![]() It can be anywhere, just make sure you’ll remember where. I’ve set up a folder with my PS2 ISO files in it called PS2SMB. If you are not, the process should be pretty similar, but a quick google search will lead you in the right direction. ![]() I’m going to assume that you’re on Windows. Once you get it right, we have to set up the network stuff. If you did it wrong you’ll see this screen. If you did it right, you’ll see this screen. Now, plug your usb drive into your PS2 with the Swap Magic disc in. This is how the disc knows to load OPL on start up. ELF file into the SWAPMAGIC folder renaming it to SWAPMAGIC.ELF. It has to be all caps, or the disc won’t read it.Ĭopy the contents of the OPL archive to your thumbdrive and place the. You want to make a folder on it named SWAPMAGIC. The easiest way to get it, is to buy a memory card with it already loaded up( eBay).įor the rest of this write up I’m going to refer to what I did, because Free McBoot didn’t work out for me(9000X model and all that).įirst you’re going to want to download and set up an empty, unloved usb drive like so. If you have a model of PS2 that is older than the 9000X series, you don’t need swap magic you just need Free McBoot. It will also auto execute un-signed code off of a thumb drive, that’s we’re going to use it for. Swap Magic is designed to let you swap it out with an import or backup copy of a game. I have an NTSC console, so I bought the NTSC version of Swap Magic. Make sure that you get the version that is compatible with your console. However, I need to get a Swap Magic disc. If you have an older model number of PS2, you will need something a little less difficult to make this work. Look on the bottom for the model number.Īs we can see I have a 9000X series PS2. The first thing to do is determine what version of PS2 you have. Using the network interface we can load the disc images from a shared folder on our network, then the only bottleneck is the speed of our network. Thankfully, the PS2 has a built in advantage to get around this problem(at least the slim has it built in). This can be a problem because the PS2 used USB 1.1 which is too slow to reliably play disc images without stutters or errors. The most common way is load the images off of a USB hard drive or thumb drive. ![]() This can be done a couple different ways. I just wanted to share my adventure in loading disc images (ISOs) on my PS2. The information may no longer be up-to-date. Important: This was written June of 2017.
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