All kinds of stuff. We will explore all the wonderful things like upscaling your graphics to 480p (and sometimes up to 1080p!), running emulators, using cheats, etc. For the HDDOSD version of FMCB only) ELFs can be booted from any partition on the HDD. The format of the path is :. (e.g. hdd0:__sysconf:pfs:/FMCB/FMCB_configurator.elf). Recovery mode allows you to boot a single ELF, in case your FMCB/FHDB installation was rendered unusable. Replaced DVD player booting code, to give the Sony-like behaviour. For compatibility with all DVD players and projects but they have been kind enough to provide me with access to its source code, for me to make some improvements to it.

The PS2 Discord is incredibly active and lively, with some amazing development work underway on the PS2 to make it unbelivably powerful. Well worth joining to see the amazing work going down. r/PS2 would like to thank all of our active community members for making r/PS2 such a wonderful place! I'd also like to thank Freedomain.co.nr for offering free DNS listing and other necessary services so we can host this guide ourselves, on our own server, absolutely free. Free Mcboot will work with almost any PS2. The only versions of the PS2 that will not work are the slim models with a model number series of 9xxxx. These are the models on which 1/2 of the top is shiny. If you have a Fat PS2, or a slim that just has a 1 inch wide "band" of shiny plastic on the top, then you can use FMCB In this time, there has been an incredible boom of guides and communities appearing that provide significantly better support than I could ever achieve now. I am gadly happy to hand the reigns over to these many communities that work to ensure this information is up to date. After reading that, you’ve most likely noticed FHDB being mentioned multiple times. In SP193’s words:Reloading the OSD from within the OSD triggers a full reload of FMCB, because I felt that it'll be cleaner. FMCB has been split into two. The part of FMCB which remains resident will be copied into its place during runtime, Full support for the SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000. Not only will it patch up the SCPH-10000 v1.00 kernel fully (Applies OSD argument-passing patch), it also includes its own HDD support modules and can act as a replacement for the Sony system driver update. and provides you with a means of launching homebrew software, without the need for any extra hardware,

The embedded EELOAD module has been cleaned up, and loads at 0x00082000 instead (Like rom0:EELOAD does). We have an ambitious Original Game that has been in the making for awhile and aims to provide AAA graphics and effects. The gameplay is still early but the developer has big plans for the game called " The Four of us are Dying". by Josh Allen / noradninja. this game is a Silent Hill 2/Alan Wake style survival horror game. Updated LaunchELF, to fix the display mode setting problem and the inability to reliably boot ELFs. Yes... sort of. How easy it is to do this depends on which model of PS2 you have. If you have a Fat PS2 it is very difficult. If you have slim PS2, it is slightly less difficult. It always requires physical modification of the PS2, and is beyond the scope of this FAQ. Someday, I will write a specific guide for all models.A new shutdown function, for shutting down the PS2 with the appropriate process for some (2.5") HDDs. The icon mapping is different for the HDD OSD. The early OSDs of the SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000 on the other hand, FMCB has been split into two. The part of FMCB which remains resident will be copied into its place during runtime, allowing the initialization part of it to have the entire PlayStation 2 for initialization and drawing something nice on the screen (Not done at the moment as it makes FMCB quite a fair bit larger). Before posting/asking questions, please read this question and answer article which I spent a little time writing up: http://ichiba.geocities.jp/ysai187/PS2/FMCB/FMCB_19_QA.htm It is however pre-configured to use several recommended apps, so all you would need to do is simply add the ones you wish to use. By reading the Advanced User Guide, you can find out what to do if you wish to add other apps or files.

The PSBBN is not supported by FHDB. Please do not install FHDB if you use the PSBBN because that will ruin the PSBBN (its MBR program is incompatible).When ATA support is installed (installed whenever compatibility with the SCPH-10000, SCPH-15000 and SCPH-18000 is required), Some IRX modules (init.irx and chkesr.irx) have been removed (superceded by code that runs from the EE, like their Sony originals).