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we're about to transform your

PlayStation 2 fat model into the

ultimate PS2 Pro this guide will help

you install the incredible PlayStation

Broadband Navigator software on a hard

drive or solid state drive then you'll

be able to play backups of your favorite

PS2 and PS1 games watch videos listen to

music look at pictures connect your PS2

to the internet and even turn your

PlayStation 2 into a linux-based

computer so fire up your PlayStation 2

fat model in your computer because we're

about to build the ultimate PS2 Pro I

have two overarching goals with this

guide the first one is to make this

process as simple as possible the other

is to cover every single step that's

necessary to get this process done all

the way up to 100% and not gloss over

anything it involves using both windows

and Linux and I'm going to show you

everything step by step that's needed to

build the ultimate PS2 Pro with PS BBN

in order to build the ultimate

PlayStation 2 Pro you're going to need

some accessories and parts to get this

done it starts with having an official

Sony PlayStation 2 Broadband network

adapter it has the Sony logo on the left

and on the right side there's a dialup

modem port and an ethernet port on the

back of the adapter this adapter

originally had an IDE hard drive

interface this specific unit has an IDE

to SATA interface adapter installed

internally you might want to pick up one

of these so that you can install it

inside the original Sony network adapter

in order to use modern SATA hard drives

or ssds you'll need either either a hard

drive or solid state drive to copy psbb

into in this case I'm using this PNY 1

tbte solid state drive since the hard

drive bay in the PS2 is for 3.5 in

drives and this is a 2.5 in Drive you'll

need an adapter like this one it lets

you mount a 2.5 in drive into this 3.5

in adapter and then it will fit properly

inside the PS2 it's got everything you

need in the kit to get this done you're

going to need a way to connect that hard

drive to your computer and a dock like

this one is the way to get it done you

can insert the drive either 2.5 or 3.5

in drives right into the top of it on

the back there's a power input and a

usbb port for connecting a b TOA cable

to your computer one of the great

benefits about a dock like this is it

also allows you to clone Drives By

inserting the target drive and the

original drive and just pressing one

single button you'll need a temporary

storage USB drive to keep your

PlayStation 2 and Playstation 1 backups

for Trans them to the final version of

pbbn in this case I'm using this crucial

1 tbyte SSD and finally you'll need some

kind of storage device either USB or SD

card based for copying over a version of

Linux which we'll need to use for part

of the process in this case I'm using

this SanDisk Extreme 256 GB micro SD and

an SD adapter connected by USB you'll

need a wired USB keyboard and a Wired

Mouse for two purposes the first one is

to be able to boot Linux and have it

recognize a keyboard and mouse and the

second one is you will be plugging these

into the Playstation 2 for some key

functions for part of the pbbn process

now that you know what Hardware you need

let's take care of the steps and windows

that need to be done first up there's a

key download that you'll need to grab

and I have it on my official website I

also have this link for you in the video

description scroll down on this page and

you'll see a big green download button

navigate to that button and click on it

to download the all-in-one zip file to

your computer now that the downloads

complete let's get this thing unpacked

and take a look at what's inside open up

a new instance of file explorer and then

navigate to your downloads folder you'll

find a new download here called PS2 AI

pbbn right click on it and select

extract all in the dialogue window that

appears come down to extract at the

bottom right corner and click on it once

the extract process is complete you no

longer need the zip file right click on

it and then click delete to send it to

the recycle in okay cool let's take a

look at what's inside the newly

uncompressed folder navigate to it and

double click you're going to find two

files in here the first one is an image

file for Linux Mint cinnamon edition the

second one is called bolina etcher this

is used to write image files to either a

USB drive or an SD card with a USB

adapter wherever you plan to create a

bootable Linux USB drive in this case a

Micro SD card go ahead and insert that

into your computer computer now once the

drive has been recognized by Windows

you'll see a file explorer window appear

you'll want to take this opportunity to

identify the drive letter assigned to

that drive by windows for this example

it's assigned letter L and the drive is

called Linux SD this just helps prevent

confusion moving forward to know which

Drive is inserted into the computer at

any given time during this guide once

you've identified the correct Drive

letter you can close out that instance

of file explore by clicking the Red X in

the right corner

okay now that you've identified the

drive where you want to load Linux it's

time to run bolina etcher double click

on it to load it for the first time this

file will install and launch Belina

etcher for the first time automatically

once you see the main interface for

etcher you'll need to tell it where the

image is that you want to flash over to

the SD card or USB drive click on this

blue button here and you'll see the file

explorer window appear where you can

choose the location and the exact file

that you want to Flash in this case it's

in the downloads folder and it's going

to be in that all-in-one folder so

double click into that inside there

you'll find the Linux Mint cinamon

Edition image click on the file that

select it then come down to open at the

bottom right corner and click on it to

lock in this selection in the next menu

Choice you'll need to tell bolina eter

where you want to write this file click

on this blue button and you'll be

presented with a list of detachable

drives on your system for this video I'm

using a sandis 256 GB micro SD card but

it actually says Sony here the reason

for that is it's identified the

manufacturer of the SD to USB adapter

rather than the micro SD card itself I

wanted to make note of this just in case

what you see on screen doesn't match the

manufacturer of the SD card or USB drive

that you've inserted into your own

system once you've identified where you

want to write the Linux image click on

it to put a check boox next to it then

click on the S button to lock in this

selection for the third and final step

come over to the blue flash button and

click on it you're going to see a popup

confirmation message appear here asking

you to verify that you want to write to

this specific drive it's also going to

tell you that anything that's on this

drive is going to be erased in this

process once you're sure come over to

yes I'm sure and click on it to start

the process then at the UAC prompt that

appears click on yes to continue while

this is finishing up it gives me a

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description back at Vina Eder once the

