable and dependable and loads content a whole lot faster than they ever did off the optical discs to learn how to do a jailbreak on a Playstation 3 a PlayStation Vita and other great 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Length: 21min 3sec (1263 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 13 2020