Alright this sucked and i thought about making a video but tbh i cant be fucked.
Write PSBBN definitive edition image to a drive. Instructions are included in the link PSBBN Definitive Edition It should just work that wasnt the hard part. Test via installing the drive to your ps2 without a fmcb memory card inserted.
Put your hard drive in your ps2 but boot your ps2 with fmcb to get into u/wlaunchelf.
Go into MISC and open HDD Manager.
Create a new partition called +OPL
This will be where art and cfgs and if you want vmc's to be stored, i resized mine to be 4gb.
Plug the drive back into your PC.
Download HDL-Batch-installer
Download latest action OPNPS2LD for Open-PS2-Loader
Extract OPNPS2LD-vX.X.X-Beta-XXXX-XXXXXXX.ELF and rename it to OPNPS2LD.ELF
Open HDL-Batch-installer
Click Search ps2 HDD's. Yours should auto pop up.
Go to the HDD Management Tab.
Click PFS FileBrowser at the bottom.
In the HDD dropdown, choose your ps2 hdd.
Click Open.
On the right hand pane we should see the +OPL partition we made earlier, double click it.
Use the left hand file explorer pane to find where you stored OPNPS2LD.ELF. Drag it inside +OPL
Click Close, and close the PFS Browser window.
Click Mount hdd Partition
In Available Partitions, click __common
Choose an unused drive letter for Mount point, I chose S for sneaky snakes.
Click Mount, and when prompted, install the linked driver to allow the mount to work.
Click Open in explorer.
In the mounted _common partition, create a new folder called OPL
in the OPL folder, create a conf_hdd.cfg with the contents;
hdd_partition=+OPL
You may need to create this file in a writable location on your computer then drag it into the mounted folder.
Hit Unmount
Okay we installed OPL. You can use the +OPL partition like normal containing CFG, ART, DVD, VMC, etc.
Download PFS-BatchKit-Manager
With your Hard Drive connected to your PC, open it by double clicking the !PFS-BatchKit-Manager.bat file.
Type 2 to Install PS2 Games.
It should show your ps2 hdd, so type 1 for Yes.
It will ask you to change your default directory, this is where your iso's are stored. Configure if needed.
It will ask to use the title database, type Y for Yes.
It will ask for language, it only shows English or French, pick 1 for English.
It will wask if you want to use recommended installation settings, type N for No.
Do you want to inject OPL-Launcher? Yes
Do you want to download game icons for HDD-OSD? Yes
Do you want to hide ps2 game partitions in HDD-OSD? No
Do you want to add game information in CFG for OPL ? (Optional) Yes
Compress your games in .ZSO? (EXPERIMENTAL) If you grabbed latest nightly OPL, it will support ZSO, but i personally choose No.
The game should be installing.
Back on the main menu choose Advanced Menu - 10
Choose FHDB/HDD-OSD/PSBBN/XMB - 7
Partitions Management - 3
Convert HDL Partition for PSBBN & XMB Menu (Launch PS2 games from PSBBN, XMB Menu) - 7
It should show your ps2 hdd, so type 1 for Yes.
It will ask for language, it only shows English or French, pick 1 for English.
It should show an installed games list of non converted psbbn titles.
You will need to type or select and copy paste the title to convert it.
For example, mine is - SCUS_972.58 Amplitude
it should say Partition Detected, press a key to continue.
It will likely not have the information for release date, developer, publisher, and genre, so type that in yourself by looking it up if you want.
This information will be visible in PSBBN so it is recommended to fill it out properly.
Once those fields are filled out, it should install and say Completed...
And that SHOULD be it, we installed 1 game properly!
If all went well, it should launch in PSBBN in the games channel, collections tab. And if OPL art existed, it should even show up in this menu.
Launching the game through PSBBN uses a launcher to launch into OPL, to launch the game directly.
Any manual configurations or vmc's you create and save per game will be reflected when launching via PSBBN.
I would recommend using your fmcb memory card as a sort of key to get into SYS-OSD.
From there you can simply launch ulaunchelf or configure the path for the stored OPL we have on the +OPL partition to launch it manually.
I seemed to have trouble installing it to PSBBN through the PFS-BatchKit-Manager tool, and I dont plan on using OPL manually much anyway.
For anyone else that uses PFS Batchkit v1.1.9, the option for Convert HDL partition for PSBBN & XMB Menu is now accessed through OSD/XMB Management > Partitions Management > [9] Update Partition Resources Header.
Hope it helps anyone