Playstation 2 Thread

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Playstation 2 Thread Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:04:54 2020 No.6843745 [Reply] [Original]

That's right.
This is a PS2 thread, aka the best console ever made.
Post those good ass games and hidden gems.
Post those good memories you have with it.
Post anything PS2 related.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:09:19 2020 No.6843756 File: 1.28 MB, 3225x2156, skygun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZerrPE-N-MU This is the best game in the PS2 library

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:15:11 2020 No.6843767 File: 62 KB, 353x500, 51DJ4DXAF7L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 copies of pic related are like 30 dollars. can't really blame them, this game is cool as fuck. >>6843756 that looks cool as fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:16:18 2020 No.6843770 File: 742 KB, 640x452, skygun2.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843767 It's really, really good

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:17:04 2020 No.6843771 File: 514 KB, 221x231, 1530120045763.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Finally picked up some component cables, and it makes a big difference on an LCD. They're a cheap pair, but it's still such a big step up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:18:38 2020 No.6843774 >>6843771 >component cables i tried using my ps2 on an old crt but it was making an ear piercing noise so i had to turn it off.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:22:58 2020 No.6843787 >>6843774 If there's something better for PS2, I'm not aware of it, plus I only spent $8 for it anyway. The CRT was? They make a hum, yeah, but you get used to it after a while.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:24:06 2020 No.6843792 >>6843745 You spelled N64 wrong.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:26:12 2020 No.6843801 >>6843787 no, see, i did the sound was unusually fucking loud, more than it should be, i went to an store with old crts on it and none of them were making as much noise as this one was >>6843792 how dare you

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:29:18 2020 No.6843807 >>6843801 Ahh, don't know enough about them to know if that's a symptom of anything, but that doesn't sound good. Could be that there's some greater issue going on with the set.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:29:38 2020 No.6843808 File: 54 KB, 373x500, 61V972CCQRL._AC_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Dark cloud 3 when Sony

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:31:11 2020 No.6843815

>>6843745
Got my first PS2 with money I earned mowing lawns. Could only afford a used console, a memory card and a used copy of Onimusha 1, but it was the best fucking summer ever.

Later the same year (as far as i recall), NFS Hot Pursuit 2 came out. My best friend I both got it and played all the time. Not together oddly...

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:31:37 2020 No.6843818 >>6843801 You’re right but Gamecube is better than PS2 by a mile

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:34:14 2020 No.6843827 >>6843756 I may be a retard, but I tried turning manual controls on, and couldn't get it to work (this was like... 15(?) Years ago...). Still a great game though. Love the art style.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:35:05 2020 No.6843829 >>6843818 i got a gamecube recently and i do thing the console itself is better but i do prefer the ps2 library

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:35:49 2020 No.6843831 >>6843829 Yeah PS2 is in my top 5 just not above gamecube.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:36:28 2020 No.6843834 >>6843792 Low test troll. Ps2 has more good games than N64 has games in total. More games that shaped the future of gaming and is of a generally higher quality.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:38:06 2020 No.6843836 File: 475 KB, 800x267, atomiswave.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SNK's absolute peak.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:38:23 2020 No.6843838 >>6843834 Nobody remembers any of the PS2 games besides the GTA series. Most of the games were shovelware like 99% of the games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:40:29 2020 No.6843846 >>6843838 >Nobody remembers any of the PS2 games besides the GTA series. what are you, 12?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:41:31 2020 No.6843848 I like how that person deleted there post on SNK because the realized the Neo Geo was a joke of a console.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:42:36 2020 No.6843851 >>6843846 No, but you have the menatlity of a 12 year old to think PS2 could beat the Dreamcast.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:46:07 2020 No.6843864 >>6843851 gta isn't even the first thing i think of when i think of ps2 games, shit not even the 5th thing

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:49:22 2020 No.6843873 >>6843864 That was literally their gravy train. That was the main thing that got people to buy PS2s.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:56:30 2020 No.6843886 >>6843873 they were very popular titles, but they're not the only things to define the ps2

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 09:58:51 2020 No.6843892 >>6843886 Yeah there's also Fifa and mountains of other shovelware to truly define PS2.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 10:03:01 2020 No.6843903 >>6843873 there was also a bunch of exclusive games and other AA titles. there was a lot of shovelware for sure but those were easily avoidable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 10:43:12 2020 No.6844014 >>6843892 I'm OK with the bad games being obviously bad games, but it's unacceptable when 5/10s like windwaker and 6/10's like mario sunshine are hailed as killer apps on any console

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:30:06 2020 No.6844171 File: 3.90 MB, 5748x6740, ps2_50284465016_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 Obligatory.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:30:38 2020 No.6844174 File: 347 KB, 1200x798, 187-ride-or-die-ps2-patch-D_NQ_NP_700330-MLB30411775343_052019-F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 This game was legit dumb fun. I loved this shit right here

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:31:41 2020 No.6844180 >>6844171 we need to add some hidden gems to it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:38:51 2020 No.6844202 >>6844180 Yeah, the title image hasn't been updated since 2016. Does anon have a list some hidden gems for the PS2 that are not in that image? I know there are a few still missing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:45:11 2020 No.6844223 File: 31 KB, 296x420, DEF+JAM+FIGHT+FOR+NY.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can you find your favorite game here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixeRUJQ5yPc >>6844202 sadly no, but i`ll look into it during the day

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:45:22 2020 No.6844224 >>6843808 Why Sony? It's a Level-5 game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:45:58 2020 No.6844227 >>6844171 >NFSHP2 >PlayStation exclusive Who the fuck made this list?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:47:15 2020 No.6844234 >>6844227 Originally from /v/, but it's outdated. Someone should fix it though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:51:04 2020 No.6844253 >>6844227 yeah it needs a fix

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:52:16 2020 No.6844265 >>6844171 Whoever put Xenosaga on that list should be shot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:53:14 2020 No.6844271 PS2 games were discussed in online communities on launch. There's no hidden gems.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 11:59:30 2020 No.6844296 >>6844271 Anon was probably referring to really obscure games that came after launch. I believe many posted them in the weird/niche PS2 games thread here on /vr/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 12:00:45 2020 No.6844302 Can anyone recommend decent third party controllers? It's getting hard to find originals.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 12:09:15 2020 No.6844324 >>6844302 Anything from Logitech is typically of high quality. Madcatz is usually seen as the poorfag controller but they work perfectly fine as well.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 12:11:07 2020 No.6844335 File: 8 KB, 480x360, laystatio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] God Hand, Okami, Nocturne, Yakuza 1 and 2... some of my favorites. Not really a fan of shit like gta 3 or jak and daxter that so many zoomers seem to love.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 12:12:51 2020 No.6844343 >>6844324 Thank you

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 12:18:18 2020 No.6844358 >>6844302 hori and ascii

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 12:41:52 2020 No.6844474 >>6844265 Lol, such an overrated garbage. I hope Xenogears will be better when I play it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 12:45:22 2020 No.6844485 >>6844234 >Originally from /v/ You should check discussions on there, anon, people don't even know what /v/ is these days.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:05:32 2020 No.6844574 >>6844271 i guess hidden gems in a sense that a game haven't been played but too many people.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:10:48 2020 No.6844592 >>6843745 >Post those good ass games and hidden gems. Fuck off, Metal Jeebus. You've enabled scalpers enough.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:14:31 2020 No.6844608 >>6844335 Based taste. Don't like GTA 3 that much either, it just feels completely empty and dead these days.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:15:53 2020 No.6844612 >>6844592 i hate that faggot and scalpers. i hope they all burn

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:25:35 2020 No.6844652

>>6844202
Ephemeral Phantasia is jank as fuck, but kinda cool. It's a JRPG with a timeloop mechanic and some music minigames. Also apparently based on the works of Shakespeare, but when I played it as a kid I didn't understand that. I remember the game getting lambasted by journos though, it got like 3 from IGN, so it might be too jank for most people.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:28:23 2020 No.6844667 >>6843745 Please post nudes of Kelsey

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:31:16 2020 No.6844676

>>6844574
IMO, a hidden gem would be a game that isn't stupidly over rated, or gained a cult following over time.

An example would be Ridge Racer 5. It was a "meh" upon release, but it's a seriously fun game none the less. It lacks the flair, charm and sheer volume of content R4 had, but it's just as fun to play.
That's a PS2 hidden gem, IMO.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:33:17 2020 No.6844689

>>6844271
That logic extends to every console ever you dimwit. Plus, what about obscure foreign games? What about games that only appealed to fans of a specific series or genre? What about limited releases or games that were commercial duds the first time around? Do you even know what a hidden gem is?

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:38:14 2020 No.6844713

>>6843745
Hidden gems?

>Xtreme G3
>Heavenly Guardian
>Cold Fear
>Extermination
>Lifeline (be patient with it though)
>Kuon (emulate, it's a stupid expensive collectible now)
>Okage
>Stretch Panic
>Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex

All great games that didn't perform the best, and were mostly forgotten over time

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:49:24 2020 No.6844757 >>6844713 want cold fear like a test game for re4 or something?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 13:57:26 2020 No.6844801 PS2 was the best console because there are no bad PS2 games Go ahead and prove me wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 14:02:07 2020 No.6844818 File: 1.25 MB, 1920x1080, 1599362474602.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6844801 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBb0EDtafk

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 14:06:53 2020 No.6844841 >>6844818 jesus christ that looks like a shitty powerpoint PC game i refuse to associate this with PS2, it doesn't even use the engine

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 14:18:28 2020 No.6844885 >>6844841 nop, sorry. that`s on the ps2. you have been proven wrong haha

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 14:30:42 2020 No.6844921

Does anyone know how hard it is to replace the laser? None of my systems will read blue discs and it pisses me off. I do have freemcboot and can just run those games off usb or ethernet but it would be cool to own some of my favorite blue disc games again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 14:41:42 2020 No.6844968 >>6844921 not sure. here in brazil shit is pretty cheap to replace. i might have to replace mine ever since it fell from the shelf.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:01:18 2020 No.6845050 File: 2.34 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20200721_091958730.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Which one we playin white boy?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:06:00 2020 No.6845064 >>6845050 Onimusha, nigga.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:08:25 2020 No.6845075 >>6845050 area 51 MP. followed by okami, klonoa 2 time splitters 2

>>	Kotonohas' Husbando Mon Sep 7 15:09:37 2020 No.6845083 >>6843756 I loved when G4 would play the opening movie.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:10:45 2020 No.6845090 >>6844223 The Xbox version is the best version of FFNY

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:13:24 2020 No.6845098 >>6845090 yeah but the ps2 version is good enough. you can also play it online with dolphin, there`s a whole community with tier lists and everything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:15:31 2020 No.6845113 >>6844921 Go buy multi-meter, open up your PS2 and turn pot on your laser down to 650Ohm. That's true for both pots there. Count it as a "red" limit, but you can go lower if necessary because a laser like that don't have long to live anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:16:03 2020 No.6845115 >>6845050 MGS 2, Klonoa 2; play Viewtiful Joe, RE4, Okami and Monkey ball all on the Gamecube; Yakuza 1 and 2, GTA 3 and Vice City; and use the rest as spare cases

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:21:21 2020 No.6845142

>>6843745
What is the best sort of softmod I can go for? It seems FreeMcBoot and OPL are the highlight, though it also sounds like using a USB drive for game loading is quite dodgy so a network connection or a HDD are the best ways to play. I'm also missing my Dualshock after all these years so I need to find that or buy a replacement, anyone know any good alternatives that aren't $70?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:26:23 2020 No.6845164 >>6845050 >He owns Re:Chain and not KH1 shit nigger, what are you doing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:27:29 2020 No.6845175 >>6845164 >They were out of order I have no one to blame but myself Still, fuck Re:Chain of Memories, just buy a GBA.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:33:40 2020 No.6845198 >>6845050 Holy shit I own most of these Maximo Ghost to Glory best PS2 game of all time

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:40:11 2020 No.6845231 >>6845198 >Maximo Ghost to Glory best PS2 game of all time Bad taste. I have it too and it's a pretty underwhelming, mediocre game. Nothing special. Don't get too excited.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:42:39 2020 No.6845239 >>6845231 >Don't get too excited Already beat it twice, don't tell me what to do dumbshit Bet you couldn't even beat the first stage

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:48:01 2020 No.6845268

>>6845239
Oh, I beat the game. I gave it a chance, but I thought it was an underwhelming game the whole way through and nothing in the game impressed me at all.
Don't get mad at me, though. You're free to enjoy your mediocre platformer game. I'm just telling it like it is. Maximo isn't shovelware, but it's far from one of the best PS2 games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:50:09 2020 No.6845282 Where do you guys download your ISOs from?

