How to make your own Memory Card Exploit using the Independence Installer

Sorry for all the contiguous replies, but the good news is I got it to work! I successfully installed PGEN on my MC. If anybody is interested I can describe exactly how I did it...now I'm wondering, is there anyway to boot a CD-ROM using the MC exploit (ie without using the "knife trick" or swap magic)? Specifically, I'd like to be able to load ROMS from a CD when running PGEN (since space on the MC is limited), but in order to do that I have to get my ROMS disk to boot. It looks like CDLoader/Cogswaploader/etc. won't do what I want to do. Thanks!

 

kingsott: i havent been keeping up with your posts, but the last one suggest to me that you either dont have a HDD or you have a PStwo. you really should get a HDD for your PS2. they're convenient to have.

 

OK I bought the new Game Shark 5.3, I can't do the swap trick but it does have a memory card manager that reads directly from a usb thumb drive. The problem is when using ps2 savebuilder it only creates saves for action replay and other devices. Games Shark doesn't crush/uncrush like Action Replay it seems to just copy directly off the usb drive, so is there a way I can create a "Your SystemConfiguration" file in raw ps2 format?????????????

 

OK...just got this to work. Is Cogswap the only ELF installed to run backups? CD loader seems like it might be just for PAL games? Could someone could give me an idea of what the default ELFs are used for (mcloader, ps2link, cdloader, etc).

 

Ok I have recently got two "retail" copies of HD loader, is there anyway I can patch this version to use more than 127 gigs? I want to use them with a 200 gig drive. Also is there any easy way to make a memory card exploit with this software, or possible use a mem card or usb drive to patch the software past 127 gigs.

Thanks.

 

search on www.exploitstation.com for the codebreaker method. that is by far the easiest way to do a memory card exploit on your system. do the exploit, and save the latest already fully patched hdloader file to your MC and you wont have to worry about anything else.

 

I am not sure if anyone has mentioned this. It has been a while since my last post.
You can copy your mem card exploit from one mem card to another using the browser built into the PS2 just copy the system file from one card to the other and you are done. It's that easy.

 

i want to download the memory card exploit using the usb connected to ps2 and my computer. can anyone helpp. I downloaded the memory card exploit and burned it to cd and boot on my ps2 .the screen said installed the i turn off the ps2 and insert the trigger disc and all it does was the ps one game played normally not like what they said tha it would bootLAUNCHEF and go to the browser that they say.

 

Make sure your Disc ID is correct. Such as, try using an underscore (_), instead of a dash (-). Same thing happend to me, for some reason it only recognized the underscore (even though it was a dash on the disk).

 

i use the underscore (_) but it doesnt work

 

Burna...Hello and thanks for sharing your knowledge. I am a newb to this whole exploit thing so I need help and you are the man. I have a way to connect to my ps2 from my pc using the go-net ethernet adapter. I dont know if any cheapo ppl have thought about this but its $10 at toys r us and you can connect to a pc. So what I am asking from you is...with this connection and something like naplink or whatever you may recommend...can I load swapmagic or anything else onto the mem card that will allow me to play backups without doing the swapping? Thanks!

 

Well the problem with putting Swap Magic on the memcard is the TOC(Table of Contents,or size).You can actually put a Swap Magic elf file on the memcard the only problem is the booting sequence of a backup.If you wanted to boot a backup you would have to do a swap to increase your TOC(size)to boot a game.You can use the cogswaploader and do a TOC refresh with a original game to play your backups.Like I mentioned though another swap has to be implemented to boot a PS2 backup.At the moment you can only do a TOC refresh the size of a single layer game,but in the future maybe they will release something that will support a dual layer refresh.To understand Single and Dual Layer a single layer is in the range of 4.7Gig or lower,and dual layer will go over this limit so anything above 4.7Gig is dual layer.

 

Peace to da L-Burna! - this thread is the business!

 

ok now i wanna get into using Exploits.. i have HDloader and AR2 .. and i can cog swap/knife trick .. and i want to know how to install them or if i can even .. i used Independence Installer v3 and loaded onto my HD and wen i exuctute it it says "ERROR:Failed to load CDVD.IRX" and the drive spins realy realy fast the PS2 vibrates ^-^. my method
IN independance:im gonna give u a screen shot ( note i live in Australia )http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/2610/exploitsettings4fz.png

But First i put it to HD via Winhiip but the second time i burned to CD via alcahol then HD via WinHiip..so yeh

so wat am i doing wrong ??

 

it could be your sles ID most of the time you need to have an underscore instead of a hyphen. if you're gonna use winhiip to install it, you need to make the image bootable by ps2. i think you need cdvdgen or something to create a bootable ps2 image of wht you just did. honestly i'm not sure what else you might need because i used the codebreaker and USB method. i assume the same method is possible with AR, but i dont have that so i can't say.

 

ok i took ur advice , but it still says the error "Failed to Load CDVD.IRX "

 

did you include the irx files with your exploit?

 

Yeh this is wat i hav in the ISO , http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/838/files5ps.png

 

i'm sorry, that screen shot doesnt do me any good. i never did the cd rom method. i used cheat device + USB. showing me this brings up a question about how and where the irx files are stored. is everything supposed to be inside the playstation executable files?

 

i got a new problem -_-' , i succefuly installed an exploit but when i insert the PS1 disc , it loads the PS1 disc instead of the exploit :'( , i tink its becuase i took someones advice in putting an _ instead of a - in the title.db file >: ( .. so how do i uninstall exploits ????