PS2 [Testers Needed] OPL internal exfat 2TB+ HDD and multi-BDM devices

Heldir said:
Hi,
New here. OPL.elf only launches to a black screen.

I formatted my SSD to exfat, made sure it's on 512 sector size, not 4K, dropped the ISO in the DVD folder.
I drop the OPL.elf file on the root of a Fat32 USB key.

I launch uLaunchELF, go to MASS, and click O on the OPL.elf file. The screen goes black and seems to try to show something for a few seconds, and then nothing.

It's a 250Go SSD, so not that big. The PS2 is a SCPH-30001 (but the version with the 10 screws) serial U0673567.
When I launch the original OPL from the FreeMCboot menu, it works but of course can't see any game.

What is it that I did wrong?
Thanks
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I had the same issue

I ended up changing the hdd and now everything is good.
 
I am using a 50009 with Samsung 850Evo 500G SSD,it runs well.
But there are 2 issues here: 1, it can't show ISO with long name 2, It can't show ISO with Chinese name though I had put Chinese LNG files in OPL folder ,that will be great if you can handle on this,thank you!
 
Keith Huntington said:
for what it is worth, i'm using a usb docking station, SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Docking Station, i formatted a 1tb laptop drive i had just for testing and imported a single iso, and my ps2 was able to see and play the iso from the drive. so i guess not all sabrent docks force 4m cluster sizes. but like the above poster said, it took (in my eyes anyway) a painfully long time to load the config file once the iso is selected (painfully meaning, anything over 2 seconds seems too long to me based on playing iso from hardrives on many other hacked systems i have)
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purchased a new seagate baracuda 8tb 5400rpm drive, and the config loaded much faster this time. perhaps the old drive i was using just had bad fragmentation.

that being said, the sabrent dock is still working fine with this drive as well. so i feel confident in recommending this dock for players who dont want to rip their pc apart to direct jack into the mobo. playing silent hill 2 as i type this and is working great.
 
Did some initial testing, and then worked the past 3 days to get a lot of ISO's loaded up on a 10TB disk. This is all complete, and I have tested a few games and so far, everything is working great.

The biggest issue that I have is actually navigating the OPL game menu! if I scroll down, it has to load the images (or not - tried with coverart off) but it still takes about 3-5 seconds before I can go down again. If I switch to another page - same thing, it has to wait about 3-5 seconds.

With a few hundred files - it will take me forever to scroll to something that is 40 pages down.

Is anyone else seeing this? I also tried with Cache on and then off.

Matt
 
Mathew Beall said:
Did some initial testing, and then worked the past 3 days to get a lot of ISO's loaded up on a 10TB disk. This is all complete, and I have tested a few games and so far, everything is working great.

Matt
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i'm going for also a monster list as well.so i have the full [redump] US set, and it shows zipped its at about 2.63 tb... do you think 8tb would be sufficient for the unzips? or will i need to whittle it down a bit to fit? some of the iso's have quite an astonishing compression rate of like 45%!

to the OP, i like how with og xbox XBMC4G, that you can bookmark favorites on the fly so you call up your favorites list at launch so you don't have to scroll through 900 games. i wonder if that is something that can be added to OPL??
 
Hey all.

Im running a Ps2 Model 39003, FreeMCBoot Version V1.966, with a 1TB Hard Drive.

It's seeing the Network Adapter, the hard drive is spinning up but it is not seeing anything on the hard drive.

Following Macho Nacho's video, and used a FIDECO USB 3.0 Hard Drive Caddy to mount and format the drive. I beleive its writing in 512kb Sectors as thats what im seeing in windows after formatting via System Infomation. Not sure if there is another way to check.

Any idea?

Thanks Chris
 
Mathew Beall said:
Did some initial testing, and then worked the past 3 days to get a lot of ISO's loaded up on a 10TB disk. This is all complete, and I have tested a few games and so far, everything is working great.

The biggest issue that I have is actually navigating the OPL game menu! if I scroll down, it has to load the images (or not - tried with coverart off) but it still takes about 3-5 seconds before I can go down again. If I switch to another page - same thing, it has to wait about 3-5 seconds.

With a few hundred files - it will take me forever to scroll to something that is 40 pages down.

Is anyone else seeing this? I also tried with Cache on and then off.

Matt
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more information on this - I discovered that if I hold down the Right Button (for example) or the down/up D-pad and don't release, it will scroll through until I let up - but the load time for the cover art, etc. takes about 3 seconds or so to load.
 
Hello, all..
Hoping someone here can help me solve my issue, as I've been dealing with this headache for days now and about to give up as I've exhausted my options..
I have a WD 6tb 5400 Drive, I've formatted it with the sata in my pc, I've also formatted it with my Inatek Docking station (this makes no difference) as it's setting the sectors to the correct (512) that OPL Requires, however the HDD, does DETECT in the system but OPL, does not show my games whatever I do, I've changed the BDM Drive settings I've changed the HDD settings, to auto, I've turned them off, shoot I even tried to turn them to "manual" whatever that does… I've deleted the config for OPL Multiple times still nothing, the games refuse to show up… I have them in the correct DVD > Example.iso .. it's not rocket science it should just work… maybe someone can help me figure this out because I've ran out of options.. I guess really my only other option would be to get a complete different hard drive … or just buy a 2tb and call it a day, I had plans to add more games but I just cannot get it to work no matter what.
 
