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SirSmasho
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3. April 2005 @ 04:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I love AR Max's PGEN. But, it got me thinking. Even though the swap disk and magic tool set don't require case modding, I've heard stories of how painfully unreliable the tool can be.
So, using a similar method that AR Max uses to boot ROMs, you could make a "rom" of your ps2 back up and If you could rip all the data from your original game to say....max media creater, which stores everything as an audio cd to prevent the ps2 from rejecting the disk....then write an elf file to read said disk much like the pgen does, shove it to a cheap pen drive, and use it as an alternative boot method to the swap disk method. So you can actually open and close the lid to swap without getting an invalid TOC error. I haven't programmed any homebrew ELFs, so I don't even know if it can be extrapolated from an existing disk like swap magic.

The good: AR has already written everything for you except...
the bad: the special ELF file required to analyze all the data that you ripped and do something with it.
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