The perfect console didn't exi--

>>60879194
>>>/v/

Fuck off to /v/ retard.

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>console

>>60879200
>>60879203
>>60879210
I think he's making fun of the /g/ meme

Also Linux on PS2 is a thing, it's literally the perfect console for /g/, more open than the PS3 also

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>>60879194

> Polophony Digital somehow manages to get pic related running at 1080i/30 on a system with 4 fucking megs of VRAM

Fucking Jap wizardry.

>>60879239

>it's literally the perfect console for /g/, more open than the PS3 also

You can softmod a PS2 with nothing more than a memory card, load games or homebrew applications from an IDE hard drive or via FTP. It's a fat/g/uy's wet dream.

>>60879194
>console
go back to your board /v/tard

Aye faggot fucker
Gtfo
I guess ur mums sweet ass pussy juice from her cunt is better than that gayming console

>>60879262
ikr
mgs2 looked incredible wtf

>>60879275
I found a network adapter for the fat PS2 with the intent of softmodding it to play games off the hard drive, but the only tutorials I ever found referenced a now-unfinable gamebreaker disc

>>60879203
Console doesn't mean gaymes retard.

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>ratchet and clank
>sly cooper
>jak and daxter

Good times desu

>>60879342

Anyone with a softmodded system can add the exploit to your memory card. You can also use a retail version of HDLoader, although that's not exactly easy to find either.

Alternately, you can replace an executable (the PS2 uses .elf format, which stands for executable linked file) on certain games with the program that creates the exploit and copies it to the memory card. I used Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, ripped the DVD, made a copy, replaced the .elf for the multiplayer portion with the exploit maker, burned a DVD, then removed the top case and top cover from the DVD drive. Used the retail game to bypass the DRM, got to the main menu, popped the cover off of the drive, replaced the retail disc with my burned copy, selected multiplayer from the menu, and the PS2 booted the exploit program without a hitch.

After the exploit is installed all you need to do is boot your PS2 (or any PS2) with the memory card inserted and it's softmodded. Homebrew .elfs can be launched from the hard drive or a USB stick. You can add/remove links to .elfs from your PS2's bios screen, and if you remove the card it just goes right back to stock so you can't brick it. It's great.

>>60879429
Do you have a link to a step-by-step somewhere for that kind of exploit? Seems a bit involved.

>>60879441
Different guy. It is quite easy. Google it and you will find a step by step guide.
The easiest game to use is 007 Nightlife, I believe. At least some 007 game.

>>60879451
Again, I've googled it beforehand, but all I find is things wanting me to use HDLoader or Action Replay

>>60879342
>>60879441
>>60879471
Are you even trying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1uvnN-2z8

>>60879262
>>60879313
It was outputting at 1080i, it was NOT rendering at 1080i.
You can pretty much run any program or game at any standard (up to) 1080p resolution with GSM.

>>60879493
>Why don't you just listen to some faggot explain it in a youtube video for 12 minutes
Because those "tutorials" are always dogshit.

>>60879501

GSM is dogshit, most games run at 720p or above either don't work correctly or display in a tiny window.

It's only useful for getting 480p video from games that don't support progressive scan natively (which, on the PS2, is most of them).

>>60879507
>129 likes
>12 dislikes
Yeah, it's probably bullshit alright, I mean, I'm not even going to watch it even if it might be true, I'll just ask /g/ and get the answer >>60879429 which is literally the same thing but then I'll ask for easier instructions >>60879441 and when I get proper instructions >>60879493 I'll just shitpost about it

Get real faggot, you're not even trying, probably too dumb (ignorant, lazy) to even actually DO the software in the first place

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>>60879544
>Using youtube likes as an argument

>>60879538
>GSM is dogshit
Well, it's a experimental program to play games that don't support a specific resolution or mode by default.
Don't know what you are complaining at it for. It does exactly what it intended.

>>60879548
>a video to accomplish a specific TASK
>hurr I bet people will still give it likes if does not properly show how to do this task
k, autism or some other underdeveloped brain disorder, nothing we can do

stop asking if you don't want to be helped

>>60879548
Could have watched it, lots of likes over dislikes are a good possibility that it's actually legit.
He shows it working also in real time, might have given you a suggestion that it's real.

>>60879538
>It's only useful for getting 480p video from games that don't support progressive scan natively
you can force 480p natively, without GSM
pretty dumb to call something dogshit if you didn't even know a simple thing as that about the console

>>60879544
>>60879576
>>60879590
>youtube "tutorials"
are you fucking serious

heres an actual writeup with decent information
https://gbatemp.net/threads/freemcboot-faq-install-guide.292229/

of course, you can also just buy a memory card with fmcb preinstalled, much easier and cheaper if like me you don't have a fat ps2 and exploitable game

>>60879598

You can't force progressive scan on PS2 games that do not support it without GSM.

