Burning PS2 Games?

[Mikey_]

no just kidding. anyhoo, in about a month i'm gonna get a ps2. my nephew's pc has a dvd burner with double layer burning, of 8.5gig max capacity. sooo, i guess i can burn just about any ps2 game on a dvd. my question is, and comment....is there a special way of burning a ps2 game? like it is for the GC or can i just rip it the same way i'd rip a ps1/DC game? and can i get away with the lil exploit of using a gameshark or action replay on the ps2 to play the burned game? Ex: i place the Gs/PAR disc in. say start game with no codes, take disc out then place the burned ps2 game in and start...would that work? just wondering cuz thats how i do it on my psx.

[Winged 2.0]

I have tried a gameshark and it didnt work for some reason. I have swapmagic 3 with a slimline ps2. A DVD+R burner and I burn my games onto Ritek Ridata DVDs. Not one problem. One thing though. Whatever you do, burn/rip with DVD decrypter. Burning at 4x should be fine. (It is for me) Thats all there is to it, really.

[Mikey_]

cool. thanx for your input winged. also i ran into 2 files on how to boot ps2 games without chipping the system and how to burn ps2 games. not sure if these methods work. i read through most of it and it all seems easy. if anyone is experienced in doing this pls take a gander at the files and see if that stuff makes sense. got the files from: http://www.megagames.com/ps2/ps2_guides_files.shtml

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...B04MGIVL7BSXXU = booting ps2 backups

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1...8202JIB3MD07XW = burning ps2 games

[Winged 2.0]

Haha, those appear to be the same files that I looked through before buying Swap Magic.
Also, If you dont have a gameshark already, I would get swap magic instead because it is designed to play backups and the gameshark isnt. I have been through it all. Trust me. Before buying swap magic I tried action replay. I tried Gameshark. I even tried the psx swap trick with ps2 games. Also in changing discs I would not recommend using a plastic knife. Take a memorex cd. (has to be memorex) and cut it out to fit this diagram

May be a bit small but a thumbnail from google is all I could get. You should be able to get the gist of it.

[Back To Zero]

i might have the full image of that. Let me look around my HDD.

EDIT: here it is...

[Vivi]

Haha, those appear to be the same files that I looked through before buying Swap Magic.
Also, If you dont have a gameshark already, I would get swap magic instead because it is designed to play backups and the gameshark isnt. I have been through it all. Trust me. Before buying swap magic I tried action replay. I tried Gameshark. I even tried the psx swap trick with ps2 games. Also in changing discs I would not recommend using a plastic knife. Take a memorex cd. (has to be memorex) and cut it out to fit this diagram

May be a bit small but a thumbnail from google is all I could get. You should be able to get the gist of it.

Though my Half assed Credit Card versions seemed to work better.

[Back To Zero]

Is there an action replay boot method for the original (non-slim) PS2?

EDIT: wont work with out the mem card, which i lost, so nvm.

[Zorlon]

Action Replay 2 v2 works with it's own dongle and I'm sure all the PS2 Action Replays do, but a PS2 without a memcard isn't worth using anyway

P.S. the image for the PS2 that slide card is on this forum in http://www.emuparadise.org/vbulletin...ad.php?t=24713

the guide is almost a year old now and the image has been up for a lil longer

[Back To Zero]

Yeah i lost that dongle/mem card saddens me. I have my PS2 memcard.

[Winged 2.0]

Action Replay 2 v2 works with it's own dongle and I'm sure all the PS2 Action Replays do, but a PS2 without a memcard isn't worth using anyway

P.S. the image for the PS2 that slide card is on this forum in http://www.emuparadise.org/vbulletin...ad.php?t=24713

the guide is almost a year old now and the image has been up for a lil longer

Zorlon, are you the one that made the diagram in the first place? I have used that thing for so long and I had no idea who made it.

[Mikey_]

k...SO....you all think the GS/PAR code may work? hope so cuz i don't plan on getting it modded.

[Zorlon]

Zorlon, are you the one that made the diagram in the first place? I have used that thing for so long and I had no idea who made it.

Well although I would love to take that credit for it, no I didn't make that I just uploaded it on the forum

[Winged 2.0]

Well the thing is is that you can probably pick up swap magic for 24 bucks online while a gameshark is 30 and Swap Magic is guaranteed to work. Eh maybe I am just saying that because I never got the GS method to work.

[Mikey_]

i have a gameshark and a PAR from having owned a ps2 when it was 1st released...or sometime later. i never knew about that swap trick code cheat exploit thing till i pulled it off with my psx. thats why i'm assuming it may work with the ps2. according to some folks it does....and some it doesn't lol

[Zorlon]

Yeah i lost that dongle/mem card saddens me. I have my PS2 memcard.

If you lived in the UK you could have one of mine I have 2 but it might not be compatable with the US version or I would be willing to send it your way anyway (You would have had to pay for postage though )

Maybe you could pick one up on ebay for cheap maybe as part of an Action Replay that has a scratched disc or something as the disc wouldn't mater anyway as you have your own copy already