Setting up PS2 Fat model with an internal harddrive setup to play stored disk images.

The general pathway here is to setup a custom boot process that allows for launching into OPL where we can then start to run games.

Examples given are from macOS, should translate to linux easy enough, most other guides are with Windows in mind.

WARNING the absolute filepaths/devices given are examples only. Make sure to use correct device paths/filesystem paths. Otherwise you will irrevocably corrupt your drives.

Decided that I needed some more excersize and figured a good way to get motived was to pick back up some good ol’ DDR.

Picked up a the Deluxe Foam Pad from DDRPad.com and set out to play some DDR.

While I have a few PS2s dont actually have a hard copy of DDR nor have I moddded them to play from disk images (another project for another day).

So would have to settle on a PS2 emulator on my macbook air (pre M1). Had retroarch installed but quickly realized that none of the PS2 cores were available. Turns out that they dont support macOS. Fortunatly another PS2 emulator, PCSX2 does. So installed that.