After reboot is done, you can now open your app and you will see that the Save Game hack we applied is working! And that's it! You can repeat this process again for other apps you would like to hack!
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Ever since the release of Sony's PlayStation 3, the older PlayStation 2 system has been slowly sinking into obsolescence. Consequently, there are fewer PS2 games on the market. Gamers needing a replacement for their favorite games may discover no copies are available. Fortunately, several websites offer PS2 game files–called 'ISOs'–for download onto the computer. This allows PS2 owners looking for a quick backup of their games to download and burn the files to a DVD. Best of all, these sites are free, and the games are made available by generous gamers from around the world.
Downloading a PS2 ISO
Open your preferred web browser and navigate to a PS2 game download site of your choice. Since most web sites that offer PS2 games for download are forum-based, you will need to create an account–usually done free of charge–before you can access the downloads.
Access the game downloads section of the web site, then scroll through the various posts until you locate a game you wish to download. Click the link.
Follow the download links provided in the forum post. Most PS2 ISOs have been uploaded to online storage sites like Rapidshare or Megaupload because their large size makes them difficult to store in any other manner.
Follow the instructions provided for you once you reach the online storage site that contains the file you wish to download. You will usually need to enter in a series of numbers and letters to prove you are human, and then wait anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds before a download link will appear.
Click the download link once it has appeared, then specify a location on the hard drive where you wish to save the PS2 ISO file. Once you have everything the way you want it, click 'Save,' and the download will start.
Repeat Steps 3 through 5 as needed. Because most PS2 ISOs are more than four gigabytes in size, you may want to split them into several parts with WinRAR, which makes it easier for them to manage. Once all the files have been downloaded, unzip the ISO file to a desired location on your hard drive. You are now ready to begin burning the PS2 ISO to a disk.
Burning the Game to a Disk
Open your preferred DVD burning program.
Select the option that will allow you to burn an image file to a disk. This will usually be labeled 'Write image file to disk,' but may also be labeled something slightly different depending on your program.
Insert your blank DVD into the computer's DVD burner.
Click the 'browse for file' button under the 'source' section of your DVD burning program, then browse for and select the ISO file you downloaded in Section 1. Click 'Open' to add it to the queue to be burned to the DVD.
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Click the 'Burn' button after you have made sure that the 'Destination' is set to the DVD drive containing your blank DVD. Your DVD burning program will now burn the PS2 ISO to the DVD.
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PlayStation 2 games can be loaded onto a USB memory stick or hard drive and played through a USB connection to the game console instead of through the game system itself. This technique can be used to preserve the life of the game console and allows the gamer to easily transport a large quantity of games to a single, small device. The process requires a product called Swap Magic, and a mod chip may also be needed for the PlayStation to play the games properly.
Download USB Advance software and save these files in a new folder. Click on the file in the folder labeled 'USBAdvance-PC-Software' and extract the two files inside to the C: drive on the computer. There are two other files in the main folder, both labeled 'USB-advance' and are 1KB and 34,520KB respectively. Burn these to a CD-R. Lastly, open the zip file 'USBExtreme_wininst' and save to a new folder in the computer.
Plug the USB drive into a computer. If the USB drive is not in a FAT32 format, go to 'My Computer' and right-click on the USB device. Select 'Quick Format.' Now go to 'My Computer' and select 'Properties.' From here, choose 'Device Manager' and choose the external USB disk drive. Select 'Properties' then 'Policies' and 'Optimize Performance.' This allows the gamer to select the MBps (megabites per second) rate, with one being the slowest and 10 or higher being really fast. To unplug the USB drive from the computer, be sure to eject it, if necessary.
Save games to the USB device by inserting the PS2 game into the computer's DVD-ROM drive, clicking on 'Start' and the 'Run.' Type 'cmd' (command) and hit 'Enter.' Now go to the C: drive and use the command: 'ul_install [Source] [Target] [Game Name] [CD or DVD]' where the [Source] is the letter of the DVD drive, the [Target] is the letter for the USB drive, [Game Name] is the name of the disc/game in the DVD drive, and [CD or DVD] is dependent upon the game. To tell whether the game is a CD or DVD game, go to 'My Computer' and right click on the game disc, then select 'Properties.' If the game is less than 700MB is it a CD; if more then a DVD. Example: DVD drive = D: and USB drive = J:. Then this command would look like this 'ul_install D J AwesomeGameName DVD'
Insert the Swap Magic disc into the PS2 console and turn on the game system and load the Swap Magic program. When the Swap Magic screen appears, load the USB Advance program from the CD-R burned earlier. This will bring up a screen for the USB Extreme. Now, connect the USB drive to the PlayStation 2 and turn the system on again. Select the game from the USB device, press 'X' and the game will load for playing.
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The Swap Magic disc has to be a purchased disc, a burned copy of the program will not work.
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