Booting the Free MC Boot Installer using Swapmagic 3.6/3.8

[RiddleMeThis]

I have installed by the directions from the guides and read all the instructions, but I wanted to play one of my back up games from original. Everything installed correctly as instructed, just wandering how can I now play from my hard drive (Can I just plug my hard drive in USB)? I'm using Swap Magic and I'm having a problem with my screen constantly flickering. I will not stop. I do not know where to go from here.

Thank you for all of your help

[realnick]

If you've installed FMCB then you can use OPL 0.8 to play games from usb harddrive. Or you can patch the iso's of your backups with the esr patcher and they will boot without using swapmagic.

[SP193]

I have installed by the directions from the guides and read all the instructions, but I wanted to play one of my back up games from original. Everything installed correctly as instructed, just wandering how can I now play from my hard drive (Can I just plug my hard drive in USB)? I'm using Swap Magic and I'm having a problem with my screen constantly flickering. I will not stop. I do not know where to go from here.

Thank you for all of your help

If you checked the Swapmagic manual, you can boot homebrew software that is placed as mass:SWAPMAGIC/SWAPMAGIC.ELF (Or as SMBOOTx.ELF, where x is a number.... but only if you know what you're doing).

Does your TV support both PAL and NTSC? Sometimes some TVs can't display graphics when Swapmagic starts up as they don't support either signal standard (Whichever your swapmagic disc uses).

If you intend to play your games via a USB device, you might want to check out PS2ESDL (A Playstation 2 game loader that was tuned for USB devices only, to offer better performance and game compatibility rates): http://psx-scene.com/forums/f19/play...ps2esdl-63375/

There's a guide on PS2ESDL's main project page on how to use it.
But I do suggest that you find a way to launch homebrew first (Or you won't be able to proceed anyway).

Also, if your PS2 isn't too new, you might want to install FMCB v1.8b on one of your MCs, then you won't have to use your Swapmagic disc everytime you want to launch homebrew software.
What's your PS2's model anyway?