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-== Partitioning ==
+With 155 million sold, the PS2 was the best-selling gaming console ever. Home-brew development is still going on, and many games recover online gaming capability since developers are rewriting the game server. A list of PlayStation 2 Online Games is available [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bbxOGm4dPxZ4Vbzyu3XxBnZmuPx3Ue-cPqBeTxtnvkQ here].
-You could use pfsshell
+= Emulation =
-== Samba ==
+This section explains how to run Playstation 2 games on NixOS.
-== FTP transfer ==
+== PCSX2 ==
+You need a legal copy of your ps2 bios. There are many ways to do it, so I will just describe an easy but slow one using uLaunchELF:
+/ get latest ps2ident from https://github.com/ps2homebrew/PS2Ident/releases/tag/stable
+/ extract somewhere on an USB mass storage
+/ launch it from uLaunchELF (mass:) , then select USB as save device
+/ waiiiiiiiiiiiit. ( slow USB 1, notice progress bars )
+/ copy files in the right pcsx2 directory ( by default /home/<username>/.config/PCSX2/bios )
-* PC side :
+You can also explore the bios file using romdirfs.
+= Development =
+If you want to develop for the PlayStation 2 on NixOS you'll probably want to use the Open Source PS2SDK .
+The section below explains how to bootstrap the toolchain in order to have a working development environment.
+== Building the open source PS2SDK on NixOS ==
+You can use the following nix-shell script to build the open source PS2SDK through [https://github.com/ps2dev/ps2dev ps2dev].
+<syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
+{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:
+let fhs = pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv {
+  name = "ps2dev";
+  targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
+    autoconf
+    automake
+    libtool
+    gnumake
+    clang
+    clang-tools
+    gcc
+    wget
+    git
+    patch
+    texinfo
+    bash
+    file
+    bison
+    flex
+    gettext
+    gsl
+    gnum4
+    gmp.dev
+    gmp.out
+    mpfr.out
+    mpfr.dev
+    libmpc
+    cmake
+    zlib.dev
+    zlib.out
+  ]);
+  runScript = "bash";
+};
+in pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "ps2dev-shell";
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ fhs ];
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+  shellHook = ''
+    # or whatever you want
+    export PS2DEV=$HOME/ps2
+    mkdir -p $PS2DEV
+    chown -R $USER: $PS2DEV
+    # setup login env
+    export PS2SDK=$PS2DEV/ps2sdk
+    export PATH=$PATH:$PS2DEV/bin:$PS2DEV/ee/bin:$PS2DEV/iop/bin:$PS2DEV/dvp/bin:$PS2SDK/bin
+    export CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PS2DEV
+    exec ps2dev
+    '';
+}
+</syntaxhighlight>
+You will have to run this shell each time you want to enter in an environment with the SDK tools available or, alternatively, re-export those environment variables in the shell of your liking:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+# or whatever you want
+export PS2DEV=$HOME/ps2
+export PS2SDK=$PS2DEV/ps2sdk
+export PATH=$PATH:$PS2DEV/bin:$PS2DEV/ee/bin:$PS2DEV/iop/bin:$PS2DEV/dvp/bin:$PS2SDK/bin
+</syntaxhighlight>
+= PlayStation 2 Expansion Bay =
+Read more about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_Expansion_Bay
+Only genuine Sony adapter offers network capability, you can upgrade them to sata thanks to a SATA mod kit from bitfunx or maxdiypower. On slim model, you can find kit too, but you will need to solder on the motherboard.
+== HDD Partitioning ==
+Playstation 2 use PFS filesystem and APA partitions see [https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/kernelloader/Sony%20Linux%20Toolkit/Package%20Update%20Files/apa/libhdd_ref.pdf?viasf=1 libHdd Reference Manual] for more information. You could use pfsshell on PC to create APA partition and format to PFS. pfsshell's author advises you to not use it as root.
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
+# chown myuser /dev/sdb
+$ pfsshell
+pfsshell for POSIX systems
+https://github.com/uyjulian/pfsshell
+This program uses pfs, apa, iomanX,
+code from ps2sdk (https://github.com/ps2dev/ps2sdk)
+Type "help" for a list of commands.
+> device /dev/sdb
+hdd: PS2 APA Driver v2.5 (c) 2003 Vector
+hdd: max open = 1, 3 buffers
+hdd: 07:13:40 02/03/2020
+hdd: disk0: 0x06fccf2f sectors, max 0x00200000
+hdd: checking log...
+hdd: drive status 0, format version 00000002
+hdd: version 0000 driver start.
+pfs Playstation Filesystem Driver v2.2
+ps2fs: (c) 2003 Sjeep, Vector and Florin Sasu
+pfs Max mount: 1, Max open: 1, Number of buffers: 10
+pfs version 0000 driver start.
+# initialize yes
+# ls
+x0001   128MB __mbr
+x0100   128MB __net
+x0100   256MB __system
+x0100   512MB __sysconf
+x0100  1024MB __common
+</syntaxhighlight>
+=== install wLauncher ===
+In order to be able to launch unofficial software, you can:
+* launch a dvd with [https://cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.html FreeDVDBoot]
+* have a modchip
+* boot with a FMCB installed memory card
+* boot on HDD with an elf launcher like wLauncher or [https://github.com/parrado/SoftDev2 SoftDev2]
+Extract [https://web.archive.org/web/20221210004709/https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/download/file.php?id=15758&sid=f956d2accefb993288a6791c7c85a5c0 this archive] (wLE_kHn_20200810.7z md5:430af5615895736d96b4f7156e92b2b0 [https://www.ps2-home.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5128 dl source]) then call hdl_dump:
+ $ hdl_dump initialize /dev/sdb MBR.KELF
+=== install FHDB (Free HDBoot) ===
+Get FMCB installer from official website: https://sites.google.com/view/ysai187/home/projects/fmcbfhdb
+You should be able to launch it following the instruction there.
+=== Install games ===
+Games doesn't use PFS but HDLoader partition so we can't rely on pfsshell to install them. Use hdl_dump (see hdl_dump help):
+  $ hdl_dump install /dev/sdb Final\ Fantasy\ X\ \(France\).iso
+== Network ==
+=== Samba ===
+Works fine - example soon.
+=== FTP transfer ===
+A very slow solution ( ~ 500KB/s ).
+* PC side (client):
 PS2 doesn't support TLS, use plain FTP. (tested with filezilla)
-* PS2 side :
+* PS2 side (server):
+Launch ps2net. You need to activate hdd  (exploring it in uLaunchELF for example) before ps2net to share it.
-You need to activate hdd (exploring it in uLaunchELF for exemple)
+[[Category:Gaming]]
+[[Category:Applications]]
+[[Category:Hardware]]