which is fine, if not a bit messy! Assuming it does fit just slot the HD into the network adapter, Maxtor drives fit the best I'm told where as Western Digital are the hardest to fit. If it does, thumbs up, if not you're gunna have to get another one that does I'm afraid unless you fancy cutting up your network adapter and making an alternate arrangement for your HD. Take your IDE hard drive (referred to from now on as HD) and first of all make sure it fits the expansion bay at the back of your PS2. PSone disc (most will work, it is only used as the trigger disc (if that doesn't make sense yet don't panic)) Action Replay Max (again eBay or Amazon is the way to go) PS2 network adapter (these are quite hard to come by nowadays but I picked up one on eBay for cheap cheap cheap) IDE hard drive (I have been told that PS2s only accept 40-120GB but I had no problems with a 320GB) PS2 console (original chunky one, none of this slim nonsense) Ripped games play alot smoother than the original games, no skipping, shorter loading times, and it saves your laser reader in you PS2 as it isn't used apart from when you boot up! Sounds good huh? Well lets get cracking! This method lets you do all sorts of cool stuff such as emulating SNES games and ripping your PS2 game discs straight to your installed hard drive (don't panic we'll cover that too!) so you can play them without the disc. I have seen kids as young as 8 grasp the concept of softmodding pretty fast. Softmodding is a way of modifying your PS2 without the need for opening it up and soldering all sorts of stuff together. I WOULD NEVER DREAM OF ATTEMPTING TO RIP OFF A BIGWIG COMPANY SUCH AS SONY AND OBVIOUSLY DO NOT ENDORSE ANY ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. YOU FOLLOW THIS TUTORIAL AT YOUR OWN RISK and after a few clicks around other threads I thought I may as well in order to prevent anyone cracking open their PS2s with angle grinders just yet! There may well be a tutorial on here already but I couldn't find it and so here's mine. I've just stated in another thread that I might post a tutorial on softmodding fat PS2s.

Fat ps2 usb games