Running PS2 games over network from USB drive connected to Raspberry Pi
- Setup USB Flash Drive
- Setup Raspberry Pi
- Setup FMCB
USB Storage
Put games you own into DVD directory. (Or into CD is it’s CD)
Raspberry Pi
Static IP Address
Use ifconfig to discover available network interfaces. Usually wlan0 is for wireless and eth0 for ethernet.
Configure in /etc/dhcpcd.conf:
For ethernet set IP address to 192.168.0.111:
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interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.0.111/24
static routers=192.168.0.1
static domain_name_servers=192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8 fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::1
For wireless set IP address to 192.168.0.113:
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interface wlan0
static ip_address=192.168.0.113/24
static routers=192.168.0.1
static domain_name_servers=192.168.0.1 8.8.8.8 fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::1
Mount USB
Discover UUID:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 6 11:28 6341-C9E5 -> ../../mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 6 11:28 80571af6-21c9-48a0-9df5-cffb60cf79af -> ../../mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 7 11:46 D7A4-1519 -> ../../sda1
USB Stick Drive usually stands for sdaX so UUID is D7A4-1519 in example above.
Mount point:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mkdir /media/ps2
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo chown -R pi:pi /media/usb
Auto-mount configuration:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo vi /etc/fstab
Add new line and save:
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UUID=D7A4-1519 /media/ps2 vfat auto,nofail,noatime,users,rw,uid=pi,gid=pi 0 0
Reload services to re parse /etc/fstab:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
And mount drive:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ mount /media/ps2
If drive has been formatted into exFAT file system:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
And use exfat in place of vfat in /etc/fstab.
Samba
Install Samba:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin
Configuration:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
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[ps2]
comment = PS2
path = /media/ps2
browseable = yes
writable = yes
only guest = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
public = yes
guest ok = yes
Restart & verify:
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/smbd restart
On Mac: Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server… -> smb://192.168.0.113/ps2 -> Connect as Guest
FMCB
OPL -> Network setup:
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- PS2 -
IP address type Static
IP address 192.168.0.112
Mask 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.0.1
DNS Server 192.168.0.1
- SMB Server -
Address type IP
Address 192.168.0.113 // Raspberry Pi IP
Port 445
Share ps2 // Raspberry Pi Samba Shared Directory
User guest
Don’t forget to save configuration.