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There is no Kaiju Master mode - it is a Trophy you earn for getting every Kaiju to maximum Evolution (with the exception of Godzilla (1964)). As for Data Points I present the following taken from my Godzilla guide at GameFAQs: When you do your first runthrough you'll find that you cannot progress any further than Stage 7. The reason for that is because G-Force doesn't have enough information on you to create a weapon powerful enough to defeat you. To progress further in the game you need to collect at least 50% of all of the Data Points. Every Area has four Data Points which are represented by glowing orange circles on your Radar. At the lower right corner of the screen is the Camera icon. When you get near a Data Point then you should see "NEW!" pop up. This indicates that you are near a Point that has not been collected. You need to use the Camera, by pressing the R3 Button, to collect the Point. You have to stand close to the Point until the Camera is finished collecting. When the Point is collected then the circle will turn purple to inform you that it has been permanently collected. Beneath the Camera are four "cards" that indicate the Data Points. This tells you which Data Points you have collected. If you are near a Data Point, regardless of whether or not it has been collected, and use the Camera then you will also greatly slow down the depletion of the Energy Rate of a Fury Chain while you are taking a picture. This can become useful for keeping up Fury Chains. Be warned though, if you are not near a Data Point then you can't use the Camera. Between each Stage you can see how much you have collected at the top of the screen (it will show as a percentage). When you have at least 50% collected then you can progress up to Stage 9. Basically you need to collect these Points to help open up the last Stages to complete G's storyline. There is also a Trophy for collecting 1, 50, and all 100 Points. Destroying everything will allow you to not only achieve 100% Destruction but will also get your Kaiju to grow bigger and faster which helps in the later Stages. Acquiring 100% Destruction in each Area will allow you to open up new Dioramas and acquire multiple Trophies along the way. The Stage ends when you either defeat an enemy Kaiju (if all Generators are destroyed during the battle) or destroy the last Generator if no Kaiju are present (regardless of whether none show up or you defeat the Kaiju before destroying the Generators). Acquiring and filling dioramas does not help in upgrading Kaiju - only by acquiring Cells and Parts plus Evolution Energy can you upgrade monsters. You will get Trophies for acquiring all Dioramas and Figures though.

At least until somebody comes up with an HDMI board mod for it. NES, N64, and DreamCast already have them.

A better video mod would be to tap into the raw buffer signals from the motherboard and make the Jag do its own internal HDMI signal. There are similar mods for the DreamCast, N64, and NES and they work pretty well from what I understand. Virtually no lag and the circuitry is customized for each console. It would be cool of the Jag can do this. I would certainly get one for my unit.

It has been three years since I started this topic and I moved on from it. However, with PAX South 2016 approaching, I have been mulling going back to my controller and finishing it in the best way possible: a full size controller with arcade parts. I don't know how sensitive a SlikStik Tornado Controller or even the original controller would be but I would like to find out. Everything would be mounted to a metal top, just like with the arcade original - would also like to use the lighted cone buttons if possible (they would be hooked up to an external adapter instead of relying on the Jag for power). My vision would include a customized arcade laminate - something that would be an update of the arcade original but tweaked to fit the T2K art. I don't know how hard that part would be - I'm not much of an artist - and I certainly don't know how much that would cost. Mind you, this is just stuff bouncing in my head and I don't know how far I may actually get with it or long it may take. But I will try to acquire one of the arcade spinners and try it out with my setup within the next couple of months at least. Depending on how that goes I'll see about tackling the other stuff.

What he said. In addition, OPL can recognize up to 2TB hard drives from what I understand. One of these days I would like to install an SSD into my unit but I want the prices for 512GB units to come down some more first (plus I need to find appropriate IDE/SATA adapters for that). I wish somebody would come up with a HDMI mod board that converts the raw digital signals into HDMI so I can use my PS2 with my flat screen monitors. I know there are boxes for that but I want the best possible method and converting the PS2 for HDMI is the best way. Besides, I think it is cool to make old hardware do new tricks.