writing process is complete you'll see a

confirmation message on screen once the

writing process is complete and verified

you can click the X in the top right

corner of the bolina etra application to

close it out at this point you're done

with the all-in-one download you can

close out file explorer and go back to

the Windows desktop leave the USB drive

or micro SD card with the newly created

Linux Mint cinamon Edition plugged into

your computer before you transfer over

to Linux you'll need to copy over the

PS2 and PS1 backups that you want to

install on your PSB n drive onto a

second USB drive it makes sense to go

ahead and pre- name each of the folders

for each of the types of content that

you're going to copy over before you

transfer over to Linux in this case I

have three types of content here the

first one is a folder called CD for

cd-based PS2 games a folder called DVD

for PS2 games and DVD format and one

called pops for PS1 games let's take a

quick look in each of these folders to

see the types of contents that are here

for the CD based games that need to be

in either bin Orbin andq format to work

correctly in the DVD folder these need

to be an either ISO or zso format for

PS2 games and DVD style format and for

pops games these need to be in what's

called vcd or video CD format it's not

going to read them if you have them in

binq format you need to have these

specifically in vcd format or video CD

format to work correctly with pops this

stuff is all currently stored on a

folder called demo on my PC you won't

have a demo folder is just something I

use on YouTube in order to facilitate

the process I'm going to grab this file

explorer window and then drag and drop

it over to the left side of the screen

and snap it into place here go ahead and

insert the USB drive that you want to

copy this content over to into your

computer sometimes drives get picked up

automatically by file explorer and

sometimes they don't so if you run into

that situation open a second file

explorer window and open this PC now

you'll see the USB drive that's attached

for this example I've named it drive

letter P and PS games to make it easy to

find in the next steps double click on

that drive and I'm just going to take

this window and snap it on the right

side of the screen because I like to

copy things from left to right all right

go ahead and drag everything the CD

folder DVD folder and the pops folder

all over to the root of the SD card or

USB drive that you're going to use for

storage during the process of setting

all this up I found an extra step here

that really makes things easier once you

get into Linux create a new folder right

on the root of your SD card or USB drive

wherever you're saving your game content

name that folder games once you have the

folder labeled correctly drag all of the

folders that you just created into the

games folder this is going to make it a

whole lot easier to set things up inside

Linux once you get in inside the

terminal process and have to run some

scripts to get things done okay you're

done shuffling files around in Windows

you can close out any open instances of

file explorer at this point not only are

you done with file explorer you're done

with Windows go ahead and shut down

Windows what we're going to do is we're

going to boot your computer into Linux

here in just a moment once Windows has

completely shut down next up let's get

your computer booted into the Linux mitt

cinamon Edition operating system you'll

need to restart your computer at access

its boot menu the key you press it

startup is different from computer

manufacturer to manufacturer but in this

case for this minus form computer it's

the F7 key Once you turn on your

computer start pounding that F7 key like

it stole your lunch money give your

system a moment and you should launch

into the boot menu this lets you choose

which drive connected to your machine

you want to use to boot in this case we

want to use the Linux Mint cinnamon

Edition Drive which is actually listed

once again here as the Sony drive

because it recognized the attached SD

card reader rather than the SD card

itself but it's there make sure your

boot Drive is highlighted and press the

enter key on your keyboard to select it

this will take you to the Linux boot

menu the first option the one that's

already highlighted is the one that you

want just press the enter key on your

keyboard to select it this will boot

your computer for the first time into

the Linux Mint cinamon Edition you'll

see the Linux logo here on the splash

screen while things are getting loaded

up for the first time give things a

moment to get settled in and and you'll

be taken directly to the Linux Mint

cinnamon Edition desktop and man oh man

are things going to be really small on

your display don't worry I've got a

solution for this right now to fix it

let's access the display settings so

that we can scale things up to something

that can be easily seen rightclick on

the desktop and it'll pull out a popup

menu and yep it's going to be super

small too let's zoom in and take a

closer look just like in Windows you can

access your display settings from this

pop out menu just bring the Highlight

down to about the middle of the menu and

you'll see a listing here called display

settings click on it with the left Mouse

button and you'll see this popup menu

yeah it's kind of smish too let's zoom

in from the display settings menu you

can change the percent of scale or how

large you want things to look on screen

by adjusting the percentage numbers by

default it's pretty much set to the

lowest possible setting which is why

things look so small in order to make

things the easiest to read especially if

you're watching this on a mobile device

like a mobile phone I'm going to scale

this all the way up so that's going to

be the 400% mark all the way on the

right side of the screen just pick the

percent of scale that works best for you

for the display for ease of use the

change won't stick until you hit the

apply button at the bottom right corner

of the screen so don't forget to hit

apply before you exit the display

settings menu once you hit apply you'll

be asked to confirm if you want to keep

the display settings that have been

altered to apply the settings click on

the keep changes button once you you

have the display settings dialed into

your liking you can click the X in the

top right corner of the display settings

window to go back to the Linux Mint

desktop now that's more like it I'm

going to switch over to dark mode here

one because it's easier on my eyes and

two it actually is easier on folks that

watch these videos on OLED screens

because of the built-in automatic

brightness leveling click the menu

