OPL has been around since 2009 and HDLoader even longer. WHY do so many translation patches not support loading from the hard drive on an actual PS2????
>>12252815like what? I've played a ton of translations through OPL
>>12252839I've seen quite a few. The recent Boku No Natsuyasumi 2 translation has been reported to not run on OPL, for example.
>>12252839Ar Tonelico 2 didn't work when I tried
i imagine most translation patches nowadays just use pcsx2 for testing.not everyone has a real ps2 hooked up to their tv 24/7 like >we do
>>12252815Why wouldn't it work? I've helped hilltop directly with getting games booting on things like XStation.
>>12252815Anyway just booted it up on my PS2 and it had no problem. What is broken? Are you using an outdated version of OPL or something?
You have to understand that as those consoles become older, more and more translations are made and tested entirely on emulators. The first of the kind I saw was Queen's Blade for the PSP, which only runs on emulators.Sadly, this will become more and more common. Our time has come, anon. Let's just enjoy what's left.
>>12253146The opposite is true. Early ROM hacks and homebrew almost never work on original hardware. Developers in the late 90s and early 2000s didn't have the capacity to test on original hardware, so they just didn't. Nowadays, most developers have flashcarts and ODEs for the systems they develop for, so bugs related to original hardware compatibility are discovered and fixed. That's not even to mention that emulators have gotten more accurate over time, so its rarer for such bugs to exist in the first place.
>>12253268>Nowadays, most developers have flashcartsliteral headcanon
>>12253382https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aromhacking.net%2Ftranslations+"tested"+"hardware"
>>12252815OPL has been around since 1984 :)
>>12252850I played through the entirety of that on OPL when it came out
>>12252997I played through that on OPL already as well so I guess it's fixed. Are there any that don't work currently?
>>12253089>Are you using an outdated version of OPL or something?Many such cases on /vr/. Try convincing this board to not use the shitty JayJay fork lol, it's a Sisyphean task indeed.
>>12253089Well he uses HDLoader instead of WinHiip for starters
