Re: [GD-Consoles] Generic MP3 Player for Playstation 2

[Tom H. <to...@3d...>]

At 12:30 AM 10/5/2001, Jason G Doig wrote:
>The problem comes when you want a consumer machine to boot up a program
>to do it, because of course without a naughty modchip (which invalidates
>your warranty and will make us take you off our Christmas card list) then
>a machine will simply not boot anything other than a legitimately duplicated
>PS2 CD or DVD.  You can't get an ordinary CD writer to make CDs which boot.

This is very true. However, there may be a way to boot up with a legitimate 
CD/DVD that contains the MP3 decoder/playback program and then swap out 
that disk for a CD-R containing a bunch of MP3s. As I understand it, there 
difficulties involved with being able to swap disks after boot, but it 
isn't impossible (GameShark does it).

I suspect there would be a market for such a thing. Imagine a WinAmp style 
program with really neat visualization stuff. Once broadband for PS2 is 
available then downloadable updates (stored on mem carts or HDs), user made 
plug-ins, and streaming MP3s would also be really cool. I know I'd think 
about buying such a thing :)

>Well I've sort of answered this above. However, I'd just like to make a
>friendly suggestion that this list doesn't launch into a discussion of
>bypassing the PS2's copy protection methods :)

Such discussions would be "bad" and defeat the purpose of the list.

Tom