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Unknown user #1 · 23-02-07, 04:35 PM

Yesterday's late night (or should I say 'early morning'?

) I finally completed the softmod on my fat PS2.
I also installed excellent software, called SMS (short for Simple Media System) and spent some considerable amount of time trying to make it work.

In short, now my PS2 is fetching files straight from Slug via SMB! No need for PC servers and such. And it plays DivX and MP3.
Not quite XBMC, but still very useful thing

Gav · 23-02-07, 04:49 PM

Nice. Funnily enough I was thinking about that a few days ago... I was going to install the PS2-Linux thing and do something similar, but I have a slimline PS2

I might give this a go though!

BGonaSTICK · 24-02-07, 12:23 AM

Sounds good. What does it look like?

How easy was it to do?

Is it not possible on the slimline PS2?

jontydog · 24-02-07, 02:46 AM

Hmm softmodding a PS2????? Why have I not heard anything about this? Come on TheRookie give us all more details.

Unknown user #1 · 24-02-07, 04:28 PM

Gav

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I was going to install the PS2-Linux thing and do something similar, but I have a slimline PS2

Well.. I was thinking about Linux on PS2 but then ruled against it. I prefer to keep it as a gaming console with some additional capabilites, like media player.

BGonaSTICK

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What does it look like?

See screenshots here. Note that there are no screenshots of Samba shares. But it looks like a picture of hard drive with arrow and Windows logo on top.

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How easy was it to do?

The easiest part was to install SMS and make it work with Rad client. Samba was a bit more difficult, primerily because of my stupidity. I forgot that PS2 is Unix machine and need configuration files to be created in Unix format rather than Windows. Once I figured that out, it worked straight away.

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Is it not possible on the slimline PS2?

Should be possible as long as you can soft- or hardmod your PS2. The SMS is simply yet another application, which should be launched from uLE menu.

jontydog

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Hmm softmodding a PS2????? Why have I not heard anything about this?

Yup. Read about Independence exploit. This is what I used for the sofmod.
And here is universal solution. I haven't tried it but it seem to be working for other people.

BGonaSTICK · 25-02-07, 12:05 AM

Great stuff. Something to have a look at next week

jontydog · 25-02-07, 10:09 PM

can't do it on my lads PS2 as he doesn't have a hard drive in it should have realised really having done loads of xbox ones.

Unknown user #1 · 25-02-07, 10:46 PM

Why do you need hard drive? You can run all the software from memory card.

Unknown user #1 · 27-02-07, 10:52 AM

Anyone tried that? The SMS made my DVD-Divx player obsolete now

Need to figure out how to connect USB sat box to it and if it works then wooohooo!

jontydog · 27-02-07, 04:37 PM

think I need to go on ebay for a disk magic and action replay cartridge

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Unknown user #1 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 536 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	My PS2 is now works a mediacenter! Yesterday's late night (or should I say 'early morning'? ) I finally completed the softmod on my fat PS2. I also installed excellent software, called SMS (short for Simple Media System) and spent some considerable amount of time trying to make it work. In short, now my PS2 is fetching files straight from Slug via SMB! No need for PC servers and such. And it plays DivX and MP3. Not quite XBMC, but still very useful thing

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jontydog Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,089 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts	Re: My PS2 is now works a mediacenter! think I need to go on ebay for a disk magic and action replay cartridge __________________ TM 1000D Super. SS2 PCI. Echosmart Dsb 791 1M Dish. Edon 2120 Positioner. 80cm Mesh Dish Motorised. 28E to 30W