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:50:39 2020 No.6845284

>>6844689
>That logic extends to every console ever you dimwit.
No? 5th gen and bellow was mostly covered by magazines, it's not the same thing. Information wasn't that easily avaible back then.
>Plus, what about obscure foreign games?
Discussed online to death by people who wanted to try new games for their brand new 6th gen systems
>What about games that only appealed to fans of a specific series or genre?
Discussed online to death by fans of that specific series or genre
>What about limited releases or games that were commercial duds the first time around?
You mean like Ico and Beyond Good And evil? Aka two of the most well known 6th gen games ever because of the internet? Are you literally 12 or what?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:54:27 2020 No.6845308 >>6845268 The game is tougher than nails and so far you said nothing about the difficulty, can tell you haven't even touched it

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:55:36 2020 No.6845316

>>6845142
>What is the best sort of softmod I can go for?
Fat: FMCB + HDD IDE or SATA if you can mod your network adapter.
Slim: FMCB + SMB transfer using Raspberry Pi (any) or laptop.
>using a USB drive for game loading is quite dodgy so a network connection or a HDD are the best ways to play
Yes. PS2 USB port transfer rate is capped at USB 1.1 speeds, so the HDD or network transfer is your best bet. Don't bother with the disk drive, since earlier models have inferior laser disks.
>I'm also missing my Dualshock after all these years so I need to find that or buy a replacement, anyone know any good alternatives that aren't $70?
EBay is selling cheap authentic DS2 controllers. I can easily find them for around $30-40, depending on the location and shipping fees.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 15:59:30 2020 No.6845339 >>6845308 >The game is tougher than nails and so far you said nothing about the difficulty Because the game's not even hard. Stop with all the cope and play more games. Get some actual taste.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:00:41 2020 No.6845346 >>6845282 Get them at archive.org or the-eye .eu

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:04:19 2020 No.6845363 >>6845346 Already downloading from archive.org, glad to know it's a trusted source, I didn't find any PS2 games at the-eye tho. Anyway thanks senpai.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:05:16 2020 No.6845368 >>6845363 Not him, but avoid coolrom.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:07:05 2020 No.6845375 >>6845346 thanks mate

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:07:46 2020 No.6845382 >>6845368 I've gotten 1 or 2 to roms in the past from them, but they always felt shady. What's so bad about them?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:09:08 2020 No.6845391 >>6845382 Viruses, trogans, etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:09:48 2020 No.6845393 Just finished Time Splitters 2 and had a blast. Is the arcade mode worth playing? Also why the fuck is Future Perfect like 40 bucks

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:10:25 2020 No.6845396 >>6845382 They used to be fine. Now it seems like they force you to download a download manager...which is a big no to me

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:10:50 2020 No.6845397 >>6845382 I use vimm to get all my US roms

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:11:46 2020 No.6845403 File: 1.33 MB, 3171x4000, ps2 grid 01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:13:18 2020 No.6845414 >>6845393 You went this whole time without playing the arcade? Are you serious, nigger? When I got TS2, I only played arcade for the first few months I had it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:14:21 2020 No.6845417 >>6845403 >Mark Of Kri Yuck. Get that bargain bin shovelware the fuck out of that image.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:14:59 2020 No.6845418 >>6843808 Love this game so much

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:16:17 2020 No.6845424 >>6843745 Not retro.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:17:03 2020 No.6845426 >>6845414 I just went through the story. I've just now played the first couple levels of the arcade mode and its pretty great actually. Are all of the levels deathmatch against bots?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:18:12 2020 No.6845431 >>6845391 So the usual shenanigans. >>6845396 Yeah, I stay clear of those as well, as soon as I see a .exe downloading I nope the fuck out. >>6845397 It's fine for 1 game every now and then but for more at once it's way too slow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:22:12 2020 No.6845450 >>6845431 Yeah it's pretty slow for getting more than a game or two. I also use some nointro archive.org links that i found a while back

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:25:30 2020 No.6845465 >>6845450 >no intro Neat, didn't know something lile that exists.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:28:19 2020 No.6845481 >>6845465 have fun anon https://archive.org/details/no-intro_romsets

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:29:43 2020 No.6845486 >>6845268 >Maximo isn't shovelware, but it's far from one of the best PS2 games. Playing it for the first time was so disappointing. It seemed like the exact kind of game of like, and the GnG series is generally amazing

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:30:58 2020 No.6845494 >>6845115 Okami isn't on Gamecube, dumbo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:38:41 2020 No.6845523 File: 49 KB, 405x582, 918bb486131e865edd35cae2c382e2bc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6845417

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 16:50:35 2020 No.6845561 >>6845481 Sweet, thanks anon!

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 17:19:11 2020 No.6845680

>>6845316
>if you can mod your network adapter.
My brother stole mine back in the hayday just to play FF12, and it didn't work but he kept it anyway for his HDD out of convenience. Since I have no real technical know-how for converting an IDE to a SATA with the various kits or the like, I guess i'd be stuck with a dummy adapter for SATA. Even if I did get a working and converted adapter, best I could do is a LAN connection to my PC for the wi-fi net it uses, because the actual net router is on the opposite side of the house.

Apparently some games have private servers going and I would really like to enjoy something like Timesplitters online which I missed out on back in the day, maybe some good ol' Tony Hawk or an experiment with RE Outbreak, but finding a pre-modded SATA network adapter is like a needle in a haystack, and I don't want to deal with IDE prices, so dummy with a HDD's my best option.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 17:37:13 2020 No.6845751 >>6845561 Hey sorry I didn't realize that this one didnt have PS1/2 games. Vimm or Cdromance is probably your best bet for those. I'd definitely recommend keeping up adblock for the latter though

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 17:49:50 2020 No.6845813 File: 220 KB, 640x448, PS2_Goemon.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw no english translation patch for Goemon

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 17:53:52 2020 No.6845826 >>6843851 >segay can't spell Pottery

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 17:55:51 2020 No.6845837 >>6845282 >>6845751 i still using emuparadise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 17:59:18 2020 No.6845853 >>6843745 I loved the launch lineup. Why do so many hate it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:03:28 2020 No.6845865 >>6845853 do they? i never seen anyone hate it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:11:01 2020 No.6845894 >>6845853 They were probably disappointed because they only bought Eternal Ring and Fantavision on launch day.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:22:44 2020 No.6845960
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>>6845865
Most of the exclusive titles came out a year later. It was sort of a barren wasteland inbetween the launch year and fall 2001, but people still had tons of fun with games like Tekken Tag Tournament, Ridge Racer V, DW2, Dark Cloud, SSX, DOA2, and Timesplitters.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:23:48 2020 No.6845967

>>6845680
If you have a fat just buy a network adapter that's already modded for SATA from ebay. Quick look I can find some that cost about $18 free shipping. You want the SATA conversion because you'll get like 8-12x the storage per $ compared to IDE and you definitely won't want to keep taking it out to replace the games. Keep in mind that you can get away with slower hard drives because the speed is capped. If you managed to somehow make a SSD work on it, loading won't be quicker though any hard drive backup will load faster than the laser disks. The memory cards with OPL loaded on it are like $8.

The server solution has slowdown in some games. Google it and you'll find people complaining about it. The method that anon gave for fat is the absolute best way to play on original hardware. I did it myself because it was cheaper than upgrading my toaster when I don't even use it for new releases.

The link is too big but if you go to ebay and type
>IDE SATA Network Adaptor HDD Adapter Hard Disk FOR Sony PS2 Playstation US SHIP
There's an adapter for $15 free economy shipping.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:24:04 2020 No.6845972 File: 1.74 MB, 3228x2148, SLUS-20928-F-ALL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:28:29 2020 No.6846003 >>6845960 I wouldn't call it a barren wasteland. We did Onimusha, Dark Cloud, Gran Turismo 3 and Twisted Metal Black in that time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:32:24 2020 No.6846030 >>6846003 True. Although I felt that people's expectations were pretty high back then, since the gaming community wasn't as huge. PSX gamers wanted more exclusive games to release just after the announcement of the Xbox.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:33:01 2020 No.6846035 File: 75 KB, 1024x768, good boy eternal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6845960 >Ace Combat 4 That's that good shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:41:56 2020 No.6846078 >>6845967 >IDE SATA Network Adaptor HDD Adapter Hard Disk FOR Sony PS2 Playstation US SHIP I read the description and they're more dummy adapters with no network functionality that just happen to look official.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:48:44 2020 No.6846098 File: 1.51 MB, 3382x4000, ps2 grid 02.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:56:52 2020 No.6846127 >>6846078 Yeah. I would suggest looking to see if they're available on Amazon. Network adapters can be sold fake with the real Sony branding.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 18:56:53 2020 No.6846128 >>6846098 >Lost Frontier >not original Jak & Daxter

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 19:04:36 2020 No.6846169 >>6844227 technically they're right. the ps2 version is pretty much a different game compared to the other versions. it also happens to be the best version of the game since the B team didn't make it.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 19:05:28 2020 No.6846172
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>>6843745
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVlcdUKFiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4yRe288Os
God, I fucking love every single aspect of the user interface. The startup, the sounds, the visuals, the fucking memory card icons... nothing else gives me the same feels.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 19:40:19 2020 No.6846283 >>6845284 every console generation that came before it has been discussed to death as well. what are you even upset about?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 19:46:21 2020 No.6846297 File: 7 KB, 220x220, DB3D83A2-265B-4E6B-99AB-491282816961.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The PS2 and Xbox were such bad, generic consoles that they made me stop gaming altogether. Now this board is letting people talk about it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:00:31 2020 No.6846332 >>6846297 yes.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:03:12 2020 No.6846340
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>>6846297
I agree the Xbox was awful and wouldn’t have survived without Halo but at least ps2 had the gta games. But ya they aren’t really in the same league as Dreamcast or GameCube

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:09:07 2020 No.6846363 >>6846340 Nah the Shitcube was trash. Really the only good thing to come out of 6th gen was the Dreamcast.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:11:31 2020 No.6846373

I was playing a shit ton of Tales of the Abyss recently. That game's story is ASS. But man is the combat fucking sweet. I tried to unlock every title and get all the costumes and made out with about 90% of the content completed. I'll have to try again next time when I play it again in like 5 years.

