The raspberry pi 2 has USB 2.0 and Ethernet is very fast, so I was surprised the loading wasn't that much better than straight USB. A game like Timesplitters 2 actually loads just as fast on USB as it does on SMB on a 79001. So, as I've suspected in the past, even just from a small unprofessional test, it seems the 30001 fat PS2 might Open PS2 Loader (OPL) is a 100% Open source game and application loader for the PS2 and PS3 units. It supports three categories of devices: USB mass storage devices, SMB shares and the PlayStation 2 HDD unit. USB devices and SMB shares support USBExtreme and *.ISO formats while PS2 HDD supports HDLoader format, all devices also support ZSO .

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