After 20 years PlayStation 2 can play burned DVD's without a modchip | MVG
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- FreeDVDExploit is a new hack for the Sony PlayStation 2 that has been discovered by Security Researcher CTurt - it allows the user to boot homebrew games on an unmodded PS2 console via DVD Player exploits. In this episode we take a closer look at how it works and what I think I means for the future of homebrew on the PS2.
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EDIT: 3.11 is working - github.com/CTurt/FreeDVDBoot
coolll
Now a good entry point to modify blank systems for free McBoot. But it would be even more awesome if finally someone could work on an optical drive emulator, with built in CF or SD card or HDD support. That would mean no more compatibility issues and no more choppy FMVs.
Yeah I just tried it on my white slim, worked flawlessly!
Awesome!!!
Slim only I'm guessing ?
ideally someone just needs to make a bootable DVD that can load FreeMcboot onto the PS2 memory card and then it'll open the flood gates for a lot of people
Since the exploit allows elf binaries to load something like this shouldn’t be too hard, you just burn the freemcboot installer onto a disc
Or if it could be pointed to a USB thumb drive :)
@@SPRITEVIDS101 that would be awesome, my unmodded ps2 just sitting under the tv collecting dust, would be happy to use it
Solve the bootstrap problem with free mcboot would be awesome.
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Burning a disc that is bootable by a game console is indeed the "holy grail" of modding techniques. This discovery would have been huge back in the day. Reminds me of the Dreamcast exploits.
really makes me wonder why it took 20 years for someone to find this. this is such an obvious way in, and DVD was cracked wide open by the time the PS2 became a thing. a basically free software hack would've been nice back in the day. i wonder if any other consoles have exploitable stuff in their media players, especially the 360...
@@fake12396 hopefully something as simple as this works for the newer consoles coming out.. wishful thinking.
Thank God it didn’t though, look at sega now, once the console stops being stocked on the shelves then great but in its life cycle would kill a company.
@@garystinten9339 i see potential... as system apps they might give you more access compared to a savegame hack or something. looking at the og xbox leak, the DVD code isn't even microsoft's, it's by STM, so assuming it carried over to the 360 there could be weaker code there. for later consoles, blu rays are waay more complex and basically run java, so lots of attack surface there. as far as i'm aware it's an unexplored attack vector really, maybe it has something, maybe it doesn't.
@@Master_Psyper piracy played it's part sure, but there were many more factors that led to sega's console downfall. everyone had a chipped PSX and a more modern example is the switch, yet both companies are doing just fine. i wouldn't say that piracy can kill a console manufactuter.
kind of amazing they were able to fit the full tetris game on to a small DVD
But Tetris is so light and a DVD so big... You'd have to have godlike mad hacker skills to manage such a one in a lifetime success.
@@sirlezard670 ikr? Like, with the dvd spinning so fast there ain't no fucking way the lazer could catch up with tertris running at 800mph, at that point it could've just bloody flake off from the dvd and hit an elderly person in the good eye
@@sirlezard670 like my gf says to me, it's just too fast and too small
@@shinji5217 its soft too
the dvd i mean it can break very easily
Man, I love your vids. I'm always impressed by how you manage to get track of literally everything in such wide and diverse subject as retrogaming with extremely deep knowledge on every related topic. That's not just a boring statements like "oh look, now you can burn dvds and boot it without mods!". You always provide the details on how and why it works. I appreciate that!
The dream is alive.
Just like the dream that my dad will come back with the milk.
Oh hello MrMario hoping to see your another video
So, will we see a how to from MrMario on this soon?
Yes, since 9/9/99
Thanks for helping me with my PS3 exploits
The good thing about lockdown, people Had so much time in their hands that they were able to discover stuff like this 😂
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Yes
Right? I went into my garage and dusted off my fat PS2 from '06. I'm so glad everything works. Even my N64 is still working, but Madden 02 didn't want to work...
Isaac Newton invited calculus during a pandemic.
MrGoodFridays buy it on ebay
It's so inspiring to see people still being interested in the good old consoles.
And thank you for sharing this, I hope it sparks a new wave of people re-experiencing this great console or other "out dated" consoles for that matter.
great video
Me 113 days into quarantine: Lamp shade is looking pretty sexy.
Security researcher: Finds the holy grail hack on most popular gaming console in human history.
**soil thicc noise**
@@joedoe5189 are you saying that the pandemic is a lie? xd
@@hipersonicc9736 Y E S
@@xKarnage74 oh please - in what way? Next you are going to say all the people dying are paid actors
@@joedoe5189 let me guess, american?
