HDLoader Review

[seaneyb2003]

Wohhooo seaneyb is getting hdd loader. I just bought a ps2 that came with a network adaptor! so i be getting my hdd and hdd loader pritty soon Wheres a good place 2 get it in the uk? Divineo?

[lufcfan]

Divineo was great for me...

[seaneyb2003]

ok kool i take a look at that when my ps2 arrives. it has a slight problem that i can fix laser needs tweeking. It was a bloody good deal!

[lufcfan]

OK Cool. When I ordered mine, it came the next day...

[seaneyb2003]

Cool cheers guys i go look at that now just gotta get me a good hdd

[spedmetal]

Hey, you guys that have 120GB Seagate’s installed, how many useable GB does HDloader report as there being. Mine says my HDD is only 111GB. Is this cuz of the byte/bite thing?

[TylerDurden]

Originally Posted by spedmetal

Hey, you guys that have 120GB Seagate’s installed, how many useable GB does HDloader report as there being. Mine says my HDD is only 111GB. Is this cuz of the byte/bite thing?

Yeah mines the same way. Ive never owned a hdd that was exactly the size it said it is. They are always less.




Tyler!

[spedmetal]

Yeah I know, I just wanted to make sure this wasnt something unusual. Never seen a PS2 file system before

[TylerDurden]

Yep but really its probably a file system we've dealt with before.




Tyler!

[cyrax78]

For the few games that I've tried, Karaoke Revolution doesn't seem to work at all and some people on some other forums are having trouble with other games as well.

In response to Spedmetal, there was a post on consolenewz that had instructions on how to get a DMS3 to load HD Loader from the memcard, but the site seems to be down.

Also, HD Loader seems to report a size for my 60gb Maxtor even less than the bit/byte conversion.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, some games, like "everything or nothing" seems to load MUCH faster than the original while others like "transformers" seems barely any faster at all. I wonder why..

[TylerDurden]

Ok about the HDD size difference. Most of it is probably the bit/byte issue. The rest is more than likely data stored because of formatting. Like Ive said before, Ive never had a hdd that was exactly the size it says it is. My personal Seagate 60gig hdd is actually something like 54 gigs. I suggest we rest this case now.






Tyler!

[spedmetal]

Originally Posted by cyrax78

In response to Spedmetal, there was a post on consolenewz that had instructions on how to get a DMS3 to load HD Loader from the memcard, but the site seems to be down.

Also, HD Loader seems to report a size for my 60gb Maxtor even less than the bit/byte conversion.

Yes I did see those posts but I didn’t see that anyone actually got it to load from the mem card. I saw that they got it installed to the mem card but wouldn’t boot for one reason or another. I did see the one guy had an app that took the place of the explore DMS3 uses when booting to dev mode with HDloader instead which would be very cool. You could just boot your chip in devmode and boot HDloader right up first thing. However the link to the file was removed and like you said the site is down. consolenewz has been having real trouble lately.

Also I care not that they are doing this with DMS3, I would like to see the matrix team develop there own public version of an HDloader type app that could be loaded from the infinity’s dev mode.

[Warlock]

Just got mine today, Totally awesome. Man this is going to save alot of laser wear.

[H|LLJD00]

Can you save your game progress, like u do on the memory card.

[seaneyb2003]

btw i got my hdd loader and all that 2day and i wacked in my 6 gb hd and it works with it. i loaded up vice city on it and played fine. I noticed a little yellow light flashing dont know what it is i think its the harddrives light. not sure???