Noob-ish things.

[Dalai Liam]

Anywho... Here we go... breif rundown. A few of you (Doubtfully) may know me as "Pullout method" from Xbox Scene. My modding fettish started waaaay back with the PS1. I was hooked the seccond a friend of mine Aquired a Net Yaroze, within a month I'd successfully had my forst modchip soldered in. We continued homebrew dev under the name "Voria" (Which is now the name of his animation studio out in Seattle) Then came the Dreamcast, where I got into VMU development, Nothing great ever came of it. I layed low for a while and then finnally modded an Xbox (Which I wind up tinkering with more than playing games). Rescently My girlfriend kept saying she wanted to play FFX-2, so I broke down and bought a PS2. The next day it already had a Sammy 80 gig HD, a fan halo neon around the heatsink and 2 plexi windows put in, and an order for HDloader.(Probably later adding a chip)

Anyway... on with the noob questions since I'm new to PS2.

Can Executables (Elf?) be run from the memory card?
HDloader will format my Sammy drive, right?(Because now the browser in the ps2 won't recognize it at all. And I'm guessing the lack of format is why it won't show up)

I've read that there are FTP programs in the works which is good, that opens up whole new avenues of usage.

I appriciate any help or comments anyone can give. thanks.

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Can Executables (Elf?) be run from the memory card?

yes they can, search around for info on devolution mode or the independance exploit. If you dont have a modchip then do a search for the exploit stuff only.


HDloader will format my Sammy drive, right?(Because now the browser in the ps2 won't recognize it at all. And I'm guessing the lack of format is why it won't show up)

I dont know if your sammy drive will work but for the ps2 to recognize your hdd, it requires the updated hdd browser files only available by purchasing the official sony hdd kit. Also the proper formatting matters too.

I've read that there are FTP programs in the works which is good, that opens up whole new avenues of usage.

probably not. you dont know dev as well as i do. There are various ways of moving files without the use of ps2ftpd and those have not made a huge impact on the scene yet. There isnt alot of dev compared to xbox(which is all 100% illegal) so what would people be moving to and from their ps2?

[Dalai Liam]

Dev, savegames, music. (Or in the case of a wayward 15 year old, ****.:P )

Lots of stuff to move on and off of a PS2. God knows I've got about 60 gigs of anime fansubs on my Xbox.