Playstation 2 External Storage Device games Loader (PS2ESDL)

[enymous]

How I can apply the skins?

[JNABK]

How I can apply the skins?

Copy the skin.png to the location you have PS2ESDL.ELF stored. Same for the background.png if your using both. Make sure to change the filenames to those if your using ones with different filenames, as i've named some differently to allow them to be in the same .zip.

[orion217]

SCPH-39008 + ViPower VP-9059 (IEEE HDD enclosure) + Maxtor 40gb IDE - Not working
Tested on two consoles with different modchips (Messiah 2 and NH7)
Maybe i'm doing something wrong:
1)Format HDD to FAT32
2)Add some ISO's with PS2DCDMP
3)Connect HDD to PS2
4)Turn HDD on
5)Turn PS2 on
6)Load PS2ESDL 0.811D-I via uLaunchElf
7)PS2ESDL cant find any USB (or iLink, in that case) drive

I can't take screenshots right now, but i tried both test programs and:
iLinkDebug.elf stops at 'InitializingSCSIDevice'
iLinkDebug_iLinkman.elf says it can't find any SBP-2 device.

and one more thing - what about *.irx drivers? It's OK if i just leave them in the same folder with PS2ESDL-I ELF?

[SP193]

SCPH-39008 + ViPower VP-9059 (IEEE HDD enclosure) + Maxtor 40gb IDE - Not working
Tested on two consoles with different modchips (Messiah 2 and NH7)
Maybe i'm doing something wrong:
1)Format HDD to FAT32
2)Add some ISO's with PS2DCDMP
3)Connect HDD to PS2
4)Turn HDD on
5)Turn PS2 on
6)Load PS2ESDL 0.811D-I via uLaunchElf
7)PS2ESDL cant find any USB (or iLink, in that case) drive

I can't take screenshots right now, but i tried both test programs and:
iLinkDebug.elf stops at 'InitializingSCSIDevice'
iLinkDebug_iLinkman.elf says it can't find any SBP-2 device.

and one more thing - what about *.irx drivers? It's OK if i just leave them in the same folder with PS2ESDL-I ELF?

Thanks for the feedback. I've been waiting for a couple more users to help improve the IEEE1394 support.

If possible, can you identify the IEEE1394 bridge it has? (It's one of the chips on the enclosure's PCB that looks like a small processor, which basically looks like a square)

Please run this new testing program instead: <Removed obsolete testing program>
It contains iLinkman v0.97 Revision B, which has much better compatibility than the iLinkman version used in all existing PS2ESDL-I builds.

Please either upload a photograph of the messages you see on your screen here or send them to my e-mail address: scientoboy@hotmail.com.
Please ensure that they are clear and are readable.

If this new testing program does successfully detect your disk and can detect the FAT32 partition on it, then the next PS2ESDL build that has iLink support will probably support your enclosure.

About the IRX modules: If I remember correctly, v0.811D-I required you to place a copy of the Sony ilink.irx module in the same folder.
The ilink.irx module must be from a game that did not use IOPRP images of v3.00 (IOPRP300.img) or v3.10 (IOPRP310.img).

PS2ESDL v0.817-I does not need Sony's ilink.irx module.

@All who are going to buy an IEEE1394 enclosure: Avoid those enclosures that have Prolific PL3507 bridge as they seem to not be compatible, and I have not figured out why yet (Freezes when reading sectors from the disk).

[orion217]

Well, the HDD enclosure itself is just a piece of plastic and some wires.
All chipset are inside the interface cable:
initio inic-1430l - connects to IDE Bus
fw802 - IEEE bridge
winbond w29ee512p-70 - firmware ?

As i said, i cant take pictures right now: my camera not working, and TV-tuner is in another city, so, no pictures untill next saturday.

iLinkman v0.97 Revision B stopped at "initializing fetch agent..."

and about IRX - i used v0.811D-I with iLink.irx and ieee1394_disk.irx in the same folder.

UPD: found my ooold 3Mpx camera:

[SP193]

Well, the HDD enclosure itself is just a piece of plastic and some wires.
All chipset are inside the interface cable:
initio inic-1430l - connects to IDE Bus
fw802 - IEEE bridge
winbond w29ee512p-70 - firmware ?

As i said, i cant take pictures right now: my camera not working, and TV-tuner is in another city, so, no pictures untill next saturday.

iLinkman v0.97 Revision B stopped at "initializing fetch agent..."

Please try this: iLinkDebug_iLinkman_98B_rev1.elf
Note: It still contains iLinkman v0.97 Revision B, but I made a typo in the filename. :X

One of the checks on the fetch agent's status was removed, as the SBP-2 standard did not say that checking the fetch agent's status before initialization was allowed.

The Initio INIC-1430l chip is your IEEE1394 bridge.
Please try to update it's firmware if possible.

I did a quick search, and it seems like there were updates for it.

and about IRX - i used v0.811D-I with iLink.irx and ieee1394_disk.irx in the same folder.

For v811D-I, only ilink.irx will be loaded.
ieee1394_disk.irx was released for other developers to develop their applications with IEEE1394/SBP-2 device support.

[orion217]

iLinkDebug_iLinkman_98B_rev1.elf - still stops at "initializing fetch agent...".
And i believe there is no firmware updates for my HDD enclosure. Well, they do exist, but only for more complicated and "smart" solutions based on INIC-1430l.

[Ceedlorenzo]

Hello i seem to have found a bug but i don't know if you knew it already... Anyway, here it it...

I deleted my USB_Advance format games on my 8GB flash drive and put in my 2 ISO games on the DVD folder. But with the USBAdvance games having been deleted, now the PS2ESDL 0.816 always reports "No usable drive" or something similar message. I can't even switch to the ISO games list. I can only enter the settings menu or perform a soft exit to the boot browser.

OPL0.8 can play all my ISO games without problem.

Maybe i'll just have to put back my ul.cfg file with installed games but without the real 1Gb sliced file to be able to access the ISO game list.. I remember having 1 of my 2 USBAdvance games got deleted without the ul.cfg file updated and it didn't had any problems just dont run the game though,

Anyways, hope you could fix this problem before the release of 0.820. Oh how exciting! And oh! i'd really love to have NTFS support. I hate to see my External HDD having a FAT32 partition. ahahaha!!!

[CHRI5]

Yeah I had the same problem too. PS2ESDL 0.816 won't list any DVD games if there isn't a CD game in the CD folder, it just shows a message "No valid USB device ineserted". Just put a dummy CD game in the CD folder and it should work fine.

ie. rename any file to SLUS_123.45.Dummy.iso and put it in the CD folder.

[flahrgenstow]

any news on ratchet 3?

also i was just wondering. what other ratchet games do or dont work with PS2ESDL or OPL?