

What better way to preserve your games and your PS2 laser than playing off the USB interface? This guide is based off of Swap Magic implementation. With the new $99 price point, more and more people are getting the PS2 to play old school PS2 games. After 9+ years, it is still going strong.

Added new PS2 Slim USB Booting tutorials. Fixed the instructions, I left some important notes out. Here is another source for finding compatibility list: Added new Youtube Video tutorial on list of selectable games! Added new Youtube Video tutorial on the USB Extreme Windows Installer! Re-wrote major sections of the tutorial again to make it more clear.

Will expand upon the USB Extreme GUI interface software at a later date. The USB 1.1 performance IS NOT WORTH IT in my eyes. Is it because your game isn’t compatible? Check out this list below and stop whining, or use swap magic and ditch the whole USB hard drive all together. I am so frickin sick of people asking why their game doesn’t work and all they see is a black screen. Without that site, this tutorial is nothing. Now my laser will live longer! All help will be given in the comments as usual.

I have gotten Viewtiful Joe 2 to copy to my hard drive, and I was able to boot off the hard drive and play it on the PS2. If caught, we will be forced to take action against you. We have an active team scouring the net for those who have copied this article. Because of this, I will be looking to update all the pictures in this article to have a watermark. IMPORTANT NEWS (5-1-10): It seems that there are a lot of dishonest users on the Internet that are copying this guide without giving credit back to me, Versatile. The performance will vary, but that is up to you if you want to stick with it. Use the USB method to play your games on the hard drive to help your PS2 laser last longer. Foreword: After a year and a half later, I have decided to re-write this guide, because honestly, it was not my own and it was presented very poorly.