button in the bottom left corner you're

going to have access to a series of menu

choices just like you would if you click

the Windows start button bring the

pointer over the listing that says all

applications from here you can scroll

down through all of the applications on

the right side until you get to the

listing that says themes navigate to it

using the mouse and left click on it

from here you can choose any kind of

theme that's built into Linux that works

for you of course I'm looking for dark

mode here and that's the one that I'm

going to use by default the Linux Mint

cinamon Edition is set to light mode the

it to dark mode just hover over dark

mode and left click on it it will

instantly transform all of this overly

bright stuff into something that's much

easier on the eyes once you found the

theme that works for you you can close

out the themes option by clicking on the

X in the right corner a quick note here

before proceeding you'll need to have

either wired or wireless internet access

in Linux for the next step in this case

I have an ethernet cable plugged right

into the back of the desktop because I

have an ethernet cable plugged into the

back of this desktop computer I didn't

have to configure anything for it to go

online in Linux we're going to grab some

software from the GitHub but before you

can do that you'll need to install two

sets of Updates this is done through the

Linux terminal it looks just like the

old DOS prompt that you saw in Windows

or in Doss but it's just different sets

of commands right click on the Linux

desktop again you'll see a listing here

that says open in terminal hover over it

with the pointer and left click this is

going to open up the Linux terminal

window I'll go ahead and maximize it by

clicking in the right corner to give us

some additional screen real estate don't

worry if you're not familiar with using

Linux terminal commands I'm going to

walk you through it step by step it's

super easy the first part of this

process is you need to update Linux

itself just type in the following

command pseudo space a space update and

hit the enter key on your keyboard

you'll see a list of files being

downloaded and installed to your Linux

Mint cinamon Edition installation disc

just give your system a minute to get

things downloaded installed and ready to

go for the next step okay since the

cursor is all the way down at the bottom

of the screen here I'm actually just

going to press the enter key on the

keyboard a handful of times just to kind

of push the text out of the way to make

it a little easier to see for the next

step next at the command prompt type

pseudo space apt space install space get

then press the enter key on your

keyboard you'll see a text confirmation

prompt asking you if you want to

continue you do so press y on the

keyboard and then press the enter key to

continue this installs an application to

your boot dis that allows Linux Mt

cinamon Edition to clone a repository of

files from the GitHub onto your boot dis

the process only takes a moment and once

it's done you'll be back at the command

prompt inside the Linux terminal before

you enter the next command into the

terminal you'll need to grab a web

address link off of the GitHub in order

to paste it in there's a copy of Firefox

pre-installed with the Linux Mint

cinnamon Edition and you can access it

right here at the bottom left corner of

the screen just hover over the icon for

Firefox and left click on it to launch

it for the first time you'll need to go

to a specific web address I'm going to

link it in the video description but

unless you're already in Linux you'll

need to pay attention on screen so that

you can grab that link and enter it in

to Firefox in Linux so it's going to be

on the GitHub so it's github.com

com/ Cosmic scale then press the enter

key on your keyboard to access this

GitHub repository Cosmic scale is the

extraordinary developer that set up this

entire process to be done through Linux

consider leaving a donation like I've

done in order to support the project

look for the web link that says pbbn

definitive English patch navigate to it

with the pointer and left click on it to

access this page somewhere around the

top center of the page you're going to

see a green button that says code and

has a drop- down arrow next to it

remember how I said you have to copy in

a web address in terminal for the third

step inside terminal this is where you

get it hover over that drop- down arrow

next to code and left click on it this

is going to pop out an action menu from

here you'll see the web address that

represents this entire file repository

on the GitHub however over copy URL to

clipboard and left click on it now you

don't have to manually type that entire

address press in in the terminal in The

Next Step cool now go back to the

terminal window where you paused right

here at the terminal command prompt I'll

hit enter a few times to clear up the

screen to make this easier to see type

in the following get Space clone space

and then rightclick and select paste

this will paste in that entire web

address so that you don't have to

manually type it in don't mind that the

text colors are inverted that's an

expected Behavior just press the enter

key on your keyboard this is going to

clone that GitHub repository right onto

your boot disc for Linux Mint cinnamon

Edition just like before when you're

done you'll be back at the command prom

except for that this time you're done

typing in commands to terminal all you

have to do to close out the terminal

window is just go up to the right corner

and click on the X to go back to the

Linux Mint cinnamon Edition desktop

you've cloned the GitHub repository

let's get it opened up and run three

scripts that are necessary to set things

up in this case the repositories cloned

right on the desktop double click on the

pbbn repository and you'll see a series

of folders and files here by the way if

you don't see the repository folder on

your desktop just click on that file

explorer window at the bottom left

corner of the screen and you should see

it in your home folder locate three

different scripts inside this folder

you'll need to run these in sequential

order for things to work correctly

they're actually numbered 01 02 and

03 locate the one that starts with 01

and has the name setup and the file name

it also has a sh extension double click

on this to open it up once you double

click on it you'll be asked what action

you want to take don't click on run on

the right corner of this pop out instead

navigate over to the far left of this

pop out and click on run in terminal

this will reopen the terminal window and

run the script I'm going to blow up the

terminal window to make it full screen

