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[@_BELMONT_]

It’s FRIDAY baby!!! Thanks for another fantastic Q&A Bob! Hope your weekend is perfect!

[@HyphyHippo]

So excited for Flippydrive!

[@CompletelyAverageGameplay]

Wish it would finally be ready for primetime... I have two gamecubes sitting on the shelf just waiting. Also the M.2 loader while we're talking about it.

[@Janzzze]

For loading PS2 ISOs locally on the device and not over the network there are a couple options.
All fat PS2 can use a network adapter with a hard drive installed.
Early slim PS2 (SCPH-7000X) can be modded to restore HDD functionality with a externally accessible SD-card slot.
All slim PS2 can connect network to a tiny travel router with a USB-drive, can look a bit messy but is still very portable. (not all small one port routers can create a SMBv1 share that's accessible via Ethernet)
All PS2 can use a MX4SIO memory card to SD-card adapter, although slower than network or HDD it's generally fast enough that most games will work fine.
All PS2 can but should not use a USB-drive since the USB ports are only USB1.1 and slow enough that it introduces major compability issues.

[@JMLRetroRoom]

At Shane Steinhauser’s question. You can easily hack a Wii or WiiU’s vWii side and use WiiMC. What this will do is allow you to use an External USB DVD Drive to play DVD’s. The downside is Blu-ray isn’t supported, although a BR Drive will work as they can read DVD.
Maybe not the answer you’re looking for but it doesn’t wear out the console laser since you’re using an External USB DVD Drive. On WiiU the DVD’s will play on the GamePad as well.

[@GFDthatsMe]

5 oclock retro show!!!!!

[@GFDthatsMe]

I'm gonna inception plant the idea to change these to the "5 oclock retro RGB show" one day. So if you ever randomly get the itch to change it to it, just know I may or may not of planted it in you brain Bob! Lmao

[@Cae_the_Kitsune]

The PS3 as an example of a console outputting HDMI but not 1080p might be referring to the fact that most games will only output up to 720p.

[@djrkzr]

I haven't seen hdmi to component downscalers but used to have hdmi to component/vga transcoder. And there are definitely hdmi to vga converters.