Orignially posted by ooseven
will this work with GAMES ?
i mean both the BBA and HDD ?
if so can you use it to store files for games ?
The BBA should work, unless you don\'t have broadband because the BBA that comes with the Linux Kit only has a broadband plug. The HDD does work - or lets say, some were able to get normal games running on their HDD. What you need to do is, get that utility-disc that comes with the normal consumer HDD unit and then run it on your PS2 linuxkit. That will reformat your hdd and set it up so that the PS2 will see and support it with the games. After that, you are free to install Linux on a secondary partition on the same HDD.
So it should work and yes it\'s doable.
Orignially posted by nataku
That\'s awesome.
How powerful is the thing? Did Sony limit some of the power they would allow those kits to have, or can you actually make some games that take advantage of the system as if you were a real developer?
That\'s really cool man. I wanna start my own videogame company some day, heh, I just need to find some people who can program.
I\'d love to have one of those kits. Have fun.
It\'s pretty powerful. I\'ve heard from trusted sources (developers) that the kit is almost as powerful as the kits that the devs get themselves. The main difference is that the T-1000 kits get all those librariers and hardware support for development while the Linuxkit remains pretty basic.
Also, games which you program do not run on linux. You program native PS2 executables which can be run without having Linux in the background.
Hey, if you\'re still serious about starting a videogame company in a few years.. let me know!
I\'m pretty serious of getting into the game-development and I might go to America or the UK in a few years to gather experience. If you\'re heading that way too, a PS2 linux kit is definately the way to go..
Orignially posted by fastson
Impressive indeed.. I had the money to buy the kit a few months ago but then I found out you could not buy it via the creditcard
So I might get it over in the UK somehow. (My dad knows a few peps there)
Im really interested in it.
Btw, get the network thingy to work so you can download the tools at the official PS2 Linux site. Should be fun
Would be very cool if you could get it somehow. As for the network thing.. I\'m working on it. Now that I have it at home running on my old Amiga monitor (on PAL), everything is very fuzzy and there\'s a lot of flicker. I\'m still messing around with those settings as it really hurts your eyes if you sit infront of it for a while. I\'m even considering hooking it up to my laptop and do all the work there and then send the files over to the PS2 and have \'em executed there to test run. Or I might have to buy a neat (but expesive) LCD to match it... although that would be a bit pricy.
BTW; I messed around with the memorycards before and I have come to an interesting conclusion: I can read from the Linux-Memorycard without a problem and even see the PS2 config files with the command "LS". If I mount the other slot though and try to read the PS2 memorycard with the game saves, it\'s empty. I even tried copying one FF save on to the Linux Memorycard and then use the LS command to see what\'s on it. While it shows all the config files, the FF save is missing. So, game saves aren\'t displayed for some reason.. maybe I just don\'t have the right tools yet to read them...