here you'll be notified that it's going

to install some necessary files and

folders in your Linux Mint cinnamon

Edition boot dis to make things work

properly for the next steps coming up it

says press any key to continue but what

I found is you'll need to press the

enter or return key on your keyboard to

proceed forward through the process some

additional files and folders necessary

to install pbbn on your hard driver

solid state drive will be installed to

the boot dis depending upon the speed of

your computer and the speed of your

storage media it can take several

minutes for this process to complete

don't press any keys on the keyboard or

click anything on the mouse no matter

what you see at the bottom of the screen

until you see this message setup

completed successfully press any key to

exit press the enter key or return key

on your keyboard to exit the terminal

before you start the second script go

ahead and insert your hard drive or

solid state drive into the dock you'll

feel its seat inside the SAT a connector

inside the dock and go down with a

satisfying press then connect the USB

cable to your computer and Power on the

dock this drive is formatted in X fat

format and it's completely empty this is

the drive that I'm going to use to

create pbbn to run in the PlayStation 2

itself you can close out this file

explorer window as we'll need to

identify the drive somewhat uniquely in

the second and third steps ahead okay

inside that GitHub cloned repository

locate number two script it's the one

that says 02 and it has pbbn in the

title it also has sh as the exension

double click on it and once again don't

click Run come over to run and terminal

and click run and terminal instead I'll

come up to the top of this window and

then click to maximize it to take up the

full screen real estate all right this

is a super important step and you need

to make sure that you follow this very

carefully so you do write pbbn to the

correct drive and don't overwrite the

wrong one along the left side of the

screen are all of the storage devices

connected to your computer and ltic for

this example remember remember that I

connected a PNY 1 tbte SSD and it's

clearly labeled right here I even named

this drive PS2 SSD to make it even

easier to identify inside terminal

you'll need to identify the drive name

that's been assigned to your drive by

Windows it will always start with for

slev SLS something for this example it's

assigned /dev SL sdb now that you know

exactly which Drive is designated in

Linux as the drive that you want to

write psbb into type in that exact

designation at the prompt so it's going

to be

/d/ sdb in this case then hit the enter

or return key on your keyboard This is

why it's super important to identify the

correct drive because it's about to

erase and overwrite all of the content

on that drive double check to be

completely certain that you have the

correct Drive designation identified

once you know for sure you can type yes

here at the prompt and press the enter

or return key on your keyboard board to

continue because I'm using an SSD here

and a quality USB dock this process only

took about 8 minutes what's taking place

in this process is it's not only copying

over PS BBN to the solid state drive

it's allocating the first 120 GB of the

drive to opl the open PS2 loader that's

what's going to empower you to load

backups of your PS2 games once this part

of the process is complete you'll see a

message at the bottom of the screen to

press any key to continue press enter or

return on your keyboard to continue at

at the beginning of the video I

mentioned that you could play backups of

your music files using pbbn you'll need

to allocate part of the hard drive space

to do this you can allocate anywhere

between 10 and 40 GB since this is a 1

tbyte Drive I've got plenty of room type

in the number between 10 and 40 for the

amount of gigabytes you want to allocate

to your music and then press the enter

or return key on your keyboard you'll be

asked to confirm the setting because

once you've allocated the space it's not

something you can go back and do without

reformatting and installing PBS BBN

again once you've confirmed the amount

of gigabytes that you want to allocate

in this partition for music type y for

yes and press the enter or return key to

continue next you'll be asked to decide

how much space you want to allocate to

PS1 games or What's called the pops

folder games it's a minimum of 10 GB and

a maximum of 53 I've got lots of room on

this 1 tby drive so 53 GB it is type in

the number of gigabytes that you want to

allocate to your PS1 games and press

enter on your keyboard

once again to confirm the number of

gigabytes allocated to the PS1 storage

type Y and then press enter on your

keyboard the script is going to set up

the first 120 GB for PS BBN and then the

rest of the storage is going to be in X

fat format once everything's done you'll

see a confirmation message at the bottom

of the screen press enter on the

keyboard to exit this will take you back

to the folder with the three scripts in

it before you run the third script go

ahead and connect the USB drive that has

the backups of your PS2 and PS1 One

games just like before when you

connected the dock you'll see a file

explorer window appear with the content

on your drive remember how we put those

folders in a subfolder called games well

here it is and this step is exactly why

we created a game subfolder rather than

just leaving those games folders right

on the root of the drive right click on

the folder then come down to copy and

select it with the left Mouse button

we're actually going to copy this as a

path to the location where your games

are stored on your external storage for

script number three go back to the

cloned GitHub folder and double click on

script number three but pay attention

because this is important don't click

run and terminal yet instead click on

the menu choice that says display super

low contrast text notwithstanding if you

take a look at the bottom of this window

you'll see a path listing for game right

now the default for that path is the

games folder inside that GitHub

repository that you cloned however you

don't need to copy the games over to

Linux and then install them over to the

solid Stat or hard drive your PS2 here's

what you do instead to tell it that the

games are actually installed on your

external storage highlight the path

between the two quotation marks you need

to preserve the quotation marks here or

things are not going to work correctly

then right click and select paste this

will paste the path to your games folder

on your external storage rather than

using the pre-existing one in Linux now

