this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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I think the best thing is to load your games over the network. The usb ports are only 1.0. And I’m pretty sure the network adapter hard drive connector either only accepts up to 40gb drives or it only uses a pata connection.
I bought a 3rd party drive adaptor without a network port and had to load my games on my PC using a network enclosure.
It was still a pain. Its all soooooo slow and buggy.
I have a 500GB drive in my hard drive slot using the third party adapter and grimDoomer OPL
There are newer adapters for the network port. I use a 500GB SATA drive just fine, it's just a pain in the butt to transfer games
Why is it a paid in the butt
I just added a SATA drive to my ps2 yesterday, and it plays ps2 games fine but I really want to play psx games. Is there a solution for this yet?
I modded my PS Mini for PS1 games. Its pretty simple.
Hell yeah, that sounds awesome. Does it have native composite video out? I wanna play on my crt without using an hdmi converter
You can use POPStarter to use the built-in software emulator, but it's not great. There's also FreeMCBoot and MechaPwn if burning discs isn't a problem (might only work on some models? I'm not sure)