• A suitable hard disk drive. You have two options here - the official Sony hard disk drive, or a standard IDE hard disk drive with a capacity of AT LEAST 40GB. If you use a standard IDE drive, you will need to make sure that it actually fits into your network adapter.

There are a few known compatibility issues with some non-Sony hard disk drives, please see the compatibility section for more information. Both a Sony and standard IDE hard disk drive are shown below. • A PS2 with a 'DEV9' expansion port. All PS2's will have this expansion port except for the first three Japanese models (SCPH 10000, SCPH 15000 and SCPH 18000) which have a PCMCIA expansion port instead.

These models are not supported by HDLoader. How to connect a hard disk drive to your PS2 • If you have an official Sony hard disk drive, then please install it according to the directions in its manual.

If you will be using a standard IDE hard disk drive, then please install it according to the following directions. • The first step is to make sure that the hard disk drive you intend to connect to your PS2 will actually fit into your network adapter. Check that the IDE and power ports on your hard disk drive properly align with the IDE and power connectors on your network adapter, as shown below.

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Currently, Sony's online store states that the Linux kit is no longer for sale in. However, as of July 2005, the European version was still available. Download bde. The kit boots by installing a proprietary interface, the, which is on a region-coded, so the European and North America kits only work with a PS2 from their respective regions. In and Australia, the PS2 came with a free interpreter on the bundled demo disc for some time.

This allows simple programs to be created for the PS2 by the end-user. This was included in a failed attempt to circumvent a UK tax by defining the console as a 'computer' if it contained certain software. A port of the project and, an alternative -based distribution, are also available for the PS2. Using homebrew programs (e.g. 'SMS Media Player' ) it is possible to listen to various audio file formats (,,,,, ), and watch various video formats (/,,, in ) using the console.

Media can be played from any device connected to the console i.e. External ///hard disk drive ( only), the internal hard disk on early revision consoles, optical CD-R(W)/DVD±R(W) disks (modded systems or patched disks), or network shares ( or PS2 host: protocol). Homebrew programs can be launched directly from a memory card on unmodified consoles by using certain software that takes advantage of a long known and used exploit, dealing with the boot part of the EE/IOP process (Independence). A more recent development (May 2008) called Free McBoot allows homebrew programs to be launched without a trigger disc required by the older exploit.