View Full Version : hd advance - whats the cheapest relaible source?
noname11
03-09-2006, 12:13 PM
HI, im relatively new to the forum, and i did a search for this topic and came up with nothing ...
Anyways, I just recently got a used PS2 and , as a Gamecube owner, the load times are annoying ! I was reading on some of the websites selling this product that loading your own games onto a hard drive cuts the load times. How true is this? And , as the topic asks, what's the cheapest price and most reliable source for someone in the US to get this?
Captain Wrong
03-09-2006, 12:44 PM
Do a memory card exploit and get it for free.
www.exploitstation.com
roushimsx
03-09-2006, 05:26 PM
HD Loader hasn't been available since ~July-Aug of 2004 when Sony shut down legitimate sales of it. Any copies being sold after that time period are bootlegs, but that doesn't much matter because copies of that are out of date.
HD Advance is a pirated version of HD Loader that has patches applied to it that were developed by the HDLoader community for free. The people selling it are basically making money off of other people's work (which makes them cocksuckers). It's since been rendered obsolete by numerous patches, so don't waste your time or money on it.
As mentioned above, do the memory card exploit for free. The creator of HDLoader still works on new patches and updates and sanctions open distribution of his program since he can't sell it anymore, and with the updates, compatibility is at ~90% or some such (I believe the original HDLoader is sitting at ~70%).
I'll be setting up a friend of mine's PS2 here pretty soon with HDLoader because his dvd rom is more or less dead, and while we can get it working with PS1 games, PS2 games refuse to work. Instead of spending $65 on another dvd rom that'll very likely go out, we're slapping in a hard drive and installing all of his games on it. The only real downside is that he'll have to install games by hooking the HD up to his PC and rip them with his PC DVD-ROM, but really..ripping with a PS2 DVD-ROM is so damn painfully slow anyway.... (for fun, compare ripping Disgaea using a PS2 and using a PC. Might want to have a nice book to read, handy...)