Playstation 2 External Storage Device games Loader (PS2ESDL)

**mrjared123** · 10-06-2012,02:57 PM

Just asking, it's because that you can format the PSP memory stick to FAT16 and it reads games faster than FAT32.

**RandQalan** · 10-06-2012,07:44 PM

Yea psp will run faster if fat16 but the big drawback is fat16 has 4GB size limit so any MS over that can not be used

**mrjared123** · 10-06-2012,08:36 PM

I thought that memory sticks 2GB and under were originally FAT16 and memory sticks 4GB and up were FAT32 (you have to format it to FAT16 to get a speed boost)

**RandQalan** · 10-06-2012,08:48 PM

Yea that works under 4GB and above stuck at fat32 like me but way faster then needed if magic gate support for MS

Side note I have a usb stick under 4GB and it runs faster with OPL PS2ESDL if formatted in Fat16

**SP193** · 10-07-2012,12:36 AM

Originally Posted by RandQalan

Yea that works under 4GB and above stuck at fat32 like me but way faster then needed if magic gate support for MS

Side note I have a usb stick under 4GB and it runs faster with OPL PS2ESDL if formatted in Fat16

Huh? Seriously? That shouldn't happen because it's not possible!

In game, both loaders don't care about the cluster sizes (Or even the filesystem) - at all. They just read data in blocks of 4096 bytes.

But, the filesystem may affect the performance while in the game selection screen as the full USB Mass Storage device driver is used. That will mean that data will be read in multiples of the cluster size (So if your filesystem has got small clusters, it will take a while).

**RandQalan** · 10-07-2012,12:54 AM

Don't really know why but both this and OPL loading and run games faster with that stick in fat16 and since it is small enough stick to work with that filing system
I just use it that way maybe that stick has problems with FAT32

**mrjared123** · 10-07-2012,10:56 AM

Do FMVs run a little smoother?

**RandQalan** · 10-07-2012,11:29 AM

When I compare the same games just a little but like most game still not very good

But it is loading times it is 2 to 5 sec faster

**mrjared123** · 10-07-2012,11:32 AM

That's cool! But you can't play bigger games then...

Anyways, there are still a lot of good smaller games.

**RandQalan** · 10-07-2012,11:47 AM

Well I only use it for testing I have a fat with internal hard drive best way to game

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