Hmm, seems I confused a few features.
I thought ATAD patch made the harddrive look like it was an official one, not enable past 130 gigs. Is there anything that also lets the PS2 recognize the drive as an official one? There were a few US games that supported it, like FFXI or Resident Evil Outbreak. Would I be able to play FFXI on it? I won't need my old PS2 taking up space anymore if I could.
So I need to use HDLoader to load games off my PS2's harddrive? How will I start HDloader if that's on the harddrive too though?
How do I know what games don't work with HDLoader and what I can do, if anything, about it?
And how exactly would using a Code Breaker or Action Replay (copied to my HDD if possible) work with a game that is already on my HDD as well? I heard about using a program called uLaunch on MMC but I have no idea what those are, are they an alternate type of HDloader? A plugin? What?
I was looking at newegg, and this seems to be their highest recommended 500gig harddrive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148135
Any idea if this one will work? It's not on the PS2 list.
The ONLY one I could find on newegg that was also on the PS2 compability list was this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822147008
Seems the biggest problem with a drive being incompatible is it not fitting with the power/ide connectors on the network adapter. Would it be possible for a drive with the SAME model name having a revision that changes the placement of these? Or will all harddrives of the same model number look physically the same?
Also, how is a game stored once on the HDD? Is it in .iso format? The files dumped onto a directory? Is there a way to get them back to iso format if I ever lose/break my original so I can burn another?
Finally, is there a guide anywhere on how to format the drive, load HDloader on it, transfer PS2 games to it, use gameshark/codebreaker if possible, etc?
Thanks