Recent content by Darkshadow_

This is true in general, but not true for using it with OPL. Even an SSD has to be defragmented for games to work with OPL. It's due to how OPL reads from the HDD. OPL doesn't access it as a filesystem, but directly asks for sectors, so the sectors have to be next to each other (i.e...

The adapter I have isn't sold anymore (I bought it back in 2011), but really any SATA to IDE adapter should work. Just make sure you're getting the right one - you want to go from SATA to IDE not IDE to SATA. You might want to look into the BitFunx adapter - it replaces the IDE portion in the...

Yes, the length helps in case you want to make the path longer. If it was the exact length, then you couldn't change it to a longer path. But by adding or removing, I did mean 00h (which is NUL, or the end of string terminator in programs). In the above case, it looks like the string's storage...

Most people wouldn't want to edit the ELF with a hex editor. It's not very user friendly and really easy to edit it wrong and get a non functioning ELF. Especially because you need to make sure the length of the string field stays the same, so if the path you're replacing is longer, you need to...

Loader could load a config file from +OPL or a system partition, and the config file could then specify where to load OPL. Perhaps there's room in the header for a simple config too? And the HDL header already has modes (although they're not the same as current day OPL modes) and could...

The slim consoles have ethernet built in. Other than that, no you need the network adapter. I think there are a few 3rd party adapters that have ethernet, but I could be wrong about that one. You mostly want to stay away from the 3rd party adapters, though, if you're wanting to use an internal...

No you were right, the HDD OSD does show everything based on time stamps. There just is no way to change the time stamp with the current SDK - once you've created a partition its time stamp is never changed/updated. So there's no real way to change the order partitions are displayed in, unless...

I answered the GitHub post, but to rehash: you need to do mkfs after doing mkpart.

You can't PUT folders, only files. You have to create the ART folder, then PUT each and every art file into it (after CD into the ART folder).

The internal drive isn't formatted as FAT32 (it's something Sony came up with), and the sector size is set at 512 bytes. This is why it must be formatted with a specific app (BTW, using uLe/wLe is better than using WinHIIP).

Happy to help, and awesome that you got an app made to do it :)

Yes, pfsshell uses the same code from the PS2SDK that wLE does (altered a small bit to run on a PC, but mostly the same). And yes, as it works now, it won't create a partition larger than the max partition size when formatting a device. So you won't get any 128MiB partitions unless the HDD is...

Oh yeah, I see where it's happening. It's not exactly a bug, it's more that no one considered that the max partition size would be less than 128MiB. Which I could see why, the official HDDs were 40GiB in size, and that gives a max partition size of 1GiB. If you're interested, it's in lines 338...

I'd guess it's a bug - no one tested a HDD that small. The code does a lookup of what the max partition size on a HDD can be, and that is calculated from the total size of the HDD. I'm guessing it is returning 16 MB for that. It can still make partitions larger than the max partition size, it...

I'm not sure that plastic bit has a name, but to help you out: that's a worm drive.