226w ago -
Update #2:
idone has made a handy
PS3 USBLD Loader Tutorial for 60GB and 20GB for those having trouble.
Update: A Spanish video of it in action is now available in our
Videos section.
Today
Reflecter posted
HERE news about PS3 USBLD Loader v0.1 by
Ifcaro, which apparently allows those with a 60GB Japanese PS3 to run PS2 iSO images from an external USB HDD.
According to the included ReadMe file, a PAL version is expected to be released soon. It is reported to work on the latest PS3 Firmware, but it requires Swap Magic to load the ELF file.
Download:
PS3 USBLD Loader v0.1 (Japanese Only)
From the ReadMe file:
USBLD Versión 0.1
Siiiiii, por fin ha funcionado XD
Proximamente en tu PS3 PAL...
Requisitos:
+ Tener una copia del archivo USBD.IRX de sony entre la versión 0.13 a 0.17 en mc0:BEDATA-SYSTEM, mc0:BADATA-SYSTEM o mc0:BIDATA-SYSTEM
http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-hdd-news/ps3-usbld-loader-v0-2-released-ps2-isos-pal-consoles-104077.html
Good luck with the testing, i might wait this out until more news arises.
For those that have not had much luck with getting usbloader booting at all, make sure to copy the BEDATA-SYSTEM (or BADATA-SYSTEM for NTSC) over to the virtual memory card. I already had a version on there when i tried getting the SNES working awhile back and didnt bother replacing it, which caused problems.
Thanks, DA.
I am once more optimistic that this will also function on PAL consoles. Using psxloader I was also able to detect the usb device and list the games on it. I had to delete all the irx files in the modules folder of psxloader. then used option E and it recognises the drive.
Thanks to the folks at Elotrolado for the tip and thanks again to frozen99 for 1st bringing it to my attention.
It still doesn't launch the game, just a black screen. I'm hoping that it's some kind of incompatibilty between Ifcaro's code and psxloader. Hopefully Hermes will share his code with Ifcaro and he can get Usb_loader to recognize the usb device without using psxloader. Then maybe everyone with a ps2 compatible ps3 can enjoy Usbloader.
Time to sit back and hope Ifcaro can code some magic.
lol, I'm stubborn so I'm going to test more games
Good news for PAL users btw.