I find the default outfits ugly as shit but the costumes you unlock from side quests all look 1000x better. Really awesome how you don't have to pay a single cent to unlock stuff that today would be paid DLC.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:15:36 2020 No.6846384 >>6846340 >>6846363 weird timeline you people come from.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:17:21 2020 No.6846387

I pretty much got back into gaming a year ago when I pulled my PS2 out of my closet and picked up a CRT, and started getting deeper into what FMCB can provide. Honestly if you could only have one console period it's hard to argue against a modded ps2, the sheer amount of A+ games on it when you factor in the entire PS1 library can keep you busy in perpetuity and you don't need to pay a dime for any of it once you get mcboot set up

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:44:33 2020 No.6846491 File: 484 KB, 900x1200, ps2_3x4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 These are my top favorite PS2 games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 20:45:43 2020 No.6846493 >>6846384 desu it would be really funny to live in a world where nobody liked the fifty billion great ps2 games and instead everyone was obsessed with blue stinger and toy commander

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:05:50 2020 No.6846564

>>6846493
Well that’s just it. PS2 was like the normie, baseline system. There was nothing cool or experimental about it. Of course there’s good games on it, statistically speaking, since it had like 1000 games.

If you like it then that’s cool >>6846384

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:08:54 2020 No.6846571 >>6846491 Pseudo-intellectual/10.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:10:27 2020 No.6846578

>>6846387
>the sheer amount of A+ games on it when you factor in the entire PS1 library can keep you busy in perpetuity
Reminds me of when I finished the original FF7 on a PS2 thanks to its BC.
Sold my PSX like a retard, but still held onto my physical copies, fortunately.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:21:05 2020 No.6846624 File: 202 KB, 256x363, Bombastic.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Unironically one of the best puzzle games ever made.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:40:23 2020 No.6846712 >>6846564 apparently it had more than 4k games on it so even the hyperbole doesn't`t match the amount of games it had.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:49:01 2020 No.6846759 File: 110 KB, 426x322, EcHtlJfWoAAbPiD.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 >Best console ever made. After my second PS2, I dropped the Sony brand and never looked back.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:50:08 2020 No.6846762 >>6846759 My 2003 fat PS2 is still kicking, nincel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:50:56 2020 No.6846768 >>6846759 imagine getting filtered by not taking care of your games

>>	Kuku Mon Sep 7 21:52:13 2020 No.6846775 >>6844271 Metal jesus will prove you wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:52:58 2020 No.6846784 >>6846768 >The games. The games are fine. The console was shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:54:30 2020 No.6846793 >>6846564 PS2 had lots of weird games though. It was GC and Xbox that had nothing but the boring, safe, normalcattle crap.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 21:55:25 2020 No.6846802 Ah, the Zoomstation 2.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:11:44 2020 No.6846869 >>6846759 Use the HDD or SMB to play games on a softmodded PS2. Problem solved.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:12:56 2020 No.6846874 >>6844818 if nobody told me it was a ps2 game, i would have assumed it was a multimedia pc game from 1995

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:18:15 2020 No.6846893 >>6846759 I'm lucky my disc drive even works. It takes like 3-4 minutes to recognize a game right now, but once it does load the game everything plays perfectly fine so far.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:26:12 2020 No.6846923

>>6846793
I remember during that period Nintendo was really pushing the envelope and experimenting with their star franchises to the point it was alienating fans. Anyone else remember the 2002 E3 showing?

Dreamcast was REALLY going far out due to the fact Sega had nothing to lose. Space Channel 5 and Seaman and other stuff coming out like that was just... surreal.

PS2 just had a lot of truck racing sims and rpgs. It was similar to the Xbox in that both platforms shared a lot of the same games. PS2 did have a DVD player in it which was sick at the time

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:27:12 2020 No.6846929 >>6846172 what other consoles have save icons that can literally cower in fear when you go to delete them?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:29:36 2020 No.6846937 File: 299 KB, 1147x1495, a.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6846929 >>6846172

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:39:18 2020 No.6846974 File: 1.16 MB, 1920x1080, 20200907_213426.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >find your old memory card

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:40:22 2020 No.6846983
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>>6843745
zoomer here
How difficult is it to mod?

There's lots of games I would like to play, but most of them are being sold for literally hundreds of dollars. I paid a lot for the Silent Hill titles, but I'm not doing it again. I'm willing to abandon physical stuff as long as I can keep playing with the OG hardware.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:44:37 2020 No.6846995

>>6846983
Depends on your system. For a fat like mine, about $60-70 for a dummy SATA network adapter, a SATA hard drive, and a device to hook the drive up to your PC so you can download shit onto it (plus a quick flash drive and a spare memory card) can let you install a FreeMCBoot onto the memory card and Open Loader on the hard drive, which lets you basically play every PS2 game besides very, very specific problematic ones.

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:50:40 2020 No.6847024

>>6846983
1. Buy an fmcb'd memory card from the internets (or install the exploit yourself, it's easy, all you need is a codebreaker disc and usb flash memory device)
2. Download and burn games to DVD-Rs
3. Enjoy playing PS2 vidya for free (note: some games won't work on ESR, but the majority do)

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:55:00 2020 No.6847045

>>6847024
>1. Buy an fmcb'd memory card from the internets (or install the exploit yourself, it's easy, all you need is a codebreaker disc and usb flash memory device)
obsolete
new expoit has enabled self-booting dvd's, so you can run the fcmb-installer with only a burned dvd
https://github.com/CTurt/FreeDVDBoot

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:56:38 2020 No.6847052
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>>6846995
>>6847024
I got a fat model, so that checks out.
What about OPL and other methods? is it just a matter of choice, or do they have certain advantages over each other?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:57:46 2020 No.6847058 >>6847052 Well OPL is the best option right now, but the thing is that with a FreeMCBoot modded PS2 you can then use that to put OPL on your system anyway. FMCB is the basis of everything modding-wise, really.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 7 22:58:21 2020 No.6847062 >>6846923 "The ps2 just had a lot of truck racing sims and RPGs" Might be the most retarded post of the day congrats its not easy on this board

Anonymous Mon Sep 7 23:01:51 2020 No.6847078

>>6847024
I like burning dvds just for the nostalgia but honestly my life got a lot easier and better with the ps2 when i got this method running

https://youtu.be/KGi9XnCcOOs

If your main router has a usb port and its in the same room as your ps2 you could just use that too. OPL doesnt work well with a handful of games though so i still use some burnt discs

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 00:23:29 2020 No.6847347 File: 1.40 MB, 996x892, 1584823886102.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] my chink ps2tohdmi doesn't work with smb only via dvd.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 00:35:37 2020 No.6847375 >>6847062 He maybe has mischaracterized the PS2 but he’s not wrong

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 00:42:43 2020 No.6847387 >>6846624 Wait is this actually good? I've passed this up multiple times

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 00:44:06 2020 No.6847391 Has anyone ever played Winback? I finished it tonight and jesus fuck what a pain in the ass it was.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:09:51 2020 No.6847457 >>6847347 Just get a decent PS2/PS3 component cable and a Component to HDMI converter. Those HDMI converters are more unreliable than even the Pound ones.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:14:01 2020 No.6847465 >>6847391 It's not a particularly good game, if you want a fun and appropriately dated 3rd person shooter play psi-ops the mindgate conspiracy. PC port sucks so PS2 and Xbox are the way to go.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:17:16 2020 No.6847480 >>6847465 It wasn't a great game but I was compelled enough to see the whole thing through. I just can't believe how difficult it was and it was not a fair difficulty. I wasn't even aware that Psi-Ops was a 3rd person shooter though. I'll look into it

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:19:12 2020 No.6847487 the PS2 still has the best port of Sega Rally 95 to date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ArPEvRpng

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:19:21 2020 No.6847492

>>6847480
>I wasn't even aware that Psi-Ops was a 3rd person shooter though. I'll look into it
It's from that brief period of havok physics penetrating games. It's all about psychic powers - starting with telekinesis, pyrokinesis, mind control, and putting them all to use to make the game absurdly over the top. From making peoples heads pop open to making them flail above their friends with telekinesis while they shoot their weapons off into any which direction.

Think that recent Remedy game, Control, but with good gameplay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:22:33 2020 No.6847504 >>6847492 That sounds pretty good. I see copies all the time at my local gamestore for like 4 bucks so I'll grab it next time I'm there. Is the Xbox version better than PS2 as far as performance goes?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:23:15 2020 No.6847508 >>6847504 >Is the Xbox version better than PS2 as far as performance goes? Yes, the usual visual and performance improvements. The only version I remember playing especially poorly was the PC port.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:27:55 2020 No.6847530 >>6847487 I'm pissed Sega used Windows CE for Sega Rally 2 on the Dreamcast making it harder to emulate.

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:29:08 2020 No.6847534

>>6847391
The thing about Winback is that it's really more of a time attack game. You can't stick to the archaic cover besides using it to quickly set up shots, and you have to run-and-gun so long as you know the enemy spawns and level layout. It's an N64 game design that got awkwardly ported to the PS2 and it shows.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:44:38 2020 No.6847594 >>6847530 Why not just emulate the model 3 version if youre going to emulate

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:49:59 2020 No.6847613 File: 1.45 MB, 492x380, out.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6847594 Supermodel has uh "issues".

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:54:56 2020 No.6847639 >>6847534 The trouble I had was that the individual sections between checkpoints went on for so long and making a single mistake was often enough to get you killed instantly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 01:56:43 2020 No.6847647 File: 362 KB, 1600x1093, Pirates-The-Legend-Of-Black-Kat-PS2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6844202 Why the fuck is this gem not on that list. There too many games missing on it that are decent to soulful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 02:08:36 2020 No.6847692 >>6847613 Looks fine to me https://youtu.be/JZyhPWmXEiU

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 02:27:41 2020 No.6847735 >>6847692 Weird. I just got through grabbing and compiling the latest source code r822 and it looks like this is a new issue. I guess it doesn't pay to be bleeding edge.

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 02:40:46 2020 No.6847772

Does anyone remember a setting that helped read scratched discs on the ps2 slim?
I feel like I read it from the manual but I can't find that info from a PDF, nor can I find the setting on the ps2 itself... I did something to make a scratched DQ8 work.
Wondering if turning on that setting ruined the disc reader to be unable to read dual layered disc games.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 02:41:14 2020 No.6847774 >>6843873 God of war, WWE, uncharted, final fantasy 12, metal gear, just off the top of my head. Stop projecting your own retarded ignorance onto others.

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 02:51:40 2020 No.6847795

Was there some reason why CAVE shooters were only released in Japan? Even GigaWing Generations came out in Europe, but not the US. I feel like we really got shortchanged and I'm wondering if it's because of the cunt reviewers who gave 7.0 max for 2d PS1 shmups.

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 02:56:13 2020 No.6847801

>>6847795
Ps2 and 360 were the last big fuck yous from japan to the rest of the world when it came to region locking stuff, there is probably no reason DOJ or whatever couldnt have had a modest print run like Shikigami II or something but they were probably like "fuck it, they dont like these games and they're gonna rename it to Bee Squad: Space Warriors or some shit so why even bother"

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 02:57:19 2020 No.6847803 >>6847801 3DS was also region locked

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 03:04:24 2020 No.6847820 >>6847772 Oh the setting was Diagnosis set to "On".

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 03:08:57 2020 No.6847835 >>6844227 Whoever picked that port was right.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 03:15:24 2020 No.6847857 Is Time Crisis 3 basically the swan song of classic light gun games? I just don't know how it really gets better

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 03:22:24 2020 No.6847875 >>6847801 I played Castle Shikigami 2 on the Dreamcast, but according to Wikipedia it was an international release on the PS2.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 03:40:09 2020 No.6847936 >>6847857 >want to play Time Crisis again >but i'd have to spring for a Sinden and probably emulate the game to get anything to work with the ugly white borders on the screen since I have no CRTs

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 03:41:20 2020 No.6847942 File: 63 KB, 1140x700, kombucha-girl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6847875 >released on all 4 6th-gen consoles >only the PS2 version released outside Japan

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 03:44:11 2020 No.6847950 >>6847936 >he doesn't have an aimtrak

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 04:56:12 2020 No.6848096

>>6846983
From my personal experience, it's quite easy, but you will need to spend some money.

