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Cake day: January 21st, 2024
  • Europe desperately needs a new political class, we actually have the sons of the boomers which aren’t prepared to this time of changes but we are still the most future-proof progressive political project considering the mess with the US downfall and China’s issues. I think the crucial points for the near future are:

    • Making a two speed UE: eurosceptics nations should have less ‘power decisions / financial support’ if they do not apply to the shared rules; Canada addition as partner is great since it can run to be a real member in the future and it make actual members questioning about their conduct. The priority here is to revisionate the veto mechanism, we are already going into that direction after the fall of Orban.
    • Gaza: UE can’t exist without fully dissociate to the genocide, that’s not just for ethical reasons, it’s for soft power and international justice, without these UE has no sense, not a reason or a meaning to exist. This probably require to wait the fall of Donald Trump consequently with most far-rights parties in UE.
    • Ukraine: This is probably the main topic for near-future elections and the most difficult to predict, many pro-putin parties are actually scared about escalation while Rearm Europe hasn’t provided a real political defense union between nations. UE must become e a real multinational-state to solve this.

This guide allows you to softmod your PS2 fat model in easy steps without an existing FMCB card or any rom manager. Thanks to the Reddit user u/quisys for the original guide. Disclaimer: make sure you know what disk you’re writing to when using dd command, I am not responsible for any data loss.

Required Hardware

  • Fat PS2
  • Memory Card
  • PS2 Network Adapter
  • Controller
  • HDD
  • USB key
  • SATA to USB cable

Required Software

Install FreeMCBoot

  • Connect your HDD to your computer, then write “__mbr.raw” (wLaunchELF KHN HDD image) to the HDD: sudo dd if=__mbr.raw of=/dev/sdX [Determine the path of your HDD using lsblk. It should be /dev/sdX, with X being the letter of your disk. ENSURE YOU USE THE PATH OF YOUR DISK! IT SHOULD NEVER BE /dev/sda]
  • Unmount and remove the HDD
  • Extract FreeMCBoot Installer then copy BOOT.ELF, OPNPS2LD.ELF and FMCBinst folder to your USB key
  • Plug HDD and USB key into your PS2, then turn on the PS2
  • Enter file browser, go to mass: and launch BOOT.ELF
  • Enter file browser, go to mass: > FreeMCBinst folder and open FMCBInstaller.elf (not the exfat one), then select Install FreeMCBoot following the on-screen instructions. Restart your console
  • Open wLaunchELF and go to file browser, go to mass: and hover over OPNPS2LD.ELF and press R1, select Copy. Go to mc0: or mc1: (depending on which slot your memory card is in), go to OPL and press R1, select Paste to overwrite OPNPS2LD.ELF
  • Restart your PS2, open OpenPS2Loader, go to About and make sure the version is not 1.0.0, then turn off your PS2 and remove the HDD

HDD Management

  • Connect your HDD to PC and format it in ExFAT (I suggest you a partition manager, or you can use mkfs.exfat /dev/sdX)
  • Make a folder called DVD and a folder called CD in the root of your HDD
  • Copy your videogames .iso to the DVD folder or your .cue/.bin to the CD folder

OPL Setup

  • Plug in your HDD to the PS2, turn on your PS2
  • Go to OpenPS2Loader > Settings and turn on cache game list (HDD), set BDM start mode to Auto
  • Go to BDM Devices, disable USB, enable HDD
  • Press OK, hit Save Changes