Is FHDB installation possible?
Been tinkering around with my 7500 for a few days, and would like to both keep the xOSD and use OPL to boot stuff the same way my PS2 with a HDD does, without a memory card.
I've googled around and can't see anything about it, and the FHDB installation option is greyed out in the installers I've tried - has anyone seen it done or managed to do it themselves?
Posted Sep 28, 2023, 7:08 AM UTC
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Don't do it (Plus I don't even think such is possible). Using OPL with the internal stock HDD will basically make your PSX a big 5.8kg paperweight. Those HDD's are more unreliable than the PT cruiser. Make a sector by sector backup in case things go sour and wait. Somebody is cooking a IDE emulator that supports the DVR and is expecting to drop the second batch somewhere around the end of this month. Fingers Crossed.
Don't worry, I've gone down the rabbit hole far enough now to know what the console can and can't do!
We should have a public more understandable knowledge about this piece of equipment. When this console get's cracked wide open, it will be crazy the ammount of PSX's being Exported out of Japan all of a sudden 🤣. Obviously sellers will try to putt the 500$-700$ for something they sold as junk for 100$ or even 10$ locally.
I've got a blog post that's sitting in drafts, currently at 4500 words going over what it's like owning one, what you can do with it, and detailing some of the limitations.
Still got a few bits to flesh out but hopefully it'll clear up a lot of the unanswered questions, and misinformation I see floating about.
Yo hit me up with "za" link.