You gonna need to install FreeMCBoot on your memory card, it's gonna turn your PS2 into a modding machine.
Here's what you need: PS2 with modchip built in (buy one online), one CD-R disc (i recommend Verbatim's discs), USB flash drive (mine have 32GB available, but you can get better one if you gonna play games off your USB drive).

1. Get image file with FMCB and uLaunchElf online, just google it
2. Burn your CD with ImgBurn (DO NOT burn discs on laptop, worst mistake of my life, if you have laptop you better burn the disc on your friend's computer)
3. Get latest daily OPL build (daily builds have many cool stuff like Popstarter PS1 emulator support) + latest FMCB build (Optional) on your USB drive.
4. Boot up the disc and Install FMCB or use uLaunchElf, insert USB drive in PS2, go to mass:/, and install FMCB from USB drive. (Make sure you have at least 3.5 MB space free on memory card)

Now you can do whatever you want. Look up for PS2 modding-related tutorials on youtube, like "how to play games with usb on PS2" or "PS2 OPL tutorial".

tl;dr just google it or get FreeDVDBoot

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 04:59:50 2020 No.6848105 File: 227 KB, 700x1000, index(408).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 SHIT hardware excellent games. So much weebshit! It will never be surpassed. Hold me /vr/ I'm going to cry.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 05:07:19 2020 No.6848116 File: 19 KB, 210x240, coco-yagami-ever17-the-out-of-infinity-56.1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843873 PS2 sold 20 million in Japan- it had JRPGs up the ass. Its not Sony's fault that you associate it with GTA not Final Fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 05:08:52 2020 No.6848117 >>6847950 those look like they'd play like shit and be incredibly cumbersome to use

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 05:49:20 2020 No.6848185 >>6848096 >DO NOT burn discs on laptop Not him but can I ask why?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 05:58:48 2020 No.6848189 File: 38 KB, 348x260, Capture.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is it OK to ask questions about running FMCB?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 07:57:30 2020 No.6848330 >>6848189 sure. go ahead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 07:59:28 2020 No.6848337 >>6846983 not sure but here in Brazil every ps2 come nodded out of the box. I am sure you can find a moded used one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 08:03:05 2020 No.6848340 >>6843838 You have yo have been born before the 7th console gen to post on this board, much less 4chan as a whole.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 08:32:42 2020 No.6848389 >>6845282 Cdromance. Their links actually work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 08:40:27 2020 No.6848396 >>6846923 The only way you can think this is if you are American and your only experience with the PS2 library was your local GameStop.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 08:40:42 2020 No.6848398 >>6844224 Sony published the game and owns the IP. Level-5 made it but Sony owns the IP . Level-5 has gone in the past saying they would love to make another one but Sony wouldn't let them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 08:52:45 2020 No.6848432 >>6848105 Eyy, it's Ar Tonelico. 2 is a pretty good game, fuck 1 though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 10:24:43 2020 No.6848589 >>6844265 Xenosaga is the game xenogears wish it could be. Seethe

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 10:59:40 2020 No.6848683 File: 149 KB, 1024x901, 911lineup.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843838 >rapes and murders you with a single release schedule and this doesn't even include any le hidden gemz

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 11:03:23 2020 No.6848690 >>6843745 My personal favorite console is PS1 but I completely acknowledge PS2 as objectively the best console.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 11:07:33 2020 No.6848698 File: 2.34 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20200721_091958730.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ps2 too good bruh

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 11:08:27 2020 No.6848704 >>6843838 Same here anyone member that anime sword fightan with a black reddish chakandude on the cover?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 11:18:09 2020 No.6848729 >>6848683 Based. I can't wait to see what his coping mechanism for this one will be.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 11:51:48 2020 No.6848842 >>6848698 How is Ape Escape 3, anon? I love the first 2 but I never got around to 3. Just picked up a copy recently

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 12:00:03 2020 No.6848873
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>praise GameCube for obscure JPN games
>ignore the hundreds of obscure JPN games on PS2

There is just an unhealthy hatred for Sony in the gaming community. Maybe its because Americans like the underdog? And that's not a position Sony has ever been in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 12:20:58 2020 No.6848945 File: 289 KB, 1300x956, 911ps2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6848683 >tfw when 9/11 is happening but the video game are simply too good

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 12:24:15 2020 No.6848960 >>6848873 If Americans really liked the underdog, then the Saturn would've been successful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 12:26:57 2020 No.6848970 File: 206 KB, 1300x863, vgkidz911.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6848683 >most ruinous event in the last 30 years of American history and foreign policy takes place >too busy playing DMC to give a hoot

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 12:29:09 2020 No.6848976 Anyone knows this PS2 game? It was about a knight in full armor with Axe/sword, he could do wall flips. It's not PoP series.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 12:49:22 2020 No.6849051 >>6848976 pop is the only one that comes to mind. do you have any other details?

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 12:58:48 2020 No.6849097

>>6849051
That's why i said it it's not PoP, I know it was released before 2003.
The knight? wore a helmet that has horns, he also was wearing a cape.
One section of the game the character was in square room like a castle were you had to get out from it? I think

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 13:01:38 2020 No.6849113 >>6847387 It really is a great game. I'll warn you tho, it has a bit of a learning curve but you should be able to manage it just fine.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 13:32:36 2020 No.6849251 >>6849113 I had no idea this was connected to Devil Dice. I've never got a chance to play that one either but I'll give Bombastic a shot

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 17:11:38 2020 No.6850101 >De-fragment USB flash drive What is this? Do people actually believe this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 17:26:55 2020 No.6850175 >>6843745 VR I need to ask you, why do PCSX2 niggers go to bat so god damn hard for it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 17:30:26 2020 No.6850191 >>6850175 What other emulators are there for PS2?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 17:34:09 2020 No.6850198 >>6850191 None. I just don't know why they go to bat for it so hard. It's pretty janky at the best of times. They could just, idk, buy a PS2.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 17:41:39 2020 No.6850227 >>6850198 Yes the original hardware is always better. PCSX2 could be better as well, but I'm not going to knock it because it's the only PS2 emulator that I'm aware of.

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 17:56:29 2020 No.6850290

>>6850227
Sad thing is PCSX2 for some games is pretty alright. But it still has so many problems with a larger amount of them, is closed source so the community can't easily contribute or help or anything, and is hard to compete with because trying to understand the PS2 is arguably harder than the PS3.

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 17:59:04 2020 No.6850296
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>>6848330
I followed the Free DVD Boot method, and booted to uLaunchELF.
From there I proceeded to download the latest version of FMCB.
Which it worked, since I get the FMCD logo when booting.
The issue is when trying to run any of the applications that comes with it, OPL, ulaunchELF, etc.
I just get black screen, I've tried the latest version and the version before it but still the same issue.
Any idea?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 18:03:40 2020 No.6850313 >>6850290 It says it's GPL and the source is definitely available or I wouldn't be able to get it running on Linux. Here's the github mirror. https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 18:03:59 2020 No.6850315 >>6843851 Except it did.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 18:19:54 2020 No.6850368 any method to play soul calibur III? without save data getting corrupted?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 18:25:49 2020 No.6850392 >>6850290 PCSX2 isn't closed source - things are not so bad

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 18:58:34 2020 No.6850487 >>6850296 Could be problems with your FMCB or memory card. I would recommend just reinstalling your FMCB. Make sure the applications/homebrew (ELF files) you're running are in the BOOT folder of your FMCB memory card.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 19:16:49 2020 No.6850542 >>6843808 Would love for them to do it, but for the love of god drop the town building crap.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 19:21:03 2020 No.6850554 >>6850368 Not possible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 19:30:03 2020 No.6850573 >>6850101 i don't see anyone else posting this, what are you talking about?

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 19:34:29 2020 No.6850595

>>6850101
>>6850573
oh wait, you mean running games from usb using opl
yes, you will need to defragment the game files to use them
and no, it's not for performance reasons, it's for addressing reasons, just like how linux swap files need to not be fragmented, opl accesses the game data below the filesystem layer, avoiding filesystem overhead, but it can't do that if the file is in multiple pieces on difference parts of the disk, it needs the game to be one contiguous chunk (ie. not fragmented)
it doesn't matter if the disk is a hdd, dvd, ssd, whatever

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 20:17:36 2020 No.6850738 >>6850595 how do u defrag ISO

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 20:21:07 2020 No.6850748 >>6850368 Get a dedicated SC3 memcard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 20:22:04 2020 No.6850752 >>6850738 using a defragmentation tool such as defraggler

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 20:33:30 2020 No.6850791 >>6845972 oh shit i wasn't aware that was even a thing how does it compare to the 1st one?

Anonymous Tue Sep 8 21:14:10 2020 No.6850941
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>>6843745
This game doesn't get enough love. Awesome fast paced mech arena combat with armored core levels of customization plus a pretty good licensed soundtrack to boot from all sorts of genres.

Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp8-BDUyXOM

Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKo8kbQ2ZcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8UJNGKTSTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYKEPH2Y5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaaDZo9902k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2NuPE6No5A

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 21:16:47 2020 No.6850954 >>6850941 It doesn't need any. It's a pretty repetitive 5/10 game.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 21:17:08 2020 No.6850960 File: 375 KB, 314x445, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >SSX? >Tony Hawk? Move on over. Have you played this game? It's fucking amazing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 8 22:05:26 2020 No.6851190 File: 11 KB, 251x201, download (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 the xbox version was better but fucking hell this game was so good. shame they never made a sequel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 05:41:42 2020 No.6852552 >>6850941 nice mecha

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 05:56:13 2020 No.6852579 >>6850487 I tried that same issue. If I used Free DVD Boot elaunch elf, to run the homebrew from the MC it works though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 06:01:28 2020 No.6852591 PCSX2> PS2 Playing JRPGs with American dub is torture. The loading times are torture. And the frame drops are torture.

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 06:02:50 2020 No.6852592
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Anyone know how I can bypass the antipiracy measures on pic related?
It works fine with an emulator but with OPL on a PS2 Fat it prevents me from advancing.
I tried ISOs from different sources and no luck, if any of you have one that works then please share.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 06:40:30 2020 No.6852646 >>6852591 you know you can run undubs on an actual ps2, right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 06:48:42 2020 No.6852661 File: 16 KB, 211x300, s-l300.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 Densha de go! games are the best

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 08:28:41 2020 No.6852820 File: 1.51 MB, 3336x4000, ps2 grid 03 01.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 08:34:15 2020 No.6852832 >>6852820 Decent list. Small amount of shovelware that should be removed, though. Like SSX.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 08:44:34 2020 No.6852857 File: 143 KB, 720x1019, 20081030124654_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 A good old fashioned classic :)

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 08:47:42 2020 No.6852868 >>6852832 SSX isn't shovelware.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 08:52:24 2020 No.6852882 >>6843745 real hardware on a modern TV or emulation? I want to play Shadow of Colossus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 08:53:17 2020 No.6852884 >>6852882 Use a CRT.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 09:18:58 2020 No.6852938 >>6852868 Wrong.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 09:20:00 2020 No.6852940 File: 1.03 MB, 640x885, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6852938 >Wrong.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 09:37:43 2020 No.6852967 >>6852940 Yeah, that's what I said. And?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 12:09:52 2020 No.6853476 >>6852857 it is now

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 12:12:00 2020 No.6853486 >>6852967 >Zoom, zoom zoom zoom zoom. Zoom?

