While researching Vita homebrew, I came across a video from where someone demonstrated a soft mod for the PlayStation 2 slim. So I went down in to the basement, dug it out of a box, blew the dust off it, and got started. Before you read through this guide, let me save you some time. Not kidding. Keep in mind that you still need a Free McBoot-compatible PS2 slim for this to work details for determining your PS2 slim version are below. The list looks like a lot, but you should have most of this stuff lying around if you already own a PlayStation 2.
A not on the version of PlayStation 2 slim required. You must have a PS2 slim that is manufactured before the 3rd quarter of The first digit in the date code is the year of manufacture. This can be anything from 4 to 9 to and also 0 to 3 to The second digit in the date code is the quarter of manufacture, A through D for first through fourth quarter of that year. Mine is 4C, which means it was manufactured in the third quarter of If your date code is 8C, the mod may or may not work.
Anything newer than 8B may require a physical mod chip be soldered in. Although a PS2 slim is required to do this, after the Free McBoot application is installed, the memory card can then be used in another PS2 slim manufactured 8B or earlier, as well as any fat PS2!
Because of this, some people have made a business out of selling PS2 memory cards that already have Free McBoot on them online, so if you have a fat PS2 or an 8B or earlier slim, you could just purchase one of those cards and use it straight away. Because the PS2 scene died a long time ago, most of the websites that hosted the tools to do this are long gone. I even found tutorials from that mentioned the sites were gone and that you needed to use an archive site like Wayback Machine to access archived copies of the sites to get the tools.
The file that we insert will be the payload to launch unsigned code. This step is fairly simple. Insert a USB version 2. Leave the volume label blank. Extract the contents of noob. While you still have the flash drive inserted, go ahead and copy the OPL0.
Eject the flash drive and set it aside. Extract the contents of uLaunchELF-v4. You should have a. I like UltraISO for this. The goal here is to make a clone DVD of a legal game. Extract Apache3Preview. Just close that window with the X and Apache3 will continue to load.
One looks like a disc with a black arrow pointed upper-left. Click this icon and then chose a path to save your PS2 game disc iso. The name of this file will be different with every game. ELF file. Close Apache3 and extract the contents of Apache1. Open Apache. Once your ISO is open in Apache1.
ELF file that we renamed above in bytes. The goal here will be to disable the PS2 slim and prepare it for modding by taping down the two switches that tell the unit that the disc drawer is open. You can do so with a sharp knife or small flat headed screwdriver.
The top now just pulls off. You do have do so some wiggling to get it free. Luckily this is as far as we have to go with the disassembly of the PS2.
Sony got wise after how easy it was to do the disc swap on the original PlayStation, so instead of one door switch we now have two to deal with. One is in the front of the unit directly behind the power button. Instead of tape I heard one guy say that he used a substance similar to silly putty to hold his buttons down. That would be a viable route as well, but scotch tape worked fine for me. Be careful of the ribbon cable that goes between this board and the motherboard.
The rear button is a little tricker to get to. This switch is tan. Luckily there are no delicate connectors near this unit, but still be careful. Hook your PS2 slim up to your TV and connect power to it. Insert your 8MB memory card. Know that during this process your memory card will be wiped, so you may want to make a backup of it on to another memory card before you begin this process. But the more likely scenario? And who could blame it? As of this writing, the PlayStation 2 is over two decades old!
Fortunately, there are other ways to play your old PS2 games. How can you tell if your PS3 can play PS2 games? One way is to pop a PS2 game into the disc slot and hope for the best. Choose only one of them. The default is a 2-sector cache When no triggers are held. How to use Plugins:. A skin is made up of: UI. If PS2ESDL can't load a background from locations a, b, nor c when it was launched, it'll then only keep trying to load one from d.
The background can be smaller in size It won't be stretched nor centered. The width and height of the background image MUST be divisible by 4. NOTE: Not all skins will have a skin parameter file.
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