hdd working with games?

**theskillster** · 08-17-2004,01:50 AM

hi, im new here, but im having great luck with the hdloader mc and ftp stuff.
but if i remember the plus point for having a hdd originally before hdloader was so that u could use it as a memcard with most games, and most games (mainly jap ones) could install them selves there and download updates to the hdd,
my games dont detect the hdd, anyone know what to do, and is anyone noticing the same thing?

**bungiefan** · 08-17-2004,05:03 AM

If you don't have an official Sony HDD games won't detect the hard drive in your system. Games scan the firmware of the HDD for Sony's data before enabling HDD support, and non-SOny hard drive's can't pass that check, unless you patch the game to not perform the check.

**theskillster** · 08-17-2004,03:09 PM

anywhere i can look on how to patch games to do that, or has anyone found hdd firmware for sonys ps2 hdd on the net?

**bungiefan** · 08-18-2004,09:44 AM

Originally Posted by theskillster

anywhere i can look on how to patch games to do that, or has anyone found hdd firmware for sonys ps2 hdd on the net?

It doesn't matter if you can find the firmware on the net unless you have the same model of hard drive that the firmware was ripped from. Firmware is brand and model specific, and will not work on different hardware than what it was programmed for. Someone would have to program equivalent firmware for the hard drive you have, and would have to supply a program to install it. With how many different hard drives there are, even if someone was working on the taks, the odds of them doing it for the hard drive you have are pretty slim.

**Clinton514** · 08-18-2004,10:15 AM

Even if you were to find the firmwire update for the HDD...I woulnd't use it on a non-official hdd. I have a CD-RW burner...the specs were 40x32x24... I updated it with the wrong firmwire and now it burns at 16x at the most. So imagine the problems of trying to patch in a firmwire to a different HDD. You'd probably see a 120 gig hdd go down to 40 gigs or worst

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