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 14:22:08 2020 No.6853905

>>6852882
CRT is preferred, but modern TV is fine.
I would suggest using high quality component cables and OSSC to get the best quality imaging out of your PS2.
Emulation if you want higher resolution/wideacreen/60 fps, but isn't completely accurate with PCSX2.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 14:23:19 2020 No.6853908 >>6852579 Do you have extra memory cards to test it? I suspect it could just be the memory card compability with FMCB.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 16:05:37 2020 No.6854202 File: 1.53 MB, 3291x4000, ps2 grid 04.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 16:07:31 2020 No.6854208 >>6843745 Is standing a slim like this worth it at all? I feel like having to pop the top means you don't save much space when you could just lay it flat.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 16:16:47 2020 No.6854246 >>6854208 it entirely depends on how much space you have

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 16:19:22 2020 No.6854257 >>6854202 >demon stone I've seen this game every now and then, is it even good?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 16:20:23 2020 No.6854263 File: 35 KB, 500x375, 1541708488520.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 Just bought a portable monitor as an excuse to take my PS2 on holiday with me at ease, buying a PS2 to HDMI adapter too. Feels good

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 16:37:53 2020 No.6854334 >>6853908 If it was why would it boot? And how does other homebrew launch?

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 17:48:46 2020 No.6854557
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I have a lot of titles for PS2, that are nearly brand new, never been used but the boxes are open.

The disc's for these are in very good condition, say a Pre owned on Ebay is 5 bucks, but the sealed game is like 50.
Would the games I have with nearly mirror like reflection sell for more than a common open box game, even if by a little?

I have games like Tony Hawk 2-3-4, Underground, Vice City, True Crime, Buffy the Vampire, several NCCA titles, NFL titles, Kingdom Hearts, FF10, and more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 17:57:12 2020 No.6854609 File: 680 KB, 720x1280, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6854208 It's a very well worth it. There's no cooler looking console than vertical PS2 Slim.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 17:59:45 2020 No.6854629 File: 1.50 MB, 1024x1024, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6854246 It's not about space, it's about aesthetics. PS2 were made to be vertical.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:05:21 2020 No.6854660 File: 452 KB, 480x640, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6854208 I would even put Xbox on vertical side, but I thing it will ugly as hell. It needs to have some wall closely to look nice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:21:42 2020 No.6854730 >>6854660 I've never seen anyone stand an OG xbox vertically. Is it stable?

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:38:04 2020 No.6854795 >>6854629 I always laid mine flat, with my PS1 or my ps2 slim on top

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:40:13 2020 No.6854801 >>6854795 My fat PS2 would always be laid flat with a few game boxes sitting on top.

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:40:46 2020 No.6854802
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If you guys were to buy PS2 games online, would you rather buy bundles or individually? Of course there are certain games that may be hard to find, but if games were 3-5 bucks, would you rather get a handful for 20?

I have some games that are hardly ever on ebay, so hopefully any anons here will get something they haven't before.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:41:40 2020 No.6854806 File: 332 KB, 1152x768, 1385285034761.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843756 Simpler fuckin time. I want to go back. Skygunner was my shit back in the day. I can't even listen to the opening without choking up.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:44:09 2020 No.6854815 >>6854795 It's like you don't love your PS2. Phat has vertical feet out of the box, it doesn't need no stand. Just place her vertical and be happy how glory it looks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:44:12 2020 No.6854816 File: 316 KB, 850x1219, sample_d22635549a8c8ba8c9da3621c2a118b100891409.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Reaching out to catch the sun

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:46:00 2020 No.6854819

>>6854802
Try and group 3-5 games together, and keep them vaguely similar genres so a buyer would likely be interested in more than one of them. It makes no sense to bundle 5 sports game with a copy of ape escape, if I can just buy a copy of ape escape on its own for cheaper. Three games I care about with a 20% discount compared to buying them single and I'm in.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:46:01 2020 No.6854818 >>6854730 Maybe with some rubber feet it will be, but his looks all in his top. You must be able to see that majestic X on top or it won't look right at all.

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 18:58:39 2020 No.6854862

>>6854819
Yeah luckily I have some series like that, but then random shit like LOTR, Guitar Hero, FF10, GTA Vice City which are all really cheap games otherwise. I dunno, maybe because of their condition I can bundle them in that way.

All the games I have have either never been played or just once or twice, so they're nice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 19:05:02 2020 No.6854887 >>6843771 >cheap BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 19:06:14 2020 No.6854896 >It was ONLY the BEST SELLING CONSOLE because X!!!11!! With cubies ever stop seething at PS2 and Xbox chads?

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 19:20:23 2020 No.6854967

>>6854334
Even if it can boot into FMCB, there might be some problems between your memory card and FMCB. It should launch any homebrew without any issue.
Any homebrew can be launched through FMCB obviously, but you can change the menu config to set it to have your appear on the FMCB menu via the FMCB configurator.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 19:21:35 2020 No.6854975 >>6854896 No, they genuinely believe Nintendo's loss of popularity isn't because their games took a nosedive in quality

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 19:24:26 2020 No.6854989 File: 50 KB, 600x814, 1539810841071.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6854896 It's damn good to have both the OG Xbox and the PS2. Ninja Gaiden Black and God Hand always seem to keep me active.

Anonymous Wed Sep 9 19:36:05 2020 No.6855014

>>6854975
But their GameCube games were good, far better than the n64 era. The n64 has the worst library of any Nintendo console. Even the Wii U was better. Nintendo alienated fans with how shit the n64 library wasn’t then they fucked up even harder by alienating 3rd party devs with their low capacity mini dvds.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 20:33:34 2020 No.6855250 >>6854557 >Would the games I have with nearly mirror like reflection sell for more than a common open box game, even if by a little? not sure how much more they would sell but since they are in mint condition you can charge a tad more.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 20:34:37 2020 No.6855257 >>6854816 i have both on ps3 but i wasn't able to play them yet. the games seem to be cool as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 20:41:48 2020 No.6855289 >>6855257 The hell are you waiting for? Get to it. Also don't play out of order. Once you play the 2nd game you will never be able to play the first again

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 21:08:09 2020 No.6855440 >>6845494 Nor is Klonoa 2.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 21:12:20 2020 No.6855462 >>6855014 >Even the Wii U was better. WEW shhh kid

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 21:15:30 2020 No.6855484 >>6855014 Gamecube was basically the n64-2.

>>	Anonymous Wed Sep 9 23:44:36 2020 No.6855970 File: 189 KB, 640x906, latest[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Here's a good "gem". There are a couple of other Japan releases I'd consider "gems".

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 02:12:24 2020 No.6856480 >>6850296 Kek'd hard at that image.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 02:57:54 2020 No.6856614 Any suggestions for PS2 games with actually good stories/writing, i.e. not Squeenix cringefests? Japanese-only is fine, though I'm not looking for exclusively Japanese stuff.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 04:41:40 2020 No.6856828
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>>6856614
>Front Mission 4-5
You can only appreciate 5 if you play/read LPs of the entire series but the series as a whole is famous for it's high quality world building and extensive, political storylines set in the perspective of soldiers and mercenaries.
>Ace Combat ps2 trilogy
The "story" is not the focus but between the in-mission radio dialog and the narration between missions are very well written. Ace Combat 4 especially, the story of Yellow 13 could have been a great movie and gets really emotional at parts for a points based, arcade dogfighting game.
>Breath of Fire 5: Dragon Quarter
It's one of those "you're on the run" stories but what makes it stand out to me is the small scope of the world and how the gameplay ties into it. From the beginning your goal is just "reach the surface, alive" but between the permadeath, scarce resources and the pseudo death timer it really nails the stress and desperation your party endures. It's intended for multiple attempts before you win and each playthrough it will drip feed you more story from outside the main character's perspective, so each run doesn't get stale. Just don't ask Breath of Fire gatekeepers because they completely missed the point of the game and got filtered by the pseudo time limit and to this day make up bullshit about it.
>Digital Devil Saga
Most SMT games have weak stories but DDS had a lot of effort put into it, mostly since the concept came from an actual author. The story is pretty straight forward but the setting, mood and atmosphere are pretty unique. The only game I can think of comparable in tone is the first Dark Souls. The first game leaves who you are and what the world is as a mystery and instead gives you clues that everything isn't normal which makes it a bit more interesting than the sequel that explains everything.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 04:48:33 2020 No.6856847 >>6856614 Haunting grounds.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 04:49:34 2020 No.6856849 >>6856480 Well it's her specialty.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 05:27:51 2020 No.6856907

>>6856828
>>6856847
Thanks for the recs. Ace Combat has been on my radar for a while, so I'm sure I'll be playing that at some point. BoF 5 has me intrigued, too. Only played part of the first one and didn't really care for it, but this one sounds very different and altogether more interesting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 06:55:23 2020 No.6857027 >>6855970 >>6855970 unlocking all the mobile suits in this pissed me off. I really hated the scoring system.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 07:09:22 2020 No.6857049 File: 30 KB, 283x400, 51VPS-07UbL._AC_SY400_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 07:28:46 2020 No.6857078 >>6856907 If you emulate BoF5, don't use save states or it will break your hard save which you need for the multiple runs. Even just using them because you need to take a break and you want to come back to where you were instantly might break it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 07:32:50 2020 No.6857086 >>6843745 I love these systems. Grab a freemcboot memory card and you instantly have access to every game made for it. No reason to purchase any game unless you just want to collect the box.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 09:21:57 2020 No.6857290 >>6856828 BoF5 already looked like underrated game, but, anon, you make it sound like must-play.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 10:32:52 2020 No.6857435 File: 348 KB, 800x450, 06.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6857086 a number of games have unique accessories, like buzzers, microphones, guitars, chainsaws, etc

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 11:43:48 2020 No.6857607 >>6857435 Yeah, that might would matter if i actually wanted that novelty shit.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 13:21:26 2020 No.6857967

The ps2 wasn't that good, it had a good first 3 years but after that the games ran poor and nothing that interesting was released.

This is in contrast to the ps1 where the first couple of years had issues with textures but in the last few years most games where able to hide the limitations pretty well with the best games coming out in 98 and 99.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 13:59:19 2020 No.6858107 >>6857967 >nothing that interesting was released. False.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 14:10:25 2020 No.6858150 >>6857967 that's a lie

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 14:29:45 2020 No.6858234 >>6857967 >but after that the games ran poor and nothing that interesting was released. Gradius V, God Hand and Katamari Damacy prove you wrong.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 14:33:17 2020 No.6858247

>>6843771
False flagging ps22 fan. Everyone knows how how little a difference component makes on ps2 except for 2d games. Also your playing ps2 on an lcd? Are you hooking it up to something else? I really hope you are because that would be some incredibly ugly shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 14:34:49 2020 No.6858252 >>6857967 Are you serious? Even mainline GTA game came out after 3 years.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 14:43:16 2020 No.6858269 >>6858247 Anon, it doesn't matter you hook up a PS2. With its 512x224 res it will look like shit even on PVM with csync-mod.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 15:01:04 2020 No.6858323
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>>6857967
>he doesn't know that games like God Hand, SotC, Ape Escape 3, GT4, Wild Arms 5, Rogue Galaxy all released years after the launch of the PS2
(You)

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 15:13:16 2020 No.6858372 >>6858269 Thats correct but by hooking it up straight to an lcd its like adding another layer of shit to the image. At least buy a retrotink and strip away some of the issues an lcd creates

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 15:14:18 2020 No.6858376 >>6858372 Why would anyone buy this inferior product when chink OSSC cost the same?

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 16:25:18 2020 No.6858632
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Played State of Emergency for the first time recently. Incredibly missed out on it at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nml2HLQz2t4

God it's fucking great.

