4+ Gig PS2 ISO on External?

[Spankyj]

Trying for the better of 3 days to figure out how to get this 4+ gig PS2 ISO onto my external for the ps3. Can't do it... could I just extract the ISO and would it load up w/ the Swap Magic > ISOLOADER thing? Or is there some sort of scrubber or anything I could use?

[Rautz]

You might have to quit while you're ahead. I dont think theres anything to run PS2 backups on a PS3.

[bitsbubba]

You might have to quit while you're ahead. I dont think theres anything to run PS2 backups on a PS3.

swap magic is supposed to but the 4GB thing might be a problem

[bitsbubba]

Trying for the better of 3 days to figure out how to get this 4+ gig PS2 ISO onto my external for the ps3. Can't do it... could I just extract the ISO and would it load up w/ the Swap Magic > ISOLOADER thing? Or is there some sort of scrubber or anything I could use?

check the PS2 section of this site

[Spankyj]

No i dont want ps2 section, I wan the PS3 section. Its on my PS3 after all.. and im using an external FOR ps3.. not ps2. So theres no need to.

They are going to talk about the ps2, I want to speak on the ps3.

My PS3 plays PS2 games, plays games less than 4G on external, now how can I play 4 Gig + on it? I know it can be done just have not found out how >.<

[bitsbubba]

No i dont want ps2 section, I wan the PS3 section. Its on my PS3 after all.. and im using an external FOR ps3.. not ps2. So theres no need to.

They are going to talk about the ps2, I want to speak on the ps3.

My PS3 plays PS2 games, plays games less than 4G on external, now how can I play 4 Gig + on it? I know it can be done just have not found out how >.<

I just mentioned the PS2 section because they might have a tutorial on how to reduce the size of the games to fit them on a fat32 drive

[jumper]

Maybe someone in the PS2 section could give you info on how to make your PS2 game less than 4gb, considering a PS2 would have the same limitation of filesizes on the external drive.

[bitsbubba]

Maybe someone in the PS2 section could give you info on how to make your PS2 game less than 4gb, considering a PS2 would have the same limitation of filesizes on the external drive.

no I think they have their own file system with out the 4GB limit

[atreyu187]

You will need a separate drive in order to play files larger than 4gb as you must use USBExtreme and it has it's own file format. Only way I have been able to play files over 4gb on the PS3. I just format my 32gb flash drive for those games or you can do what they mentioned above and check the PS2 section on how to down size the image. There are rip kits for most large games to remove junk or redundant files. And while you are trying to play it on the PS3 the system is in PS2 mode so your answers fall under the PS2 section.

I have not been able to find a way for the PS3 to share a HDD for PS2 and PS3 games yet. It seems if there are more folders than what the PS2 app needs it just will not detect them but once I have only a DVD and CD folder shows right up every time, add a Games folder dumb app no longer detects PS3 games. So I have two USB HDD's one for PS3, one for PS2 under 4gb as PS2OPL will detect the ISO's and anything larger then that I format my 32gb flash drive to USBExtreme specs and load up the game, works like a treat for FF X and FF XII as I didn't want to use rip kits as there was no junk to remove only downsampling of video and that isn't acceptable because the reason I use my PS3 instead of my chipped PS2 is the upscaling of the video so that would negate my needs. A lot of trouble but it is the only way to achieve what I want till a dev actually cares about working on a PS2 loader for the few PS3 users like ourselves.

[Yuki]

I'm using one external HDD for both PS2 and PS3 backups. I have my PS3 backup folders inside a GAMES folder and my PS2 backups in the root as required for USB loading.

I've had no luck using OPL's ISO loading mode so I had to use USB Insane to install the games to the HDD in the USB Extreme format. For more information see the OPL guide: Official OPLv0.8 User Guides

NOTE: USB Extreme format is just a container for the game, like an ISO, but one that can be split in a way that OPL can still read. It still resides in a FAT32 filesystem.