This guide was originally written by admiraldennis of the Something Awful forums. I had no part in writing this, other than re-hosting images and files for mirroring here. Neither him nor I am responsible if you fuck up your PS2. Note: Some programs may have been updated since the screenshots have been taken, but things are still should mostly the same.Ĭontrary to popular belief, 'softmodding' is not just for XBox! Assuming you have a v1 - v10 PS2 (everything except slimline and possibly the rare v11), it’s quite possible and not too difficult to softmod a PS2. Geeky Note: I am using the word ’softmod’ because it is common terminology. In reality, we aren’t ‘modding’ anything, save the contents of a memory card. What we’re actually doing is exploiting a bug in the PS2’s PSX compatibility driver. By creating an incorrect entry in the file TITLE.DB (which the PS2 uses to store compatibility information for certain PS1 games), we can cause a buffer overflow and run an unencrypted program stored on a memory card.
Naturally, we will run a ‘launcher’ program which can then be used to run whatever software we wish on the PS2. This bug was fixed in v12 (possibly v11).
This disc will be used to trigger the exploit.
Memory card with preferably 1MB+ available (~200kb min for exploit, ~900kb min for exploit+HD).
