Tips
of speeding up the installation with Windows
XP
Since different computers have different
configurations, some old model computer
may install the games slowly. Here is
a tip which make your computer speed up
in installing the PS2 games:
Go to My Computer->Properties->Hardware->Device
Manager->Disk Drives->(external
one here)->Properties->Policies->Optimize
for performance. Speed ups from 1MBps
to about 10-15MBps, but do not forget
to unplug the device the proper way (that
is Unplug or eject hardware...)
How
to use USBeXtreme
USBeXtreme User Manual(MS-DOS mode)
Before
Start:
To use the USBeXtreme on your PS2, you will need a USB Hard
drive Enclosure with Hard drive installed
(both devices are sold separately), either
3.5'' or 2.5'' USB Hard drive Enclosure
with Hard drive can be use.
*For the installation
of the Hard drive on your harddisk enclosure,
please refer to the user manual of the
Hard drive Enclosure.
Hard
drive formatting
If you are using
a new hard drive, you will need to initial
the hard drive with Windows 2000/XP.(For
Windows 98/ME user, you will need other
Disk Management software, like, Partition
Magic to initialize and format the harddisk)
To initial the hard drive, connect the
hard drive enclosure to your PC's USB
port and install the driver*, then go
to Windows "Control Panel" à "Administrative
Tools" à "Computer
Management", find "Disk Management" on
the tree diagram. After that you will
able to view all drives installed in your
PC, select the newly installed hard drive,
right click and choose "initialize", follow
the on screen instruction and the hard
drive will be initialize by your PC and
assign a driver letter to it.
You can format the drive by using NTFS format in order to use
up the maximum space of the hard drive.
If the hard drive has formatted and assigned a drive letter
successfully, you will see a new drive
in "My Computer"
* For the driver
installation, please refer to the user
manual of the hard drive enclosure
Download the Client software of USBeXtreme from http://www.usbextreme.com/download/,
unzip the file and run the USBeXtreme_setup.exe
file, then the tools will be extracted
into the drive C. Please DO NOT change
the default installation path except you
are familiar with MS-DOS command.
After extracted
the USBeXtreme Client software, go to
"Start"à"Run",
Enter "Command"
to start using command prompt,
change directory to the root directory
C drive by entering command cd\
and press enter, you will see C:\>
appear on the command line after successful.
You can refer to the following picture.
Then you can enter the following command.
ul_format X format
"X"
is the drive letter of your USB hard drive.
The format action will take a few minutes, it is depends on
the capacity of the partition you created,
please DO NOT remove the hard drive or
power off the USB harddisk enclosure during
this period.
Game
Converting
To convert games
from DVD/CD to the USB hard drive, please
connect the USB drive to your PC, then
go to command prompt "Start"à"Run"àenter
"Command", change directory to the root
directory C drive by entering command
cd\
and press enter, you will see C:\> appear on the command
line after successful. You can refer to
the following picture.
Then you can enter the following command.
ul_install SourceDrive TargetDrive GameName CD/DVD
e.g. if your DVD/CD-Rom drive is drive D, and the USB harddisk
is E, and you are about converting a PS2
DVD game "Metal Gear Solid", the command
will be the following
ul_install
D E MetalGearSolid DVD
you can refer to the following picture
**Game converting will take a few minutes depend on the game
file size.
Game
Playing
Connect and power on the USB harddisk to your PS2 and boot
your PS2 with USBeXtreme, when you see
the game selection menu, select the game
and press X on the joypad, the game will
then run immediately.