You don't know what you are talking about.

>>60879194
No thanks, my pc is more than enough

>>60879604
sure smartass, believe whatever the fuck you want

>>60879194
I like my Xbox more. The lack of anti-aliasing makes most PS2 games look like ass.

>>60879601
You sir, are a fucking retard.
He was asking how to softmod a vanilla PS2 without any particular tools, he already said he found Swapmagic and related tutorials. While >>60879429 is the simplest, cheapest and easiest way.

But if you'd actually pay attention and knew how to search for shit, you'd see the site is down from what tutorial the video was made.
It is still avaiable here (https://web.archive.org/web/20160921081507/http://bootleg.sksapps.com/tutorials/fmcb/swap.php).
But you seriously think a written tutorial will be better for a complete noob like he obviously is then a proper video (if you'd watch it you'd see he makes no mistakes and explains it pretty well)?

Way to go retard.

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>>60879601
>Every method requires owning some particular kind of disk
Guess I'll start hunting around ebay like a jackass

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>>60879429
Well isn't this impressive...

...faggot, get a new hobby.

>>60879601
that swap trick tutorial is lacking as fuck, even the potato filmed video is ten times better

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>>60879194
How wrong you are

>>60879615

Like I said, you don't know what you are talking about.

>>60879635

The nice thing about the Xbox was that the overwhelming majority of its library supported progressive scan, and a decent amount of games even ran at 720p. If you have one, you can do a drop in replacement of the hard drive's ATA cable with an ATA100 cable for better load times, by the way (assuming you can track one down these days).

>>60879650
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-PS2-Playstation-2-007-Agent-Under-Fire-Tested-And-Working-B3-/282518888202?hash=item41c7701f0a:g:4V0AAOSwPWRZPCvJ

http://www.ebay.com/itm/007-James-Bond-Agent-Under-Fire-PLAYSTATION-2-PS2-Game-/132224032417?hash=item1ec92a9ea1:m:mWiz9vdslK1CmBS28mNBvcQ

Literary got the game a decade ago for 8 bucks.
This is the easiest and cheapest way though.

But modchips cost like 9 bucks too, prefered if you know soldering.

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>>60879660
>f-faggot
kek

>>60879677

Mod chips are an additional point of failure, and playing games from physical discs is pleb-tier.

Softmodding is superior, running games from a hard drive drops the load times significantly, and if there is a compatibility issue than 99.9% of the time the game is compatible with ESR and can be played from a burned DVD anyway.

The only time you should really do a mod chip is if you're stuck with a thin PS2 or if you absolutely have to play PS1 games on a PS2 instead of on a PS1 or a PC or a calculator or any number of the countless other devices that can run PS1 games these days.

>>60879677
If I'm going to bother paying for anything, it'd probably be easiest just to buy a softmodded memory card wouldn't it?

>>60879646
>hurr durr you didnt spend more than two minutes finding the link ur retarded!!!!

it is not fucking difficult, christ you guys seriously need a video to figure out how to do this shit

if you're that retarded, just buy a card with fmcb preinstalled, they're like ten dollars if that (and theres people that will do it for postage cost only on i think psxscene)

>>60879650
I just used swapmagic and burned dvds of whatever games I wanted to play.

>>60879698
>Mod chips are an additional point of failure
Not really, those chips are new fabrications, far more lasting then the original chips inside the PS2

>and playing games from physical discs is pleb-tier.
Why would you play from physical media? Modchips allow you to do everything softmodding does, with the extra of not requiring even a memory card. Plus many other features.

>Softmodding is superior, running games from a hard drive drops the load times significantly, and if there is a compatibility issue than 99.9% of the time the game is compatible with ESR and can be played from a burned DVD anyway.
Modchipping is _literary_ superior, because it does everything softmodding does, is more reliable and has more features.
It's literary 9 bucks plus some solder and wire, I can't see why not to prefer it if you can afford it.

>The only time you should really do a mod chip is if you're stuck with a thin PS2 or if you absolutely have to play PS1 games on a PS2 instead of on a PS1 or a PC or a calculator or any number of the countless other devices that can run PS1 games these days.
What has this to do with anything? Softmodding lets you play PS1 games on Slims.

