This program is a nice way to backup your sons game disks. This program will require you to boot from the cd in order to backup or run the programs. You will also need the playstation 2 network adapter and a hard drive. I suggest the maxtore 120 gig drive. They are the most compatible with the playstation 2 units. However, if you are just interested in backing up your games you can look into puchasing a game resurfacer.
This is basically a little unit that buffs your games back into shape. I hope this helps. Hd advanced loader works well but. Ok first of all order this program it works great second of all the network adapter is compatible with all hard drives from 4gb to 300gb. With a simple mod to the network adapter it will fit any hard disk. You remove the back metal plate using a microscrew driver then remove the torque screws from the ide port using a size 7 torque screw driver found at Sears belive it or not.
Simply plug the ide port into the hard drive then plug the drive into the power port slide the unit into the bay and screw it in. Next sometimes the first format doesnt' take for some reason i had a problem with mine. Copied the hulk game and shut the system off and it was gone when i cut it back on.
Haus der kulturen der welt. TIP when shutting down the PS2 use the top button (reset switch) hold it down and it will turn red and shut down the system then hit the rear off switch or you risk losing your drives data. You will notice the drive runs a few seconds more after you use the reset/off switch giving it time to save.
If you see an orange (amber) light under your controller ports that doesnt' ever go away and hd advanced loader just seems to sit there your drive is locked up restart and hopefully you wont' need to format again. Sometimes when you cut the system on with the hd advanced loader disk in the playstation may not recognize the disk try reseting a few times till it does. Also incase you dont' know (directions dont' say) your hard drive must be in the jumper setting of master, not master with slave but master some hard drives require no jumper for just master. If you get a black screen from a newly converted game it probably is a dvd 9 or special dvd format and so far HD advanced loader isn't compatible with dual layer disk or special dvd formats. XIII doesnt' work with hd adv loader but i hear there are ways around this. This is an excelent program and i highly recomend this to any one with disk scratching disease.
E-mail me at [email protected] for further questions.
This article does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and. (July 2010) HD Loader is a program for the video game console which allows users to play games installed on the optional peripheral via. The games can be copied to the hard drive from within the program, or by using a with image dumping software that outputs to a specific custom format.
The HD Loader software does not require an original hard drive to function properly, however some drives may be impossible to attach without modifying connectors. Games may also refuse to detect the drive if it is unofficial. Contents.
Reaction Sony's public stance on HD Loader is that it is not supported and is illegal (it can enable by allowing games to be installed, then played later without owning the disc). In October, 2006, a federal court in California ordered defendants to pay in excess of $9 million in damages for Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations for selling HD Loader. A clone of the patched version of the official version is being sold as HD Advance, is still being manufactured and can be purchased from many online retailers. Compatibility HD Loader is not 100% compatible with all PS2 games. Some incompatibilities exist because game software depends on certain peculiarities of the PS2 drive hardware. Additional incompatibilities arise from the use of DVDs in some PS2 games, which are sometimes not parsed properly by HD Loader (incidentally, dual-layer games can only be installed from a PC but as of 0.8c it's possible to install them from HD Loader).
Ps2 Hd Loader 0.8c
Finally, there are intentional impediments introduced some recent high-profile PS2 titles, such as and, to prevent them from being executed off the hard drive. In response to the limitations of HD Loader, a number of independent programmers have developed patches which extend the functionality of HD Loader to improve game compatibility or different software entirely (i.e. These include a fix to improve dual-layer support, one to implement a non-aligned data buffer (which allows to be played from the HD), one to defeat newer copy-protection measures (popularly known as the God of War fix), one to support the new 'slimline' SCPH-70000 series PlayStation 2 hardware and one to implement 48-bit (which allows HD Loader to take full advantage of hard drives larger than 137; or 128, as reported by HD Loader) as of 0.7c hard drives of up to 2 can be used. These have been accumulated into the HD Loader release known as 0.8b, The unofficial HD Loader is currently at version 0.8c as of April 2007. Version 0.8c continues support for 48-bit (up to 2 Terabyte hard drives), patches for, and, 3 more modes and support for installing and running dual layer games directly off the hard drive. Some games need to be patched in order to be played with HD Loader.
Another may require using tricks, such as starting the game with an older, digital controller and then switching to DualShock 2, or refuse to install. According to PS2HD.COM, the compatibility rate of patched HD Loader is around 88.2%. Original Playstation games are not compatible with this method. Version history Official HD Loader is extracted and released to the internet as a retaliation to the free library files used in its creation. 0.6d - the first unofficial version that improved game compatibility. 0.7c - fix for Suikoden V, patches for 48bit HDDs (up to 2 Terabytes), modes (/) and fix to allow dual layer games to be played were added. A stable GUI Patching app was created and allowed one to choose which patches and other various edits to apply to an Official unpatched version.
