USB external HDD problem..OPL and SMS

[vladfury]

i have a 320G WD elements external HDD(partition in 150G so, 2 150G formated in FAT32) and i can play games using OPL.08 but the issue is i cant play PAL games because my TV is a NTSC. is thier a way that i can configure my games to load in NTSC? or the only choice is to buy a new TV? i have also use the configurtion in FCM as Auto and NTSC in video mode but it doesn't change a thing..

and when i play my SMS in FCM it can detect it as a USB but the files cant read, seen or cant be browse. but when i use a USB stick 16G it can read files..

does anyone out-there know how can i make it work.

regards and more power..

[SP193]

To enforce games/programs to use a particular video mode, you should use the "GS Mode Selector" (GSM).

It can be found and downloaded from a thread here.

As for your problem with some homebrew software not accessing your disk properly: Some homebrew software use an older USB mass storage device driver that do not access some USB disks properly.

The only solution for you is to either wait for the author to update the software, or to get another USB disk that can be accessed properly by the software.

[dlanor]

i have a 320G WD elements external HDD(partition in 150G so, 2 150G formated in FAT32) and i can play games using OPL.08 but the issue is i cant play PAL games because my TV is a NTSC. is thier a way that i can configure my games to load in NTSC? or the only choice is to buy a new TV? i have also use the configurtion in FCM as Auto and NTSC in video mode but it doesn't change a thing..

First off you should stop talking about FCM, as I don't think there is any PS2 software using that acronym. The context makes it appear that you are speaking of FMCB, so that is the acronym you should be using, so that others have a chance of understanding you.

As to the video mode choice set in FMCB, or most other homebrew software, that does not affect the video mode choice of the games, which set up the Graphics Synthesizer chip independently of those software settings.

Few homebrews can change that, but one which can do it for most games is "GSM" == "Graphics Synthesizer Modeselector", which allows you to select a specific video mode, such as the NTSC mode you need, and then enforce this for all other software run subsequently in that boot session, including any games launched by OPL or other means.

and when i play my SMS in FCM it can detect it as a USB but the files cant read, seen or cant be browse. but when i use a USB stick 16G it can read files..

SMS uses different USB drivers from those of FMCB and OPL, so a drive that works in the latter two may still fail in SMS sometimes.

Another known issue with SMS, as with most PS2 software, is that it supports only one partition per USB drive. So even with drives it can access, it can only 'see' a single FAT32 partition, and I think the same goes for OPL too.

Very few homebrews support multiple partitions at all. (eg: uLaunchELF, RadShell)
So if the drive is dedicated for PS2 use it is better to have a single partition.

does anyone out-there know how can i make it work.

Unfortunately it sounds as if the SMS USB drivers are simply incompatible with that particular USB HDD. And for that I know of no cure...


@SP193:
Hi there!
It seems we were typing at the same time here, though I got distracted and finished up much later than you...
Still, it never hurts for the info to be confirmed again...

Best regards: dlanor

[SP193]

Unfortunately it sounds as if the SMS USB drivers are simply incompatible with that particular USB HDD. And for that I know of no cure...

I am currently busy with working with PS2ESDL and porting over the NTFS-3G driver, but I planned to work on SMS when I get the chance to.

Recompiling a working copy of SMS v2.3 (? Not sure about the version number, but it is the latest version available on the PS2DEV SVN) seemed impossible as my compiler only spews up defunct SMS binaries (Freezes somewhere during initialization, and is very unstable).

But I'm sure that I can hack in a newer/alternate version of USBHDFSD, like I did for LIBSD (For the SCPH-10000/SCPH-15000 compatibility hack).

@SP193:
Hi there!
It seems we were typing at the same time here, though I got distracted and finished up much later than you...
Still, it never hurts for the info to be confirmed again...

Hi!
Haven't seen you here in a while.

[vladfury]

thanks for the helping me .. ill check it out..
sorry for using a wrong acronym it wont happen again..and sorry for my bad english..

regards and more power!!!

[dlanor]

Hi!
Haven't seen you here in a while.

Yeah, I was offline quite a while for medical reasons.
(I was forbidden to sit at the computer, by my surgeon...)

Best regards: dlanor