PS2 HDD to SSD - Plus silent fan! 

Thank you!

The original GunCon 1 and 2 only work with CRTs as they require the scanning beam to know where they are pointing. The GunCon 3 uses IR tracking like the Wii remote but only Time Crisis 4 and above recognises this controller. There are 3rd party solutions for using older games on LCD but Im not sure which one works for the console games.

HDD temps arent an issue with an SSD mind! Yeah Ive traded off removing the drive (or more accurately the network card and the drive gets stuck inside), for ExFAT just because it means I dont need to keep a Windows machine to hand just to add games 😅

What software do you use to upload games to HDD via LAN? I never figured it out and had to disassemble WinXP PC to upload each game.

@@volo870 At first I used hdl_dump.exe with a batch to install all games to the HDD while directly connected to the PC, now I use hdl_dumb.exe which is a GUI for hdl_dump.exe but only installs one game at a time. The version is rev47, should be pretty easy to find.

For me I use the HDLGameInstaller elf on the ps2 and the exe on the PC to transfer the games best of luck!

SCPH-30003 IIRC. Edit: According to PSDev Wiki this is Chassis C

@@NaokisRC Thanks for reply i was quite surprised when i saw motherboard that small lol It was first time seeing internals like that so i was quite surprised after years of fiddling with PS2 and OG Xbox i though i seen all of them 😅😂

NBD support isnt something that comes prebuilt into all the OSes and yes you can add it but that looked more hassle than was worth to just use USB. So, yes but really not much better.

@@NaokisRC Yes, it is not built in natively in many OSs. I was just pointing out, that the info at the timestamp was technically incorrect. :)

Its called EmotionEngine and is made by skikes if I recall.

You would be correct 😉 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hJpxAOlQAFo.html

Emotion Engine is think it was called, or something near enough

@@NaokisRC Awesome! I'll have a search around. Thank you 😊

It’s technically possible but youd need to put all of the electronics that in the adaptor on the inside and theres 60+ wires for it

@@NaokisRC Yeah I suppose it could be done. I just have bad OCD haha.

You could probably slim it down severely by pulling the electronics out of the adapter and 3D printing a slim cover. You'd be limited to SSDs though essentially

They always play with either IDE or SATA

​@@NaokisRC I didn't understand what you meant

Theoretically only as fast as 400 megabits which in theory could rival the internal hard drive but then overhead might lower that. Plus you would need to use a firewire hard drive which aren’t nearly as common as IDE and USB

If only I was able to have such a setup!

@@NaokisRC well i always had sound systems since my 6th grade year however since my senior year in High School, it's when i got 2 15" woofers and it's been like dat ever since

When I bought a Ps2 in 2001, I thought it would be awesomme, because I would be able to watch Space Oddisey 2001 on DVD. Oh boy was I wrong. Yes it never bothers you if you play games, but forget DVD on the early pre-50K models.

There is no spin up time and no extra hard drive noise, both of which were noticeable to me. Plus it means I only need a laptop sata drive to usb adaptor instead of one that also supplies 12 volts.

Access times will destroy a traditional HDD - as many consoles are constantly streaming due to the smaller hardware it is using. Your going from avg 15ms to 0ms which in hefty scenes or lots of loading can actually benefit. Please test yourself, you'll see that SSD's are far better then HDD's. Even if there's UDMA66, in random access the HDD will actually be slower due to it's head having to seek constant around the platter. An SSD does not have that problem. Replacing a notebook's HDD with a SSD will speed up things greatly.

@@vanderlinde4you Streaming? A Playstation2 does not have those features. Those were implemented in 8'th gen consoles, not 6'th gen. Of course mechanical harddrives wear down. But not the way you say they will. What you are talking about, is fragmentation, and it is fully software related. Not hardware related. It happens on stuff like Windows, and the specific filesystem in use. If you just copy ISO games to the harddrive one at a time, the fragmentation is not severe. The Ps2 does not do writing. It only does reading, and that will never cause fragmentation of data. The specific harddrive standards you refer to, have nothing to do with fragmentation at all. It is just a set of commands and a theoretical transfer speed. Set of commands be the ATA commands that are baked into the harddrives controller on it. Back in 2007, I installed a HDD and used the first versions of FMCB, as they were released. I used ESR the same week it were first released. And I used an ATA-100 harddrive with HD-Loader. What I experienced, were data loading too fast in some games, making the cutscenes being terminated before they have been played through. When using HD-Loader. It happened on few games. That is the only downside I saw with FMCB and HD-Loader.

@@brostenen Consoles do stream. Perhaps the way is said different but consoles simply on the fly do load in textures or different rooms, scenes or open world all the time. A HDD is slower due to it's access times. A SSD would simply max out the UDMA66 connection it does have. I dont see any downside of using a SSD inside a PS2.

@@vanderlinde4you What exactly are you talking about, when writing streamining?