Kamatari?s ?No swap disk? Cogswaploader Memory Card Exploit Install guide

[Kamatari]

Kamatari?s ?No swap disk? Cogswaploader Memory Card Exploit Install guide

For this guide I am using Blaze Xploder v4 and X-Link, you can also get this guide to work with Xport and Nport

Step one:

Take your X-link cable (or equivalent) and plug it into you pc and ps2, for the pc you will have to install some drivers which will be supplied on a disk with your equipment, if not you may have to look on www.google.com or manufacturers website.

Step Two:

Put in you Xploder (or equivalent) disk into your Playstation 2 and let it load up onto the main menu.
Now on you pc start up X-link (or equivalent), make a backup of you memory card for safety reasons.

Step Three:

Now on your memory card you want to copy to your hdd the file called: Your SystemConfiguration. Save this to you SAVES folder of Xlink or the program you are using

Step Four:

Now go to: www.tftgp.com/ps2.rar extract the ps2 folder to your desktop.

Step Five:

In the ps2 folder contains a ps2 save builder, Titleman frontend and boot.elf.
The first thing we wan to do is go into the titleman frontend program and open up titleman frontend:P. This program will be creating our custom title.db.

Step Six:

Now in title man front end you see four buttons you can click. The first thing you want to do is click: Create TITLE.DB.
Now after you have done that you will need to find a PS1/PSX game, with your PS1/PSX game in your pc go into the cd drive, you may see a file that says something like SLES_350.52, the bit before might be different depending on the region you are in and the numbers will be different because of the game you are using. If you have this file go skip the A, B, C part. There are now two possibilities:

A) If No files are showing try a different game disk and repeat and/or:
B) If you see a file called system open that up in notepad and look for the string of text mentioned earlier
C) Look on the disk for the string of text but there will be one difference: it will say like SLES-35052 instead of SLES_350.52

Now after you have found the number make a note of it. If you had to use part C, you should note down the SLES-35052 code AND write down a copy but replacing the ? for _ and after the first THREE numbers add a . so you have SLES_350.52

Step Seven:

Back in the title man front end program you see a drop down box, change the code to match what yours is and then enter in your numbers. Now once you have the numbers entered in you will need to click: Add Exec, this will add the code to the title.db
If you had to use part c in step six you will have to add in both codes you noted down. To see if your codes were added click: List current contents of TITLE.DB and you should see it show up in the window

Step Eight:

Now you will want to open up the ps2-save folder which is in the ps2 folder you downloaded. Inside there will be a program called: ps2save-builder.exe.
With that program open, click the little folder icon and navigate to where you saved Your SystemConfiguration and open that up. There should be about three files in it:
History
History.old
Icon.sys
Now what you need to do is right click one of the cells and choose add file.
You are then going to want to navigate to the ps2 folder you downloaded and add in the boot.elf file that is in there.
With that file added, you are then going to want to right click another cell and choose add file again, but this time navigate to your titlemanfrontend folder and add in TITLE.DB.

Step Nine:

Now you should have:
Boot.elf
History
History.old
Icon.sys
TITLE.DB

In the window, you now want to click the floppy disk icon to save, call it something you will know to look for like EXPLOIT and make sure you save it in your SAVES folder of the X-Link or similar program directory.

Step Ten:

Now with that file saved where all your cheats are in the SAVES folder, go ahead and load back up Xploder or similar program on the ps2 and then load up X-Link or similar. You are then going to want to upload the file under EXPLOIT or whatever you called it and you should see a file which should be called Your SystemConfiguration. You are then going to want to transfer it to your memory card; this should then overwrite the existing file called: Your SystemConfiguration on your memory card.
Now restart your PS2 with your game that you got the SLES_350.52 type of code and it should load cogswaploader, if not I suggest re-going through this guide.

Now if you want to know how to play your import or backups at this stage here is what you do:
1. boot up cogswaploader with your ps1/psx game
2. press eject once cogswaploader has loaded
3. insert an original ps2 game
4. when it says ?ps2dvdrom? on the screen press X once
5. using either slide card or flip top lid, swap ps2 original game with your import or copy
6. Press X again and wait for game to load


If you do not have a slide card or flip top lid I will tell you how to make a slide card:

1. get a old credit card or similar item
2. cut it to this design
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1xay5/pics/Swipe-Card.gif
3. you will need to remove the front bit off the cd tray on your ps2, I cant really say how as the ps2?s can be different

4. you will then be moving this pin when doing the slide card bit
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1xay5/pics/Pin-Movement.gif
When using the slide card you slide right to open the cd drive, pull out the cd drive, swap the disks, close up the cd drive and slide the pin left to shut the drive


COMING SOON: HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN FLIP TOP

Thanks for your time and look out for tutorials from me in the future

[vinniev2222]

Thanks for that instruction on how to make the slide card. I've been looking for one everywhere. I figured out how to load exploits and other homebrews via HDLoader and home made slide card. Thanks!!!

[Kamatari]

Hehe

Got some new tutorials coming soon hopefully

HDD related tutorials

[ÇÐ~kÂ??]

so cool ,

[ashmufc]

Get a keylauncher one released!

