Been a long time, just a few questions....

Hi all, its been a long long time since i used my MCBoot card.

I have a fully modded fat ps3 with a matrix infinity, network card and 500gb hdd, so i dont think i wall have any trouble doing what i want to do.

Now i think i created a Multi version MCBoot card a long time ago, but its still the latets version.

What i would like to know, is am i correct in thinking that this card will work on ANY compattle PS2, i have another 2 fats lying around.

Also i have setup my card and menu order just how i wanted it, is there anyway to directly copy the card to another as i would like to have a backup, instead of setting up another from scratch?.

Also last one :), its a total pain getting games to onto the internal hdd, either having to keep removing it or transfer at rediculous speeds over the network, i here you can load them from samba, but not sure where to look for this?

In short, no. buuuuuuuuut...

You put in the modified MC (memory card) and boot to it. Then you load the FMCB installer from USB. Put the new MC in and install. Copy your configuration files over. Ta-da, back-up. Maybe ~10 minutes?

Why this way? The OSDSYS file needs to be encrypted with the ID from that specific MC it resides on, and if you "copy" it, the encryption doesn't match the new card's ID.

EDIT: I suggest you do the file management with the handy-dandy new uLE 4.42a. Also, if you install FMCB 1.8c (recent release?) it's like 65KB (OSDSYS) instead of >100KB.

EDIT2: There is an app called "Open PS2 Loader" (OPL) here. It's waaaaay better (heavily opinionated ;) ) than HDL. It's compatible with previous HDL hard drive game installs, loads games from USB and you can load games from a SMB share from Windows/Linux/BSD aaaaaaand supports virtual memory cards. FMCB, OPL and uLE are all still actively developed here. The SMB thing works pretty well, and I hear there is a compatibility list. Someone correct me if I'm wrong (about the list :) ).

LOL, EDIT3: Yes, it should work on all phat models. I believe even the slims up to 70000/77000 (somewhere in there).

wow thanks for the quick reply, ill have a fiddle when i get some spare time, im sure the last version i installed was 1.8c, but ill have to check was quite a while ago.

get the screaming kids out of the way and ill have a go :)