I installed Free McBoot...now how do I play games with it?

[BahamutLagoon]

Some months ago I made a topic about my options for playing Japanese games on the newer Slim that I have. Well, I finally got around to installing Free McBoot and now I have no idea how to play the games. Can anyone help?

[dlanor]

Some months ago I made a topic about my options for playing Japanese games on the newer Slim that I have. Well, I finally got around to installing Free McBoot and now I have no idea how to play the games. Can anyone help?

FMCB itself is not a game launcher, but the ESR program that comes with it is.

Inside the forum for "PS2 Homebrew/Dev & Emu" stuff there is a subforum specially for ESR, so that is where you should post questions regarding its use.

In brief what you need to do to run a game with ESR is as follows:

1: Rip the original game disc to get an ISO file for burning to DVD-R
2: But before burning, first patch that ISO file with an ESR patcher program
(There are many available, but all should do exactly the same thing)
3: Burn the patched ISO to a high-quality disc
4: Insert the backup disc in the console and reboot

If you have not used FMCB settings to disable disc booting step 4 above should start the game. Some people (like myself) prefer to always boot into uLE with disc booting disabled, and for such cases an ESR-patched game disc can instead be launched by using the "PS2Disc" command of uLE. This is done either by using the uLE FileBrowser to manually navigate to the "MISC/PS2Disc" subprogram and launch it, or by configuring one of uLE's shortcut buttons for that subprogram, and simply press that button to launch any ESR disc in the CDVD tray.

It is also possible to launch backups of out-of-region games with other backup game launchers, such as OPL (Open PS2 Loader) which can launch games from several different media (PS2 HDD, USB drives, SMB fileshares).

Best regards: dlanor

[BahamutLagoon]

Thanks for the information. I'd like to be able to play games off of a USB flash drive but I'll need a much bigger one first.


Okay, I made a patched backup of one of my games but when I try to run PS2Disc it says something about it not being an Elf file?


Nevermind, I forgot to put an Elf file on the USB drive. I got it working now.



I merged all of your posts into one, next time use the EDIT BUTTON, located in bottom of the reply box...