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[dlanor]

Originally Posted by M J 76

Can someone please tell me how to get launchelf to mc. ive tried everything and nothing seems to work. ps2 modded with dms and toxic.

That question is off-topic here (has nothing to do with SMS), and also in the other thread where you posted it. The proper thing for you to do would have been to post a NEW thread in the uLaunchELF forum, asking for help with your particular problem. You should never clutter up existing threads dedicated to other subjects. But I will give you a brief reply here anyway.

If you really have ToxicOS, then simply put the uLaunchELF "BOOT.ELF" file on a USB memory stick or a normal CD, and then use the ToxicOS browser to launch it. Once it is launched you can use the FileBrowser of uLE to create the standard "mc0:/BOOT/" folder and copy the "BOOT.ELF" file into it, for use with Dev1 booting.

If you only have ToxicBIOS, then you'll need to make a normal boot CD for uLE, editing the "SYSTEM.CNF" file to launch the "BOOT.ELF" file of uLE. Since you mentioned problems with burning duds (in the other thread), make sure that you use the program CDGenPS2 to create the ISO file, which you can then burn with any CD burner program. Using such programs to directly create a PS2 compatible ISO can sometimes be tricky, which is why you should let CDGenPS2 handle that part.

Best regards: dlanor

Hi all,

Recently start with SMS and have simple question - is there any way to hide CD-ROM icon? I don't want it because all my movies on PC.

Originally Posted by as65sd

Hi all,

Recently start with SMS and have simple question - is there any way to hide CD-ROM icon? I don't want it because all my movies on PC.

Remove the CD/DVD from the ps2 and the icon will disappear!

// Dennis

[Selaht]

Hi!
I have some question about dual audio movies:

1) Does SMS (latest version: 1.9 R1) support dual audio movies ?
2) Is it does, what's the command (or the way) to change to the second audio?

Thanks

[Z-Saber]

If you're talking about what I think you are, then yes. The have to press "Start" during playback and there's an option to switch it.

[rathunter]

Note that all audio streams must be encoded at identical settings.

Originally Posted by asharer

does anyone knows how to transfer usbd.irx driver to memory card without having HDD. I only have swapmagic 3.6 and a usb pen drive cus i would like to launch sms from memory card and use the pen drive to view movies. If someone can give me detailed instructions and what programs needed. Ive searched all forums but no one has answer to that question

I have the same "problem" as the guy above.

Can someone please help me out? I would like to know how do I add the USB driver to memory card if I do not have a Network adapter and only the following items:

1. 1 PS2
2. 1 DS2 Controller
3. 1 8MB Sony Memory Card
4. Swap Magic Version 3.3 DVD and CD Build
5. USB HDD
6. 128 MB Pen Drive

Help is VERY much appreciated and thanks for creating the great program whoever the creators are. (Even though I havent tried it, it looks very promising.)

[thetest]

Originally Posted by darkpepe

Putting system.cnf and sms.elf into a directory doesn't seem a good idea to me.
Also setting LBA 12231 to the system.cnf is absolutely necessary, else the CD won't work at all.

Kind Regards, pepe

Slim ps2 doesnt need LBA at all. They will boot of a Nero burned disc.

[peterdcrees]

Thanks to bladeanon for figuring this out! Also to dlanor for inspiring me by always helping others in the forum.

SMS can open .m3u playlists which contain references to files in several different directories if the m3u files are formatted correctly.

I have a slim PS2 so I use USB HDD or SMB (Windows shares) to play music with the PS2.

This example is based on MY music collection where the mp3 tracks are in the following structure (as seen in windows explorer)

D:\Music\Artist\Album\# - TrackTitle.mp3

Here's how I do it.

1. In Winamp go to Options->Preferences->General Preferences;Titles and enable "Read metadata when files are loaded into winamp" (this ensures the #EXTINF entries in the m3u will be correct for all files)

2. Open all of the files you want in your SMS playlist in Winamp's playlist

(Important: Only open files from the 'Music' or 'Music\Artist' or 'Music\Artist\Album' directories)

3. In Winamp's 'playlist editor' (Alt-E) click on 'Manage Playlist'->'Save playlist' Make sure 'Save as type' is M3U

4. Give the playlist a name and save it in the 'D:\Music' directory
(Important: DO NOT save or move the playlist to a different directory, it wont work)

(Explanation: Provided all the mp3's in the playlist are somewhere in the 'Music\' directory or its sub-directories, and the playlist is saved in the 'Music\' directory Winamp will save the 'relative' path-names to the files - the 'D:\Music' part of the full filename is NOT included in the M3U playlist. Because of this, SMS will be able to find the files in the playlist. SMS WILL NOT find files that have "D:\Music\Artist\Album\# - Track.mp3" style path names in the M3U playlist, they need to be just "Artist\Album\# - Track.mp3")

5. Use Notepad to open the playlist you saved in step 4

6. Go to Edit->Replace (Ctrl-H) and replace all backslashes "\" with slashes "/"

7. Save the playlist.

You can now fire up SMS and load the playlist!

[diln]

Thank for explaining how to do that ^^^^

[cod]

Ok, I have SMS v2.1 revision 2 installed and it runs just peachy...except it will not read media files from my USB pendrive.

The drive is read fine for other things (for example my Swap Magic will boot programs fine from the USB stick).

I have put the USBD.IRX file (the renamed one extracted from the zip file in the SMS manual link, section 3.6) in both mc0/SYS-CONFIG and mc0/SMS. I used the FileBrowser utility to copy and paste the file from the USB stick to the locations mentioned.

When I boot up and go into SMS the USB pendrive icon, as shown in the SMS manual is nowhere in sight.

