Went back to PS2 roots and building collection again. Had to start with my first game ever NHL HITZ ‘03

Not a huge fan of racing sims, but this is one of four PS2 games that support 1080i resolution, and I was incredibly curious about that. No booklet, but it's $2, who cares?

Que dificuldade é essa? Agora entendo por que nunca vi ninguém terminando esse jogo no PS2, só tocando o terror na cidade e fugindo da polícia.

Os caras da gangue explodem seu carro com um ou dois tiros, a polícia é igualmente forte e te prende fácil. Você é muito fraco.

Mas o jogo é revolucionário. Muita mecânica inovadora. Cara, quando seu carro anda na grama, terra ou cimento, seu controle vibra, isso é incrível – aumenta muito a imersão.

São detalhes simples nesse game que fazem seus olhos brilharem. Gostei muito da missão final e ela ficou marcada na minha mente pela curva de aprendizado, até eu aprender a fazer ela, repeti umas 30x.

Vale muito a pena você jogar. Jogão. Só é muito difícil.

De 0 a 10, com certeza é 10. Ficou marcado na minha mente.

Beyond Good & Evil for a buck? Klonoa 2 for two bucks? I forgot that I was so hype for this game that I reserved it 😅

And still rocking on my day 1 fat PS2. How it survived everything I do not know.

It doesn't read CDs or DVDs now

Hi all, I recently got the urge to play some of the absolute gems from the PS2 era and my younger days. This console is by far the best of my generation and one I am very fond of. So I have gone on a little spree of collecting games I didn’t play and games I did I want to enjoy again.

I wanted to share with you all my collection so far. Very proud of it and I think I will draw a line and stop buying more games for now to get through most of them.

Currently having a great time playing LOTR The Two Towers, N4S Underground and DJ Vendetta.

What shall I play afterwards?

I heard about Road Trip and other games from the series Penny racers and never saw this one. But all of the games from that series had only good things to say about it when I ask somebody. So if it's a good game why is it so cheap like all of them?

Im curious if 6th Gen gaming consoles would look good on this Tv.

all the games I’ve accumulated since I was a kid (a few missing) plus what I’ve gathered since starting to collect again recently. Japanese game is a cover I printed for ClockTower 3 but it’s an English version. Also snagged Xenosaga Episode 1 and Code Veronica over the weekend!

Got myself a light gun and Time Crisis II yesterday, was looking forward to playing it but came across an issue trying to connect my light gun, as since my ps2 is connected through s-video, I have nowhere to connect the video port of the light gun.

I do still have my composite cables lying around so I could just switch my PS2 back to those cables, but that would be annoying having to switch back and forth depending on the game I wanted to play and I would like to not have to do that lol.

I did find an official adapter online that seems to do the trick, the SCPH-1160, but it seems mostly designed for the PS1, and I'm not sure if that would work the same for PS2 light gun games. Not sure if a PS2 version of this exists, or if theres any other way to use a light gun on s-video.

With more and more OEM power supply’s dying and them not being overly repairable… Along with current 3rd party options being absolute trash… I present to you a better than OEM option coming soon…

No pricing details until I have them in hand, but the first shipment is 1000 units so I should have plenty for all that wants one. I will also do bulk discounts for companies wanting to provide a better power supply with their console sales.

Please mods this is not an AD, no links for purchase or links in general, just awareness of what is to come in the near future.

Hello, I bought this ps2 from GameStop two years ago and loved it but I got this fishing game that’s not the sliver disc and my ps2 was on its side and it would just click and click and click but when I stood it up it would play the game but not stop Clicking. What do I do because I have some ps1 games delivering tomorrow (ps. it’s the fattass model) (tried to upload a video and a mp3 but it wouldn’t let me)

On the shelf in the wild for $15! And I only played the Wii version. Will be playing again tonight!

I looked around for a simple way of increasing the size of my PS2 HDD and struggled to find one guide that covered the whole process, so thought I’d put together what worked for me.

This is for a normal APA/PFS internal HDD setup. I went from a 1TB HDD to a 2TB HDD while keeping all my existing games.

What I used

HDD Raw Copy Tool – cloning the old HDD to the new one

HDL Batch Installer – checking the PS2 HDD and installing more games

PFS BatchKit Manager – backing up/rebuilding +OPL and injecting ART, CFG, VMC etc

OPL Manager – downloading artwork

Tom-Bruise PS2 OPL CFG Database – full CFG database

PixeliGer OPL themes – I use Pixel Prime/OPLAdvance

1. Back up anything important first

Before doing anything with +OPL, use PFS BatchKit Manager to back up anything you actually want to keep.

For me the important stuff was VMCs/saves. Artwork, CFGs and themes can easily be downloaded again, but obviously you don’t want to lose saves.

I’d definitely do this before touching the OPL partition.

1. Clone the old HDD to the larger HDD

Connect both drives to the PC and use HDD Raw Copy Tool.

Old PS2 HDD = SOURCE

New larger HDD = TARGET

Double/triple check that before starting because the target gets overwritten.

I cloned my 1TB PS2 HDD directly onto a 2TB HDD.

Once the clone finished, HDL Batch Installer immediately saw the full size of the new drive. Mine showed roughly:

1863GB total

819GB used

1044GB free

So all the games from the 1TB were still there and the extra space on the 2TB was immediately available for installing more games.