Updated compatibility menu added. 0.7e - patches that fixed Shadow of the Colossus and Super Monkey Ball were added. This version enabled playing many previously incompatible games. Updated compatibility menu and changed modes description. 0.8 - A patch that fixed and the ability to edit the DMA button configuration.
0.8b - fixes a bug with HDL0.8 not installing to HDDs over 128 GB and a few other minor errors. Updated compatibility menu. 0.8b+ - A patch that fixed was added. This version is known under different names because author did not rename the version. Additionally, this patch breaks support for. 0.8c - A fix for the buffer alignment was added into the GUI Patcher app and made both GOW2 and GTA:LCS run without crashing. This is the current version.
The unofficial releases can be run on a console with a modchip installed, or by using an exploit such as Free McBoot. HD Advance HD Advance is a cloned version of the HD Loader software for the, which allow users to play games installed to the optional peripheral available for the PS2. HD Advance is identical in functionality to many patched versions of HD Loader freely available online (that include DVD-9 support and 48-bit hard drive addressing) - only with a different theme and some changed text strings. The only benefit of HD Advance is that it is distributed on a pressed disk, giving a patched version of HD Loader that can run on a console without a modchip installed, and also without the need of the or any other software modification. However, players who were using HD Advance 2.0 retail pressed discs (CD or DVD) to format a hard disk with 80 GB capacity and subsequently use the disc to play PS2 games from the HDD were reported experiencing a strange problem. HD Loader versions up to 0.7c boot up perfectly via the Independence Exploit but subsequent versions of HD Loader from 0.8 onwards freezes on the splash screen and refuses to start up if formatted with a HD Advance disc.
This is possibly due to newer patches that are not in any HD Advance discs;a solution is to reformat the hard disk with HD Loader version 0.8 or higher, which is recommended for newer PS2 games. However, this is not confirmed to work 100% across the board as certain PS2 models (mainly PAL 7xxx consoles) was reported to still freeze at splash screen; a currently-unfixable problem related to HD Loader version 0.8 or higher on PAL single-port network adapter models was the main problem. Open PS2 Loader Open PS2 Loader, abbreviated as OPL, is an open-source program that allows playing of commercial games and homebrew installed from external storage devices. It has support for the (like HD Loader), (like HD Advance), and (over network). It also has additional features, like the GSM feature that is used to disable videos and change the resolution of the game output, virtual memory cards (allowing you to save on USB, HDD, or SMB), usage of the DualShock3 controller over USB and Bluetooth (using a dongle) and a cheat engine.
The interface of Open PS2 Loader can be customized with themes. It has been developed in version control since September 27, 2009.
External links. Shows compatibility for the various versions of HD loader, USB Extreme and ToxicOS.
This program is a nice way to backup your sons game disks. This program will require you to boot from the cd in order to backup or run the programs.
You will also need the playstation 2 network adapter and a hard drive. I suggest the maxtore 120 gig drive.
They are the most compatible with the playstation 2 units. However, if you are just interested in backing up your games you can look into puchasing a game resurfacer. This is basically a little unit that buffs your games back into shape.
I hope this helps. Hd advanced loader works well but. Ok first of all order this program it works great second of all the network adapter is compatible with all hard drives from 4gb to 300gb.
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With a simple mod to the network adapter it will fit any hard disk. You remove the back metal plate using a microscrew driver then remove the torque screws from the ide port using a size 7 torque screw driver found at Sears belive it or not. Simply plug the ide port into the hard drive then plug the drive into the power port slide the unit into the bay and screw it in. Next sometimes the first format doesnt' take for some reason i had a problem with mine. Copied the hulk game and shut the system off and it was gone when i cut it back on. TIP when shutting down the PS2 use the top button (reset switch) hold it down and it will turn red and shut down the system then hit the rear off switch or you risk losing your drives data.
You will notice the drive runs a few seconds more after you use the reset/off switch giving it time to save. If you see an orange (amber) light under your controller ports that doesnt' ever go away and hd advanced loader just seems to sit there your drive is locked up restart and hopefully you wont' need to format again. Sometimes when you cut the system on with the hd advanced loader disk in the playstation may not recognize the disk try reseting a few times till it does. Also incase you dont' know (directions dont' say) your hard drive must be in the jumper setting of master, not master with slave but master some hard drives require no jumper for just master. If you get a black screen from a newly converted game it probably is a dvd 9 or special dvd format and so far HD advanced loader isn't compatible with dual layer disk or special dvd formats. XIII doesnt' work with hd adv loader but i hear there are ways around this. This is an excelent program and i highly recomend this to any one with disk scratching disease.
E-mail me at [email protected] for further questions.