"There won't be any repercussions from Sony"
Until they come up with the PS2 classic
So no repercussions at all
@@AJA_974 bet the ps2 "classic" will unfortunately run remastered San Andreas rather than the OG San Andreas orange world. It will piss everyone off. Calling it now
@@slightlyamusedblackkidfrom9153 I bet neither the remastered SA nor the original will be featured on the PS2 Classic
slightly amused black kid from the suburbs .... Forget San Andreas..... If it doesn’t have Vice City it’s going to be DOA.
Implying people won't figure out how to hack that as well.
Pretty inspiring to see that a researcher can still contribute to the cause 20 years after it started. Congratulations to all the giants who have poked into this system to get where we are today.
PlayStation 2 - The best selling DVD player of all time!
Wrong
@@rabrandom Not really.
@Randomly Entertaining you’re entitled to your opinion, regardless of how wrong it is 🙂
rabrandom
It does play dvds tho soooooo
It was cheaper than dvd players at the time of release.
Brazilian Bootleggers are now gonna see their market rise like crazy
Sometimes I glance with awe how far we have come just to pirate a video game
The Power of Bomba Patch is unlimited
@@jaburuperneta Exatamente
It's actually more expensive to get an untouched system in Brazil. most ps2s here are refurbished modded frankensteins.
Not only, albania used to have this disk pirated market u have mentioned years ago
Don't forget the PSP with Pandora's Battery. This was a similar "stuff of dreams"
No joke i remember that mod good ol times
That one still blows my mind to this day. I remember when it first happened and it was revealed everyone that was a member of the M33 (was that the name?) hacking team were major PSP Hackers that we all knew and respected, but it turns out they were all secretly working together under pseudonyms!!!
The hack itself was amazing. A battery based hack using the method Sony used to repair softlocked PSPs. Just amazing. Something nobody would have ever guessed.
The variety of soft hacking methods is astonishing when you think back. It's not just classic USB transfer files across to hack.
Battery hack on PSP. Memory card swap on PSP. Game based hacks. Network based on Vita and WiiU. USB boot based on PS3. JoyCon on Switch. Disc swap on PS2 to install Memory Card exploit. Now we have normal DVD exploit on PS2.
I bought a device to change my battery into one and put it into service mode and mod it. And once it was, the PSP became simply incredible and Sony couldnt do anything about it.
Those were great times.
When I was opening up the PSP battery casing to crush that one pin, I accidentally pierced the battery with an x-acto knife **very specifically trying not to** pierce the battery with an x-acto knife. Nothing dangerous happened besides a little hiss from it (and whatever carcinogens I inhaled), but I had to swing the dead battery's circuit board around for the CFW install and keep it pressed into the contacts while it installed. Kind of harrowing. Good times!
Kind of, but you still needed a CFW to produce the battery in the first place. This PS2 exploit is insane though -- just one file on a burnt disc to blow the console wide open from stock. I'm curious to see what kind of softmodding this opens up.
*I still remember when modded PS2s meant you were on top of the world.*
_Now DVDs are at the the bottom of the world LOL._
lol no?
dvd are still largely used, outside piracy. all people hate dlc games
@@valentds but modern games are not on DVDs
Shut up dude
@@nicolasroy8481 who cares? Your watching a video on the ps2
I can't believe that such a vulnerability stayed under the radar for so long.
i mode my ps2 15 year ago have this access lol
I'm glad it did. Cause if was exploited at the beginning, we prolly wouldn't of had the PS3 and PS4. Sony could've ended up like sega and the Dreamcast.
I think once they're reasonably useful exploits already, people aren't looking that hard anymore.
It wasnt under the radar a ton of people knew this...there just happens to be a video about it.
@@JzLyfe 7 Months ago was the first time just about anybody knew about this.
When you say "after 20 years" it makes me feel old. Seems like only yesterday that I was buying PS2 games on release from the store.
Bro I feel like just a couple years ago I was getting my ps2 for Christmas. Crazy how that’s almost 20 years ago and now I get to get game consoles for my son lol time is flying.
I remember working one of my first jobs saving up to get my PS2 as a teen. Time flew...
i remember buying a ps2 with my first paycheck with my first job.
