Did you ever instal a HDD in the PS2?

[Oblivion Knight]

I gave it a go, but it wasn't the easiest of things to set up. Booting games directly from the HDD in many cases introduced a number of framerate issues, especially with FMVs, since the data transfer speeds weren't much better than the USB 1.1 ports on the front. I never tried booting Linux from it, I didn't really see the point in doing so..

(Playing games over Ethernet works much better.. 😇)

[Patrik]

Every single PS2 user in my country did that :D, because original discs were expensive, so people were using HDD's for games, piracy i know 😛

[Knight Barida]

On 10/18/2021 at 1:50 PM, Oblivion Knight said:

I gave it a go, but it wasn't the easiest of things to set up. Booting games directly from the HDD in many cases introduced a number of framerate issues, especially with FMVs, since the data transfer speeds weren't much better than the USB 1.1 ports on the front. I never tried booting Linux from it, I didn't really see the point in doing so..

(Playing games over Ethernet works much better.. 😇)

Booting games are always difficult for anyone that don't have the coding spirit, lol. Once you believe that this is something you can easily do, then I see no need to be worried.

[Justin11]

I use an external SD card for my PlayStation 2 , I could install a couple of games on it and plug in it through the SD card port and have access to all the video games installed in it.