Hello and welcome to YoYo's guide on soft modding your fat ps2, here you will learn how to soft mod your ps2 to play back ups without a modchip, play emulators, play homebrew, watch.AVI off of a HDD, load back ups off a internal and even external HDD, and much more. This guide is designed to help you get the most out of your PS2 without spending money! Things you will need (For just expoilting your ps2). A PSX/PS1 trigger disk (This will boot the expoilt) 3.

All in One PS2 Tools designed for your PS2 console obviously. Just in case someone still looking for Cogswap, or many other PS2 Related Tools such as ExecFTP, PS2 Reality Media Player, etc i've decided to upload my currently used PS2 Tools made by Stinky (it's. Download: AIO PS2 By Stinky.

Action Replay MAX or Codebreaker (They must supports USB drives) 4. A USB flash drive (AKA: You could even use your PSP:) ) 5. The required programs. You must delete your Your System Configuration to expoilt your PS2! Ok, wee are first going to start by having you download the required programs, I have taken the time to add everything you will need into one rar, Download it Make a new folder on your desktop named 'PS2 Mods' and extract the rar you downloaded from above to the folder you just made. Now that you have the files your going to need, it is time to find a PSx/PS1 trigger disk. When you load a PSX/PS1 game in a fat PS2, the ps2 looks for the file on your memory card called 'BOOT.ELF' Having that file modified the ps2 will boot uLaunchELF, a PS2 homebrew app.

That is used to launch.ELF files on a PS2. Finding a PSX/PS!

Game that works as a trigger disk can sometimes be hard, I once seen a list online but can not seem to find it anymore, once I find it I will be sure to add it. I use Silent Hill 1 for PS1 as my trigger disk, I also know that THPS 3, Cool boraders1 and 2 work.

Now that you have your PSX/PS1 and put it in your disk drive and wait for it to load. Once your computer has loaded the disk go to your PS2 Mods folder, go to PS2 Softmods folder and run the program IDGET.exe. The program will start and press the button 'Get' and it will tell you the ID of your PS1/PSX game, WRITE THIS DOWN!!!!!!! Next run the program Titleman Frontend, Click ‘Create TITLE.DB’ and next enter the ID of your PSX/PS1 game your using, click ‘Add Exec’. Click ‘List current contents of TITLE.DB’ and confirm your entry. Pay special attention to the initial four letters, sometimes TMFE messes these up. The TITLE.DB you just made is in the Titleman Frontend folder.

Now open the program PS2 Save Builder. Note* If your some what lost on what wee are trying to do. The goal is to get the files TITLE.DB and BOOT.ELF on to your memory card, so when you try and load your trigger disk, instead it will load uLaunchELF. OK, on PS2 Save Builder at the top go to File create a new save. Ok now under ‘Root/ID’ put ‘BADATA-SYSTEM’ for US/NTSC or put ‘BEDATA-SYSTEM’ for EUR/PAL. Ok now wee need the TITLE.DB you made, it is in the Titleman Frontend folder, drag and drop the TITLE.DB onto thw white box on PS2 save builder. Next drag and drop the 'BOOT.ELF' onto PS2 save builder.

Also, drag and drop any of the other.ELF's you would like on your memory card. If I were you, I would only add Cogswap.ELF and HDL.ELF on your memory card, having to many.ELF's on just your memory card can take up ALOT of space on your card. I would recommend using a USB flash drive/external HDD to keep your.ELF files.

But as I said you at least want Cogswap.ELF on your memory card. Cogswap loader is a program used to boot back up games on your PS2, it is handy to have it on your memory stick;) And now that I think of it, I didnt add Cogswap.ELF to 'PS2 Softmods' rar. You can download CogSwapLoader Ok so now on the PS2 save builder you should have these files BOOT.ELF TITLE.DB COGSWAP.ELF icon. 2010 Honda Sh150i Service Manual Pdf. sys my.icn Now at the top go to file and save as, name the expoilt and right below the file name you will see the drop down box were you can change the file format, if you are using AR Max you must save the file in.max to the root level of you USB Flash drive/PSP. If you are using codebreaker you must save the file in.cbs to the root level of you USB Flash drive/PSP. Ok plug your USB flash drive/PSP intothe USB ports of your PS2 and start AR MAX, when AR MAX loads go to Max memory.

When it loads press X on My device's. Choose memory card 1. Find and select ‘Your System Configuration’, then choose delete to delete it. Wee do this because our exploit files are going into the same folder as the system configuration (BADATA-SYSTEM) and certain versions of ARMAX will display an error (File already exists) if you don’t do this first. All the system configuration file contains is a couple settings (screen size, language, etc), so don’t worry about deleting it. These will be reset to default after doing this. Ok now press triangle to go back then go over to your UBS drive, press X it will load and you will see ‘NEW_FILE’ (this is our exploit.max) and go down to ‘Uncrush to MC1'.

