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

Moronz said:
Did you replace the invalid games with proper rips?
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I did and they work fine now, like I said before it probably was a problem from transferring from the old drive to the new one. since the old one was formatted for ps2, windows cant normally read it. so I had to use some third party software to dump my games from my old drive... and I assume it just corrupted some of the isos. It was only like 11 games that were borked so I just got replacement isos and now its all good. dont know if it was related but I also noticed the fucked up games were labeled as .ISO while the good ones were .iso but idk why that would make any difference. but thats kinda starting to get off topic from the point of this thread
 
I unfortunately wasn't able to get my Crucial BX500 1TB SSD to work with your OPL build and this SSD specifically requires an older build of OPL. Despite formatting with my unitex drive reader and formatting off my PC i've had zero luck getting it to work and getting the hard disk not detected message.

Ps2 im currently using is a japanese scph-37000 with a sata adapter on an official ps2 hdd adapter
 
@Sluggo The invalid tab only refers to the name of the ISO...
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Idk, in the program it said they were invalid cause it couldn't find the Game ID. It could be unrelated then why they didn't work. All I know is opl kept crashing during loading, while those invalid games were on my HDD... unless are you saying if i take an iso and rename it burpfart.iso its gonna read it as invalid and then crash opl?
 
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Hi, tested this on my system, and works well (ps2 fat with gamestar ide adapter and 160gb ide hdd), however a completely different issue rose: memory cards corrupt if you switch them in opl/ingame. I use sd2psx virtual memcard thingy and switch it from one bank to other since this build of OPL is large, and as a result this corrupts the bank you switch to. Earlier with regular OPL builds and games loaded from AFS formatted HDD memcard switching would not do the same thing.
 
Hello, back here again..
I've now formatted my drive with a iMac , and a MacBook, My main PC Running Windows 10 as well as a Windows 7 Laptop nothing is showing in OPL!….. when I put games on the drive… a friend of mine has the exact same console, network adapter setup and hard drive and he was able to format fine and tested with RE4..
Is there just a chance it's a my FreeMcBoot Card, or My PS2 is just half dying?
I've also tried 2 other hard drives, (one was a 500gb ssd Kingston and a 2tb laptop HDD by western digital)
And it is doing the same thing as the 6tb western digital. I'm exhausted at this point seems nobody knows the issue or how to fix it … I'm completely stumped.. it's odd considering my friend was able to get it to work fine with pretty much the same setup only difference is his McBoot card is slightly diff then mine however that shouldn't matter….
 
Im using a fat ps2 with 1tb sata 3rd party network convertor.
if your games don't show on your hdd opl list, make sure you delete any old opl config files.
im using free mcboot in memory card slot 1, I noticed that the new opl was writing the config file to memory card slot 0 which has an official sony memory card installed.
so delete old configs from your official sony memory card using ulaunchelf, and any old configs on the freemcboot card. remember to set new config files to write to memcard 1 where my freemcboot card currently resides.

Also I cannot change the DMA modes when using an internal hdd, I used to change this mode for compatibility issues?

I know the compatibility for games is a long term project but here's my current findings:

Colin mcrea rally 3 now works, when before it only worked using hddloader.
Eye toy games now work with usb camera, before the games crashed or camera was detected but was green background.
Sing star games play better now, however you may still have to plug mics in after game launches.
Buzz games dont work at all, they did on the last stable build of opl, black screen on load.
Crash Bandicoot vortex does not work, never had issue with this game before.
DVD9 games seem load fine, god war 2 loads into title screen.

still loads of testing for me to do on games list, however I only jumped into opl about six weeks ago so I didn't have chance to test many games using older opl versions.
 
Your Version of OPL Crashes for me immediately when my hard drive is attached, but launches fine when hard drive bay is empty. I have reformatted the drive from scratch multiple times following your guide directly with internal SATA connection. I'm using a 4tb Seagate Baraccuda drive. My old APA formatted drive still works properly. I am launching from FreeMcboot 1.966 and have tried a fresh install of FreeMcboot (both exfat and nonexfat version) as well as deleted all OPL files and reinstalled that from scratch as well.
 
It runs unusably slow and glitchy in the settings menu and when you close the settings it just hangs up on a black screen. Model 37000, no extra attachments plugged it. Removing the config file does not help it.
 
I just tested v1.2.0.1. using a 4TB HDD loaded with 1,300 games. I first ran them through OPL manager to download ART. OPL loaded like a charm. On first boot I thought something was wrong since it didn't show the game menu, but needed to change "BDM Start" and "HDD" to ON. I found that ART covers needs to be turned off, since it slows down the HDD trying to seek 1,300 covers (while you scroll). Definitely need to "cache game list".
 
