PS2 Help: Ps2 slim Slowdowns? Ps2 Fat Hardisk Bay? Ps2 games with raspberry pi?

[Joat.None]

Hi! I'm from italy, so i have pal tv.
1) I own a bunch of ps2 slim of various models like ps2 SCPH-900xx, sometimes when i play dragon ball budokai tenkaichi 3 NTSC with external hardrive with opl i got major slowdowns, they are really noticeable, so i wonder what can be the problem? I guess usb 1.1 shoul slow the reads but the game shoul be loaded in to ram when i'm fighting, i'm wrong? If i get a fat ps2 with internal hard drive the problem will be fixed?
2) A friend of mine had ps2 fat with hardrive. It used sata hardrive bay but the bay usually did not last very long. I don't know what the problem was. Are the pata hardrive bay more reliable? Are somewhere high quality one? There are some enclosures i can buy to make the hard disk less giggly?
3) Is easy to set up the raspberry as a server for ps2? I read online that it is fast and works great. It connect tu lan port of ps2, i'm right?

 

[Berion]

Yes, You are wrong. PS2 don't have 700MiB, 4.3GiB or 8.3GiB of RAM to load it there whole disc images. :P

Does this game have stable framerate playing from disc in the first place? Because You know, not all games works fine which cannot be fixed.

Playing from USB, especially on OPL lower than 1.2.0, results in stuttering in some scenarios, not to mention FMVs. It is slowest media and shouldn't be used at all. Compare USB 1.1 to ATA100. If not internal HDD and USB, consider MX4SIO or SMB.

 

[gamerman 5000]

Hi! I'm from italy, so i have pal tv.
1) I own a bunch of ps2 slim of various models like ps2 SCPH-900xx, sometimes when i play dragon ball budokai tenkaichi 3 NTSC with external hardrive with opl i got major slowdowns, they are really noticeable, so i wonder what can be the problem? I guess usb 1.1 shoul slow the reads but the game shoul be loaded in to ram when i'm fighting, i'm wrong? If i get a fat ps2 with internal hard drive the problem will be fixed?
2) A friend of mine had ps2 fat with hardrive. It used sata hardrive bay but the bay usually did not last very long. I don't know what the problem was. Are the pata hardrive bay more reliable? Are somewhere high quality one? There are some enclosures i can buy to make the hard disk less giggly?
3) Is easy to set up the raspberry as a server for ps2? I read online that it is fast and works great. It connect tu lan port of ps2, i'm right?

For what it's worth, I played that game many times (NTSC) in 2-player mode via USB and I don't remember there being any slowdowns.
Tip: Keep your USB device defragmented periodically.

Edit:
Second piece of advice: I see that you have PAL TV, try to play it in that region.

 

[TnA]

Try:

• UDPBD
• SMB
• MX4SIO
• Internal HDD
• Firewire

instead!

 

[Joat.None]

Yes, You are wrong. PS2 don't have 700MiB, 4.3GiB or 8.3GiB of RAM to load it there whole disc images. :P

Does this game have stable framerate playing from disc in the first place? Because You know, not all games works fine which cannot be fixed.

Playing from USB, especially on OPL lower than 1.2.0, results in stuttering in some scenarios, not to mention FMVs. It is slowest media and shouldn't be used at all. Compare USB 1.1 to ATA100. If not internal HDD and USB, consider MX4SIO or SMB.

Maybe I explained myself badly, it is clear that 4.3 GB of ISO cannot be loaded into a few MB of RAM, however it can be loaded:
The stage, the characters with their animations. According to my reasoning they shouldn't run slow because they are literally loaded into the ram.

As for the second statement, if I'm not mistaken, I took Tekken 5 from the shelf and started playing, imagining that it shouldn't lag. Instead I clearly perceived that there was slowness in the game.
I use updated OPL btw.

Second piece of advice: I see that you have PAL TV, try to play it in that region.

I guess sometimes it worked flawlessly on PAL TV, i guess there are a lot of variable like scart cables, different tv i used, different boot method, different console revision. I wondered if there are othem peoples who had this problem.

 

[gamerman 5000]

As for the second statement, if I'm not mistaken, I took Tekken 5 from the shelf and started playing, imagining that it shouldn't lag. Instead I clearly perceived that there was slowness in the game.
I use updated OPL btw.

I also played Tekken 5 many times via USB and everything was perfect (Use the Official OPL 1.1.0 version).

I guess sometimes it worked flawlessly on PAL TV, i guess there are a lot of variable like scart cables, different tv i used, different boot method, different console revision. I wondered if there are othem peoples who had this problem.

It could be, but the closest factors are the medium used (USB, HDD, SMB) and the OPL version you use.

 

[Joat.None]

I also played Tekken 5 many times via USB and everything was perfect (Use the Official OPL 1.1.0 version).



It could be, but the closest factors are the medium used (USB, HDD, SMB) and the OPL version you use.

However i'm close to switch to PS2 fat, i ordered a original network adapter, tomorrow i will buy an used ps2 fat for 25€, i will have to recicle some leftover pata hard disk for now.
Maybe in future i will do more test on my slim ps2.