Confirm and wait a couple seconds for it to extract.:) Alrighty! Once it has finished shut off your PS2, reboot your PS2 and put in your PSX/PS1 trigger disk and the memory card with your newly added expoilt. Start the game and if it worked the screen should blink once and then load to this screen but with a white background;) You have just soft modded your Playstaion 2:great: Ok from you press O and it will take you to the file browser, from here you can search all device's on your PS2, your HDD, your memory card, launch.ELF's fromUSB drive/PSP or external HDD and run.ELF files (AKA: Hombrew:) ) The.ELF's files the I gave you in the download are HDL_0.8b.elf = HD Loader, Play Ps2 game from your internal HDD CogSwap.elf = Loads burnt PS2 back ups. A tutorial on how to use cogswap can be found below.

*Not my video SNES_EMU.ELF = Super nintendo emulator:) Roms not included USBA_WAR.ELF = USBAdvaned, Play back up PS2 games off of a USB drive:) SMS Verison 2.5 (Rev.3).elf = A very nice media played that plays MP3's,.AVI,.MP4 has bugs though. I this program. Note* This guide is Not done, I plan on adding much much more.

Please come back soon:) NOTE- A new and better method of booting back ups is now out on PS2, I will make a new guide soon. Attached File(s) (Size: 2.01 MB / Downloads: 6084).

Well I found this link that works but I think that it's a different thing. It's called cogswap.elf but it looks completely different from images posted of cogswaploader. Basicly it's just a big square with a black backround and some text at the bottem saying press any button or the d-pad. And then the only option it gives me is to configure how it looks.

If I put in a game(a real game) it just stops the disk from spinning, that's about it. I don't have any backups yet to see what it would do with that but it would probably be the same. Here's the website link: Here's the direct download link.

Assuming you can launch ELF files. In order to play a backup disc, do the following: 1) Run CogSwap Loader, by executing the ELF file (using a file launcher such as uLaunchELF) 2) Hit the eject button 3) Insert an original PS2 game with a high TOC (check for a list of TOC sizes, general rule of thumb is that you want your original PS2 game to be larger than the backup you are swapping it with) 4) When the screen text changes, to “PSX CDROM”, “PS2 CDROM” or “PS2 DVDROM”, depending on what you inserted, press X if you inserted a DVD and O if you inserted a CD. 5) After a few seconds, the screen will say 'Use CogSwap'. You can now use your swap method (either swap tool or flip-top lid).

If you're using a swap tool/slide card use it to release the tray and swap the disc. Remember to pull the pin back to place after. Then press X.

Thanks for the idea, but it didn't work Recently I've been looking for an ISO of uLuanchELF, and I have found one with cogswap on it +much more! But it doesn't seem to work. I think it's because when you start it, at the top of the screen it says,'Launch.elf has failed to boot', or something like that. I can put the ISO onto rapidshare if you would like a copy, if you think you can figure out what's wrong. I'd look for another ISO but this one is v4.08 and it has many things already on it like emulators and a media player and a whole bunch of stuff. Just let me know if you want the ISO, or if you can help. Change/replace the 'title.db' file (unless you also have final fantasy 8 disc 1 ntsc).

-you may add more elf's if you like with ps2 save builder. -i use the old 3.41 launchelf, you may want to upgrade to the newer ulaunchelf (launchelf is renamed to 'boot.elf' because that's how the ps2 recognizes it, any new launchers (uLaunchelf for example) will need to be renamed to 'boot.elf' before you put it into the save. -i have cogswap as X, so you just press it as soon as launchelf boots. You may configure launchelf using the guide below -in launchelf, i have buttons assigned to other apps that are not included in this save due to license issues. Sksapps.com is also a good site for finding stuff.

Change/replace the 'title.db' file (unless you also have final fantasy 8 disc 1 ntsc). -you may add more elf's if you like with ps2 save builder. -i use the old 3.41 launchelf, you may want to upgrade to the newer ulaunchelf (launchelf is renamed to 'boot.elf' because that's how the ps2 recognizes it, any new launchers (uLaunchelf for example) will need to be renamed to 'boot.elf' before you put it into the save. -i have cogswap as X, so you just press it as soon as launchelf boots. Kitchendraw 4 5 Keygenguru there. You may configure launchelf using the guide below -in launchelf, i have buttons assigned to other apps that are not included in this save due to license issues. Sksapps.com is also a good site for finding stuff. Click to expand.Yay!

I finally got it working! Those are really great guides! But, by the way, do you know of any NES emu's that I can put on ulaunch and will boot the roms off of my pendrive, and won't be all choppy and slow(that's all I seem to read about)?

NES is my favourite system, and I'd think it would be fun to play, and a lot easier to boot, seeing that on the origonal system you would always have to blow into the cartrige or clean them every once and a while. Just let me know if you do.

Thanks to everyone that could help.