Stacatto said:
Your Version of OPL Crashes for me immediately when my hard drive is attached, but launches fine when hard drive bay is empty. I have reformatted the drive from scratch multiple times following your guide directly with internal SATA connection. I'm using a 4tb Seagate Baraccuda drive. My old APA formatted drive still works properly. I am launching from FreeMcboot 1.966 and have tried a fresh install of FreeMcboot (both exfat and nonexfat version) as well as deleted all OPL files and reinstalled that from scratch as well.
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What OS are you using to format the drive?

justanyone said:
Hi, tested this on my system, and works well (ps2 fat with gamestar ide adapter and 160gb ide hdd), however a completely different issue rose: memory cards corrupt if you switch them in opl/ingame. I use sd2psx virtual memcard thingy and switch it from one bank to other since this build of OPL is large, and as a result this corrupts the bank you switch to. Earlier with regular OPL builds and games loaded from AFS formatted HDD memcard switching would not do the same thing.
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Can you explain step by step what you did you trigger this? If I understand correctly, you have the sd2psx plugged into the memory card slot, and after OPL is loaded you switch banks on the sd2psx?

FYI here is the current status on known bugs (Note: these fixes are not released yet!):
  • [Fixed] OPL displaying error 221 no hard drive connected when no HDD is plugged in.
  • [Fixed] OPL corrupting GPT formatted hard drives. APA driver ends up writing a bunch of data to the drive which corrupts the GPT partition table.
  • [Fixed] Needing to have HDD support enabled in addition to BDM devices. "HDD" has now been added to the list of BDM devices in the settings menu.
  • [Fixed] There's a "phantom" HDD Games menu that shows with nothing in it.
  • [Fixed] BDM device hot plugging support. BDM devices that can be removed (USB, iLink, MX4SIO) can now be "hot-plugged" while in OPL and the game menus for them will appear and disappear accordingly.
  • [Fixed] Not being able to set UDMA mode for games on exFAT HDD.
  • [WIP] OPL not finding config files or not saving them in the correct location. This is an issue with the newly added multi-bdm device support.
  • [TBD] Games with online support give "no network adapter" errors. I'm fairly certain I know what the issue(s) are here but I haven't had time to investigate just yet.
  • [TBD] Various games with compatibility issues compared to previous official release of OPL.

I need to do another top down test of all the features and devices which takes a few hours, but if everything goes well I should have a new build ready tomorrow/friday. If not I will definitely have a new build out this weekend. Since this build has some important bug fixes for a number of features I want to get this out before I start looking into individual games in hopes this addresses some issues people were having with getting this build to work at all.

In addition to this I've also been working on a "HDD tester" tool that you can run on a PS2 console that should give me some more detailed information about the types of HDDs/SSDs people are using to help diagnose issues.

Thanks again for all of the feedback and testing, it's much appreciated!
 
Sluggo said:
Idk, in the program it said they were invalid cause it couldn't find the Game ID. It could be unrelated then why they didn't work. All I know is opl kept crashing during loading, while those invalid games were on my HDD... unless are you saying if i take an iso and rename it burpfart.iso its gonna read it as invalid and then crash opl?
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If you don't launch a game, it should not matter AT ALL, if the ISO is corrupted or not.
 
grimdoomer said:
What OS are you using to format the drive?
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I use the Disk Management program in Windows 10 and have also tried Mini partition tool wizard to format my drive, to no avail. It seems upon further testing that the OPL Ver 1.2.0.1 is having issues all on its own. I can often boot it successfully once from a clean install after copying it to the memory card and deleting all settings, but it fails to boot a second time no matter the source directory. It does two screen flashes that it always does when trying to load, then stays on a black screen requiring a hard PS2 reset.
 
That issue is known and AFAIR Grimdoomer mentioned it being fixed5(just above?), but the OPL build is not released yet.
 
TnA said:
That issue is known and AFAIR Grimdoomer mentioned it being fixed5(just above?), but the OPL build is not released yet.
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If this is referring to my post then that's awesome! I didn't realize the way I was describing my issue was the same as one of the listed ones. Thank you all for your hard work.
 
I believe grimdoomer mentioned that the fix is for GPT formatted drives from non-Windows computers. For what it's worth, I have formatted my current setup as GPT using the Windows Disk Management utility in Windows 10.

I would try running OPL off of the thumbdrive and see if it is able to correctly pull up the drive. I am able to shut down OPL and relaunch it without issue, so I would see if your installation on the memory card is having some kind of issue.
 
grimdoomer said:
Can you explain step by step what you did you trigger this? If I understand correctly, you have the sd2psx plugged into the memory card slot, and after OPL is loaded you switch banks on the sd2psx?
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To add more details - my PS2 is a SCPH-39004 model, chipped with modbo 760 chip.
This is what I do to boot OPL and start games:
1. Choose card 1 channel 2 on sd2psx (it stores your custom OPL build and uLE), and hold R1 on boot to launch DEV1 application (uLE in this case)
2. Then in uLE I navigate to memcard and launch the mentioned OPL
3. Now this is where it divides: I noticed memory cards corrupting if I switch the channel/card both in OPL games list and when a game (tested with Persona 4 mostly) is booted.

I can provide before/after memory card images if that could be of any help
 
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