PS3 Memory Card Adaptor (CECHZM1) Allows Free MC Boot Install

[Gnom]

Jimmi, you said you might consider releasing/working on a PS2 installer for this new version, if people were interested. I don't need it personally, but it could improve the Free Installs service, as we are sometimes requested to do cross-region installs, which of course we can't as of now. There are at least two users that I remember that I had to turn down, I don't know what they did but I guess they either tried some alternate method, or sent their cards to an installer abroad (or possibly they didn't get FMCB at all). In either case, this complicates things quite a lot, not to mention additional fees.

So, it might be interesting to some, but as usual I'm not urging you to do anything, merely pointing some facts out.

Oh and I almost forgot : thank you again for your work, and thanks to the anonymous co-author as well !

[jimmikaelkael]

OK, I will, on my free time adjust the old FMCB installer in order to use the new region free loader.

For those complaining about the slow speed: yes it is slow. Keep in mind the PS2 MC is already a slow device by its nature, to this add the fact I'm doing a lot of byte to byte ops (to handle Little-Endian and Big-Endian machines, while we don't have to bother with this with a real PS2 that is LE), and also the fact I'm using libusb (it makes a lot of abstractions to allow to code usb drivers directly from userspace, and not kernelspace so at the end it's slower) to have a unified driver on both Unix/Windows Oses.

EDIT:
Thank you l_oliveira for pointing out the tool can be used for a few basic mc ops, here's the list of commands handled by the binary:

PS3MCA-TOOL v1.3
Copyright (C) 2011 - jimmikaelkael & 'someone who wants to stay anonymous'

Usage:
./src/ps3mca-tool <command> [<arguments>]

Available commands:
	 --mc-info, -i
	 --mc-free, -f
	 --mc-image, -img <output filepath>
	 --mc-unformat
	 --mc-format
	 --list, -ls <mc path>
	 --extract-file, -x <mc filepath> <output filepath>
	 --inject-file, -in <input filepath> <mc filepath>
	 --make-directory, -mkdir <mc path>
	 --remove-directory, -rmdir <mc path>
	 --remove, -rm <mc filepath>
	 --file-crosslink, -cl <real mc filepath> <dummy mc filepath>
	 --content-key, -ck <disk kelf filepath>
	 --sign-kelf, -k <disk kelf filepath> <card kelf filepath>

[l_oliveira]

To alleviate the psychological effect of the slowness issue in the users, it could be possible to add an text progress % display using "linux style activity display" ? (Rotating slash)

As the user see that the app is actually doing something the user will be more likely to wait patiently...

[flo]

Where can i find FMCB 1.8c for installation on PS2 ? Can you do the multi region install on actual PS2 now ?
Is there anything changed with ESR ?
Is the " inserted disc " bug fixed ? That's when you set FMCB not to boot the disc in tray but the console still boots it .

[SkyNet]

Guys can someone tell me --if I want upgrade to new fmcb version--What I have to do? Can I just copy files --like BOOT, BREXEC-SYSTEM and SYS-CONF to memory card in order to achieve it or is it possible to do only through old fmcb installer which has to be created in future by jimmi?
Will we see evetually updated FMCB-noobie-package ?
Also what about the latest PS2 Models(SCPH-90000)---is is possible now to install FMCB on those?
And thanks jimmi and anonymous hacker that you still working guys on ps2 development.

[TnA]

What's '--mc-free'?

[l_oliveira]

What's '--mc-free'?

This:

D:\Playstation\ps3mca-tool-v1.2\ps3mca-tool-v1.2>ps3mca-tool -f
PS3MCA-TOOL v1.2
PS2 Memory Card free space
Calculating free space...
Available space: 1107 KB

[TnA]

THX. What do you think is better?
An update to the current news-post, or another news-post?

Like this?

Update: The MC2USB-Tools, called 'PS3MCA-TOOL v1.3' which were released yesterday along with the 'FMCB 1.8c-Loader' actually grant FULL ACCESS TO PS2 MEMORYCARDS from PC!

Here's a list of commands:

PS3MCA-TOOL v1.3
Copyright (C) 2011 - jimmikaelkael & 'someone who wants to stay anonymous'

Usage:
./src/ps3mca-tool <command> [<arguments>]

Available commands:
	 --mc-info, -i
	 --mc-free, -f
	 --mc-image, -img <output filepath>
	 --mc-unformat
	 --mc-format
	 --list, -ls <mc path>
	 --extract-file, -x <mc filepath> <output filepath>
	 --inject-file, -in <input filepath> <mc filepath>
	 --make-directory, -mkdir <mc path>
	 --remove-directory, -rmdir <mc path>
	 --remove, -rm <mc filepath>
	 --file-crosslink, -cl <real mc filepath> <dummy mc filepath>
	 --content-key, -ck <disk kelf filepath>
	 --sign-kelf, -k <disk kelf filepath> <card kelf filepath>

So beside being able to create multi-region-installs and those other features you can see at the other news-post, there are also these features (as of yet) already integrated:

-Get MC-Info
-Get free MC-Space
-Dump binary MC-Image
-Format/Unformat MC
-Basic file- and directory-creation&access (read/write files and folders from/to it)


Additionally! These drivers and tools might be compatible with other MC2USB-Adapters! However they were only tested on the Original Sony-Adapter!

...and if it should be a new news, there needs to be a picture...
Maybe someone has a custom pic of this adapter?!

Is that o.k.?

[l_oliveira]

The problem here is that there's a misunderstanding here: It's NOT A TOOL to install FMCB ... It's a Memory Card Management tool which make installing FMCB using a PC possible.

Installing FCMB isn't even directly supported by the tool. It's capable of signing ready made KELF files so it's being used to bind the KELF file to the memory card it's being installed to.

What does install FMCB is the bat file that came bundled in the archive. Make sure you take your time to look the chain of commands it does.

[flo]

Does the driver work only with the genuine adapter ? I have a chinese one, the drivers install ok but when i try the mc-format.bat or the full-install.bat i get errors from start . The device's VID and PID are USB\VID_054C&PID_02EA\5&3A520D4A&0&2