Sequel was apparently awful though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 16:41:46 2020 No.6858701 >>6858376 Cheaper, even. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000115630692.html

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 16:47:43 2020 No.6858726 >>6858632 Better on Xbox. Play it with a Custom Sound Track.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:03:53 2020 No.6858773 >>6848698 those games and a yugioh pillow. nice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:12:33 2020 No.6858802 >>6858247 My ps2 looks about 5x better vs. Composite on my crt when I use component

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:18:06 2020 No.6858818 >>6858632 SMASH WINDOWS FOR BONUS SCORE!

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:19:17 2020 No.6858821 File: 175 KB, 640x908, jak-daxter-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why does the PS2 make the segafags and nincels seethe?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:21:23 2020 No.6858826 >>6858802 It does, anon, but overall it still looks like shit. It just cracks me every time I think how poor its video-output is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:22:32 2020 No.6858835 >>6858821 because it succeeded. simple as that

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:23:11 2020 No.6858839

>>6858632
Glad you could enjoy it. It's the first game I played once I got a PS2 again and my God, it's the most violently mediocre, repetitive, jank game I've ever played. Not even that early 00s Rockstar charm could save it. Can't believe I dropped Zelda II to play this shit.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:25:39 2020 No.6858849

>>6858818
PENALTY ON CIVILIAN KILLS

>>6858839
>my God, it's the most violently mediocre, repetitive, jank game I've ever played
I can completely understand that viewpoint. Only four levels, as large as they are, and doing the same thing over and over again can easily get boring.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:26:27 2020 No.6858850 >>6858826 There's nothing wrong with its actual video output. It's just that the games are lower resolution than other 6th gen consoles (and some of them have broken deflicker filters, which doesn't help matters).

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:30:29 2020 No.6858870 >>6858850 That's right, 512x224 vs. 640x240 on most. >and some of them have broken deflicker filters, which doesn't help matters Broken filters? Which games? How to spot it? There's also forced bilinear filter on top of entire screen.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:41:51 2020 No.6858919

>>6858870
Early games, mostly. The PS2 doesn't have easy-to-use hardware deflicker or antialiasing like the other consoles, and early on most devs couldn't figure out how to implement it properly without tanking performance, so a lot of them didn't bother at all or made only ineffective attempts. That's why so many PS2 games are so flickery and jagged.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:43:10 2020 No.6858924 >>6843745 When is this coming out bro?

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 17:44:44 2020 No.6858931

>>6858919
I played with deflicker options on Xbox and GCN, and to my eye it looks like PS2 doesn't even have any deflicker filter. And that's actually better for modern times, because it means more clearer picture on digital displays. But, holy shit, with its 512x224 it still looks like such a blurry mess.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 19:54:36 2020 No.6859345 >>6858931 >looks like PS2 doesn't even have any deflicker filter. Some late titles did. I know for sure Final Fantasy XII had one and I think God of War too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 19:59:25 2020 No.6859360 >>6843792 >N64 >3rd best console of its generation Oh, it's retarded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:06:35 2020 No.6859378 Its quite amazing how many PS2 games still look good at 1080p upscaled. Its just too bad the original hardware never managed anything close to that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:24:32 2020 No.6859428 File: 39 KB, 580x528, 1582506385914.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6847457 What Component to HDMI converter do you guys suggest?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:32:15 2020 No.6859450 >>6843745 Fucking dark cloud .hack//sign series Armored core 2 Mgs 2/3 Katamari damacy Shadow of the colossus Rogue galaxy Jak and daxter Etc... Truly the greatest console of all time

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:35:21 2020 No.6859458 >>6859450 That's the cool thing about PS2: There's something for everyone on it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:39:47 2020 No.6859479 >>6859428 OSSC.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:43:23 2020 No.6859490 >>6859479 Anything cheaper? That might be the best solution but I wasn't looking to spend more than 20$.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:50:17 2020 No.6859512 >>6850542 Then it would not be a Dark Cloud game. That's the whole point.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 20:53:18 2020 No.6859525 >>6848683 A single picture with so much soul in it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:04:32 2020 No.6859558 >>6843770 That looks pretty cool actually. Local game store actually has a copy but I could get a new PS4 Pro for less than that copy is going for. How well does it emulate?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:12:45 2020 No.6859590 >>6848960 Americans like the underdog after the fact, so it seems.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:26:16 2020 No.6859636

>>6846564
>PS2 was like the normie, baseline system.

I dunno, but maybe that's just cause everyone where I lived in the states had an Xbox, Halo CE, Halo 2 when it came out, whatever the latest sports game was, and that was it. This was the era before CoD became the dude bro shooter it is today after all. PS2 didn't really have an exclusive dude bro game like Halo.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:29:05 2020 No.6859643 >>6859636 That's the problem, everyone had Halo 2 and just Halo 2. It's like the Nintendo Wii being the most successful console in history but no one had anything besides Wii Sports.

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:29:42 2020 No.6859645

>>6846974
>find multi tap with a few memory cards in it at thrift store
>buy it
>take it home and check those cards
>the one with the most space has only 18 KB free
>every card is filled with corrupted data, no actual saves
>"The data could not be deleted"

Is the memory on these things just borked or can I somehow clear these cards and salvage them?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:31:10 2020 No.6859647 >>6846995 >besides very, very specific problematic ones. Which are? >>6847024 >all you need is a codebreaker disc I've never seen one of those go for less than a few hundred dollars. I could get the new Xbox they just announced for less.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:33:24 2020 No.6859652 >>6859645 Dunno if there's another way, but FMCB installer has an option to format MCs

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:34:35 2020 No.6859657 >>6859645 MC Killer

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:35:54 2020 No.6859661 >>6859645 https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=116

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:45:18 2020 No.6859697 >>6854629 What's that little box on the side and do they work with a NTSC PS2 fat?

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:46:26 2020 No.6859702

>>6859647
>Which are?
It's pretty hard to pin down, most compatibility lists available are severely outdated and you can find people playing some of the games on youtube, so maybe it was included by user error in the first place, or the issue has been fixed since then.
Ratchet & Clank 3 for instance didn't work in some really old versions, but nowadays it runs fine

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:49:12 2020 No.6859710 >>6859697 Playstation 2 BB Unit, it's a HDD+ethernet adapter bundle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:53:13 2020 No.6859726 >>6843771 Cheap component cables suck, but at least they are better than any composite cable ever. It's really noticeable even if you are blind and using a CRT. Playing something like GTA SA with a composite fucking suck.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 21:56:33 2020 No.6859737 >>6858247 Bullshit, it's WAY better. Colors are muted as fuck with composite and everything seems to be smeared with vaseline.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:04:28 2020 No.6859764 >>6859710 If that's your picture what port is it plugged into?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:05:08 2020 No.6859769 >>6859737 composite is soul play on an emulator at 8k if you want max fidelity

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:08:12 2020 No.6859782 File: 988 KB, 1920x2160, compare1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6859769 ah yes, "soul"

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:09:48 2020 No.6859793 File: 18 KB, 512x417, 144010120.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6859764 not mine, but it's in the expansion port

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:12:01 2020 No.6859803 File: 901 KB, 1920x2160, compare2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6859782 not being able to see anything is peak soul, ngl

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:15:04 2020 No.6859812 >>6859793 Is that the port that Ethernet adapter plugs into? It's been a while since I've seen the back of a Fat PS2.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:16:22 2020 No.6859817 >>6859803 scart > component

Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:24:47 2020 No.6859854

>>6859812
That's a classic 10-series model. Most fats you'll find are 30-series, where they have an expansion port in the back that you slide an adapter and HDD into. With the 10s, you had to get an external hook-up to achieve the same effect. Since 30s out-number them greatly and the 10s are often known as initial Japanese/release models, it's not surprising to see people unfamiliar with it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:44:35 2020 No.6859946 >>6859854 So can the thing work with a 30-series or are the ports not compatible? Doesn't seem to be much info online that I can find.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 22:47:48 2020 No.6859961 >>6859817 It's SCART component, so same shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:00:40 2020 No.6860013 >>6856614 Shadow Tower Abyss

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:08:27 2020 No.6860032 File: 1.21 MB, 2592x1944, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6859769 SOUL

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:09:33 2020 No.6860041 File: 1.21 MB, 2592x1944, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860032 SOULESS

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:09:34 2020 No.6860040 >>6860032 hell yeah brother

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:12:52 2020 No.6860053 >>6860040 >>6860041 >posted before >higher post number what

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:13:46 2020 No.6860056 >>6860053 4channel

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:14:07 2020 No.6860058 I've been playing outrun 2 and burnout 3 Racing games used to be so much fun

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:15:30 2020 No.6860064 Daily reminder that you can use PCSX2 widescreen patch and de-interlaced the video output at the source on real hardware while using component and FMCB with GSM.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:16:04 2020 No.6860068 >>6860058 yeah, nowadays we have sims and a dead corpse of a franchise called need for speed

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:17:46 2020 No.6860071 >>6860058 >>6860068 i miss that mid era of screwaround simcade games. PGR was the best

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:21:33 2020 No.6860085 >>6860064 I'd only widescreen patch the games that won't go wonky dick with it. There's plenty of games that have pre-rendered stuff or precariously planned scenes that break with widescreen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:24:22 2020 No.6860097 >>6860064 I doubt the compatibility would be great

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:26:00 2020 No.6860103 >>6860032 >>6860041 it should have been a crime for composite to exist past the 80's i can't believe i used only composite the entire time i played consoles (up to the late 00's)

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:27:37 2020 No.6860107 >>6860103 composite stuck around because it was honestly hard to tell what was wrong for 3d games on a CRT. It wasn't until I plugged a Wii into an HDTV where the problems were more obvious

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:29:00 2020 No.6860110 >>6859490 The cheapest OSSC you can find is $90-$100 on Aliexpress. Alternatives to OSSC is a cheap $20 Component to HDMI converter found on Amazon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:51:34 2020 No.6860197 File: 2.93 MB, 4160x3120, IMG_20200911_004702.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] God, I forgot how bad composite was. Here's the original Sony composite cable, on my CRT

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:52:44 2020 No.6860203 File: 1.85 MB, 4160x3120, IMG_20200911_004725.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860197

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:53:59 2020 No.6860207 File: 3.44 MB, 4160x3120, IMG_20200911_004903.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] $5 chink component

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:55:13 2020 No.6860217 File: 2.12 MB, 4160x3120, IMG_20200911_004831.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860207

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:55:37 2020 No.6860221 >>6860197 now that's what I call soul keep in mind the PS2 version is dark and oversaturated (especially in orange colors) compared to the others

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:56:37 2020 No.6860227 >>6860085 Yeah, mainly for games that already support it. >>6860097 It's not perfect but it's a nice option if you don't have an OSSC/Retrotink/Framemeister/GBS/RAD2X.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 10 23:57:11 2020 No.6860229 I'm glad I had older cousins who introduced me to the glory of RGB and component back then. Bought a component cable on the same day I bought my PS2 and never looked back.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:03:35 2020 No.6860248 >ctrl+f >chaindive >0 results I just did you a favor /vr/. Don't forget it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:06:52 2020 No.6860256 File: 1.04 MB, 1530x1420, composite vs component.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860197 >>6860203 >>6860207 >>6860217 you have to be actually blind to not notice any difference

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:08:34 2020 No.6860260 >>6860256 it would help to use the same shutter speed the bottom half of the left picture is showing two fields, but the right picture is just one field

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:11:16 2020 No.6860274 >>6859647 >I've never seen one of those go for less than a few hundred dollars. I could get the new Xbox they just announced for less. what the hell, when did swap magic 3 explode in price? I know I didn't pay much for mine a few years back.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:12:18 2020 No.6860280 >>6860013 Bruh that game has like no story. The atmosphere is really fantastic tho.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:12:22 2020 No.6860281 >>6860260 that's just the sidewalk

