Free McBoot on unmodded PS2

[Donaldjks]

Solved. Thank you dlanor with my whole heart.

Hi,
I have a unmodded PAL PS2 SCPH-30002 R. Would like to install Free McBoot.
Wish you can help me on this. Appreciate.

Btw.: With TnA help, I try DVD-based demo disc swap with replaced ELF without success.
"Edit- link remove, sorry."
Thank you.

[aoizer0]

Without a modchip, AR Max, retail copy of HDLoader (HDAdvance) or an exploit already in use (i.e. Independence Exploit, Free MCBoot), I don't know of any other ways to install it. If you know someone with one of the above mentioned items, you can have them install it on a memory card for you.

[Donaldjks]

Hi aoizer0, I don't have the item you mentioned. Sorry.
How nice if you are nearby & can help me to install it.
Thanks for reply.

"Edit- game remove, sorry."

[yoshi314]

I have a unmodded PAL PS2 SCPH-30002 R. Would like to install Free McBoot.

find somebody who can make you an mc exploit, and get yourself a original psx game and a pendrive ;-)

or you can use swapmagic to boot and elf file off usb, if you have the disk.

[Donaldjks]

Hi, I stay in Singapore. The format here is NTSC.
I have problem finding thing in PAL for my Australia PS2, sorry.
My brother bought this PS2 when he in Australia.
Thanks for your reply.

Btw.: I do appreciate if someone can send me a CD-ROM based demo disk to use disk swap method of elf.
I have 2 DVD-ROM based demo discs if you want in return.
In case you don't have account here, my email is donaldjks@hotmail.com
Thank you.

[Donaldjks]

Hi,
Any member here stay in Singapore?
Would you please help me to install Free McBoot on my unmodded PS2.
Any help is sincerely appreciate.
Greatly thanks in advance.
With warmest regards.

Dear Moderators, please let me keep this post here.
Thank you.

[Bootlegninja]

You don't have to install the traditional exploit to install FMCB. At the most you would need a cheat disc or swapmagic and a USB thumb drive as mentioned in this set of tutorials.

http://bootleg.sksapps.com/tutorials/fmcb/

with this, you should be able to boot up the FMCB installer so that you can get it on your memory card and get running.

Edit- also, please keep all buy, sale, trade deals in the appropriate sub-forum please.

[Donaldjks]

Dear Bootlegninja,
Sorry for late.
Thank you so much for your informations.
I am using Australia PAL PS2 in Singapore NTSC-J region.
I like your tutorials very much. Thank you JNABK too.
I only have NTSC-J Action Replay 2 V2 cheat disc. Sorry.
I put the link to show what I have try with TnA help but fail. Still appreciate.
I am so sorry for the game I put here. Please forgive me.
I will remove it.
Thank you.
With warmest regards.

[TnA]

@Donaldjks: I know, that you've tested pretty much anything I told you to, but I think, a swap with you AR-Disc should work.
We should try it further with this I think.

[Donaldjks]

Dear TnA,
So nice to see you again.
I got the Action Replay 2 recently here.
It is NTSC-J format.
But my PS2 is Australia PAL.
I am more than willing to test everything.
Thank you my friend.
With warmest regards.

[TnA]

Hm,... The AR-Discs starts on your PS2?

[Bootlegninja]

If a Jap disc boots fine on your PAL system, then I would beleive that there's a mod chip in your system. Can you direct boot backups? Or do you have to swap them in?

[Donaldjks]

I'm sorry, TnA.
The AR-Discs don't starts on the PS2.

Edit- Sorry Bootlegninja, just got your reply.
Jap disc don't boots on my PAL system, there's no mod chip in my system.
So sorry for didn't mention it in the post.
I can't boot backups.
With TnA help, I swap DVD-based demo disc but fail.

Thank you so much guys.

[Shippy]

Don't they still install mod chips in Sim Lim Square?

[_ZedHqX4_]

Ok, dunno if it will work, but you can try this:

If you can run homebrew on the NTSC-J system its great, if not, then create a disc with ulaunchelf and with your action replay do swap then

- you need to have 2 MC to do a lot less of work, you could do it with only one but you would need to do a lot of reinstalls and reboots,so.... do a normal install onto your NTSC-J system on 1 of the MC, then, with all set, you launch to ule.

