Tips of speeding up the installation with Windows XP:
Since different computers have different configurations, some old model computer
may install the games slowly. Here is a tip which make your computer speed
up in installing the PS2 games:
Go to "My Computer" -> "Properties" -> "Hardware" -> "Device
Manager" -> "Disk Drives" -> (external one here) -> "Properties" -> "Policies" -> "Optimize
for performance". Speed ups from 1MBps to about 10-15MBps, but do not
forget to unplug the device the proper way (that is Unplug or eject hardware...) |
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Before Start:
To use the USBeXtreme on your PS2, you will need a USB Hard drive Enclosure
with Hard drive installed (both devices are sold separately), either 3.5’’ or
2.5’’ USB Hard drive Enclosure with Hard drive can be use.
*For the installation of the Hard drive on your HDD enclosure, please refer
to the user manual of the Hard drive Enclosure. |
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| Hard drive formatting:
If you are using a new hard drive, you will need to initial the
hard drive with Windows 2000 / XP.(For Windows 98/ME user, you will
need other Disk Management software, like, Partition Magic to initialize
and format the HDD) To initial the hard drive, connect the hard drive
enclosure to your PC’s USB port and install the driver*, then
go to Windows “Control Panel” -> “Administrative
Tools” -> “Computer Management”, find “Disk
Management” on the tree diagram. After that you will able to
view all drives installed in your PC, select the newly installed
hard drive, right click and choose “initialize”, follow
the on screen instruction and the hard drive will be initialize by
your PC and assign a driver letter to it.
You can format the drive by using NTFS format in order to use up the maximum
space of the hard drive.
If the hard drive has formatted and assigned a drive letter successfully,
you will see a new drive in “My Computer”
* For the driver installation, please refer to the user manual of the hard
drive enclosure
Download the USBeXtreme Client software from the product description,
unzip the file and run the USBeXtreme_setup.exe file, then the tools will
be
extracted
into
the
drive
C. Please DO
NOT change the default installation path except you are familiar
with MS-DOS command.
After extracted the USBeXtreme Client software, go to “Start” -> ”Run”,
 
Enter “Command” to start using command prompt, change directory
to the root directory C drive by entering command cd\ and
press enter, you will see C:\> appear on the command line after successful.
You can refer to the following picture.
Then you can enter the following command.
ul_format X format
“ X” is the drive letter of your USB hard drive.
The format action will take a few minutes, it is depends on the capacity
of the partition you created, please DO NOT remove the hard drive or power
off the USB hdd enclosure during this period.
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Game Converting:
To convert games from DVD / CD to the USB hard drive, please connect the
USB drive to your PC, then go to command prompt “Start” -> ”Run” -> enter “Command”,
change directory to the root directory C drive by entering command cd\ and
press enter, you will see C:\> appear on the command
line after successful. You can refer to the following picture.
Then you can enter the following command.
ul_install SourceDrive TargetDrive GameName CD/DVD
e.g. if your DVD/CD-Rom drive is drive D, and the USB HDD is E,
and you are about converting a PS2 DVD game “Metal Gear Solid”,
the command will be the following
ul_install D E MetalGearSolid DVD
you can refer to the following picture
**Game converting will take a few minutes depend on the game file size. |
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Game Playing:
Connect and power on the USB HDD to your PS2 and boot your PS2 with
USBeXtreme, when you see the game selection menu, select the game
and press "X" on the joypad, the game will then run immediately.
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Important - DNAS Compatibility:
DNAS (Dynamic Network Authentication System) is an authentication system
used in all recent online capable PlayStation 2 game titles. It is used
for a number of things - for example, checking if you are using a backup
of
a game
or a modchip. In this case the check takes place when you go online with
the game. If a backup or modchip is detected then DNAS authentication
will fail and you will not be able to play the game online. You cannot
go online with a DNAS enabled game unless the DNAS authentication is
successful.
When USB-XTREME is used to play a DNAS enabled game, any attempt
to go online will be unsuccessful as the DNAS authentication will FAIL.
There
is currently no way around this, other than to use your original game
disc to play the game online.
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Important - DVD-9 Games:
Games on DVD-9 media are currently unsupported by USB-XTREME.
If you attempt to install a DVD-9 game it is likely that the installation
will appear
successful, but any attempt to actually run the game will most likely
fail. There are currently under 10 DVD-9 games for the PS2, so hopefully
this is not too much of a problem. |
