HD Loader testing results:
USING PS2 with online adapter and 120 Segate/Maxtor Hard Drive
1. Followed the instructions on the HD Loader instructions manual to install Hard Drive. It is quite easy and simple the only thing to remember here is that only certain 3rd party drives actually fit the Sony PS2 Hard Drive. We found that the Maxtor/Seagate brands work well with the online adapter. Western Digital would not fit. Don’t force the Drive into the online adapter or you might break something.
2. Load HD loader into the disk drive and format your Hard Drive (like a 10 second job). Easy
3. Push the eject button and put in game you wish to backup in your hard drive. You can only put in “ORIGINAL” games for the HD Loader to backup into your hard drive if you do not have a modchip in your PS2.
4. Just click Install and HD loader will install your game into the Hard Drive. Now, there is also a Remove function for you to remove games in your Hard Drive. Simple enough.
5. Below are the games that we have save into the Segate/Maxtor Hard Drive for testing purposes. We first tested the list of games that HD loader has tested:
Devil May Cry 2__________Installed into HDD and working
Dragonball Z Budokaai 2__Installed into HDD and working
Final Fantasy X__________Installed into HDD and working
Man Hunt_________________Installed into HDD and working
Legacy of Kain, Defiance_Installed into HDD and working
GTA Vice City____________Installed into HDD and working
Max Payne 2______________Installed into HDD and working
Time Splitters 2_________Installed into HDD and working
Tony Hawks Underground___Installed into HDD and working
Xenosaga_________________Installed into HDD and working
Hitman contracts_________Installed into HDD and working
Gacket (Japanese title)__Installed into HDD and working
Final Fantasy XI_________DOES not work requires SONY HDD
6. After installing the games on your Hard Drive. HD loader will put them on your screen and you can pick whichever one your want to load and play. YOU DO NOT NEED A SLID CARD TO OPERATE THE HD LOADER. Do not purchase a slid card for the purpose of using the HD loader (IF USED IMPROPERLY, A SLID CARD WILL DAMAGE YOUR UNIT, BE CAREFUL!!!). To load your games from the hard drive, simply pick the game from your HD loader list and select play. No modchip or slid cards are required to do this.
LOAD SPEED, INSTALL SPEED of HD LOADER
LOADING SPEED OF games is at least 2X as fast. In some cases even 3 to 4X faster than loading from disk. Insalling games’ speed is as follows: 2 gig game (15 minutes); 3 gig game (25 minutes); 4 gig game (35 minutes).
LIMITATIONS OF THE HD LOADER
The HD Loader’s only function in this release is to install your games into your 3rd party hard drive. Unfortunately to load your backup games and to save your backup games into your hard drive you will still require a modchip. Also HD loader will not play import games or online games. It seems that Sony servers checks for sony hard drives. Finally, the HD loader will not make your PS2 region free, you need a modchip for that.
TEST with modded PS2 with Matrix modchip and HD loader
HK SILVERS (GUMDAM DX, WINNING ELEVEN 7) Installed into HDD and working.
BACKUPS (MANHUNT, Soul Reaver) Installed into HDD and working
FINAL FANTASY XI________________WILL NOT WORK, still require SONY HDD
If your guys have any questions, feel free to contact us, we will try our best to answer all questions.
BTW, PAL version HD Loader will be available next week!!! Make sure you get PAL version if you are not in North America or a NTSC region!!!
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