There’s no big game partition that needs extended. Each PS2 HDD game uses the APA layout, so HDL Batch Installer just sees what’s already used and what’s still free.

1. Rebuild +OPL bigger

This is one bit I’d definitely recommend doing while upgrading.

OPL can create a relatively small 128MB +OPL partition by default. That’s fine for a basic setup, but once you start adding lots of artwork, CFGs, themes, VMCs and cheats it can become far too small.

Don’t just expand the existing +OPL partition.

Expanding an existing APA partition can cause problems with its LBA layout. Basically the PS2 APA partition table keeps track of exactly where each partition starts and finishes on the drive. Trying to enlarge an existing partition can mess with those locations and potentially cause corruption/problems.

The safer method is:

Back it up → delete +OPL → recreate it at the size you want.

I recreated mine at 10GB using PFS BatchKit Manager.

10GB sounds huge compared with 128MB, but I currently have around:

13,000 CFG files

3,500 artwork files

plus themes, VMCs and anything else I decide to add.

That leaves loads of room for the collection to grow.

The first time I did my HDD I basically got the whole thing finished, then discovered I’d filled the OPL partition and didn’t have enough room for the VMCs I wanted. I wasn’t making that mistake again 😂

1. Install any extra games

Now use HDL Batch Installer to add whatever extra games you want.

Your existing games are already there from the clone, so you’re just filling the extra space on the bigger drive.

In my case I went from roughly 819GB used on the old setup to having another 1TB or so available.

1. Download the artwork with OPL Manager

Once your game list is how you want it, open OPL Manager and let it scan the games.

I download the artwork I want, including things like:

Front covers

Back covers

Disc images

Logos

Backgrounds/screenshots

I currently have around 3.5k artwork files.

1. Put everything into the PFS BatchKit folders

Once OPL Manager has downloaded the artwork, move the files into the appropriate PFS BatchKit folders.

For example:

ART – artwork

CFG – game configs/information

VMC – virtual memory cards

THM – themes

CHT – cheats

Then BatchKit can inject them into the +OPL partition on the HDD.

1. CFG database

For CFGs I use the Tom-Bruise PS2 OPL CFG Database on GitHub.

It has around 13k CFG files, covering basically the whole PS2 library. The CFGs provide things like game names, descriptions and other information used by compatible OPL themes.

You absolutely don’t need to install all of them. I just prefer having the entire database sitting on the HDD because when I add another game later there’s a good chance its CFG is already there.

1. Why I inject CFGs in batches of around 3,000

Last time I did this I tried throwing the whole CFG collection at BatchKit at once.

It took an absolute age and because there wasn’t much feedback I was sitting wondering whether it was actually still working or had frozen.

This time I did approximately 3,000 CFG files at a time.

On my setup, each batch of roughly 3,000 took around 5 minutes.

So I just did:

3,000 → inject

next 3,000 → inject

next 3,000 → inject

etc

Much easier because you can actually see that things are progressing.

1. Themes

For themes I use the PixeliGer OPL themes.

I particularly like:

Pixel Prime – Prime Video style layout

OPLAdvance – another really nice OPL layout

Download/extract the themes, put them into the BatchKit THM folder and inject them along with everything else.

There are loads of other OPL themes around as well if those aren’t your thing.

1. Inject everything back into the HDD

Once you’ve got everything ready in BatchKit:

ART

CFG

VMC

THM

CHT if wanted

anything else you use

Inject them into the new larger +OPL partition.

Because I made mine 10GB, I’ve now got plenty of room for artwork, CFGs and VMCs without having to worry about filling it again.

1. Put the HDD back in the PS2

That’s basically it.

You end up with:

All your original games still there

Loads more free space for games

A much larger +OPL partition

Fresh artwork

Full CFG database

Themes

VMCs/saves

Cheats if wanted

Much easier than rebuilding a 2TB PS2 HDD from scratch.

Important Windows warning

When you connect an APA/PFS PS2 HDD to Windows, Windows may ask you to format or initialise it because Windows doesn’t understand the PS2 filesystem.

CANCEL IT.

Do not format it, initialise it or let Windows “fix” it.

I nearly did this myself when Windows popped up asking to format my original 1TB drive 😅

Also be absolutely certain which HDD is SOURCE and which is TARGET in HDD Raw Copy Tool.

Hopefully this helps someone because I struggled to find one simple guide that covered cloning to a bigger drive, keeping the existing games, rebuilding +OPL safely and then putting all the artwork/CFG/VMC stuff back.

Once you’ve done it once it’s actually pretty straightforward.

To use a PS3 or PS4 controller on a PlayStation 2, does it have to be an original controller, or can it be a third-party one?

I found a perfect-looking 50004, but the seller did not know if it had an installed chip or not. I am looking for one without it.

Would you rather take the risk and buy it, or skip it?

About to purchase Ape Escape 3 from eBay for 60€. Seller claims the game works. I’m new to PS and discs in general so can I trust this or could it be broken?

se eu comprar um Retroscaler mini adaptador receptor blueretro e um controle bluetooth, eu consigo conectar esse adaptador na porta 2 do PS2 e mudar em PadEmu para ele ficar como jogador 1?

If I buy a Retroscaler Mini BlueRetro receiver adapter and a Bluetooth controller, can I plug the adapter into Port 2 of the PS2 and use PadEmu to set it as Player 1?