SMB Mode

📎 Recovered from the ShaolinAssassin wiki · snapshot 20200812185303

POPStarter for SMB

Requirements :

POPS compressed file :

To use POPStarter in SMB mode, you have to find and download the compressed POPS file. This file is named “POPS_IOX.PAK”...

Other Software Requirements :

• A software that allows you to convert your disc images to the POPS virtual CDROM format (such as CUE2POPS) ;

• A PS2 software that allows you to execute the POPStarter ELFs (such as uLaunchELF, or Free Harddisk Drive Boot) or a GUI to execute POPSTARTER.ELF by selecting the VCDs (such as uLE_kHn) ;

• PS2 network modules ;

• A text editor (such as Notepad).

Hardware Requirements :

• A PS2 console which is able to run PS2 unsigned code ;

• A PS2 console with a network interface (network adaptor or native) ;

• A network cable ;

• A PS2 Memory Card.

Installation :

a) Installing the emulator :

1. Find and download the compressed emulator files ;

2. Create a directory named “POPS” in your PS2 shared folder ;

3. Copy POPS_IOX.PAK into the “POPS” directory you’ve just created.

b) Installing your PS1 Games :

1. Convert your BIN/CUE disc images to .VCD files using the latest stable version of CUE2POPS ;

2. Put your .VCD files in the “POPS” directory of your PS2 shared folder.

c) Installing POPStarter :

1. Grab the network modules and edit the 2 .DAT files (syntax below) with your network settings;

2. Paste the network modules and the .DAT files into mc#/:POPSTARTER/ folder;

3. Rename the POPStarter ELF as the name of your VCDs, replace the .VCD extension with a .ELF extension, add the SB. prefix (example : for running a VCD named “Crash Bandicoot (PAL).VCD”, the POPStarter ELF must be renamed as “SB.Crash Bandicoot (PAL).ELF”) ;

4. Copy or leave the ELFs where you want to run them from ;

5. Enjoy !

• SMBCONFIG.DAT syntax :

In a single line,

SERVER IP ADDRESS space SHARE NAME

Example :

192.168.0.254 My Shared Folder

You can also specify a port, like this (default is 445) :

192.168.0.254:139 My Shared Folder

For user authentication, write your username to line 2 and your password to line 3.

Example :

192.168.0.254 My Shared Folder
MyName
MyPassword

Note : for guest access, don’t write anything to line 2 and 3.

• IPCONFIG.DAT syntax : (this file is optionnal in SMB mode)

In a single line,

PS2 IP ADDRESS space NETMASK space GATEWAY

Example :

192.168.0.13 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.254

Example of setup :

=== SMB LAUNCH TYPE ===
mc#:/POPSTARTER/IPCONFIG.DAT
mc#:/POPSTARTER/SMBCONFIG.DAT
mc#:/POPSTARTER/poweroff.irx
mc#:/POPSTARTER/ps2dev9.irx
mc#:/POPSTARTER/smsutils.irx
mc#:/POPSTARTER/ps2ip.irx
mc#:/POPSTARTER/ps2smap.irx
mc#:/POPSTARTER/smbman.irx
smb0:/YourSharedFolder/POPS/POPS_IOX.PAK
smb0:/YourSharedFolder/POPS/Crash Bandicoot (PAL).VCD
mass:/SB.Crash Bandicoot (PAL).ELF

SMB launch type :

SMB supports only 1 launch type – the “new” one :

Additional notes :

• You can NOT use the old POPS.ELF+IOPRP252.IMG files (POPS.PAK) in SMB mode, updating to POPS_IOX.PAK is mandatory ;

• You can load the network modules from the MC that is in the second slot too. When a file can’t be found in mc0:/POPSTARTER/, POPStarter tries to load it from mc1:/POPSTARTER/ ;

• Debug infos at startup can not be skipped in SMB mode ;

• The third character of the ELF prefix is a dot (SBdot) ;

• The file extension .VCD has to be uppercase ;

• The prefix has to be uppercase.

Related curated section → Storage Backends