when you run script 3 it'll know where

to find your game content to lock in

this change go up to file at the top of

the window and left click then come come

down to save and left click on it and

you'll have this change saved in the

script now you can close out this editor

window by clicking the X in the top

right corner now that you have this

change saved you can run the script as

you normally would the other two scripts

double click on script number three and

then click on run in terminal on the

left side just like you did with the

other two scripts this will open a

terminal window again so you can copy

over your game content you'll see an

explanation of what's happening in the

next step here on screen just press

enter or return on your keyboard to go

to the next step just like you did with

the second script you'll need to

identify the drive that represents the

pbbn drive it's going to be the exact

same thing that it was previously so

just like before for this drive it's

slev SL sdb but don't rely on what you

see on screen use the indicator for your

own drive here in this prompt then press

enter on your keyboard and it will copy

your game content over to your ps BBN

Drive but something truly awesome also

happens at the same time it's also going

to go online look for and download any

art assets for your games that it can

find but it's also doing something else

that's even more super cool if it

doesn't find Art assets for the games

that you have in your library it's going

to make note of it and add those art

assets to the downloader in the future

the amount of time all of this takes

depends on two factors the first one is

how many games are you copying over to

the PS BBN drive and the other one is

how fast is the drive that you have in

the dock in this case it only took a

handful of minutes to knock out the

whole thing but if you have a really

large game Library you might want to go

anywhere between grabbing yourself your

favorite cup of gel or an entire meal

either way the end result of all of this

is well worth the wait all right we're

in the home stretch of using Linux once

this process is complete you'll see a

message at the bottom of the screen to

press any key to exit press enter or the

return key on your keyboard to close out

the terminal it's worth noting that to

add or remove games in the future you

can just add or remove them from the

games folders in the PS2 or PS1

subfolders on your external storage then

all you have to do is boot up Linux

again connect the external storage and

run script number three it will take

care of everything for you at this point

you're done with this GitHub repository

you can come up to the top right corner

of this file explorer window and close

out it and any other open File Explorer

windows from your desktop and Linux

let's go ahead and shut down Linux come

to the menu button in the bottom left

corner and click on it there is a red

power button icon in the bottom left

corner of the popped out window left

click on it then in the list of choices

on screen come over to the red shutdown

button and left click on it to shut down

Linux and your computer remove the Linux

boot drive from your computer so you can

boot back into Windows normally the next

time you power on your computer but hang

on to that Linux drive for future use

you can also remove the backup drive

with your PS2 and PS1 games on it from

your computer consider keeping it stored

right next to your Linux boot Drive

great let's go ahead and set up the

solid state drive or hard drive you're

using for use with your PlayStation 2

system first remove the SSD or hard

drive from the dock if you're using a

2.5 in drive like in this case this SSD

and I highly recommend that you do

you'll need to install it into a 2.5 in

to 3.5 in drive adapter like this one it

has a SATA pass through connector inside

of it so that you can connect the SSD

inside and then connect the outside of

the adapter to the SATA port to install

the drive into this adapter Bay all

you've got to do is just line it up with

the pins facing inward then just put it

into the adapter and push it down once

again you'll get that satisfying press

when you push it down and it locks into

place properly then it's just a matter

of using the provided screws to screw

the drive down into the adapter to hold

everything into place securely piece of

gake right by the way just in case you

are wondering if it'll all fit in the

dock once you put it in the adapter yes

it will

I find that the easiest way to connect

the drive to the PlayStation Broadband

adapter is to put the Broadband adapter

face down this will face its connecting

Port upward and you can just line up the

solid state drive or hard drive with the

adapter's connection port and then just

press it down into place gently until

it's seated and aligned correctly insert

the PlayStation Broadband adapter and

the connected drive into the hard drive

bay on the back of the PlayStation 2

you'll feel it seat into place properly

when it's is completely flush on both

sides against the back of the console

secure this whole thing to the back of

the PlayStation 2 with a flathead

screwdriver this will make sure it

doesn't slip out during gameplay and

doesn't fall out accidentally to connect

internet to the PlayStation 2 insert an

ethernet cable into the rightmost port

on the back of the adapter the left Port

was for the older dialup connections hey

remember at the beginning of this video

I mentioned you need to have a hardwired

keyboard and mouse in order to run Linux

well you can also use these to your

advantage on your PlayStation 2 go ahead

and insert the USB cables from the USB

keyboard and the USB mouse into the open

USB ports on the front left of your

PlayStation 2 we'll put these to work

here in just a moment all right you've

put in the work now it's time to enjoy

the rewards let's launch psbn press the

power button on your PlayStation 2 and

you are about to be greeted with a

completely new experience and not just

that it's not in Japanese anymore it's

all been translated over to English I

mean how cool is this a quick note here

because this was originally from the

Japanese region Circle and X are swapped

if you're like me and you've never

replaced the CR2032 battery in your

PlayStation 2 you'll need to set the

date and time press Circle to do this

you'll be asked what time zone you're in

in the world in this case I'm in the

eastern United States it's already

selected here by default so I'll just

press the circle button to lock in the

setting you'll be asked whether or not

you're currently in Daylight Savings

time since it's not at the time of this

video I'll select standard winter time

with the circle button now you can enter

