RomPatch Update installation
the RomPatch Update install is feature intended to make use of the ROM patch updates sony made for later PS2.
starting with bios v1.50 (somewhere near SCPH-3xxxx R) sony normalized the system update paths. since all models began to look for osdmain.elf on their respective region folder
however, a new update path was provided. wich followed the same naming convention than the models prior to bios v1.50 had
this special "ROM Patch update" is intended to execute an update ONLY for specific console versions and regions.
the math is pretty simple: it rounds up the BIOS version number to the next multiple of 10 and the resulting number is used on the update filename.
Example
so lets say you have japanese 2.20 bios… it will look for:
mc?:/BIEXEC-SYSTEM/osd230.elf
before even trying to look for:
mc?:/BIEXEC-SYSTEM/osdmain.elf
Notes:
Chinese Models Issue
This feature is almost useless on chinese models because only one chinese PS2 exists (the SCPH-50009).
This fact makes it useless to put anything else beyond osdmain.elf on the chinese folder