It is a BDM Device... Keep the HDD stuff off...
More games? Like 800-1000 as ZSO is not enough?
 
I did some more testing with this build, this time on a brand new 4TB GPT-partitioned internal HDD. I probably should have mentioned that I do have a USB flash drive connected that I use to launch this build of OPL, but no games loaded onto it.
  • Compared to the MBR exFAT drive I tested last time, I don't experience the delay in starting a game (stuck on "Loading config") or saving the config. Not sure why, but I am not complaining.
  • I tested ATV Offroad Fury 2, as this is the only other game I have with network support, and this time the game is able to connect online. I don't know what this game does differently from GT4 Online or .hack//Fragment, but hopefully it helps narrow down the network issue for you.
  • Sometimes the game list does not appear until I go to Start > Settings > OK, even though I have not changed any settings. Though this might already be being addressed by you, and the last few times it has loaded fine for me, so I can't reliably reproduce the issue. BDM and HDD are both set to Auto.
 
TnA said:
It is a BDM Device... Keep the HDD stuff off...
More games? Like 800-1000 as ZSO is not enough?
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I've done this and does not work.. using a 50000x series console if that helps any.. must be the hard drive or my McBoot card I don't know at this point
 
C-PSX said:
I've done this and does not work.. using a 50000x series console if that helps any.. must be the hard drive or my McBoot card I don't know at this point
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have you made sure that you installed the new opl properly? i know nacho's video shows to just boot it from usb, but personally i felt more at ease by formatting my FMCB card and rebuilding it with the new opl. so when i boot my ps2 to fmcb the opl i open is the one on the memory card.
 
I made a report about some games the other day that were not working with both OPL on the first post
Forgot the MD5 of them, 2 of them only have 1 Japanese release but the OP ask for them
Gradius V MD5: 961922be01fc29ac5ffc0697a17d531f
Simple 2000 Series Vol. 91 - The All Star Kakutousai MD5: d26d47aff7c26b428ac97e365c243dcd
KOF2 - Maximum Impact II MD5: e4e16d1ef0bc26baf2ebd2f3ae6a989c For this game I checked both releases and both freeze at the start with a black screen
I deleted the games and copy them to the hdd again to see if it was a copy problem, but the problem still persisted
 
Keith Huntington said:
have you made sure that you installed the new opl properly? i know nacho's video shows to just boot it from usb, but personally i felt more at ease by formatting my FMCB card and rebuilding it with the new opl. so when i boot my ps2 to fmcb the opl i open is the one on the memory card.
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I have not… I rather not if it's broken for me.. I have OPL 1.1 with the Anniversary Theme, and really like it, so if I can't manage to get any of this new stuff working I guess it's time to order a 2tb drive and install games the Ol' fashion way… not that I want to lol.. but there I'm kinda forced to if nothing is working on my end … I'll be awaiting a new update from Grim soon and try that out and see if I get any better results…
 
@Moronz The reason to calculating checksums is not for version recognizing but dump validity. No one will waste his time on bad dump or hacks support because many things can goes wrong and in such case is not a problem of OPL code but dumper/hacker.

Checksums for CD games be of course different than those on ReDump because of missing mode2 extra block size (OPL does not support games in mode2, so they need to be shrinked to mode1 block size, in other words: from 2352 to 2048). But of course all be the same after stripping them from proper dump, just different than original obviously.

@Keith Huntington How could "install it not properly"? It is just single executable... You can put it anywhere You want and run it from anywhere You want.
 
Berion said:
@Moronz The reason to calculating checksums is not for version recognizing but dump validity. No one will waste his time on bad dump or hacks support because many things can goes wrong and in such case is not a problem of OPL code but dumper/hacker.

Checksums for CD games be of course different than those on ReDump because of missing mode2 extra block size (OPL does not support games in mode2, so they need to be shrinked to mode1 block size, in other words: from 2352 to 2048). But of course all be the same after stripping them from proper dump, just different than original obviously.

@Keith Huntington How could "install it not properly"? It is just single executable... You can put it anywhere You want and run it from anywhere You want.
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Should I post this then?
>KoF2 Maxmum Impact 2 SLPS_256.38
>Simple 2000 Series Vol. 91 - The All Star Kakutousai (Japan) SLPS_204.30
>GRADIUS V SLPM_624.62
By the way all the games worked with a formated USB in the same OPL for test here
 
@Keith Huntington The only incompatibility between OPLs is his config file across versions. There is no incompatibility between OPL and FMCB, so reinstalling FMCB is totally pointless, as not related to OPL in any way. ;)

@Moronz The best way in case of DVD is posting game title + product code (i.e SLUS-12345 or executable name like SLUS_123.45) + checksum (CRC32, MD5, SHA-1 whatever fit You best). In case of CD games, it is enough to say that converted from validated dump (if this is true of course), and mention game title + product code.
 
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