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:14:31 2020 No.6860292 >>6860260 that's just the sidewalk. I had to post this again, where's my reply

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:19:13 2020 No.6860314

>>6860274
I don't know shit about PS2 modding. But the other anon might be getting different discs confused. Like I've never seen the Gameshark/Action Replay style of Codebreaker disc that lets you cheat in games go for cheap. But if that's the same disc the original post is talking about then I don't know.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:22:18 2020 No.6860324 >>6860281 He's talking about fields of video, not fucking fields of grass, lmao.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:24:17 2020 No.6860329 File: 3.04 MB, 4160x3120, IMG_20200911_012236.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860256 >>6860260 I'm not really good at taking pics of CRTs, tell me if this is better

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:25:30 2020 No.6860335 File: 2.50 MB, 4160x3120, IMG_20200911_012100.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860329

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:28:42 2020 No.6860349 >>6860329 they're not very straightforward to photograph you want a 1/30th of a second exposure to capture two fields (a whole frame), or 1/25 if PAL >>6860324 oh shit i didn't even consider he might read it like that

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:30:33 2020 No.6860357 >>6860349 It's a phone so I can't change much other than exposure, white balance, that kind of stuff.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:34:17 2020 No.6860367 >>6860324 >>6860349 lol I still can't see it

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:36:52 2020 No.6860375

>>6860357
yea, the issue is how CRTs draw their picture
to try to keep things minimal, a crt draws with a single dot moving extremely fast, so the faster your camera, the less of the screen will be lit up (this fact is how traditional light guns work)
in addition to that, most 6th gen games produce interlaced pictures, what this means is that for every 60th (50th) of a second, only half of the screen is drawn on, either odd lines or even lines
what this means for photography, is that depending on how fast your shutter is, you may see different things, for example, a shutter of 1/60 (1/50) will appear to be a whole-screen picture, but will actually only be one field (odd or even lines), so is half the intended resolution
notice how in >>6860256
the right picture (and the top of the left one) has dark horizontal lines through it, this is an indication that one of the fields is missing, and your shutter was too fast

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:37:59 2020 No.6860380 File: 1.90 MB, 728x408, fPto0WO.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860375

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:45:15 2020 No.6860424 >>6860375 Ah, cool. Any explanation for why in composite pics he took the "pixels" seem to be kinda "bent" and in component they are more "straight"? Here it's more noticeable >>6860329 >>6860335

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:50:07 2020 No.6860439 >>6860424 if you're talking about how the triads appear a bit wavy in one of them, i think that's just down to slightly different focus by the camera

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 00:55:08 2020 No.6860456
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>>6860424
If you're talking what I assume you're talking about (the slight horizontal offset on alternating lines), it has to do with the way the PS2 (and some other consoles) encode composite video to reduce color fringing artifacts. See the Sega Genesis for what happens when you don't do that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:10:48 2020 No.6860504 >>6860439 >>6860456 It's the horizontal offset thing. It's basically the same thing this PS3 setting does, right? >Cross Color Reduction Filter Reduce color noise when the system is connected using an AV cable (composite) or S VIDEO cable.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:14:38 2020 No.6860513 >>6860504 i'm not familiar with this technique, and i've never used a ps3 before

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:16:19 2020 No.6860521 >>6860504 I honestly don't think I've ever seen a PS3 hooked up with composite video. So, I dunno, maybe?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:23:57 2020 No.6860548 Why not just buy a PS3 now and play whatever games you want from PS2 and PS1

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:26:06 2020 No.6860553

>>6844265
Actually it not listing enough rpg games is why I would never even that guide.
>bro play tony hawk and hitman and spongbob and--

Yeah. No thanks.

I was just checking to see if psx the second was actually bad as I rank it so and I'm pretty sure my view is that it's still of shovelware.

psx the first had a fuckton of jrpg games

Anyway, that image is too big to even hunt the rgp games so maybe they're there but I'm 'oh well'ing this thread and the console.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:27:51 2020 No.6860560 >>6860553 >see upper right corner Oh, there's twenty listed. That's okay I guess.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:28:04 2020 No.6860563 >>6860548 I don't feel like getting a fat ps3 when I have a slim also DS2 > DS3

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:28:29 2020 No.6860564

>>6860548
PS1 is emulated and can't output at 240p and some games are broken. PS2 is only compatible with early models that have tons of issues on their own. There's emulation too, but it's also full of issues. Not worth it imo, despite the fact I have a Slim PS3 and I do play some PS1/PS2 titles out of laziness on my living room TV.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:29:46 2020 No.6860567 >>6860563 >DS2 > DS3 That's some hot take there m8

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:31:20 2020 No.6860570 >>6844171 >that sports section need to add ESPN NFL 2k5 and MVP Baseball 2005

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:31:45 2020 No.6860571 >>6860567 DS2 build quality just feels better. Also has good R2/L2 instead of that garbage analog trigger design on the DS3

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:40:06 2020 No.6860592
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>>6860571
I feel the complete opposite. DS2 build quality is actually mediocre when compared to DS1 and DS3, some revisions even have a design flaw were they break the plastic thing that holds the shoulder buttons over time. I had this to happen with 2 of the ones I have there, it looks alright on the outside but when you press the R1/L1 buttons a bit on their edges, they can get stuck sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:42:21 2020 No.6860596 >>6843745 what the fuck did I miss, when were ps2 and xbox added to /vr/

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:42:48 2020 No.6860597 >>6860592 The analogs feel pretty stiff on DS2 too, which I don't really like since it takes away a bit of precision

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:43:32 2020 No.6860601 >>6860596 yeah, read the sticky

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:44:07 2020 No.6860604 >>6860596 They did it without alerting the entire site, its surprisingly comfy

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:48:48 2020 No.6860618 File: 16 KB, 316x239, 1517521633322.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6860601

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 01:48:53 2020 No.6860620 >>6860548 if you're going to emulate anyway, you might as well just use a pc

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:22:30 2020 No.6860702 >>6860256 Composite really is better. You can't even see the wrinkles in his shirt on the component version. This image BTFOs componentcucks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:27:21 2020 No.6860715 >>6860702 (You)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:28:21 2020 No.6860719 >>6860702 You can, it's just hard to tell because he fucked up his photos and only captured one field of the component shot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:34:59 2020 No.6860735 Grandia 3 is massively underrated

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:41:35 2020 No.6860760 >>6848842 cute and funny

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:43:47 2020 No.6860770 >>6860719 I'll do it right tomorrow

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:50:29 2020 No.6860794

>>6860548
PS3 models, especially earlier ones will die easily without proper maintanence, cooling modifications, and permanent fixes in regards to the YLOD, overheating, etc.. PS2 is built like it can last for decades.
PSX emulation is a hit and miss, and you might as well just emulate it elsewhere.
You'll also need to find CECHA01, which is more expensive than any PS2 found in the console market.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:51:12 2020 No.6860796 File: 163 KB, 1119x669, ossc-pro_concept_back.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] anybody else excited about the ossc's pro full frame buffer mode? its gonna blow the framemeister out of the water for the best way to play ps2 on a lcd tv

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:52:38 2020 No.6860803 >>6860796 But will it still be inferior to CRT?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:54:13 2020 No.6860808 >>6860803 yeah ill give you that, cant beat a crt's 0ms input lag. Still, for a digital screen, only 16 ms of added input lag is still pretty impressive. The framemeister adds about 24ms iirc

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:56:29 2020 No.6860819 >>6860808 It wasn't a sarcastic question but thanks

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:56:40 2020 No.6860821 >>6860796 I'm happy with my current OSSC and don't mind bob deinterlacing, but I'll definitely be watching how it develops.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 02:57:00 2020 No.6860823 >>6860796 why even use this gay shit, just connect to your TV component input lmao, it does have it right?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:00:38 2020 No.6860830 >>6860823 Enjoy your blur, lag, and sampling errors.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:02:55 2020 No.6860832

>>6860821
bob deinterlacing is a terrible way of upscaling games though, the flicker actually is so bad it gives you severe eye strain and headaches, it does to me.
OSSC does have passthrough mode though, thats usually how i play 480i content, but most tvs add a lot of lag when they do their own deinterlacing, thats why if the new ossc does what it promises its gonna be worth it as the best solution for 480i games, bet tradeoff between input lag and good image.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:04:26 2020 No.6860837 >>6860832 also causes image retention on most lcds which can get annoying when youre switching games and you can see the ui of the previous game you were playing

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:08:00 2020 No.6860850

>>6860832
Eh, doesn't bother me. The flicker is no worse than natural interlacing on a CRT. Actually looks practically identical with alternating scanlines enabled.

>>6860837
That's mostly an LG problem. My TCL doesn't do it, nor does my Asus PC monitor.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:10:36 2020 No.6860854 >>6860830 not present in my tv :^)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:13:10 2020 No.6860858 >>6860796 I'm honestly more interested in the other features, especially the ISL51002's reduced sampling jitter and fine-grained LPF controls. Also the digital inputs, which could be really cool for GameCube among other things.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:55:18 2020 No.6860970 >>6859490 There's nothing more. You doing it wrong if you still don't have OSSC even if you only have one retro-console.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 03:56:55 2020 No.6860978 >>6859378 Are you talking about PCSX2? It's quite amazing how emulator can kill any joy in playing a game.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:00:32 2020 No.6860990

>>6859490
ill give you the cheapest option while retaining quality.
https://www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/SONY-PLAYSTATION-HD-RAD2X-CABLE
this is basically a retrotink2x stripped of the ability to play multiple consoles, only works with a series of consoles in this case ps1/ps2/ps3

too bad it's always out of stock though

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:00:45 2020 No.6860992 >>6859378 GSM can allow you to do it with some games, though obviously not all. It's sharper than native play on a PS3 in the right circumstances.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:00:56 2020 No.6860993 >>6859697 That's an external HDD for the earlist 100XX-models of Phat, they didn't have expansion slot and used PCMCIA-slot for HDD.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:10:48 2020 No.6861007

>>6860103
I too can't believe why no one knew about anything else.
When I tried to find how to improve video on PS2 in late 00s I only found info about VGA-Boxes of all things. And now I know that thing useful for like 5% of library and will glitch on anything else.
What the hell was wrong with people?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:14:11 2020 No.6861009 >>6860064 Deinterlace via GSM? You mean to force 480p? Like 95% of games will glitch under it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:20:20 2020 No.6861017 >>6860548 Because that's a very stupid thing to say. PS3 with PS2 inside is ALL dead in 2020 due to shit capacitors used in them, only last year that issue was discovered. Compatible PS3's is very rarity.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:23:31 2020 No.6861019 >>6860592 >break the plastic thing that holds the shoulder buttons over time Oh, and I thought it was by design when opened it lol

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:28:25 2020 No.6861028
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>>6860735
The hell are you talking about?
I'm at disc 2 right now and its gameplay the only remedying quality it has.
Yuki is... is he even there? It's like I play as someone who just there without any personality.
And I don't know how they managed to make some generic elf to be even worse than stupid nun.

