A great way to play (ps2) Homebrew on the PS2 and also PS3 is enabled through this software.
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Open PS2 Loader is an application made to play your PS2 homebrew from a USB device or a networked PC with a PS2 or a PS3 that supports backward compatibility.
This open source project picks up PS3 USBADVANCE originally developed by Ifcaro (which is part of the team developing the project).
New / fixed:
- Improved network configuration and various corrections
- Added support for internal HDD format (HDL)
- Added the possibility to choose the default menu (USB, NET, HDD games)
- Added the possibility to use a valid ID Disc for online games
- Added a fix for the problems of freezes with some modchips
- Numerous fixes for compatibility for games
- Addition of IGR (In Game Reset) with an option to disable it for every game
- Adding an alphabetical listing
- Changing the settings categories
- Added page scrolling (R1/L1)
- Added support for language files created by users
- Added support network for the PS3
- Added support for themes in zip format
- Added support for PCMCIA 18K
Use:
You must have a compatible USB device PS2/PS3 formatted in FAT32 (only if you want to run games via USB).
To launch the games via the SMB protocol, you need to share a folder named PS2SMB (it is possible to change the name) accessible to everyone.
Games must be formatted Advance / Extreme. There are few programs to convert these formats to play. Open PS2 Loader includes a command line tool dedicated to this task and called iso2usbld.
Other tools are: usbutils 2.0, USB Extreme or USB install Insane.
On PS2 you can use any existing method for loading ELF executables.
On PS3 you must have an original SwapMagic 3.6 + or 3.8 (there is no alternative for the moment).
The steps to launch Open PS2 PS3 Loader are:
1. Rename OpenPS2LD.ELF in SMBOOT0.ELF
2. Create a folder named SWAPMAGIC at the root of your USB device and copy the file SMBOOT0.ELF in it.
3. Start SwapMagic on your PS3 and press UP + L1 which should launch Open PS2 Loader.
There are 4 possible launch ELF via SwapMagic.
UP + L1 = SMBOOT0.ELF
SMBOOT1.ELF = UP + L2
SMBOOT2.ELF UP + R1 =
SMBOOT3.ELF = UP + R2
