Free McBoot Question

I recently purchased an 8mb Sony memory card for my PS2 that has Free McBoot, uLaunchELF, ESR, HD Laoder and Open PS2 Loader on it. I've figured out how to transfer games to the hard drive using HDL_Dump and it plays them just fine using HD Loader but the position of the video on the screen is off, it's too high so there's a black bar on about the bottom 15% of the screen. Is there any way to adjust this? Also, how do you get back to the main Free McBoot menu after using any of these programs, do you have to completely reboot your PS2? Also, where can I find guides that tell me how to use all these programs? Sorry for sounding like a Noob but I'll admit it, I AM!

Go ahead and use Open PS2 Loader instead of HDLoader, as OPL is far more advanced and is constantly being updated. There are a bunch of guides on how to use OPL, google is your friend but if you don't feel like searching go here. You can use In Game Reset (IGR) in OPL to load the main menu by pressing L1+L2+R1+R1+START+SELECT at the same time (some games work with this some don't). Here is a wiki for uLaunchELF. Couldn't find a guide for ESR but here is the official ESR forum. Finally if you want to turn your PS2 into a media center, you can get SMS Media Player from here and the user guide here.

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Originally Posted by bazthespazz

I recently purchased an 8mb Sony memory card for my PS2 that has Free McBoot, uLaunchELF, ESR, HD Laoder and Open PS2 Loader on it. I've figured out how to transfer games to the hard drive using HDL_Dump and it plays them just fine using HD Loader but the position of the video on the screen is off, it's too high so there's a black bar on about the bottom 15% of the screen. Is there any way to adjust this? Also, how do you get back to the main Free McBoot menu after using any of these programs, do you have to completely reboot your PS2? Also, where can I find guides that tell me how to use all these programs? Sorry for sounding like a Noob but I'll admit it, I AM!

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not sure about the position of the screen as i have never had that prblem with either OPL or HDLoader. How are you connecting to the TV? and what settings do you have in the PS2 for tv output? i use a component cable on a HDTV.... but i did use the composite cable without trouble. there is a program called GSM you can use to set screen position, it has its own thread here on the forums. this program sets the graphics output and screen position before you start your game.

hi its Masir

I've got the PS2 connected to and old CRT type TV using just the standard Red, White and Yellow video cables that came with the PS2. As far as setting for my PS2, I've got it set to "Full Screen" mode. I've been reading up on GSM but still haven't tried it.

I'm going to make an educated guess here - are you in a PAL region but booting an PAL-patched NTSC game? That might account for the screen position issue (without a Y-fix performed, PAL has 96 more scanlines than NTSC and so there will be 96 black lines below the image). If so, GSM should be able to work with that, but I would recommend going back to the original disc and letting GSM handle the video mode.

I've tried several games and they all do the same thing. My setup screens for OPL are centered but when you start a game it's too high on the screen. BTW, thanks for all the suggestions.

EDIT. That might be the problem. All the games I've been having problems with are games I've downloaded. Even though they were all marked as being NTSC, they had the black bar at the bottom of the screen. As a test I took an NTSC game disc I had and ripped it then transferred it to the hard drive and it was perfect. Thanks again for the help!

talking about downloaded games can get you banned here.... just a friendly warning.

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