"Using disc images on your PS2 is so easy, you simply have to install FreeMcBoot from a small-format FAT32 USB 2.0 drive onto a spare MagicGate memory card using FreeDVDBoot and then boot up and configure OPL from an ELF file, after which you can rip the games using dd on a *nix machine, but only if they're DVD-format games, because BIN/CUE isn't supported, then you have to spin up a Samba 1.x server to serve your rips, and that'll only work for PS2 games unless you also install PopStarter, which will be easier if you can load it from a FAT32 MicroSD loaded on an MCP or MCP2, because PopStarter can't find Samba shares the same way OPL does unless you use a RetroNAS or similar to symlink the files into multiple concurrent share directories. It's so easy."
-Every PlayStation enthusiast in 2026
@veronica hah, those silly playstation enthusiasts
-- me, a dreamcast enthusiast, who has to use a specific shareware Windows-only program to burn MIL-CDs, because traditional ISOs don't record enough information, or buy a bootleg add-on that uses images stored on SD cards in combination with a different disc, or mod the console to outright replace the CD drive with either an SD card slot or a hard drive of some kind