the correct date and time bear in mind

that time entry is in military time or

24-hour time rather than 12-hour time

the default year for this is the year

2000 I mean can the PlayStation 2 really

be 25 years old it sure is and it's

absolutely incredible that projects like

this are still being put together for

the PS2 a quarter of a century into its

lifetime in that sense it's kind of like

me old not obsolete once you have the

date and time settings confirmed press

the circle button you'll be notified

that these settings can be changed at a

later time if you like sounds good to me

press the circle button to continue it

knows that the Broadband adapter was

used with a different system and that

new internet connection settings need to

be made select start with circle you'll

be asked whether you want to use PPP OE

for the default settings for this you

can just select do not use with the

circle button you'll be asked if you

want to set up your IP address

automatically and absolutely yes come up

to Auto using the d-pad and then select

auto with circle you'll be asked about

your DNS come up to Auto and select it

with the circle button at this point

your connection to the internet through

your PlayStation 2 is ready to go press

right on the d-pad and you'll be asked

whether or not you want to change your

router settings yeah not really make

sure you select do not change with the

circle button the next screen will tell

you you're saving your internet

connection settings and connecting to

the internet select okay with the circle

button your settings will be saved and

your PS2 will attempt to connect to the

internet hey let me know down in the

comments if this is the first time

you've ever tried connecting a PS2 to

the internet or even seen a PS2 connect

to the internet once the test is

complete you'll see a confirmation

message on screen that the test was

successful press the x button on the

controller to go back and give your

system a moment and you'll be officially

launched into the PS BBN main menu it's

a gorgeous interface and it completely

transforms the look and feel of how you

use your PlayStation 2 let's go check

out the games select Channels with the

circle button you'll have access to four

different channels here including a

games Channel select games with the

circle button you're going to see a

number of different choices here most of

which are related to connecting to the

archives from the original PlayStation

Network what you're looking for is the

collection setting scroll down to

collection and selected with Circle the

amount of time it takes to lar your

collection is largely dependent upon the

number of games that you have in it

you're going to see two settings here

collection and disc disc is if you have

a physical disc loaded but since you

want your backups select collection with

circle and this is where the backups of

your PS2 and PS1 games live not only can

you launch your games from here but all

of the artwork was previously downloaded

in the Linux steps and it's all

available right here in coverflow form

your games will be in alphabetical order

in the coverflow listings I mean just

take a look at this it's AB absolutely

breathtaking compared to the original

way that PlayStation games were loaded

and it's even nicer looking than the opl

interface itself for launching games

just to make sure everything's working

as you expect go ahead and test to make

sure that you can actually load a game

inside

pbbn how about God of War select the

game in the coverflow listings with the

circle button to launch it yeah that

makes sense to me I'd think turning off

the PS2 while trying to load the game

would be counterproductive what's really

awesome is the games load pretty fast

here's God of War running and ready to

roll to get back to the PS BBN interface

you can power off the system or

temporarily just press the power button

on the front to reset the system hey

remember how I mentioned earlier there

was online content archived in the games

channel from inside the games Channel

instead of going to collection you can

go to one of the menu choices underneath

it and see the preserved archives from

the original online content these aren't

sections for downloading games they're

actually for downloading media and other

kinds of content that you can play

inside pbbn for example there are a

number of playable videos archived here

and it's worth taking a look I'm going

to go up to the listing for Konami here

and then with it highlighted I'll select

Konami with the circle button prepare

for a white screen for just a moment you

see these archives are actually being

loaded online in real time just like

they would have been back in the day and

since the ethernet port on the back of

the PlayStation Broadband adapter maxes

out at 100 m megabits a second that's

going to be the bottleneck here but

that's the Konami page loading in real

time by the way it's going to go offline

on August 31st 2007 just say it okay

with this page loaded up I'm going to

press the circle button here so we can

take a look at what kind of content is

available once again this archive is

loading in real time online and during

that process the screens May black out

or stop on completely white screens from

time to time these are expected

behaviors and they're just part of

getting this content from The Archives

it only takes a moment and you'll be

taken to the archive for the Konami

video files from here you'll see a

number of different videos that you can

download directly to your Playstation 2

hard drive or solid state drive and

watch inside pbbm let's put this to the

test I'm going to slide over a couple of

times to the right to select a video

once you find the video that you want to

download and watch select it with the

circle button you'll see some

information about the video file you're

about to download and its size in this

case 46 megabytes to download the file

come over to yes with the d-pad and

select yes with the circle button it

took about 5 minutes in real time to

download the video I'm not going to make

you watch this whole download process in

real time I think your time would be

better spent watching paint dry or maybe

grass grow once the download is done

you'll be asked if you want to watch the

video right now you can but in this case

I'm going to select no because I want to

show you how to access your downloaded

content from the channels inside pbbn so

I'm going to slide over to no here and

select it with the cirle button this is

going to take us back to the main menu

inside the Konami channel for accessing

video content okay from here now that

we've got a video downloaded let's head

over to the video channel so we can try

