PS2 Network Adapter and N64 Perfect Dark

I did not check mail until Saturday but, when I did I found my PS2 network adapter and Perfect Dark in the mail. I had other plans for the day so I set them aside and it was about 8 hours before I came back to play with them.

When I came back I started with getting Perfect Dark out and into my N64.

I soon realized I did not get the memory expansion pak with my N64 and I only had a jumper pak. So most of Perfect Dark is not playable and the graphics are very bad. I will get a expansion on order soon. I think the next step will be to overclock the CPU for better game performance. Instructions for overclocking a N64 are here http://www.gamesx.com/misctech/n64oc.htm

Here is the beginning of and N64 collection.

I moved on to the PS2 and my new network adapter :).

I had been using OPL and PS2ESDL to load ps2 games from USB HDDs. I used a Sandisk USB drive like the one below to test with as well as an OCZ Desiel 16GB drive I have. Both worked well with my PS2. Not all thumb drives will work

With the network adapter for the PS2, which also serves as the internal HDD connector, I can try using OPLs network capability. I have a file server setup on my network already so I thought it would be a good idea to try it. I used a little help to make sure I got it right. I followed the help here http://openps2loader.info/8/config_net.html and made sure I had the games install properly after reading here http://openps2loader.info/8/net_install.html

After some rebooting I had games playing over the network share. I have Tourist Trophy loading from my SMB share. I have the flip top open to show no disc inside.

I have not had time to actually play the games on the system but Tourist Trophy does a have a CGI intro movie and that can be used to tell how well/fast the data transfer is over the network. So far it is much better that OPL via USB or PS2ESDL via USB for playing the intro CGI to Tourist Trophy.