New OPL Update Allows for Any Size Hard Drive, Even 16TB And Higher!

Use ANY Size Hard Drive In Your PS2!

A person by the name of GrimDoomer has just released an update to OPL that allows you to use hard drives of any size! Currently, the largest capacity we could use was 2TB, but now we have no limit (well the theoretical limit is 144,000TB!). So let’s take a look at GrimDoomer’s new version of OPL and what features and improvements it brings with it!

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0:00 Intro
4:00 Stuff Needed To Set Up New OPL
7:06 How To Set It Up
10:56 Features
12:10 Pros and Cons
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[doobiescoo]

I "own" the entire US region game library archive, for those who are wondering, it is 4.31 TB.

[carblazer]

For anyone having issues with your hard drive not showing games, when you go to settings make sure hard drive device start mode is set to auto, and then there's an option for block devices next to BDM start mode. Go to block devices and you have to turn on the hard drive in there. Back out and save settings, and that should do the trick.
After several days of watching videos, excessive searching, and reformatting hdd/ssd's that's the one thing that seemed to make it consistently work.

[Applsandgrapes]

The storage expansion is certainly phenomenal, but honestly I'm going to be getting a lot more use out of this just being able to manually add games without using that god-awful program we've had to use for the past decade lol

[einsteinx]

Honestly the coolest thing about this is being able to just drag and drop ISOs! The current tool to install games into the old PS2 hard drive format takes foreeeveeerrrr

[monikam]

This is incredible news! I feel like this is the best build for this system. And I’m so excited to start gathering parts for this! Huge thanks to GrimDoomer and everyone still working for such a beautiful useable outcome. And as always your videos are gorgeous and the soundtrack is so relaxing.

[brandontadday]

The fact that OPL finally supports exFAT with the internal hard drive setup makes it SO MUCH EASIER to copy ISOs across to the hard drive. I had a lot of issues with getting some of the old tools like hdldump to work reliably on my PC. Great stuff!

[maxzeecoolguy]

VERY helpful vid. If anybody is like me and couldn't get OPL to read games from my hard drive, I found this nugget from grimdoomer in his testers thread:
(in OPL settings) You need to set BDM Start Mode to Auto, and under the Block Devices menu you need HDD set to ON.

Block devices appears to the right once you select "auto" for BDM Start Mode.

[brothergub]

Thanks for the awesome tutorial, just got this working for myself!

UGREEN USB 3.0 to SATA III Hard Drive Adapter worked for me.

[adamtheman]

dude you are the man, i been searching all over forums and youtube video to get my 4tb to work and once i watch the video i got it to work thank you so much man

[henrold__]

Wow, this is impressive, you could theoretically have a drive with the entire PS2 library on it!

[brownranger]

Thanks GrimDoomer for the awesome software and Tito for sharing it with us!

[keepwatchingthat]

Tito can't stop making absolute amazing videos with such great presentation! Keep up the amazing work!

[SilentShadow-ssxp]

Looks like it's about time I updated my old opl setup on my ps2. Amazing that people are still working on this stuff in 2023.

[Hong_Kong_Ghosts]

Very cool. Thank you for also mentioning HD Boot as I really enjoyed loading straight from the harddrive without a memory card. So, good to know a workaround is being created.

[manuelstuder]

Thanks for the video. This is unbelievable what has become possible with OPL. I tried it yesterday after this video with my PS2 and can confirm that with version 1.2.0 the video sequences in Fantasy XII are played almost smoothly and that from USB! This is a huge improvement compared to version 1.1.0. I am thinking about installing a hard drive in my PS2. Then all my games should be able to be played perfectly.

[InconsistentManner]

During your setup instructions... You can do the initialize and the format BOTH in the Disk Management Utility without having to open one program closing it then opening a second program. ALSO you can just right click the start button and then click Disk Management, instead of using search. Greatly simplifying your instructions.

[drcarrot]

Knowing I no longer have to jump through hoops to get my hardly stable 2TB drive to work has me literally in tears

[Rustyorange]

Ran this set up and have all the working titles on here now plus I have all working ps1 games to boot win win. Thanks

[kickpunchblock]

I followed all the instructions, but I had to start OPL three times until the Games on the HDD would show up. Works great now!

[ReeseRiverson]

OPL is amazing, I'm glad to see new features like this enhancing it further. Personally I just use OPL to load my games off my network storage since it's been super convenient for me to use.