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ps2homebrew / Open-PS2-Loader

Game and app loader for Sony PlayStation 2
https://ps2homebrew.github.io/Open-PS2-Loader/
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[FR] Update README to indicate methods of transfering games - or link a guide? #322

Closed IngwiePhoenix closed 3 years ago

IngwiePhoenix commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am helping out a friend of mine to set up his collection to run off a HDD in his fat PS2. Mine is dead, so in many cases, I can not reproduce behaviour and I do not trust PCSX2 to emulate these specific things correctly and by spec. His requirement is to install games via the PS2 itself, full well knowing that it is slow. I am unfortuantely not familiar with the APA format to just gude him through setting this up through uLaunchELF directly - which I would think could be possible but... likely not the best idea ^^'

OPL is quite apparently not capable of installing games by itself and since this has not been added in forever, it'd be nice to know ways to actually make that happen. I seem to faintly remember using HDLoader to install most games but launc them through OPL - but, are there any "known to work" versions of HDLoader? Or anything else that could be done?

Hence, this feature request...against the README itself.

Describe the solution you'd like Since most people might come here after having been brought here to obtain the latest version of OPL, it'd be nice to have a mention of the absense of game installation support mentioned in the README alongside a short paragraph of what options are available - and recommended - to install games. My friend's collection is entirely physical, so he could possibly spend his time using the PS2 directly. But, what known methods are there? When doing a google search for it, I can find all sorts of things and inconclusive "How Tos" that don't help at all. Hence, I would like to propose the solution of adding a small blurp in the README or other documentation related place mentioning the installation of games - either by just listing which HDLoader versions are compatible or naming other, more preffered methods.

Describe alternatives you've considered The de-facto alternative would be to have this support baked into OPL, which I doubt will happen, since it hasn't landed in years.

Additional context I am targeting my friend's PS2 which is a regular USA PS2 with an IDE HDD. However, Google spits out a lot of things - but not what I am looking for, sadly. That is why I came here to offer my idea. :)

AKuHAK commented 3 years ago

As of now, the most stable is to use this app: https://sites.google.com/view/ysai187/home/projects/hdlgameinstaller It can install games from discs as well.