it out to back out of the Konami Channel

or any of the other archive channels

press the x button on the controller

yeah get ready for the jarring white

screen again it's going to reload the

main title page for the Konami Channel

just like it did when you first accessed

it once again to go back press the x

button on the controller this will take

you all the way back to the games

channel to access the channel for

playing videos press X to go back from

here you'll have that list of the four

channels you can access press to the

left with the d-pad and you'll have

access to the movie channel select it

with the circle button to open this

channel you'll have two options on the

left favorites and collection to see the

video that you downloaded come down to

collection with the d-pad and select it

with the circle button you'll be

presented with two choices on the left

side of the screen collection and disc

since this isn't a DVD it's a downloaded

piece of content select collection with

the circle button movie files aren't

stored in one big Clump they're actually

sorted out into albums select the album

with the circle button it's inside these

albums that you'll find the video

content that you've downloaded for

example here's the soccer video that I

downloaded from The Archives of the

PlayStation online content to launch

your video just make sure you have a

highlighted and press the circle button

and just like that your PS2 is now

playing downloaded video content I mean

how amazing is this that this is even a

thing in 2025 along with downloading

videos to the archives you can also rip

your CDs onto the hard drive or solid

state drive and play them as backed up

music files start by inserting your CD

of choice in this case this is Chicago

Greatest Hits live from 2018 it's an

incredible concert and I definitely

recommend checking it out

so right now everything is still based

on playing directly off of the dis

there's no artist no title and no track

names I'm going to rip this disc to the

solid state drive so that we can add all

of that information using the USB

keyboard you plugged in earlier all

right you can slide over to the

transport controls using the d-pad they

have the typical controls for rewinding

playing pausing fast forwarding and so

forth but if you follow it all the way

over to the right there's a small red

dot there that's the record button

that's the thing that rips CDs to the

solid state drive or hard drive to rip a

disc select the record button with the

circle button on the controller you'll

see a confirmation screen appear make

sure the Highlight is on yes and press

the circle button to rip the disc to

your internal PS2 storage if you haven't

ripped a CD on a 25-year-old optical

drive before well it's kind of a slow

process in this case this CD took about

10 minutes to rip to the internal solid

state drive on this PS2 fat model once

it's done you'll get a confirmation

message on screen select back with the x

button on the controller to go back

here's the thing the CD has been ripped

to the solid state drive in what's

called atrack format so it doesn't have

the capability of playing MP3s just in

case you were planning to try to copy

MP3s directly to the drive what you see

on screen is still the disc version and

not the ripped version of the music

start by ejecting the disc by pressing

the eject button on the face of the PS2

system getting to the ripped music

library is just like trying to get to

the video or photo libraries it's

actually going to be on its own channel

because I inserted a disc and ripped

into the solid state drive we already in

the music channel so just press X from

here you can go from dis up to

collection just like you would if you

had gone in directly through the

channels list go to collection and press

Circle just like when you import images

importing music puts things into albums

and in this case it's called album one

it's supposed to be called Greatest Hits

live to upate this start by pressing

triangle for options then come down to

the listing for information and hit

circle on the controller again see how

the Highlight is already on album name

press the circle button on the

controller and you can change the album

name from

here this is one of the main reasons to

have a keyboard plugged into your

PlayStation 2 oh there's a virtual

keyboard that you can use on screen by

pressing the select button and cycling

from Japanese to English however being

able to type right on a real keyboard

that you had to use any way for setting

up Linux makes this so much easier once

you've typed in your album name press

the enter key on your keyboard twice the

first time will go from entry and then

the second time will save the album name

to the album in PS BBN you can also

change the artist name from here by

scrolling down with the d-pad to artist

and selecting it with circle and then

just like before you can use the

physical keyboard or the virtual

keyboard to change this information in

this case I'm just going to backspace

right over it and use that physical

keyboard plugged right in over USB

awesome press enter twice and you'll be

back at the information screen press X

to go back and you'll see that the data

that you entered has been updated on the

album listing in pbbn to edit the names

of the tracks for the album go up to

collection and press the circle button

you'll see the listing of all of the

tracks here just like you did with the

physical disc to update the track name

press triangle for options then come

down to the listing for information just

like you did with the album title and

artist and select it with circle once it

loads up you'll notice that it has

already updated the album and artist

information for the track automatically

based on the entries that I made earlier

now it's just a matter of selecting the

track name with circle backspacing over

the track name and typing in the correct

track name just like with the artist and

album name press enter on the keyboard

twice once to lock it in and wants to

apply the change to the track perfect

now the track Name the artist name and

the album name name are all associated

with track number one on this dis press

the x button to go back to the options

menu and then press it again to go back

to the album now you'll see that all of

the changes that we made to the album

The Artist and the track are displayed

at the player level when you go to play

the music in your collection importing

images into pbbn requires a few extra

steps they'll need to be manually

imported using external storage I'm

going to go ahead and plug in a USB

drive in fat 32 format into this Windows

computer so that we can get access to

the root of the drive you'll need to