[PS2onCrAcK]

Awesome description on how to make the slide tool...gonna try that today and see what happens....I am attempting to get the exploit on my MC...i hope that will help..only pic i've seen about it...thnx in advance

[Kamatari]

Yay its still here :D

[digitalps2]

This says NO swap disc, but you have to
a) Take out the ps1 disc, swap it with an original disc
b) swap that disc with the burnt one, but you cant press "x".

"No swap disk"?? You spelt disc wrong by the way, and you DO need to swap discs. I thought I'd learn something from this guide.

Lies.. all lies!!!!!!

[dlanor]

This says NO swap disc, but you have to
a) Take out the ps1 disc, swap it with an original disc
b) swap that disc with the burnt one, but you cant press "x".

"No swap disk"?? You spelt disc wrong by the way, and you DO need to swap discs. I thought I'd learn something from this guide.

Lies.. all lies!!!!!!
No, just a misunderstanding on your part. Let's reexamine the thread title here:
'Kamatari?s ?No swap disk? Cogswaploader Memory Card Exploit Install guide'

This title claims only that the guide will tell you how to install the 'exploit' to a memory card, and that this can be done without disc swapping. All of which is perfectly true. Your misunderstanding lies in thinking that the Cogswaploader installed that way would boot game backups with "No swap disk", which is impossible. (Swapping discs is what that program is all about !!!)

The only part of the guide which mentions disc swapping as being needed is a description of how you can use Cogswaploader, after installing it to be launched by the exploit. In other words, *after* having done what the title claimed.

Note that this guide is also useful to install other ELFs than Cogswaploader to the MC, such as LaunchELF and ExecFTPs etc, which can be used without any disc swapping.

As for the spelling of 'disc' VS 'disk', it is true that the word is commonly spelled with a 'c' for CD and DVD, while the spelling with a 'k' is more common for HD. But that usage is merely something that has grown naturally from how the words have been used in recent years (not least in advertising), and has no basis in any fomal language definitions that I know of. Saying that one of these forms is 'right' and the other 'wrong' is (in my opinion) completely groundless. Both forms have been part of the english language for ages, and which to use for newly developed stuff is not finally decided.

The odds are that formal definitions for the spelling would differ between UK and US anyway, as is already the case for so many other words, which would make either spelling correct or wrong, depending on your origin... ;)

Best regards: dlanor

[digitalps2]

you have too much time on your hands! lol

[dlanor]

you have too much time on your hands! lol
Yeah, sometimes I do... ;)
But your own response was just too negative to leave unanswered. I mean, you don't want to discourage the guy from making tutorials altogether, just because this one didn't give you what you hoped for.

Best regards: dlanor

[digitalps2]

Yeah sorry.. We need someone to make our day better by paying them out :P

[Kamatari]

No, just a misunderstanding on your part. Let's reexamine the thread title here:
'Kamatari?s ?No swap disk? Cogswaploader Memory Card Exploit Install guide'

This title claims only that the guide will tell you how to install the 'exploit' to a memory card, and that this can be done without disc swapping. All of which is perfectly true. Your misunderstanding lies in thinking that the Cogswaploader installed that way would boot game backups with "No swap disk", which is impossible. (Swapping discs is what that program is all about !!!)

The only part of the guide which mentions disc swapping as being needed is a description of how you can use Cogswaploader, after installing it to be launched by the exploit. In other words, *after* having done what the title claimed.

Note that this guide is also useful to install other ELFs than Cogswaploader to the MC, such as LaunchELF and ExecFTPs etc, which can be used without any disc swapping.

As for the spelling of 'disc' VS 'disk', it is true that the word is commonly spelled with a 'c' for CD and DVD, while the spelling with a 'k' is more common for HD. But that usage is merely something that has grown naturally from how the words have been used in recent years (not least in advertising), and has no basis in any fomal language definitions that I know of. Saying that one of these forms is 'right' and the other 'wrong' is (in my opinion) completely groundless. Both forms have been part of the english language for ages, and which to use for newly developed stuff is not finally decided.

The odds are that formal definitions for the spelling would differ between UK and US anyway, as is already the case for so many other words, which would make either spelling correct or wrong, depending on your origin... ;)

Best regards: dlanor

Hehe well that saved me from writing alot ^_^

I'm sure in the UK we use disK instead of disC its like Color and Colour

But yer, this tutorial was about installing the elf's on the mem card, if you want to take it a little further, put in a HDD, install hdadvanced or something, load games to the HDD and then just leave the ps1 game in the drive and then you won't have to swap, hell you could even just transfer the files through ftp to the HDD and then you really wouldn't have to take the disk out unless you wanted to play a proper game or something ^_^

~ Kamatari

[thc013]

to many words for a howto it is no storytelling

howtos are guides in a clear way

[morphix]

doesnt the "knifing" or "swap tools" thing screw up your laser/and or ps2 over time?

[spyker]

excellent tutorial

any way to convert the save file to xploder v5 format (also *.p2m) ? the xploder v4 file that is created using savebuilder can be uploaded to the ps2 mc via xlink using the xploder v5 software, but the exploit is not triggered. the ps1 trigger disks i use are on various title.db lists, so i don't think that is my problem.