Setup can be performed under windows using WSL. Just need to mount disk into WSL using PowerShell.

Hello so I tried using the game install and it gets stuck on trying to install my games. It will successfully add all my PS1 games on the hard drive but unfortunately when I put PS2 games in the CD or DVD folder, it locks up on the “installing PS1 Games” section of the script. Anyone have a fix?

This is absolutely incredible, thank you so much for all your work 🙏

Hi CosmicScale! How does exactly the music partition work? Just drop folders with mp3 on it?

Is this a replacement for OPL? or do I need a memory card with it too?

Thank you. You've made a drastic change in the PS2 modding scene by making things way less complicated than they used to be. There's still way more work to go, but this is a ton of progress from where the PS2 scene was before compared to other consoles.

My hdd only free 2gb, can i install this.

This is really awesome. Quick question. Do the game filename needs to be the serial? Or can it work with any other name? ALso, to know if CD and DVD folder are a most since I have a lot of isos but don't know if it is a CD or DVD. Thanks

At minute 13 when the games are being installed I get an error message and it tells me that virtual python is missing. What do I have to do? It should be noted that I PUT LINUX MIND. Do I have to install anything else?

Just for clarity you should probably specify the script requires a debian based linux distro because of its use of aptitude to install a bunch of packages in the first script or specify the exact requirements we need to install ourselves so we can use it on other distros.

Can this program run multi-disc games ?

Is there a way to skip the download portion of the script since everything is already in the download. The script for some reason takes unbearably long to download the program and I just don’t want to wait that long.

Do you know why after syncing, ps1 games are not showing up in games chanel? I can still launch them directly from wlaunchelf PS2 games are all visible.

Hi, I installed PSBBN 2.0 definitive english patch, and like an idiot, I changed the output to RGB and now Ive got a black screen, can anyone help me navigate the menu blind and change it back please?

This is great! Recently I'm trying to install the English Patch into a pre-existing PSBBN hard drive, is that patch limited to the older versions only?

so this works without even needing a magic memory card?

Just ran into a weird one, I had to store my games on different drives. I installed the first batch, then tried the second one, running the script again having edited the path, now it totally overwritten the first batch rather than adding them. It makes sense because removong games is done by removing them in the source folder... is there any way to have multiple sources be scanned? Like adding multiple path to the Game_Path?

For those Windows nerds out there; you can also use WSL and run Linux natively inside a container within Windows 10/11. No need to bother with slow Virtual Box VM.

This is incredible! We're in the endgame now! Only improvements I can think of are an increase in the number of games, music, and integrated video player that allows your own movies with cover art. And network loading of games, music, and movies.

This PlayStation BB has a beautiful interface I’m fully impressed with this!!! Love the fact you have the art work awell. I must have this. Can you still copy games from discs with the optical drive too? I’ve seen a software that does this. I know f**k all about all these modern day softwares but I’m damn impressed with it all! Gone are the days of mod chips to unlock the lasers etc lol.

I have a slightly silly question xd, I have the original network adapter, but I don't have any network connection nearby, is it necessary to have the network cable connected to the PS2?

I was focused on this new method, trying and experimenting a lot. First, when I was installing the PSBBN, it shows "No more space available" and change the PC and try another distro. Later I realized that my PSU have some issues and power down my HDD. Next, I can put some of my content inside and test. It worked and I went to put the rest of the content. All the partitions were corrupted. I change to other flavor of the same distro (xfce), and only gave me 1 game, and it was the LaunchELF, so rollback the distro and star from scratch again. Finally I could install everything, and test some features of that OPL fork. Settings of individual games are saved into the exFAT partition, and try PADEMU with some Guitar Hero games to use a modern guitar, it works even launching the games from the PSBBN. And test Half-Life PS2 with keyboard and mouse, it worked flawlessly. IDK if using PFS batchkit manager, it broke some thing in the APA partition, but I'm tired of messing with the PS2 HDD, maybe later. Thanks a lot for this method.

Great work!!! As soon as I have some free time I will definitely try it on one of my SCPH-70004!

Why can't they do coverflow in OPL ?

