I’ve got mine wired up to a 480p EDTV through component, and it does a surprisingly good job at deinterlacing the 480i games. But it really shines with 480p supported titles. Soul Calibur III looks phenomenal.
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I have my chipped PS2 set to boot wLaunchELF, which autoboots OPL after a few seconds if I don’t press any buttons. Would that help your situation?
Yeah, that reminds me, I need to get a hard drive and few other things for my PS2 and try to play the games on the hard drive using OPL.
I’m going to have to investigate my options a bit further, im sure I can figure something out with my current freemcboot memory card setup. Apparently mod chips interfere with the pademu driver, dont know if thats the case with all of them, but that shuts out that option for the time being. The ps2slim also has some high pitch whine fan noise I’ve noticed, so I’m going to look into replacement options for a silent fan.
I don’t have any PS3/4 pads to even try pademu.
I’m using a SSD to play PS2 games from it with OPL!
It works great, and I didn’t get that sata network adapter either, just the official network adapter with a sata to ide adapter.
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For those that haven’t seen it, there’s a new exploit for PS2 that attacks the Mechacon chip called MechaPwn.
The summary is that you can change some aspects of the PS2’s region, as well as change the PS2 into something similar to a DTL / TEST unit. The DTL mod allows the following:
SCPH-5X00X + SCPH-7000X:
- US and Asia units: all region disc play, all region backup play for PS1 (from OSD) and PS2 games (boot from wlaunchelf)
- JP units: play US and JP region PS2 discs from OSD
- all regions: play all region PS2 discs by booting from wlaunchelf
SCPH-7500X and later:
- play all region discs for PS1 and PS2 from OSD
- play all region backups for PS1 (from OSD) and PS2 from OSD (boot from wlaunchelf)
Consoles before 50K not supported.
Pretty cool IMO, you do need a way to boot homebrew on these in the first place but conveniently all systems support FreeDVDBoot. Couple with a FreeMCBoot setup and with the right model you’d have a complete region free, backup launching, homebrew capable PS2 with no modchip.
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Interesting. I happen to have an actual DTL test unit. Pretty cool to have a region free console but I haven’t used that feature much. I only have one import game.
Man I was so bummed out today looking at PS1 game prices, knowing there’s no way I could play the cheaper Japanese/European imports on my PS2 and now this, awesome. Think my model’s older but it’s still very promising.
Living in the UK I have a PAL console. I know you started any region from ulaunchelf but does this also mean 60hz ?
I don’t really know, but it’s worth trying.
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I’ve read on Twitter that it does
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If you can get an NTSC game to boot it will automatically run at the correct speed for PS2 titles. It gets messier with PS1 and will depend on your model.
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For PlayStation 2 games all PS2 will produce PAL for 50Hz and NTSC for 60Hz - even for PAL releases with a 60Hz mode.
With a PAL console you won’t be able to play NTSC PS1 games correctly and vice versa. It works much like the Saturn does actually if you have any familiarity with that.
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Thought I’d write out a bit of my PS2 console history cause I’ve amassed quite a few of them.
- 2003, my original black US region SCPH-50010/N – got this console back in '03 with a network adapter and a copy of ATV Offroad Fury. It’s in rough shape today due to 1) as a stupid teenager eager to run “backups” I cut a flip top into it! and 2) 7 years ago I botched a modchip install and tore some traces near the bios chip – it’s likely repairable but I haven’t felt like diving in.
- 2003?, my wife’s original JP region white SCPH-55000GT – beautiful white console that came with GT4 Prologue. Been using it as a JP region and later region free DVD player (great for kids!) more than anything else in recent years.
- 2014, black US region slim SCPH-75000 – bought as a replacement for my botched modchip install above, worked great for a few years but the laser seems to have failed and while it’s probably replaceable, 75k consoles are the least desirable to use due to the early DECKARD bugs that got ironed out in later slims.
- 2016, black US region SCPH-39001 – I got into the idea of using ODEs or at least no-disc solutions back in 2016 and went looking for a “best ps2” for that. In retrospect, the 39k is good but the fan is awfully loud, the AC circuit inside likes to run warm all day long even when the system is “off,” and the laser in mine at least is a bit picky with dvd backups. Oh yeah, after setting this up with SD->IDE and a front accessible SD card slot, I ended up getting back into real discs and DVD backups; oops!
- 2019, black modded JP region SCPH-50000 – My quest for “best ps2” led me back where I started, only this time I bought a 50k PS2 pre-modded with a real matrix infinity and a romeo mod to fix the booby trapped mechacon, making it ideal for region free + backups for ps1 and ps2 games. Using this one regularly today as a main ps2, only it’s been uh reshelled.
- 2020, black modded PAL region SCPH-90002 – I really wanted another modded PS2 for a 2nd TV and they were much easier to source from PAL regions and I’m still skittish about trying to install a modchip into another ps2. I knew this meant ps1 games wouldn’t work well but I figured it would be fine. I came to really love the 90k, it’s really nice looking in person. Was using this occasionally until a few days ago, have it set up with hacked OSDSYS running from dev1/mc0 and now mechapwn modded so that it acts more like a US region console and runs PS1 games sanely.
- 2020, midnight blue JP region SCPH-50000MB – pandemic days, what can I really say. I love the subtle clear blue. The casing is currently housing my modded 50k mentioned above, which means I effectly have an ideal modded midnight blue and a stock JP 50k.
- 2021…
Real reason for posting all this, just got a white JP region SCPH-90000. It’s not brand new, but the condition is very, very good. I kinda wish I had gotten this instead of the PAL modded 90k above but it was hard to find one premodded. I’m not going to rehouse the existing 90k, I don’t like the idea of mixing housings for different regions, but MechaPwn makes stock slim consoles a lot more appealing.
After running MechaPwn this thing will run region free JP/US + backups of PS1 games seamlessly as well as run region free JP/US of PS2 games seamlessly. PS2 backups are a bit more tricky, but I’m lucky enough that the bios is also low enough to run FreeMcBoot and I can either fastboot masterdisc patched games or run ESR patched discs with the modified DVD player installed. If it had been a later bios revision, it wouldn’t be much more annoying but you’d need to launch OpenTuna from the memory card browser.
I don’t think it’s going to take the place of my modded 50k midnight blue but it’ll make a beautiful 2nd PS2.
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Love the SCPH-90000 in ceramic white, it’s a beauty! I still want the vertical stand for it, they released one for each colour of the system, whereas the previous Slims all had the same silver round stand (my SCPH-70000 is satin silver though…).
I got the stand too! Didn’t include it in the photo:
It’s surprisingly heavy but I’m still getting some crazy cord drag.
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Yes! That’s exactly what I wanted to see a photo of! So good.
The difference is down to the developers. The first half were mostly made by Tamasoft or even they may have farmed them out to someone else. The later games came from M2.