And there's no full-feature undub for it, I'm forced to listen to shit voices.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:29:28 2020 No.6861031 >>6860735 If anything, it should be even lower than it already's rated everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:30:40 2020 No.6861037 >>6860823 Straight to LCD you won't be able to correct sampling for 512x224 res games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:35:51 2020 No.6861042 >>6860837 I'd like to see who said such moronic thing. Image retention happens on static image and Bob is constantly moving. If anything it's actually GOOD for Oled and Plasma. And LCD is physically can't be susceptible to image retention.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:36:20 2020 No.6861043

>>6861007
The information was always out there, it was just a matter of knowing where to look. And knowing there was something to look for. Most people who gave a shit had at least learned what component was by the mid 2000s though, since DVD players had it and HDTVs were starting to go mainstream. PS2 component cables were readily available at GameSpot and general electronics stores.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:37:51 2020 No.6861047 >>6861043 I'm from countryside in third-world country, there's was no HDTV, DVD, or internet till late 00s.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:39:04 2020 No.6861050

>>6861042
Image retention is different from the kind of permanent burn-in that OLED and plasma suffer from. LCDs definitely can have image retention, though it goes away after a while. The bob deinterlacing issue is pretty much exclusive to certain LG models as far as I know.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:39:50 2020 No.6861051 >>6860990 In comparison with chinks it's cheaperness is almost non-exist.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:44:21 2020 No.6861059

>>6861050
The kind of image retention you talking about is absolutely non-issue everywhere. Especially on LCDs. Also, fuck LCDs.

People constantly confuse it with burn-in actually, and earlier Plasmas even used Bob for 480i.
It's perfectly safe for Plasmas and OLED to display Bob.

It's underscan in video-signals from old consoles that people should be worried about, they'll cause uneven aging of display and that'll result in burn-in.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:45:45 2020 No.6861063 >>6860990 >>6861051 If you're willing to go chink, there's also this Retrotink-2x ripoff: https://www.amazon.com/Mcbazel-Composite-S-Video-YPbPr-Converter/dp/B083VTQ5Q2/

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:48:06 2020 No.6861065 >>6861063 Why anyone will want this even? Chink OSSC is $80 and both of them will still need good cable. Actually, RAD2X will save you a few dollars on good scart/component, but OSSC just massively outperforms it for just a little more.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:52:21 2020 No.6861068 >>6861065 It's good if you have other consoles that don't support RGB/component. But yeah, OSSC is clearly best if it works with your consoles.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 04:53:33 2020 No.6861069 >>6861068 That consoles is NES and N64. And OSSC will be worth it even for PS2 alone.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 05:10:30 2020 No.6861093 >>6860992 >some games You mean to force in 5% of games. It doesn't work very very VERY often. If there's no progressive-scan in-game, then it's better to just don't bother.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 05:12:59 2020 No.6861098 File: 38 KB, 600x926, index(290).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6859590 Yeah the Dreamcast has more fans today than it never sold in stores. If every hipster retro fag bought a DC in 1999 Sega would still be alive.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 05:14:31 2020 No.6861102 >>6861098 If they weren't so stupid people could have bought their consoles and games. But it doesn't matter, their today output is one of the best games available anyway.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:08:07 2020 No.6861254 >>6848873 you've only got to look at burger comedy to realise that they don't like the underdog.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:13:01 2020 No.6861261
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>>6843745
i created my own FHDB image with everything set up as i like it.
since its a raw copy its 20gb for less than 2gb of actual data but whatever.
why winhiip lets you make a copy onto another disk but not to an ISO i really dont know.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:20:25 2020 No.6861269 >>6861261 >since its a raw copy its 20gb for less than 2gb of actual data but whatever. Why would you even bother? To be able to install FFX-like game on HDD? Find and drop some 160GB IDE inside and be golden.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:23:08 2020 No.6861274 >>6861269 not sure what you mean? it's an image to install freemcboot onto the HDD. i have a 500gb drive in there, i just used winhiip to clone the data to a 20gb drive i had, and then made an image of that drive.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:33:37 2020 No.6861304

>>6861274
>not sure what you mean?
Your wording suggested that you cloned original PS2 HDD.
The purpose of running actual PS2 HDD is for games to recognize it and be able to use it in FFXI or game-install where it supported.

But it seems you just using regular FHDB.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:44:59 2020 No.6861321

>>6861304
for it to work in the ps2 it has to be in ps2 format.
the only program that can work with that format is winhiip, but it doesn't let you create an iso, only to copy the data on one hdd to another.
so i copied it to a 20gb drive and then imaged that (giving me a 20gb image rather than a 500gb one).
now if i need to reinstall for any reason, i don't have to set everything up again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:48:25 2020 No.6861326 >>6861321 You still trying to word it like you cloned some other HDD. You don't need to and the whole process is so braindead I can't even remember how I did mine.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:54:49 2020 No.6861339

>>6861326
https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7132
i used this FHDB image, but it had stuff i didn't need and some stuff was missing.
i copied the image to a 500gb drive, set it all up and then realised that i wanted to make a backup.
there's no way to backup a PS2 drive without cloning the entire drive, so i had to use winhiip to copy the data to a much smaller drive.
there is no other way of making a backup other than cloning the drive because its a wierd proprietary format.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:57:21 2020 No.6861341 >>6861339 Maybe I even used this. Like I say, the whole process is very easy, just like modding a Wii.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:58:23 2020 No.6861343 >>6861339 I'd like to install hdd browser on mine, but it means formating everything again, and I don't want to spend another day on copypasting everything again.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 07:59:01 2020 No.6861345 How do you go about adding more games to a PS2's hard drive? Every time I've done it I've had to completely re-do the install on the drive. It's a pain.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:06:35 2020 No.6861352

>>6861343
not sure what hdd browser is but if you have ulaunchelf then you could just put it on a usb and copy it over.
>>6861345
i use HDL game installer to add games. it uses FTP so you just use the windows client to add the games and it copies over the network.
https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2314

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:08:03 2020 No.6861354 >>6861352 >it uses FTP so you just use the windows client to add the games and it copies over the network. Thank you, would you say it's reliable? I've seen trouble with FTPing to PS2 in the past. Any starting-from-zero guides out there or nah?

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:09:32 2020 No.6861360

>>6861345
That's a royal pain right there.
1) You google and ftp everything through HDLGameInstaller combo. There's also HDLServer, but it's x3 slower.
2) You start HDL service in OPL and refresh your list in OPL Manager on PC.
3) You ftp new art-works and configs throught uLE on PS2 and OPL Manager on PC.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:11:18 2020 No.6861363

>>6861354
it says its compatible with dual layer games, which i think was what people had trouble with in the past. i've FTPed a dozen games and they all work fine, so no problems so far.
i'd start with this image and then add or delete any extra programs you want.
https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7132

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:13:39 2020 No.6861368 >>6861363 >>6861360 Thank you, although I've done my PS2 hard drive setup like 3 or 4 times now it feels like I'm always staring at something alien when I get back into it. I'll have to spend some time getting a close look at everything.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:14:23 2020 No.6861369 >>6861352 >not sure what hdd browser is but if you have ulaunchelf then you could just put it on a usb and copy it over. It's replacement for default PS2 browser where you check what's on your MC and start discs. You can google it as "HDD OSD".

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:16:40 2020 No.6861374 >>6861369 ah OK, i have actually seen that. i prefer using freemcboot to launch stuff personally. >>6861368 yeah np. just format the drive with "winhiip" and then flash the image with "HDD raw copy tool"

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:17:59 2020 No.6861379 >>6861374 >i prefer using freemcboot to launch stuff personally. I just wanted to try it out because it supposed to be some official software. With hacks to launch backups or something.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:19:22 2020 No.6861381 >>6861374 Or maybe I read somewhere that this way I can use HDD as a native Memory Card and that would be cool.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:21:38 2020 No.6861385 >>6861381 I don't think this is possible, you can back up saves to the HDD. Alternatively you can use uLaunchElf to back them up to USB. Additionally you can back up PS1 saves this way, or even back up PS1 saves to PS2 MC.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:23:17 2020 No.6861387 >>6861385 Yeah, I know I can back it all up, but what I can't do is mount VMC as real and just browse it for glorious save-icons as on real MC. My real MC is forever full.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:26:08 2020 No.6861393 >>6861387 >My real MC is forever full. Back up the saves and clear them.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:27:53 2020 No.6861397 >>6861393 >Back up the saves and clear them. Can't really, because I only have 1 MC and use it with Slim. If inserted into Phat then it overrides FHDB. And I need different configs for Phat and Slim.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:28:44 2020 No.6861398

>>6861379
it uses the native HDD utility, so yes its essentially official software.
>>6861381
i believe you can do that, yes. i would trust flash memory (e.g. memory card) over a HDD though.
if you really need the space then that's probably a better option.

personally i just think FHDB/FMCB is easier to install applications to and cleaner looking.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:28:58 2020 No.6861401 >>6861397 Run uLaunchElf on one of the systems, insert a USB stick, boot into it, copy the contents of the memory card onto the USB stick should take a few seconds. Then your saves are preserved and you can store them wherever you want.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:29:48 2020 No.6861404 >>6861401 Anon, I know how to use it. It's just inconvenient right now.

Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:37:56 2020 No.6861416

>>6861398
>i believe you can do that, yes. i would trust flash memory (e.g. memory card) over a HDD though.
I too want to trust in MC more.
But I need to use FMCB on a few different consoles so I can't install 1-console version on it. And with all-version it will continue to override FHDB.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 08:46:06 2020 No.6861431 >>6844713 nigga you didnt even name one real hidden gem that was all plebshit

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 09:38:13 2020 No.6861528 File: 239 KB, 1044x770, absolutely.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6843745 >This wasn't pruned

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 11:15:48 2020 No.6861825 >>6861528 Get with the times, grandpa

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 11:20:50 2020 No.6861841 >>6861825 Read the sticky, faggot

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 11:21:57 2020 No.6861847 >>6861841 What about you read the sticky?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 11:22:22 2020 No.6861849 >>6861098 How could an eggcell buy a Dreamcast in 1999?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 11:35:40 2020 No.6861895 >>6861528 read the sticky faggot. the retro future is now old man. take your meds and go have your Alzheimer elsewhere

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 11:50:14 2020 No.6861954 >>6843745 NOT RETRO DUMBASS, MODS BAN THIS PERSON NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 12:53:05 2020 No.6862234 >>6861345 same as i've always done, take the hdd out, plug it into my pc (nowadays with a usb>ide adapter), then run winhiip to put games on it (it works in wine as well)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 12:54:38 2020 No.6862239 >>6861528 >>6861841 took a break, did you? check the sticky again, we 6th gen now, baby

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 14:02:42 2020 No.6862508 File: 27 KB, 250x354, RuleofRose.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6856614 If you can put up with some terrible combat this is a real treat. I'd suggest emulating it unless you have some really deep pockets.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 14:08:52 2020 No.6862536 >>6862508 >emulating What kind of hardware do you need to run PS2 smoothly?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 14:17:12 2020 No.6862578 >>6862508 Thanks, this looks pretty interesting. I've put up with some godawful gameplay for a good story before, so I'll check it out. And I have a modded PS2, so no need for emulation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 14:52:46 2020 No.6862767 >>6862536 Depends on the game and on the settings, in general something made in the last 7 or so years to run at native res.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 14:58:11 2020 No.6862786 >>6862767 >general something made in the last 7 or so years to run at native res. Doubt it. You need better hardware than that. IMO 7th Gen Core i5 16 GiB RAM GTX 1080 Is minimum to run PS2 titles.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 14:59:47 2020 No.6862801 >>6862786 Are you retarded? We are talking about PS2, not PS3. You can run most PS2 games on a laptop just fine.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 15:01:35 2020 No.6862807 >>6862801 Fine =/= good. Take GoW won't run on anything less than those specs. JRPG is fine though action scenes might lag. And if you enable frame skipping then you could get with lower end hardware. PS3 emulation require even more than that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 15:03:06 2020 No.6862813 >>6862807 dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDw1sOQHLb0

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 16:09:39 2020 No.6863076 >>6862807 games like black run like ass. I think burnout 3 also runs like ass on a emulator

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 11 16:15:01 2020 No.6863098 >>6862813 >720p >speedhacks Thanks for proving my points.

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