Tuesday, November 24, 2015

PS2Ident v0.821 Tool to DUMP ROMs and Manage lot of things to your console.

PS2Ident is an identification tool that allows dumps of a PlayStation 2 console's ROM chips and MECHACON NVRAM to be made. It will also gather data from the console, for research purposes.
It has the following features:
  • Dumps ROM chips (BOOT and DVD ROM) as a whole, not according to their contents (rom0, rom1, rom2 and erom)
  • Coloured user interface that is easy to use.
  • Supports dumping to memory cards and USB mass storage devices.
  • Supports multi-languages, which include the 8 supported languages by the PS2
  • Gathers data of all known parts of the PS2.
  • Attempts to automatically match the chip/part name with the version number of the part.
  • Supports all PlayStation 2 consoles, including the SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000, and the PSX (DVR unit).
Note: Chip and mainboard identification is currently very incomplete and inaccurate, due to a lack of data. Sometimes, Sony makes hardware revisions without changing the chip implementation numbers as well, hence why chip identification may be inaccurate. The chip and version IDs are, however, accurate since they are taken directly from the hardware.
Its database, which contains the parts and mainboard data, is managed and updated with the PlayStation 2 Ident DataBase Management System (PS2IDBMS) tool.
I made such a change because it wasn't possible to get a complete list of all PlayStation 2 models in existence. With PS2IDBMS, a spreadsheet containing all recorded models can be generated automatically.
Not to mention that the whole PS2Ident tool would have to be recompiled, whenever model data was added.

You can Download HERE

TUTORIAL PS2 VGA Cable Ways on Board.

It will be great to connect your ps2 to your desktop monitor because some modern desktop monitors provide clearer pictures and smooth and sharp images.

Looking at SM, PS2 CAN output H-Sync and V-Sync, even C-Sync! So the LM1881 wouldn't be necessary at all, just a scan doubler.


The solder point you should look for is: CL213 (CSYNC) @ IC211

This is from SCPH-3900x:


OPL Manager tool to manage your games on PC.

With OPL Manager you can manage your installed games on any media device that you installed them.

You can do the following with this tool.
  • Fix/change iso files names.
  • Download cover and disc art (batch and per game).
  • Clean your art folder for unused art.
  • Delete game. 
  • Rename game.
  • And many more.
You can download it HERE 

You can see some screen shots here.





 What's new:

v.14 2014-12-13
*Fixed crash when renaming a game in bad iso tab...
*Fixed network mode not deleting games
*Fixed game listing performance with many games
*Added Italian and Russian translations


IMPORTANT NOTES (PLEASE READ!)
For those that used older CFG files for 2nd Info Page:
1) The CFG files need to be upgraded to a new version, please backup all of your original CFG before starting upgrading.
2) You can upgrade them all by going to "Batch Actions=>Upgrade old CFGs".
3) Currently only the NEW Themes released since April 22, 2014 are compatible.

   Links to Compatible Templates:
4) The cover/disc/screenshot share feature it's not always on-line since its hosted on my home server.

Think i didn't forget anything. I will see if either me or jay-jay can compile some documentation for the new CFG and theme format.

ENJOY! Report bugs!

Change log:
Spoiler

v.14 2014-12-13
*Fixed crash when renaming a game in bad iso tab...
*Fixed network mode not deleting games
*Fixed game listing performance with many games
*Added Italian and Russian translations
v.13 2014-10-26
*Fixed crash when using some functions without any games
*Fixed some confusion with some ratings systems
*Cleaned a lot of unused code
*Fixed a lot of bad programming
*Fixed checking invalid ART size before upload
+Added ELSPA rating
+Added support to manage games with hdl server and ftp (WIP)
+Added Chinese and French translations

v.12 2014-07-15
+Now multi-language
+New Language: Portuguese (pt)
+New Language: Spanish (es)
+Cheat Editor
*Added new genres to CFG Editor
*Fix error when game title had invalid characters
*Rearranged CFG Editor GUI

v.11 2014-05-16
+Anonymous app usage data. (can opt-out)
+ART and SCR count on status bar.
*Option to disable auto update check on startup
*Fixed CFG Editor players text size
*Fixed file-browser default file name

v.10.1 2014-05-13
*Quick fix for v10 not saving the folder.

v.10 2014-05-09
*Fixed Screenshot browser crash

v.9 2014-05-02
+Game Hasher MD5
*Fixed VMC wrong filename (.bin.bin)

v.8 2014-04-29
+Auto update checker
+Game List Order
*Batch screenshot recode for better efficiency
*Fixed crashes ps2linux is offline
*Removed lost button in cfg upgrade window

v.7 2014-04-22
*Fixed asking to create vmc when it already exists
*Fixed having to wait a moment between screenshot upload,
otherwise a error would show up
+Added batch screenshot sharing!

v.6 2014-04-22
+CFG Editor!!
+VMC creator (inside cfg editor)
+Support for screenshots!
+Filter game list
+Ability to double click a game and launch some app
+Added a handy button to open the OPL folder in windows explorer!
+Added support for my own art database (@ ps2linux.no-ip.info)

v.5 2014-03-06
+Batch Cover and Disc downloading!
+Cleaner for ART folder!
+Now checks if theres ART CD DVD folders on startup!

v.4 2014-03-04
+Cover and disk icon downloading!
+Now checks if ALL iso's file extension is .iso lowercase

v.3 2014-03-03
+ISO renaming!
+Now detects bad named iso's on startup!

v.2 2014-03-01
*Fixed crash selecting OPL folder in XP
*Fixed File=>Exit button not working
*Fixed Settings=>Set OPL folder not working
+Added global stats
+Added "Type" column to game list

v.1 2014-03-01
*First release


Notes:
*When it ask to select OPL folder is the folder where you have ART DVD CD THM.
*You should run this exe in a new folder, when ran from the first time it extracts some files.