You'll need the following: Free McBoot - This is the softmod that will allow you to run various homebrew stuff on your PS2 and is required for playing games off the HDD. FMCB is usually installed to the Memory Card but I believe that the latest version can be made to run off the HDD which should make it much better to deal with since installation to Cards can be a pain (I should point out that I haven't played around with this version yet). There are multiple ways to install to Memory Cards but it appears that the most reliable is the Codebreaker method. But you'll also have to find a USB drive that will work with a PS2 and there's not too many of those. More information can be found at places like sks-apps.com. Open PS2 Loader - Although HDLoader runs fine this program is way better. It has a better interface, more fine tuning options, and doesn't create game save corruptions. Game compatibility is improved slightly but is still around 85 to 90% WinHiip - This is the PC program that will allow you to format PS2 drives and install games to them. This is way more reliable than using the shitty PS2 DVD-ROM drives. Although the formatting is for HDLoader the drives will work for Open PS2 Loader without any changes. It will take some time to get the hang of this but once you do you will never go back to playing off the DVD-ROM drives again.

Getting off-topic a bit: have you played around with the Free McBoot softmod (along with Open PS2 Loader) and do some game installs to a hard drive? Just curious on your thoughts on that.

Andor Genesis sounds like a Bond villain.....

I live in San Antonio and I can attest to how good these stores are. They even host a Classic Gaming Fest in Austin every summer. You should find them on Facebook.

They don't really need to be bulletproof since they have a "wonderful defense mechanism" as Parker calls it.

Interesting. I never had that problem. Then again, I used WinHiip for all of my installs - maybe HDL does their installs slightly different.

To my knowledge I know of no game that works only in HDL but not Open PS2 Loader. I also don't know if the hard drive compatibility for games was improved with the appearance of Open PS2 Loader. Technically you can fix game save timestamp issues in HDL but you have to do that manually for each game through the menu. Not all games will flake out with incorrect game save timestamps but I do know for a fact that both GTA3 and Vice City had serious problems with it. Open PS2 Loader doesn't make incorrect timestamps so that is something you never have to worry about. It also has multiple hard drive speed settings so you can tweak things just right in case you have problems when running certain games. And you can customize the menu background and even have custom icons for your game so you can have a really slick looking setup.

You don't need HDLoader. Open PS2 Loader is far superior - has more options to make your games run better from the drive and doesn't make incorrect timestamps on game saves which often led to corrupted saves.

Even though the games take up 3 to 4 GB per image most of them are not really that large. The data on the disk is generally moved around to specific spots to make it easier for the drive to read it and reduce wear. This is done by the use of dummy files that move the necessary data to the right spot. By using hard drives you won't need this data but is not easy to get rid of these files. I did a little research on something called "ISO shrinking". It involves breaking open the ISO and replacing the large dummy file (as well as language files you don't need) with zero K text files. Then rebuilding the ISO afterwards. One example mentioned was Metal Slug X. It has a 4GB image. But, if you break open the ISO and replace the dummy file, then you can shrink it down to 200MB - a 3.8GB difference. This may be useful to know if you are going to use smaller drives.

I believe that Open PS2 Loader can recognize up to 2TB. I have a 512GB in my unit with about 260GB used and it works fine.

You've managed to put an SSD into your unit? Nice. At least I know now it can be done. As for my unit, what I would like to do is to remove the DVD-ROM drive (since they're crap) and turn the opening into a drive bay for an SSD which would be a "cartridge" and make it easier for removal to do more game installs through WinHiip.

There is a new version of FMCB that runs off the hard drive instead of a memory card. However, I've yet to upgrade to it.

Pretty much any IDE drive should work in a PS2 but I want to put in a Solid State Drive at some point using an IDE/SATA adapter. You need to research Free McBoot, Open PS2 Loader, and WinHiip. Free McBoot is the softmod that is used (including a new version that can be run off the hard drive instead of a memory card - something I've yet to try), Open PS2 Loader is the program you use to run programs off the hard drive (far better than HDLoader), and WinHiip is the program on the PC you use to install images to the drive (never use the PS2 for image installs - the DVD-ROMS are total crap for this purpose). The compatibility rate currently is between 85 to 90% Out of my collection of nearly 100 titles only a small number, roughly five or so, that either run with some problem or not at all. Once you've played games from the HDD you'll never want to go back.

An alternative to the Dex Drive is the PS3 since they are BC with the PS1 regardless of model. Get a Memory Card reader and transfer your saves to the PS3 for safe keeping.

I believe that a couple of people at least are working on it as far as I know.

"GoldenEye" - Nintendo 64.