It’s been quite a while since my last blog on here, as usual. A few things have happened since then, I just always get lazy and don’t post anything until I accumulate enough things to put into a decent entry. The stuff I have today though could easily make one.

~New PS2!~

After over a year of waiting for my PS2 to be fixed, I finally gave up on it! Doesn’t sound too good, I know, but it gets better. I decided to actually test the “modified” PS2 after the most recent guy I took it to refused to touch it, because someone else had.

Anyway, I tested it, and it was bad. The powered on easily enough, it played a game from the main menu screen. Then I tested it with a backup disc and, nothing. So I tried it with the first game again, and I got a disc read error. Turns out that the first guy that did the mod screwed it up for me, messing up the disc drive. The mopdchip didn’t even work. That’s $160 (two DMS4Pro SE’s) wasted. So, after that failed miserably, I figured it was time to get another PS2, and give up on modding it.

I asked on MSN, and found a new PS2 easily enough. A good deal. $90 for a black version 9 PS2, two controllers, an 8MB memory card, remote and two games. Although I gave up on modding it, I hadn’t given up on softmodding, so I bought a black fliptop case for it, and Swap Magic 3.8 Coder. After all that came in and I had the PS2, I tested it. It worked perfectly. Then installed the case and tried out Swap Magic with a backed up disc. Worked fine. I also got out the 120GB HDD I used to use with it out of my download comp, and put about 20 games from the PC onto it.

More recently, I’ve made it even better than before. Now it has the fliptop case, a 500GB HDD (one I was using for an external hard drive before), and I’ve loaded it with HDLoader 0.8c, and other apps.

Last night though, I discovered FreeMCBoot. I’d seen it around before, but didn’t know what it was exactly. I thought it was just another ELF launcher like ulaunch or keylaucher. Turns it it was actually much different. Free MC Boot (FMCB) actually provides an alternate PS2 OSD (main menu). Instead of having the regular menu with the Browser and System Config, it gives you the option to add as many homebrew applications as you want (well, up to 100). It also doesn’t need a boot disc or trigger disc at all, as I had to do with my other ELF launchers using an MC Exploit. Now I can access everything, media players, ELF Launchers, game discs, hard drive games, all from the menu without having to load any kind of disc. Here’s how it looks:

That’s all for the PS2 for now. Now for something else that’s exciting… In the NEXT BLOG! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ciao.

Lock Jaw.