Question PS2 Disk Drive

[Ducky321]

Hey everyone!
I've been thinking about making a PS2 portable for a while now and I was wondering if I should use the disc drive instead of USB but still have the memory cards so I have that option to use usb. I was inspired by Ashen's portable PS2 because it has the disc drive and also has memory card slots. So what is your guy's opinion on the disc drive?

 

[GingerOfOz]

Disc drive bad. Use lot power, take up lot space.

 

[Ducky321]

Disc drive bad. Use lot power, take up lot space.

Oh ok I was just hoping that I could use the disc drive since i wanted to run the games at full speed because some people said that the cutscenes are a little laggy but thanks

 

[Lampenman1]

Oh ok I was just hoping that I could use the disc drive since i wanted to run the games at full speed because some people said that the cutscenes are a little laggy but thanks

You can try to load the games over a Raspberry Pi with the SMB method. I'm not entirely familiar with how to do it, but that would be the fastest way to load games

 

[cheese]

You can try to load the games over a Raspberry Pi with the SMB method. I'm not entirely familiar with how to do it, but that would be the fastest way to load games

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.p...or-how-to-load-games-at-near-full-speed.1780/

 

[Ducky321]

https://bitbuilt.net/forums/index.p...or-how-to-load-games-at-near-full-speed.1780/

Thanks bro! I’ll try this out

 

[zm1868179]

One thing i was wanting to find out is the possibility of using a SCPH-7000X Model slim. since these systems still have the HDD connections on the motherboard that existed on the PHAT PS2 Models. someone made a FPC connector with a sata adapter to connect a small sata HDD to the slims and use OPL or HD Loader which would solve the issue of the USB 1.1 speeds. I thought about trying to build in a SSD sata drive using this adapter but was wondering if anyone else thought of this. I can provide images of where the connectors live on the boards