Hi @CosmicScaleFactor, The installer script fails with a sector error saying HDD is not compatible with OPL and prompting me to connect it to my PC directly to the motherboard even though it already is. I assume this is why OPL is not loading the Game list at all? PSBBN is working though and games are found and can be started from the Game channel. Any feedback is much appreciated, happy holidays! 😊

Ooohhhhhh😮. Been reviving my 35003 ps2 looking into hard drives

So I managed to get a new drive working. After putting the drive back in the PS2, is it supposed to boot from BB Navigator without free MC Boot?

Notices that Need For Speed Noat Wanted uses the wrong cover, it uses the later xbox 360/ps3 white cover game by Criterion(like 2011) rather than the real Most Wanted 2005 game.

The same drive I used for OPL forever just told me at the very end that Unfortunately your drive i not compatible with OPL... bla bla bla. With the same cable I used forever at the VERY end of the install after APA Jail...

So that's 1 OPL partition per game? Because creating 500 OPL partition is taking ages right now.... lol it's modifying the headera now! Cool, thought it was frozen!

Writing the PSBNN image as we speak! Cannot wait to try this out, took forever to extract all my games to other HDDs so I could then retransfer them to this new setup! (Did not want to redownl... everything. I mean, rip... yeah rip from my collection!)

Tried using the PSBBN and the very last step tells me my drive is not compatible with OPL. How do I get around this as I did what was suggested and I have the drive connected directly to my motherboard

Is there an option for network ISO loading?

This is simply amazing! Huge respect! I just can't believe it!❤❤❤

Will the installer ever be updated to support 128gb disk option? I tried previous versions HDD images copied via hhd raw copy tool, but psbbn can't launch, it gets stuck on ps2 black screen. Anyone has any ideas on how to fix? (or shrink the ps2 disk to 120gb or below after the image has been written?)

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If you appreciate my work and want to support the continued development of the "PSBBN Definitive English Patch 2.0" and other PS2-related projects, you can now do so via Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/cosmicscale

If you appreciate my work and want to support the continued development of the "PSBBN Definitive English Patch 2.0" and other PS2-related projects, you can now do so via Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/cosmicscale

Do my games have to be ZSO or ISO? I’ve used the newest version of PSBBN and my games still don’t show up as they should. Linux however is working great! All my games are in iso format

Is there any way to desync the Games folder and the Games in the SSD with the installer script? It keeps deleting my games.

Will this work with the gamestar sata adaptor?

Does it work on ps3 ( not like launching ps3 games on it, just as a front end to run ps2 on it ) If not please add support for it That would be legendary I can test it for you if you want.

Silly question but is it possible to use or access any of these channels via the PSX DESR? Thanks

can i install PSBBN besides my already modded ps2 with a HDD full of games and FreeMCBoot? it's a bit confusing for me

Hi, great work! I have just one question, does this support the chd file format? thanks!

I never comment on anything, but I wanted to thank you for your hard work, you’re a genius at this point Just two very particular question: -Is it possible to install all of this on a SSD and then put this SSD with a SATA adapter inside the original BB Unit (External via PCMCIA) of the first version of the Japanese PS2 ? I know it can fit, but I don’t know if it will boot or if the board on the BB Unit will allow it. -Would it boot on a Test PS2 (with internal SSD) without MagicGate support ? I assume no because we'll have to use OpenTuna to initialize the hack, and from there we can't reboot into PSBBN... Thanks again!😊

So this can actually play PS1 backups with out using something like PoP or whatever? It just runs like it would from disc? If so then i have to redo my PS2 stuff.

This is super cool. Thanks for all your work. I love the PSBBN interface so much. Brings back lots of memories and your tutorial was super easy to follow. Couple of questions. First, how do you change the individual game OPL settings? Getting games like FF12 and Outrun2k6 to work properly require some disk read settings to be tweaked and I can't figure out how to do it in PSBBN. Second, would it be possible for the game install script to not delete games that are not in the game folder? I'm pulling all my games from an older OPL installation and don't have the disk space to store everything locally.

there is a hdlgameinstaller which allow make partitions bootable, it will be very useful to have modification of this soft with support of making bootable PP. paritions. plus selecting kelf manually, diretly doing all on ps2

can somebody explain to me why should we go to all this trouble ,and not use pcsx2 emulator...i want to know the pros and cons..thank you