Having a Mac, however, meant that I ended up jumping through some hoops to get a Windows VM to write to the card, and I am 95% sure I didn't need to! It should be possible to simply write the image to the SD card using something like dd if=FHDB1.93.img of=/dev/disk2.

Connect the SD card and adapter to the consoleįor the hard disk image, I went with a basic Free HDBoot one I found via this tutorial.

Copy a bootable PS2 hard disk image to the SD card.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that my super cheap Network Adapter was in fact an official North American model with modem and ethernet, and not a clone 5! I was also able to verify that that the adapter worked by configuring the network in one of my games. After some searching, I found a secondhand Network Adapter for about CA$10, and figuring I wasn't going to get a better deal, picked it up! I also picked up a 128GB Class 10 SDXC card, and just in case adapter wasn't SDXC compatible, a 32GB Class 10 SDHC card.Įach item arrived at vastly different times, so unfortunately unless you're up for paying for local stockists of all these parts, it could be a month or two before you've collected all the parts you need! I found a reasonably priced 44-pin IDE to SD card adapter on Amazon, plus a 40-pin IDE and Molex power to 44-pin IDE adapter.

With just a bit of software trickery, you can back up your games and launch them from it!Īfter looking frustratedly at a list of compatible 2 drives, it occurred to me that there are other viable storage media which work over an IDE connection! An IDE SD card adapter should fit the bill - in 2017, SD Cards are fast 3 and cheap, and solid state feels like a good way to go 4. I recently discovered that the PlayStation 2 1 can accept an IDE hard drive via the official Network Adapter accessory.

Setting up my PlayStation 2 to load games from an internal SD card 12:04 pm,

Play station 2 mod