ebw on 13 January 2015
There is no way the PS2 version's online server is still running :). The series has evolved a lot since the initial version, in terms of making things a bit less tedious (I've read that in the original, item storage could only hold ~10 copies of an item in each slot instead of 99). Maybe you can find yourself a cheap used PSP on eBay and pick up the classic MHFU (or MHP3 which is only released in Japanese, but the PSP isn't region-locked).
