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hi, i have HDAdvance 3.0 and have already put some games onto my PS2 HDD, and was wondering if i use HDLDump GUI 2.1 to backup a couple of my other games like Fight Night Round 3 or whatever and then transfer them to my PS2. will HDAdvance be able to read it so i can access the game through it's menu?
Please help.
Thanks in advance,
Andy
Try with a single, small, CD-based game and see if it works or not. And, BTW, unless you have no way of running patched HD Loader there is no point using HD Advance.
thanks for the reply, I have found that out recently, that HDAdvance is a waste of money. well i guess kinda worth it for the certain amount of games i already have on it, which is about 12 games. but can't get any EA sports games, recently found that my Street Fighter Alpha Anthology is loaded but doesnt work either.
I have tried the MC exploit twice. At first, from my understanding was that the exploit will allow you to install/run games onto/from your HDD without having a modchip. this was because the two times i've tried it, both of the tutorials i've read did not clearly state that one of the steps consists of burning programs onto a CD and running it in your unmodded PS2.
And that's when I found out that you can't read burned CD/DVD's without a modded system. So, what's the point of the MC exploit? Why not just install a modchip and get it over with?
Proper use of the MC exploit does NOT involve any burned discs at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by mutha_ucka
The only case were such may get involved is when people use burned discs to start the homebrew PS2 programs which they may need to install the MC exploit on their MC. But they will then have to use so-called 'swapping' methods to trick the PS2 into accepting those discs, which is something I don't recommend.
Users like you, who have HDAdvance, can simply prepare a bootdisc for a suitable tool (like uLaunchELF), install that disc with HDA and launch it like a game, and then use that tool to copy the exploit files to the MC, either from a USB drive or from the same virtual CD image that the tool itself was started from.
As for the 'point' of it, that is simply to let you start a homebrew program from your MC, by seemingly booting an original PS1 disc identified in an exploit file you prepared for that MC. When the PS2 boots any PS1 disc, it will load the exploit file to see if that PS1 game needs any special adaption, but when it finds the game you prepared that file for, that exploit file will cause a controlled crash of this process, leading to abortion of the PS1 boot and instead starting the PS2 program BOOT.ELF installed in your system save on that MC. (I'd suggest using uLaunchELF for that program.)
As you can see, that boot process does NOT involve any burned CD or DVD discs, so it will work well on all PS2 models where that PS1 boot process is used, which means all except the very oldest (v1/v2) or the very newest (v11) of the 'fatline' PS2 models. It doesn't work on any 'slimline' PSTwo models at all. That's because Sony learned about this exploitation sometime during the v10 production period and decided to stop it for all future models.
One big advantage to booting ELFs by exploit is that they will then start 'clean', without any unwanted remnants of HDLoader/HDAdvance in the IO driver system. For some things that might not matter, but there are situations where it does matter a lot.
For example, if you use HDA to start uLaunchELF, because you want it to launch an improved HDLoader for you, then it just won't work. HDLoader will start up, for sure, but it will have lost the ability to launch any games, due to the HDA remnants in the IO driver system from the original boot.
But if you boot uLaunchELF by the exploit, and then use it to start the same copy of HDLoader, then it will work fine, launching games properly just like you need it to.
Best regards: dlanor