Ragdim
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This thread is no longer being updated (and this project never completed), but it's still relevant to those who wish to install a compact flash card (the idea being that CF cards are much smaller than a HDD, less prone to damage, and use less battery juice) in a portable PS2. Feel free to use the noobish design concepts posted here (never had legal rights to them to begin with). Good luck!
P.S - I'll sell my 32GB transcend CF card and IDE -> CF adapter (wires are soldered onto it) to anyone that wants them for $25. Email ixandius@gmail.com
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I started a thread over at the MBB forums for this project, but I figured I'd expand over to here as well to get the help of both communities. More or less what I'm trying to do is build a riced out "handheld" PS2 that uses a HDD with HDLoader on it and that retains the 2nd player port as well as the ability to be plugged into a t.v. It will also have a battery (obviously), the option to be powered off a wall outlet, and hopefully the ability to charge the battery while being plugged into said wall outlet. As far as I can tell it's a pretty tall order, especially considering I have more or less no experience when it comes to this stuff, but I'll manage. This is the link to the other thread, and here is a picture I shopped together to give you a general idea of what this will look like in the end:

Anyways, being that I'm making a portable PS2, I want to minimize its size as much as possible, and that means using a slim PS2 and then figuring out a way to make a HDD work with it. I'm aware of 4 such methods, those being HD Connect, HD Combo, HDPro, and openloader. I want the games to be local, so that eliminates openloader already. The guy behind HDpro seems rather shady, and the product itself didn't seem very good, so that's another no. That leaves me with the connect and combo. Connect is basically a barebones chip that you solder a few ribbons to your mobo with and then you can use a sata drive with your PS2 (you have to find a power source for the drive). HD Combo is like a luxury version of connect since it comes with it's own power brick and housing for the drive, but it only natively supports IDE drives.
With that being said, I would have already ordered the HD Connect hands down due to the lower cost and native support for SATA drives, but I'd like to know if anyone here has had experience with the connect, and if so how well does it work? Other than that, do you guys think using a 3.5 HDD in a portable will pose any problems due to moving around? I expect to be stationary most of the time when playing on it, but I'd appreciate some input all the same. Thanks.
This thread is no longer being updated (and this project never completed), but it's still relevant to those who wish to install a compact flash card (the idea being that CF cards are much smaller than a HDD, less prone to damage, and use less battery juice) in a portable PS2. Feel free to use the noobish design concepts posted here (never had legal rights to them to begin with). Good luck!
P.S - I'll sell my 32GB transcend CF card and IDE -> CF adapter (wires are soldered onto it) to anyone that wants them for $25. Email ixandius@gmail.com
========================================Read this==============================================
I started a thread over at the MBB forums for this project, but I figured I'd expand over to here as well to get the help of both communities. More or less what I'm trying to do is build a riced out "handheld" PS2 that uses a HDD with HDLoader on it and that retains the 2nd player port as well as the ability to be plugged into a t.v. It will also have a battery (obviously), the option to be powered off a wall outlet, and hopefully the ability to charge the battery while being plugged into said wall outlet. As far as I can tell it's a pretty tall order, especially considering I have more or less no experience when it comes to this stuff, but I'll manage. This is the link to the other thread, and here is a picture I shopped together to give you a general idea of what this will look like in the end:

Anyways, being that I'm making a portable PS2, I want to minimize its size as much as possible, and that means using a slim PS2 and then figuring out a way to make a HDD work with it. I'm aware of 4 such methods, those being HD Connect, HD Combo, HDPro, and openloader. I want the games to be local, so that eliminates openloader already. The guy behind HDpro seems rather shady, and the product itself didn't seem very good, so that's another no. That leaves me with the connect and combo. Connect is basically a barebones chip that you solder a few ribbons to your mobo with and then you can use a sata drive with your PS2 (you have to find a power source for the drive). HD Combo is like a luxury version of connect since it comes with it's own power brick and housing for the drive, but it only natively supports IDE drives.
With that being said, I would have already ordered the HD Connect hands down due to the lower cost and native support for SATA drives, but I'd like to know if anyone here has had experience with the connect, and if so how well does it work? Other than that, do you guys think using a 3.5 HDD in a portable will pose any problems due to moving around? I expect to be stationary most of the time when playing on it, but I'd appreciate some input all the same. Thanks.