
I personally use: which has support for both SATA and PATA and runs on the faster USB3 ports (backward compatible with USB2).

If you stick with PATA drives, then chances are you will need some sort of USB adapter. You can alternately modify your network adapter to use SATA hard drives with. If you own a fat PS2, then you actually can create your own FMCB memory card without having to do any of the disk swapping nonsense. The process below is for those who DO NOT already have access to Free MC Boot, but DO have a PS2 with Network Adapter and HDD. I am of the opinion buying one from ebay is better than the time/cost it takes to send away a memory card and have it freely modified with FMCB. Yes, I am aware that many users are kind enough to provide a free service for installing FMCB. For owners of the fat PS2 consoles, you can also soft mod your PS2 to use your HDD (and even use Free HD Boot - the HDD version of Free MC Boot). Once you have such a memory card, you can create new ones or update it to the most recent version (I always have one as a backup that I have stored away safely). The cost of such a memory card is around $10 (USD) on ebay. Updated for 2019 - everything still remains the same, but added a few more details.įor any PS2 (slim or fat) with model number less than 9xxx, the simplest method is to obtain a memory card with Free MC Boot installed.