-Once in ule, change the MC and run the installer again from a USB, but this time you put the DVDElf.bin for the PAL system and the BOOT.ELF from ule together with the installer, select multi install and then if everything is going fine you should have the files installed now, but it wont work yet, so dont turn of the ps2 nor do a reboot

- Still in the installer, push the O button and it should boot to ule, there go to the file browser, and to the MC, there you should have a folder called B?EXEC-SYSTEM most probably its BIEXEC-SYSTEM. There, try to rename it to BEEXEC-SYSTEM, if you cant then create the folder and copy the files:

McBoot.icn
icon.sys

and since you, by this point should have a lot of elf files in that folder (but they are linked and you cant copy all of them at once), you have to do a lot of trial and error, so start copying osdmain.elf and then try it on the pal system if it works GREAT, if not, then go back to the ntsc-j and delete this file and try another, and repeat this until it works, if you run out of files and it doesnt work, then i guess my theory didnt work and you did a lot of work in vain, so im sorry, but if it works then i want you lunch money

[Donaldjks]

Hi Shippy,
They don't anymore some time ago, sorry.
Thank you.

Hi _ZedHqX4_,
I will try it when I can, hope it work.
Thank you so much for your complete detail help.
Please don't be sorry when you are helping me.
I am most willing to try everything.
Sincerely appreciate your help no matter how it go.
How nice if you are in Singapore.
I will happy to buy you lunch.

Thanks a lot guys.

[Bootlegninja]

If I were you, I'd spend jsut a small bit of money and locate a PAL AR Max Evo locally and use that to try to install.

[TnA]

@Donaldjks: Does AR-Max shows up in your PS2-Browser, or does it give you a red-screen?
If it shows up as PS2-Game, try the PS2-Browser swap-trick with a modified AR Image, that matches your Region (also rename the "SLUS/SLES/..." to the same name, your ARv2 SLUS/SLES/... has.).
I think it will not work, but may be a worth try.

If you not even could get a way (like working cheat-device), to copy a save-state to your MC, it's hard, to get it running in any way.

[coolaan]

Originally Posted by _ZedHqX4_

Ok, dunno if it will work, but you can try this:

If you can run homebrew on the NTSC-J system its great, if not, then create a disc with ulaunchelf and with your action replay do swap then

- you need to have 2 MC to do a lot less of work, you could do it with only one but you would need to do a lot of reinstalls and reboots,so.... do a normal install onto your NTSC-J system on 1 of the MC, then, with all set, you launch to ule.

-Once in ule, change the MC and run the installer again from a USB, but this time you put the DVDElf.bin for the PAL system and the BOOT.ELF from ule together with the installer, select multi install and then if everything is going fine you should have the files installed now, but it wont work yet, so dont turn of the ps2 nor do a reboot

- Still in the installer, push the O button and it should boot to ule, there go to the file browser, and to the MC, there you should have a folder called B?EXEC-SYSTEM most probably its BIEXEC-SYSTEM. There, try to rename it to BEEXEC-SYSTEM, if you cant then create the folder and copy the files:

McBoot.icn
icon.sys

and since you, by this point should have a lot of elf files in that folder (but they are linked and you cant copy all of them at once), you have to do a lot of trial and error, so start copying osdmain.elf and then try it on the pal system if it works GREAT, if not, then go back to the ntsc-j and delete this file and try another, and repeat this until it works, if you run out of files and it doesnt work, then i guess my theory didnt work and you did a lot of work in vain, so im sorry, but if it works then i want you lunch money

Nope it wont work that way. Only way a PAL dvdelf is going to be used for decryption is by using it on a PAL system. The NTSC-J variant itself has many versions of DVDELF like from Japan,Asia,China etc. Each console can install only the dvdelf from its own region.

This is also the region why the multiversion install doesnt work on different region consoles , but works on different versions on same consoles....

[guenthar]

I'm not quite sure but isn't there a way to make a game disc with ESR built in? (where ESR runs when you boot the disc and then the game runs) With that instead of making a game disc you could make a disc with ulaunchelf on it and then install FreeMC Boot on your memory card.