FINALLY a way to back-up your games to HDD over Ethernet
 

These guys are claiming to have a program that will transfer your back-up ISO's on your PC to your PS2's HDD over Ethernet. They haven’t released it yet I guess..... Hopefully they will soon and it’s all they say it is!!!

http://fire.prohosting.com/outty/

this is absoutly amazing.. i have been waiting fro this for soo soo long!!
i woundering if a crossover network cable will work(it should) so i dont have to switch cables everytime.. this is free ware rite? and do we have a release date yet?
thanks for the great link spedmetal!!

Oooo! :eek:


Ill be waitin for this to be released.






Tyler!

Its released!
 

http://rm-r.net/~megatron/FAPlink_08...E303FCC%5D.zip

Get it while you can!



Tyler!

the avarage upload rate is about 450KB and for transferring a full 4.3GB iso, it'll take about 2.6 hours :eek: however it stops transferring after 2 minutes here, anybody had success to transfer the iso successfully?

Supposedly its kinda glitchy. There was too much noise in #Wank3rs so I just left. Im sure there will be more updates.

BTW Khafan, you should be on AIM more often.




Tyler!

the ps2link 1.23 was the problem, I switched back to 1.22 and now everything works fine, however it's too slow for transferring dvd images. :zzzz:

Damn it !!!! its not there now!!!

Any one got a live link to that??

Turns out this one didnt work too well at all. And our old enemy Z already hacked it and put his name on it. Too bad it doesnt work.

Supposedly a new version will be out tomorrow. Thats why the current link was taken down.






Tyler!

Sad muppet :)

are you gonna post the link again?>

I will as soon as the new version is out.



Tyler!

The sooner they release it the better :)

So wat soze hdd are you guys using?

Well you still can get it on their new site : http://wank3rs.maxconsole.com/

Yeah use if you want but, personally Id wait for the next version.





Tyler!

0.86 is out. http://wank3rs.maxconsole.com/

Well, after waiting half an hour to upload a dvdrip, I just got "failed to patch APA header" error. :(

LMAO, you should report the bug then :D

I'll stick to WinHIIP. :D

That's still the best one out there ;) And it's still slow the FTP transering anyway

Geese! Maybe someday someone will get a nice and fast working program.





Tyler!

I get the same error.

Faplink is pretty glitchy...i think ill stick on HDL_dump :rolleyes:

FAPlink 0.87.1 works awesome. I was even able to use it to install some games the HDloader previously refused to install, like Twisted metal black and Jak and Daxter.

This is what I used.

1) Ultra ISO
2) Inlink 1.3.2
3) pukklink
4) FAPlink 0.87.1

I first made the ISO images with Ultra ISO, then downloaded pukklink and FAPlink and Inlink. I then burned pukklink to a CD-R a booted it on the PS2, then loaded Inlink on my PC and sent the .elf of FAPlink over to pukklink via my network. Once the Faplink .elf file was booted by pukklink I then configured the FAPlink server IP's to match my local network (This was hard to do as the first boot screen of the FAPlink server is PAL and I had to focus my eyes on a rolling screen, but the next screen isn’t think this), once the FAPlink server was up and running I closed Inlink and opened the FAPlink client on my PC, typed in the PS2's IP address on my network and connected, then chose the .iso file I had made with ultra iso previously typed in the name of the game that I wanted to see when HDloader boots and clicked Install and watched it create a HDloader partition and send the game data over to the PS2 via my local network. Yes it did take some time but I find even though it takes some time to be very convenient especially when it was able to install some games that I couldn’t get HDloader to install and also I don’t like the idea of every time I want to put a game on the HDD with the other tools like this you have to unplug your HDD from the PS2 then open your PC and plug it in there, reboot the PC and then reverse all this. I also prefer to take the HDD in and out of the PS2 as little as possible for the simple fact that I don't want the plugs to wear out over time, not to mention that I'm lazy.

Now I know the new version of FAPlink if suppose to be able to boot on its own with out the need for pukklink, but when I burner it to CD-R it wouldn’t boot, so I must be going something wrong, but the way I used it worked just great. Also there is a way to create a folder on your memory card with your networks IP info that the FAPlink will access so you don’t have to strain your eyes to navigate the first PAL screen with the IP config tool like I did. But I couldn’t figure out how to do this either.

khafan, any help here would be great to make this method even simpler then mine, mainly how to burn the FAPlink server to CD-R properly so the need for pukklink isn’t needed.

hey spedmetal.. i also had probs with booting the .elf from cd-r.. heres what u need to do.. you need to make a system.cnf file but change it to show this information!
"BOOT2 = cdrom0:\FAP_SRV.ELF;1
VER = 1.00
VMODE = NTSC"
than add the fap_srv.elf file and use a dummy file.. then burn in nero with Mode2 selected!



EDIT: post if you can/cant get it to work.. if you cant i will post the .iso (if it will let me as its a fairly big file) and i also have dial up slow internet so if it works i wont try to post it..


EDIT: also.. you can save the disk you made to hdloader and boot it from there if you want!

No crap! Now thats cool. So I could also boot it from memory card as well then once I get it burned correctly.

you should be able to.. i cant get it to work with dms explorer tho.. hey spedmetal u got msn messeger (pm ur e-mail) if u do!!

Well here are my results. I made the system.cnf file just like you said, burned it and the FAPlink.elf file to a CD-R with a dummy file and booted it up in the PS2 and it worked great. However when I went to install it on the mem card using the Infinity mem manager it wouldnt install. It did however install to the HDD using HDloader, but when I went to run it from the HDD it wouldnt run. Does yours runn from the HDD? Did you have to change something in the .cnf file?

mine does doot from hdd with hdloader... but this is the older version.. i will test it out with the new version later.. i just d/led it and will start playing with it!!

spedmetal i just tried installing with the new version and it wud install but not boot..
does anyone know for installing dvd9 games if we need to split up the layers, or do we just make one .iso and transfer it?

UPDATE

Well it’s not exactly a bullet proof application yet. On further testing of it when loading certain ISO's within the FAPlink client on the PC side the application crashed and looses connection with the server end of the FAPlink on the PS2 thus needing to reboot the PS2 and the FAPlink server and then it still wont load certain ISO's. I even had the client freeze up halfway through an install of one game, leaving an unfinished partition on the HDD which I had to remove with the DMS3 HDD format tool as HDloader wouldn’t even recognize the partition after the crash. I asked the wank3rs crew about these problems last night in there IRC channel and they confirmed that these are indeed issues the FAPlink system is having. I also asked them if they plan on addressing the PAL screen on the IPconfig screen for NTSC users and they said it’s on there list of issues to work out.

Oh by the way, the DMS3 HDD format tool is a very nice utility. I was even able to install it to the HDD using HDloader and boot it from the HDD as well so if this problem happens again I can simply boot it from the HDD and remove the ghost partition.

Hopefully they will get these issues resolved and continue this great project. Things are finally starting to heat up with the PS2 scene after a long dry spell thanks in part to HDloader and all the DEV'ers creating tools to use in conjunction with it. Can’t wait to see what the future has in store for the PS2!

I'm hoping Gadget-Freak makes his new WinHIIP a lot better and more compatability then this one.