Oct 8, 2017 - I recently decided to buy a used PlayStation 2 and try my hand at. I bought a SCPH-39001 from Ebay, commonly referred to as a fat PS2. 1 and 2, you can load games from a burned DVD or a USB hard drive. I deviated from it some and connected the fan to the power supply to motherboard connector.
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I've just stated in another thread that I might post a tutorial on softmodding fat PS2s. And after a few clicks around other threads I thought I may as well in order to prevent anyone cracking open their PS2s with angle grinders just yet! There may well be a tutorial on here already but I couldn't find it and so here's mine. How to Softmod Your Fat PS2 DISCLAIMER I DID NOT INVENT THIS SYSTEM YOU FOLLOW THIS TUTORIAL AT YOUR OWN RISK I WOULD NEVER DREAM OF ATTEMPTING TO RIP OFF A BIGWIG COMPANY SUCH AS SONY AND OBVIOUSLY DO NOT ENDORSE ANY ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. Intro: Softmodding is a way of modifying your PS2 without the need for opening it up and soldering all sorts of stuff together. I have seen kids as young as 8 grasp the concept of softmodding pretty fast.
So no excuses guys/gals. This method lets you do all sorts of cool stuff such as emulating SNES games and ripping your PS2 game discs straight to your installed hard drive (don't panic we'll cover that too!) so you can play them without the disc. Ripped games play alot smoother than the original games, no skipping, shorter loading times, and it saves your laser reader in you PS2 as it isn't used apart from when you boot up! Sounds good huh? Well lets get cracking! It says that the ps2 cd rom is not detected in windows well i get that message.
I reformatted the flash drive so its clean now what can i do to test it on the ps2 do i just connect it? Also the memory card that came with the ar max is not detected and when ar is loading i get a message saying insert ar max hardware and i inserted the ar max mem card and it thats the only way i get to the where i have the six options i was talking about. So i dont know if the ar max on the ps2 is a different version from the max media creator on my pc.
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