There's a lot of information on here about what type of hardware you'll find both inside and outside of the unit, but there really isn't anything that says what you need for specific applications. If anyone knows the setup for these types of enviroments, please reply with the type of cards you'll need installed in the TOOL and anything you'll need PC-side. 1) Running retail games on the TOOL (All of the ways possible. Can they be run through the drive or only through emulation? If through emulation, what cards are needed in the TOOL for this to happen?). 2) Running online games through the TOOL (The retail unit needs the network adapter. How does the TOOL run online games?).
im gonna need the resident TOOL people here to confirm these but i'll give it a shot 1) you can run retail games through the drive. Japanese TOOLs run retail NTSC-J games and "masterdisk" patched games burned to a DVD-R (not sure for CD-R) Or if you have the SNSystems DTL-T14000 Emulator card (picture here), you can run games from hard drive connected to the card. you would need a software to operate the emulator card but i don't know anything about this one. 2) for online, you would need a TOOL that has the PCMCIA slot on it (DTL-T10000H), the DTL-H10010 PCMCIA (picture here) Card and a DTL-H20400 External HDD to connect to the PCMCIA card. for online play tho, i have ABSOLUTELY no idea how the online would work using the emulator or a game burned to a DVD-R or is it even actually doable at all. The hardware i listed would be needed to test tho, since the ps2 side of the TOOL uses the external HDD/PCMCIA card just like the first models of retail ps2's did, the network port on the tool itself is for the PC side of the unit, and ps2 side is unable to use it.
Thank you for the help so far, Mugi. A picture I found of the PCMCIA card has both a port for a HDD dongle as well as a RJ-45 built into it, so it looks like that's all that's needed to get the network / hard drive running on the PS2 side.
yeah, the card has the rj-45 port on it separately, but i was under the impression that online ps2 games require the HDD for caching or something. i must admit tho that i have never ever played ps2 games online, so i don't actually know
1) yes for DVD and CD 2) the regular T10000 has the pcmcia slot, it works as well, but only the T10000H can use it with online games.
I don't know about MG encryption, but its definitely the same SECRMAN. This module is provided as part of the BIOS, not of IOP Replacement Images (with the exception of some utility disks, of course), and all TOOLs can be flashed with the same BIOS images. SECRMAN doesn't ever differ between the regular and DNAS flashes, at least for the 3.0 SDK; the identical file is included in both t10000-rel300.bin and dnas300.bin.