create a folder right on the root of the

drive select new and folder and then

name this folder picture no s on the end

just the word picture once you've

created that folder on the drive

navigate to it and double click into it

I'm going to take this file explorer

window and drag it over to the right

side of the screen and snap it into

place I actually have a JPEG image

pre-staged here on the drive it's called

your humble narrator you can copy your

jpeg images over to the pictures folder

on your removable storage Drive remove

the USB drive from your PC and insert it

into an open USB port on your

PlayStation 2 back at the main menu of

pbbn go back into the channel section by

selecting it with circle there's going

to be a channel here if you press over

to the right twice for photo select

photo with the circle button to open the

channel you'll have two listings here

one that's called favorites and one

that's called collection use the d-pad

to move the Highlight from favorites to

collection and select collection with

the circle button because there's no

photo content previously uploaded to the

system it's going to say that there's no

content here to get it imported from

your USB connected Drive come down to

the listing for digital camera and

select it with circle yeah I know it

says digital camera and you've put in a

USB drive but it's going to be able to

pull the data from it just the same the

PS2 uses USB 1.1 speed so it can take a

little time for things to load once it's

located your picture fold and your

picture content you'll see previews of

it on screen hey there's your humble

narrator in his gaming space repping his

favorite band to import an image start

by selecting it with the circle button

remember earlier how we copied over the

contents of the Chicago CD to the drive

using the red record button this is

going to use the exact same process

select the red button next to transfer

with circle and at the confirmation

screen select yes with circle to

transfer your images to the internal

storage on your PS2 this is in real time

and if you're looking at this going gez

this is really slow it's that USB 1.1

technology at work just be aware if you

have a lot of images it going to take a

little while to copy them all over to

the internal storage once your images

have been successfully copied over

you'll see a notice on screen press X on

the controller to go back at this point

with your content copied over you can

remove the USB drive from your PS2 and

optionally plug the mouse back in we'll

need to transition from digital camera

to collection press X to go back one

level this time instead of going into

digital camera go up on the d-pad to

move the Highlight up to collection and

select collection with the circle button

just like when you import music it

creates an album and it gives it an

arbitrary album name let's change it to

something that's better recognizable

select the album with the circle button

to go into it press the triangle button

and it will open up the options menu

just like with CDs you can go down to

information with the d-pad and with the

Highlight on information select it with

the circle button this is going to give

you access to edit the album name if you

don't have a keyboard plugged in you can

access the virtual keyboard on screen

and change it from Japanese to English

by pressing select but just like with

music changing these names with a real

keyboard is going to be much easier

select the album name with the circle

button and then you can go in and

backspace over the album name and type

in something that makes better sense to

you what to name this album I think I'll

name this album subscribe I mean if

you've made it this far in the video and

haven't subscribed yet the time has

arrived to smash the Subscribe button

and ring the bell well whatever you name

your album press the enter key on your

keyboard twice once to lock in the

chains and once to go back and now

you'll see that your album name has been

updated press the x button to go back

and you'll see that the album name has

also been applied at the viewer level

nice from the main menu of pbbn you can

access what's called a navigator menu if

you press the select button on the

controller it pops out a side menu this

is called the Navigator menu it probably

looks familiar to you if you've been

around the PS2 modding scene for a while

because most of the stuff that's there

there is similar to the content you'd

find on a freeo boot card there's one

super interesting addition to this

though you can actually send and receive

and check your email from inside your

PS2 using the mail option shown here and

here comes the craziest part of all you

can actually run Linux on your

PlayStation 2 power off your PlayStation

2 before you turn it back on press and

hold any button on the controller in

this case I'm just going to press and

hold the x button but press and hold a

button on the controller then turn your

Ps to back on when your system is

booting up it's not going to look like

anything different is happening just

continue to hold the button on the

controller through the splash screens

and the initial loading screen for PS

BBN continue to hold the button and

you'll see that Linux will start loading

on your PlayStation 2 you'll see a

series of texts crawling across the

screen don't worry about it that's part

of the Linux loading process what you're

looking for is the signin prompt for a

user ID and password so that you can get

logged on to this version of Linux on

your PS2 okay there it is for all of the

copies of pbbn and Linux the user ID is

root lowercase r o t and the password is

password all lowercase type in the login

ID hit enter type in the password hit

enter you'll see this confirmation

message on screen once you have it

entered in properly so you're actually

in Linux but you're not at the Linux

desktop yet there's one more step to do

at this prompt type in The Following

start X

sttx all lower case and then hit enter

on your keyboard give the hamster a

minute to get running in the wheel and

sure enough you're going to be at the

Linux desktop on your PlayStation 2 this

is the other reason that I suggested not

only connecting a keyboard but

connecting a mouse you now have access

to a real working computer running Linux

and you can control the cursor on screen

using the mouse this my friend is PS2

Pro level stuff it's amazing that you

can do all of this with your PlayStation

2 but if if using Linux to set all this

up isn't your jam there's another way to

go about it and still get a lot of value

learn how to set up a solid state drive

on your PS2 fat model using nothing more

than x fat and windows this video will

show you how to get it done