Action Replay MAX is the most powerful PS2 game enhancer ever made. It’s packed with cheats and enhancements for your favorite games, lets you play import DVDs on your local PS2, and can be updated over the internet or by typing in new codes.
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Wanna play PS2 CD and DVD backup games without installing a modchip or paying for expensive software? Action Replay Max is all you need to buy out your high-street store and the rest is easy when you learn how.boldHOW TO: Load Backups using Action Replay Max /boldThis guide works for: Fat PS2 & Slimline PS2 (instructions for both bellow)You will need:-Action Replay Max PS2 CD-Max Media Creator PC software (comes with ARMAX)-2 blank CD-RsThat’s all you need, if you read the following carefully you’ll have your backups playing in no time. To start off, the PS2 “program” you’re going to use to load your backups is called cogswaploader. It’s a 57KB elf file you can download from here:-Action Replay Max is a ps2 cd disc you can buy out most high street console stores. It sports 30,000+ cheats for your ps2 games, a media player, all region dvd playing and a memory card manager.
There are two versions on sale (the older one and the newer one - the newer one comes in a silver tin) - although fundamentally the same, there is a bit of difference in the way you use ARMAX to load cogswaploader on each.So, you've got ARMAX and wanna load cogswaploader.elf to load all your backup discs. Here's how:1. Right, to start with you need to get cogswaploader onto a medium that ARMAX understands. For the older version, you can just put the file on a pendrive(flashdisk). For the newer version (the one that comes in a silver tin), you need to put the file on a specially formatted cd.2. If you have the old version, just put cogswaploader on your pendrive, load the media player on ARMAX and then select your cogswaploader.elf file, it will load.3. Assuming you have the newer version, we need to make a specially formatted cd - here's how to do it:i.
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Download the 'Independence Compiler Program 3.0' from the link here (you need to click the small floppy disc icon to download):ii. Extract the files from the.rar file you've downloaded (you'll need a compression program such as WinRAR to do this)iii. Now load the independencecompiler3.0.exe (i'll call it IC3 from now on) file.4. Right - you now need to make a decision that will largely be based on whether you have a Fat ps2 or Slimline ps2. I'll try and explain this simply: The IC3 program gives you the option of installing cogswaploader onto the memory card for instant loading when you put in a ps1 game of your choice. This function is otherwise known as the 'memory card exploit/independence exploit'. You can only do this if you have a Fat ps2.
If you have the new Slimline ps2, you do not have this option and must load cogswaploader through ARMAX every time.-boldARMAX: Loading cogswaploader on a Slimline PS2/bold-1a. Load IC3 (see step 3 above)2a.
Select the following options:STEP 1: make no change.STEP 2: select 'other' and find cogswaploader.elf on your computer.STEP 3: make no change.STEP 4: make no change.STEP 5: If in America, choose NTSC, if in Europe choose PALSTEP 6: make no change.STEP 7: make no change.Output format: cdimage (bin/cue)Installer only?: NO (this option is essential!!!)3a. Click START - IC3 will ask you if you want to continue twice: click YES on both occassions and it will load an MS-DOS window whilst it creates the bin/cue files. It'll then tell you it's done and has put your bin/cue files in C:AusDigital4a. Burn your bin/cue file to a blank cdr using Nero or equivalent (always select the.cue file when it asks which file to burn - the.cue is a link to the.bin!)5a. You've just made your cogswaploader boot disc!6a. Now you need to be able to load your cogswaploader boot disc through ARMAX - there's only one way i know of doing this on an unmodified ps2 - the file cdloader.elf. You'll need to source 3 things for this:i.
Cdloader.elf - there's several versions of this around, and there's only one version that'll work (downloadable here: )ii. Another blank cdr!iii.
A way of getting cdloader on your cdr - this is Max Media Creator PC software that comes with ARMAX. You only need one file, the cdloader.elf, on your cd - burn it with Max Media Creator (or make a bin/cue with Max Media Creator and burn it with nero)7a. You should now have 2 cdrs: a) Cogswaploader boot disc b) Cdloader.elf on a cdr to load through ARMAX.8a. It's all easy from now on!!!!
Yeah - if you use it as a replacement for swap magic on a FAT PS2 through the MC exploit method, you have quicker loading of the CogSwap program and you don't need to use separate programs for CD and DVD. On top of that, you don't need to buy Swap Magic off the net, you just buy ARMAX out your nearest games store.
Plus ARMAX comes with a tonne of it's own functionality (Cheat System, All region DVD, media player, Game Saves from internet to PS2 etc.) - That's why i use this method anyway!If you have a slimline PS2 and dont like buying off the net, this method is the only non-mod way of safely loading backups (to my current knowledge!). KARMUK - I presume you have a fat PS2?
- If you've got cdloader to load and you've come that far, the only mistake can be with your MC boot disc.
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