Any ideas, cos it's a lot quicker transferring video files onto the USB stick and watching them through SMS that way than it is to burn the video files to a dvd which I'm only going to use once!

I've been at this for a couple of days now and I'm no further forward in getting SMS mass working than I was to start with

By the way, I really like this program - I was regretting getting rid of my old Xbox which I had converted into a media player, but this program gives the same functionality on my favoured ps2

[dlanor]

Originally Posted by cod

Ok, I have SMS v2.1 revision 2 installed and it runs just peachy...except it will not read media files from my USB pendrive.

Two possible reasons immediately come to mind:

1: You may not have formatted the drive properly. Use FAT32, not FAT/FAT16 or NTFS
2: You may have forgotten to configure SMS to use USBD.

Point 2 may need some extra explanation. In SMS use of USB is not mandatory, but optional, and when not used SMS will not even try to load the drivers for it. You need to configure this usage in the "Device Settings..." submenu of the main SMS menu, which you open by pressing the 'Start' button when the browser screen of SMS is displayed.

After you exit the "Device Settings..." menu, having enabled the "Autostart USB" option, you must also use the "Save settings" command, so that this usage will be remembered in the next boot session.

Since you didn't mention having made any USB configuration in SMS, I rather suspect that this is what you have missed doing.

I have put the USBD.IRX file (the renamed one extracted from the zip file in the SMS manual link, section 3.6) in both mc0/SYS-CONFIG and mc0/SMS. I used the FileBrowser utility to copy and paste the file from the USB stick to the locations mentioned.

SMS doesn't have any FileBrowser utility. Are you possibly talking about uLaunchELF (aka: uLE) here...?

In any case, modern versions of SMS should not need an external USBD.IRX anymore, since it uses the same IRX that uLE uses, which is in both cases embedded into the main program. Use of an external USBD.IRX is therefore optional and may in fact interfere with proper functioning, if the external one is less compatible than the internal one, which is often the case.

Any ideas, cos it's a lot quicker transferring video files onto the USB stick and watching them through SMS that way than it is to burn the video files to a dvd which I'm only going to use once!

Good point, but it's even quicker if you can network your PS2 to a PC, because then you can watch the video files without ever moving them from the PC HDD.

Best regards: dlanor

[cod]

D'oh!

I'm an idiot - I actually had done that before but I didn't have the USBD.IRX file then....and then I had completely deleted the configuration file from the memory card and reinstalled everything via mc exploit...and guess what? Yep, I forgot to reactivate the USB autostart. Cheers for kickstarting my memory.

/me slaps forehead!

The filebrowser is LaunchElf, it's part of the exploit install. Anyway, you can use it to copy and paste files, which removes the problem I've read in this thread that some people have of actually getting the files onto their system - for example, if you can't FTP the files to your Station. Just copy the files to USB stick, compile and install an exploit using the Independence exploit compiler and then install it to the ps2. After that you can boot up via the exploit, open the config and then use the filebrowser to move the files from USB stick to wherever they are needed.

Oh, and as for DVD-RW disc - just buy a burner that supports bitsetting and set the booktype to dvd-rom when burning. After that, the Station will read them just fine

As to the speed issue - I could network the ps2 seeing as I have a HDD and network adaptor but why bother going to all that hassle when I can just transfer the video files or whatever to my 2gb USB stick and slap it in the Stations USB port? The only time that takes is the time it takes to transfer the files to the stick! Plus, this is more of a useful solution for those who are bereft of network adaptors but have a spare USB stick

[urbigbro]

Is there a way to fast forward or rewind (scroll) .mp3 files. I know how to do scroll vids, but couldn't find any references how to scroll .mp3s in the manual. Can someone enlighten me?
Thanks!

[orangpelupa]

I just found a way to make PC auto off after sms stop. Stream video via Network. (play a vid). On pc, run, shutdown.exe -f -s -t 1
this will force shutdown windows. But, windows will pause its shutdown process at "closing network". And after sms stoped playing a movie. Windows will turn off. Very useful when your pc is far. And you want to just sleep after wathing a video (set sms to auto off)

[lee99]

Originally Posted by orangpelupa

I just found a way to make PC auto off after sms stop. Stream video via Network. (play a vid). On pc, run, shutdown.exe -f -s -t 1
this will force shutdown windows. But, windows will pause its shutdown process at "closing network". And after sms stoped playing a movie. Windows will turn off. Very useful when your pc is far. And you want to just sleep after wathing a video (set sms to auto off)

yes that would be cool.

[suloku]

Originally Posted by orangpelupa

I just found a way to make PC auto off after sms stop. Stream video via Network. (play a vid). On pc, run, shutdown.exe -f -s -t 1
this will force shutdown windows. But, windows will pause its shutdown process at "closing network". And after sms stoped playing a movie. Windows will turn off. Very useful when your pc is far. And you want to just sleep after wathing a video (set sms to auto off)

Comment this in the radhost client thread, that could be implemented in it!

[Mordred?]

I connect HDD(sata 250Gb, 3 80Gb fat32 partitions) to my PS2 slim using sata-to-usb2.0 case. But when i launch sms(2.8 rev.4 with usbm.irx & usbd.irx), it see usb device as empty.

How can i fix it?

[thetest]

Originally Posted by Mordred?

I connect HDD(sata 250Gb, 3 80Gb fat32 partitions) to my PS2 slim using sata-to-usb2.0 case. But when i launch sms(2.8 rev.4 with usbm.irx & usbd.irx), it see usb device as empty.

How can i fix it?

All USB devices are not compatible. SMS doesn't use the exact same USB drivers from uLE, hence devices that work in uLE may not work in SMS. uLE has much greater compatibility with USB drives.

Reformat it with a single partition and try.