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hardstyle

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12. October 2004 @ 14:57

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Heey, i've downloaded the sony hdd tools disk to install the necessery files to my harddisk and make the hdd show up in browser.

I have a pal ps2. Many of you know the harddisk will not be released in europe (really angry about it).
So there also will not be a pal version of the sony hdd tools disk.
When trying to install files with ntsc version hdd tools disk, the disk will freeze at ps2 logo. I am not the only one!!! Everyone with pal ps2 has this problem.

But I do wan't to use the machine id changer to change my id into ntsc id and after that try to boot the hdd tools disk.
This must be possible right???

But when I download the paradox machine id changer (tryed different sites) I get a bin cue. When i open it up it shows contents of Winxpvol Eng.
What is this????? this is really strange. I'm really confused

Please someone can advice how to do this.

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GlennT

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12. October 2004 @ 23:07

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i assume you're talking about a non sony hdd then?

in which case your efforts would be wasted anyways

since the official sony hdd tools will not recognise a non sony hdd

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Kaido

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13. October 2004 @ 00:22

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it is recognize if you have the patch and a American ps2

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Ps2 V9 w/Matrix Infinity and 160 Harddrive

oDDSHoT

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13. October 2004 @ 02:44

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I would like to know some in-depth information on patching non sony hdd. I play online with socom and I've been trying to figure out how to enable the HDD in SOCOM. I got a bunch of games on my 80gig with HDLOADer.

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hardstyle

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13. October 2004 @ 07:30

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Well i have a matrix infinity so the Atad patching wich is necessary is automaticly done by my chip.
So there's no problem with that. And yes I'm talking about a non sony hdd.

The problem for me and al other PAL users is: when booting the NTSC version of sony hdd tools it will freeze at the ps2 logo. So it must be reconizing the PAL ps2 and freeze. This is a protection on the NTSC hdd tools disk so PAL users can't use it.

So I wan't to use the machine ID changer to make my PAL ID an NTSC ID.
I'd like some support in this because I don't wan't to end up with a broken ps2!

My second problem: when I download the machine id changer and open up the bin/cue file inside I see content of WinXPvolENG. What's this???? I was expecting a couple of .elf files. Why this content is in the rar file??

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