Hardware and software Information preservation

[El_isra]

Hello everyone, I decided to make this post a little bit early...

Along with another developer, AKuHAK, we're collecting information about as much PS2 revisions as possible, this includes the COH-H models.

This application, called PS2Ident will dump bios, NVRAM and generate a summary of the informed revisions of several components of the hardware.

It can dump the files to either FAT32 USB or retail memory card (mc1)

The app is not fully compatible with the arcade hardware yet, as you may notice, there's even info related to interfaces that Don't exist on arcad hardware (like the DEV9 interface or the DVD player software)

I will continue to update the app on the future to support stuff of the arcade boards that are worthy of dumping/documenting

If you can, run the program and attach to this thread the dumped files, as well as Wich machine it comes from.

DOWNLOAD https://github.com/AKuHAK/PS2Ident/releases/download/latest/PS2Ident-system2x6_arcade.7z



Note 1: the program will be able to automatically identify the namco boards that are utilizing Sony arcade boards instead of custom ones (COH-H30000: 245 driving, COH-H31000: 246A/python1, COH-H31100: 246B). The 246C and 256 still need unorthodox methods to identify them

Note 2: namco arcades have a dedicated flash memory that gets disguised as rom1: (this is the DVD player ROM on retail hardware), if the program prints info or dumps it, it's the arcade flash, Wich contained information compliant with the Sony ROMFS filesystem

 

[El_isra]

List of arcade dedicated stuff to Dump/collect info/etc (not implemented yet);

• Arcade flash (ref: ACDEV, & ACFLASH modules)
• Arcade RAM (ref: ACRAM module: RAM32/RAM64 PCB. external on 246 driving & rack A, built-in on the rest)
• Arcade SRAM
• IDE Interface (ACATA module)

 

[Franco23444]

Neat, I got most of the 2X6 revisions, I’d be interested to try this out when it’s fully developed

 

[El_isra]

Neat, I got most of the 2X6 revisions, I’d be interested to try this out when it’s fully developed

If you can provide dumps now it will be highly appreciated

When development advances enough to be worthy of bothering you all, I will post again with their new download

 

[Franco23444]

If you can provide dumps now it will be highly appreciated

When development advances enough to be worthy of bothering you all, I will post again with their new download

Sure! I’ll see what I can do for you

 

[BilonFullHDemon]

I have about 20+ of 256's, does dumping every each one have sense?

 

[El_isra]

I have about 20+ of 256's, does dumping every each one have sense?

dump two, we will tell ya later...

256 in particular is quite different in certain stuff....