ABitTop PS2Netbox, User Manual

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VI. Usage instructions
1. Hard disk drive preparation
The device supports the use of 2.5-inch hard disk drive (laptop hard disk drive), including IDE interface and SATA interface
hard disk drives. The hard disk drive needs to be fixed on the device’s bracket and covered with casing. Then the device is
connected to PC through USB cable and PC will recognize it as the mobile hard disk drive. The hard disk drive can be
formatted as PS2 special format or exFAT general format.
PS2 format hard disk drive management requires various special PS2 hard disk drive management tool software, so the
operation is cumbersome and intuitive.
exFAT is recommended, because this format hard disk drive supports direct connection between the device and PC for game
copy and various management operations and when connected to windows operating system, various operations can be
realized through drag and drop. For the convenience of management, the files related to the device functions are stored under
the OPL directory of root directory, and the full path not mentioned below refers to the contents under this directory. The
device is compatible with the functions of hard disk drive cartridge, so it can be used for multi-purpose with no limit that the
hard disk drive can only store games.
2. Game preparation
The device supports games from a variety of sources without destroying or skipping the PS2 console copyright verification
mechanism. That is to say, when the device is not used, the runnable games can also be used with the device.
The device is connected to the PC through USB cable.
PS2 special format hard disk drive needs to record games through WinHIIP or other dedicated recording software.
After the exFAT format hard disk drive is connected to PC, it will be recognized as the high-capacity storage device by
operating system and assigned the letter. Users just need to copy the game image file (.ISO file) to corresponding directories
of PSI, disks or DVD.
The game image name can be any name and the named strings will be directly displayed in the game list.
3. Settings for interface beautifying and game auxiliary functions
For PS2 special format hard disk drive, the device needs to be connected to PC first and then various management tool
software running on PC are used for corresponding operations.
For exFAT general format hard disk drive, after connection between the device and PC, the device will be recognized as the
high-capacity storage device by operating system and assigned the letter. Users just need to unzip various resource package
directly to the corresponding directory of the hard disk drive which is just connected to PC. Specific operations: unzip the
game selection interface theme package to THM directory; unzip game cover to ART directory; unzip God Hand Cheats file
to CHT directory; copy virtual memory card file to VMC directory.
The matching method of various resource files related to games (such as game cover, God Hand Cheats) with game image is
that the name of game image is as the same as the filename without extension name of resource file or that the resource file
is named as game serial number. Such as: God of War image is “God of War.iso” and the game serial number is SCUS.974.81,
its theme image file name can be “God of War_ART.jpg” or “SCUS.974.81_ART.jpg”.