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>>60879342
http://imgur.com/a/2rUST

>>60879717
>buy a softmodded memory card wouldn't it?
Well, if you're too lazy to even do the basic stuff as soft modding it yourself, I doubt you'd get very far even with the ready made card in the long run.

With a game you can softmod forever, but you fuck up your card, you're done.
Unless you want to spend even more money to back up more softmods on memory cards.

>>60879724
The video exist.
It's helpful.

Why not if he's a total noob on the subject?

>>60879742
>if you're too lazy to even do the basic stuff as soft modding it yourself
No, it's because I don't have the required shit to do it. I don't have 007 or splinter cell or any of the other listed games, HDLoader, Action Replay, or Codebreaker. I'd have to go out and pay money for one of them, so I may as well just get a premodded card.

>>60879740
>Doesnt require anything other than the drive and adapter
Excellent. I found http://psx-scene.com/forums/f153/softmodding-fat-ps2-hard-disk-drive-%5Btutorial%5D-116178/
But it seemed a little sketchy. The fact there's more than one report of doing it that way is very reassuring.

>>60879761
>keep crying everything is sketchy
>total noob on the subject
>instead of carefully testing it out yourself, you just trash it

>>60879761
>>Doesnt require anything other than the drive and adapter
You need a computer that has support for IDE/PATA drives, if you don't, you still need to buy an adapter to connect the drive to your computer or buy a SATA adapter for the PS2s drive bay.

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>>60879772
>Want to softmod but don't have the disks most methods use
>Here are three more ways to do it with the disks!
>I dont have those disks
>Just use ebay!
>Well fuck I guess fine
>Oh wait heres a way to do it without any of that bullshit
Eat my ass

>>60879777
what the fuck are you talking about? he keeps crying everything is sketchy and trashing the ideas
he already knew every possible way but he didn't even bother looking into it because "it's too sketchy"

>>60879239
So is Linux on PS3. Actually one of the top supercomputers in the world is/was? a PS3 cluster. Unfortunately a firmware update removed the option.

>>60879788
I'm him, dipshit, and I said it seemed a little sketchy because it was the ONLY post I found anywhere that didnt require the use of a disk.
I.E. I wasn't sure it'd even work of it was just the ramblings of some romanian weirdo getting people to download his spyware zip file.

>>60879796
That's why it was said that the PS2 is more open

>>60879776
Fuck. I wanted to try it.

>>60879796

The Air Force built a supercomputing cluster with PS3s with the help of Sony because for a while it was the cheapest way to get Cell CPUs.

Then Cell Broadband Engine was supposed to be the next big thing with supercomputing and server usage but outside of the PS3 and a few models of Sony TVs it wasn't very successful.

>>60879818
Was there any real advantage to Cell or was all just a meme?

>>60879815
Do you not have some ancient tower laying around with a PATA slot on it? I know the shits old but we only finally phased the damn things off of motherboards in around 2010

>>60879826

Cell was super fast at very specific types of math. It was really great for crunching numbers for specific fields but outside of that it became cheaper and easier to just go x86 or ARM instead.

It was better but Sony was cursed by a gypsy woman back in the 70s or something and as a result all of their proprietary technology gets outsold by an inferior competitor (Betamax, Minidisc, Pro Duo, Cell, etc).

Honestly I think that the Blu-Ray spec is the first time they've ever really 100% won a format war, and they weren't even the sole creators/owners of the technology.

>>60879732
>Not really, those chips are new fabrications, far more lasting then the original chips inside the PS2
its not the chip quality i'd be worried about, its letting the retards here loose with a soldering iron inside

>>60879761
>seemed a little sketchy
the fuck is up with you man
what do they possibly have to gain by posting fake shit?
christ, its a four year old thread. If some fuck had found malware on it you'd fucking know, dipshit

>>60879826
flops/watt were its major benefit
it saw some adoption in supercomputers iirc but consumer gpu tech fast outgrew cell with the added benefit of a more familiar architecture


>>60879863
>betamax superior
>minidisc
oh boy its a big one
what about dvd/blu-ray? both developed by (primarily) sony, both exceedingly popular and at least in the case of bluray, inferior to the competition

>>60879928
disregard that last line
dvd tho
betamax still a shit

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>>60879239
>>60879796
On PSP as well.

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>>60879194
tsk...tsk..pic related.

>>60879650
Read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ps2/comments/2ppzy6/attention_everyone_with_questions_about_freemcboot/

No disc needed.

>>60879194
>posting on /g/ because you're banned on /v/

I probably shouldn't have been posting porn in the E3 threads but fuck the mods.