Playstation 2 External Storage Device games Loader (PS2ESDL)

PS2ESDL v0.810 has been released, and sports quite a few brand new features along lots of bugfixes. :D

Yes, this is the much-needed update to PS2ESDL v0.800. :)

Please take note that the maximum resolution for backgrounds is now 640x448.

Some of the new (skin-deep) features of v0.810 (Compared to v0.800):

1. A new configuration/options menu.
2. NTSC, PAL and 480P video modes are now supported.
3. Game file fragmentation checking has been added, and enabled by default.
4. Game compatibility has been drastically improved over v0.800.
5. Data streaming performance has been improved over v0.800's.
6. Lots of bugs fixed, and stability has been improved on (No more random game booting failures). Yay!
7. Better compatibility with some modchips.
8. 24-sector cache size mode has been added.
9. Controls have been changed: LEFT/RIGHT toggles between USBExtreme and PS2ESDL games, and SELECT brings up the options screen.
10. The cache size can be overridden by holding the respective triggers (Useful only when you set an inappropriate size in PS2DCDMP, and can't run a game because of that).
11. USB devices should be supported.
12. Street Fighter Alpha Anthology and the Vampire Darkstalker's Collection should work now.

Check the first post of this thread for download links, a link to the full guide with colour photographs and to PS2ESDL's official game compatibility list and home page.

Have fun! :D

Hey,
sounds great! can't wait to test it with god of war 1 ;) or did you/anyone try it?
Greetings from Germany!
xebit

Much thanks for fixing Steambot Chronicles. That game is so great and was very hard for me to find that I hate having to use the disc more than needed. Also, do you still need PS2ESDL_config.dat? There's no mention of it at all in the included text files.

Yay, its been a while spartan :D
I happy your project still alive,
we dont compate but make the better, remember :D

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Originally Posted by xebit

Hey,
sounds great! can't wait to test it with god of war 1 ;) or did you/anyone try it?
Greetings from Germany!
xebit

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Hi. :)
One of my friends had tried it... and I don't think that he complained too much about the performance.
But I seriously don't remember if it froze at any videos. @_@

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Originally Posted by juggalomars

Much thanks for fixing Steambot Chronicles. That game is so great and was very hard for me to find that I hate having to use the disc more than needed. Also, do you still need PS2ESDL_config.dat? There's no mention of it at all in the included text files.

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Hey, no problem. :)

PS2ESDL_config.dat is the file which PS2ESDL uses to store the user's preferences (Deleting it will cause PS2ESDL to re-use the defaults I had programmed into it).

Maybe I should have mentioned that this file would be automatically created by PS2ESDL if the user had saved the settings on the options screen...

But you don't have to worry about PS2ESDL v0.810 being confused by old versions of the configuration file as I've made PS2ESDL to reject incompatible file versions/formats. :)

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Originally Posted by azzura

Yay, its been a while spartan :D
I happy your project still alive,
we dont compate but make the better, remember :D

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Yo! Haven't seen you in a long time. :D
Thank you for your help. ;)

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Originally Posted by SP193

[*]Better compatibility with some modchips.

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I can confirm this! :)

I've tested 0.810 version along with the following modchips, which did not work before:

- SCPH-70004 with a clone Matrix Infinity 1.93 (probably a "Libertador Infinity" or something like...);

- SCPH-50001 with a genuine Matrix Infinity 1.93 (my own PS2);

- SCPH-77006 with Thunder Pro-II 7.7au (it's mine too).


Nice work, congrats! :p

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Originally Posted by GillBert

I can confirm this! :)

I've tested 0.810 version along with the following modchips, which did not work before:

- SCPH-70004 with a clone Matrix Infinity 1.93 (probably a "Libertador Infinity" or something like...);

- SCPH-50001 with a genuine Matrix Infinity 1.93 (my own PS2);

- SCPH-77006 with Thunder Pro-II 7.7au (it's mine too).


Nice work, congrats! :p

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Thank you.

@all: I actually made more changes than I remembered... so the rest of the goodies would be up to you to discover. ;)

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Originally Posted by SP193

10. The cache size can be overridden by holding the respective triggers (Useful only when you set an inappropriate size in PS2DCDMP, and can't run a game because of that).
11. USB devices should be supported.
12. Street Fighter Alpha Anthology and the Vampire Darkstalker's Collection should work now.

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Thank you SP193 for your nice and very useful PS2ESDL.
I could not load Max Payne nor with OPL nor with anything else, but tried to do it with your
latest release and it loaded pretty well.
Would be very nice if you could add support for ISO-images like in OPL ,then I could save time when converting my games from image to ul.-format. And also would be nice to have
support for CD PS2 Games (Cue, Bin -format).
I very much like your software...:)

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Originally Posted by SkyNet

Thank you SP193 for your nice and very useful PS2ESDL.
I could not load Max Payne nor with OPL nor with anything else, but tried to do it with your
latest release and it loaded pretty well.
Would be very nice if you could add support for ISO-images like in OPL ,then I could save time when converting my games from image to ul.-format. And also would be nice to have
support for CD PS2 Games (Cue, Bin -format).
I very much like your software...:)

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To run Max Payne in OPL you must enable Mode 4(0 pss) and it has already been stated in this thread why there is no .iso support in ps2esdl.

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Originally Posted by SP193

Hi. :)
One of my friends had tried it... and I don't think that he complained too much about the performance.
But I seriously don't remember if it froze at any videos. @_@

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still doesn't work! it freezes after reaching the pandora's bridge... :cry: