This console and gta 3 changed my life.

I have much exploring to do :) For now my list includes:

• Tekken 5
• Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (mostly due to nostalgia factor, gameplay is rough from today's perspective)

That HF campaign was fun and bad tempered fun too.

• FFX, SMT Nocturne RPG wise.
• Ico and Shadows of the Colossus.
• Rez is a banger in its own genre.
• Time Splitters Future Perfect best FPS (I don't have much patience for these normally).
• Gran Turismo.
• Soul Caliber 3 (it also had a fun build your own character mode).
• Samurai Warriors.
• Ace Combat (I had Belkan War).
• Zone of the Enders.
• Ratchet and Clank series.

Shadow of the Colossus

MGS2 and 3

So many t choose from, but maybe Ratchet 2.

SSX3. Amazing game 😭

all the DDR games
Jak, Ratchet, Sly

the Half Life port cuz it's got the bitchin 2 player co-op campaign

• Jak & Dexter (the whole series)
• TimeSplitters: Future perfect, great in co-op
• Ratchet & Clank
• Champions of Norrath, great in co-op

Katamari Damacy

Right now it's Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. I haven't played it in a while, but it's a charming enough 3D collect-a-thon.

Though, for all time favorite, nothing beats two of the only first person shooters I play anymore: Star Wars Battlefront 1&2. Basic answer, but it's two games I still occasionally play to this day, unlike most every other PS2 game I had growing up.

Just be careful to start each game at the same time

ok maybe not

The synchronization on this must've been painful to implement. It seems to basically be three consoles running three separate simulations in tandem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation_2

Depending on the Slim model you have there is still potential to mod it according to console mods wiki. But this looks like quite an involved process to attempt. Even with this modded HDD I don't know if it would be possible to try PSNBB.

It's been so long, I might be conflating two different things. 🤔

I think you're right, but it was black and not the normal gray. There was definitely a Linux PS2, too, tho.

I thought Net Yaroze was just a PS1 thing

I wanted a Net Yaroze model specifically because it ran Linux and was basically just a PS2 converted into a PC. I had the hard drive for the fat PS2, but I don't think it ever had the same kind of hacks to support full on Linux. And now I only have the slim one. Still works; but no hard drive.

Yeah, I looked this up after the last post. Very cool stuff.

I guess the "OS", the dashboard UI, and all the channels and so on are separate apps that could be replaced or worked on separately, meaning there's some serious potential!

Here you can see all the features it had to offer: https://youtu.be/afetcJgUafg?t=835 For me it is very interesting that is looks like the step in between PS2 and PS3 era.

Well, I have the adapter, so I guess I have to. Someone making these decisions at Sony must have been really into Linux.

Hot glue is pretty easy to remove, but I'm not a huge fan of gluing in the board regardless. And those perfectly fitting stoppers feel pretty satisfying.

That sucks. I dread the day my drive dies.

I personally have that Bitfunx PSxMemCard and loading games of off SD card using it is a blast. For me it is also useful as I have 2 consoles in different locations - slim and fat so I can just bring that accessory when I want to play on either console. It is also a requirement for me to play as sadly the drives on both of those are yet to be repaired :(