I'm not even 20 and I remember the day I got a ps2 for my b day
i was looking for this comment. god, we're getting friggin old.. T_T
2033 : we can now play burned Blu-ray's on the ps4
"After 20 years PlayStation 4 can play burned Bluray's without modding"
But you will be searching Blu-Ray disc to burn on to in 2033
But can we get the expanded and enhanced version of GTA 5 running on a PS4?
I don't care either.
I predict a Blue Ray ODE, uses 64tb memory cards, simple drop-in replacement, comes with integrated 10gb ethernet port.
You still need the PlaymaD modchip thought
One of my favourite channels on youtube and of the whole scene. I love how you keep your cool over this but you clearly are aware of the potential of this exploit for the many other systems and the future of pushing this technique to them. I can't pretend to be as stoic about those possibilities right now, exciting times. What are your favorite discord servers?
Ps5: I am the next gen.
Ps4: Once my CMO Battery dies, your games die too.
Ps3: I won't sell you anymore games...
Ps1: I am me.
Ps2: *I am Immortal.*
PsP: I am your best buddy.
PS Vita: ...nobody cares about me.
Ps1: I am THE one Nintendo hates the most.
PSX: I am broken. (Not to be confused with the Fat Ps1 I was talking about the DVR made by Sony that had a PS2 built in it. They break super easily and are badly built.)
@@Octolicia PS1 is Nintendo's fallen timeline
"he loaded up a reverse engineering tool known as Ghidra"
thanks, NSA
Yes thanks the NSA, pretty cool
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Seriously though, thank you NSA, this tool is amazing.
@@tophan5146 Ghidra was released to the public by the NSA of all things
Source: www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/
It's my favorite tool next to the knife to slice bread.
Moving to see people's love for their passions not to burn out, even after 20 years.
Don't burn out, burn DVDs.
@@UltimatePerfection LOL
@@plumcakey Glad I could help improve your mood.
@@UltimatePerfection ya helped very much
They're popular in south america lol, even in 2021, hell i've recently found my old PS2 wich was bought by my grandpa at an OFFICIAL electronic store(not some shady ass store i'm talking about a legit one), and it came with modchip included lmao
Man ... I've watched youtube videos for many many years ... but never have i gone through somebodies whole channel... until I found "Modern Vintage Gamer". You're a great content creator , you speak very clear and concise , its so easy to digest the information you are sharing. Please continue to bring us more in depth videos like this. Thank you for all your work and sharing all your knowledge :)
Same! Im going on a binge with his channel rn
You can actually run PS2 games on ANY PS3, even the non backwards compatible ones with multiMAN. Just putting it out there as it might be a pain to burn discs for some people. I haven't really touched my freemcboot/PS2 since then.
Speed isn't really an issue either even though the slims can't run the PS2 games natively, worked much better than PCSX2 for me
Sony is gonna be like "about time someone figured out after 20 years"
Lol we have been doing this for years, cturd def didnt discover this
@@joshua7426 Yup, I never chipped a PS2 in my life, used to be able to exploit by booting to a ps1 game with an exploited save file, then use that to launch custom elfs to do a disc swap trick. No chipping required, just a ps1 game (I used Mega Man X5), a PS2 game with a large "TOC" file, (DMC1 worked perfectly for this), and a fliptop.
Nintendo would be like: "OK, time to send our team of ninja... I mean lawyers after that dude".
@@nintendopunk05 Okay, you do a whole ten-step process. This works in three steps. Burn the disc, put it in the drive, and power on.
@@geniedumal2974 Yeah this is great news on that, but I just meant that you didn't always have to chip your system to do so. It's a bit of a slap to the devs that made chipless exploits available to say that it took 20 years to get to that point.
damn 20 years old already !? wtf time goes really fast ; - ;
Yeah. I remember beeing hyped for the release of ps1....
@@amnesia4844 I remember bing hyped for the release of the SNES! lol
what !? i just bought a brand new Pentium 4 Pc ... :(
Ferris didn't lie about life!
Time really does go fast ; - ;
Never had a PS2, don't have a clue about coding, hacking, yet I'm totally fascinated by this. 🤗
To this day, the PS2 is still my favorite console of all time. I had my start as far back as the Atari 2600, then on to a 7800, a NES and then SNES. By the late 1990s, I got into the Playstation. All those consoles to that point were used. The PS1 was what got me into 3d games and wanting more realism in games and more mature titles. So, when the Playstation 2 was announced, that was my first, and to date only, brand new console I ever owned. I put a PS2 on layaway about 6 months after initial release, paid it off and it was GLORIOUS! I miss my PS2, but consoles now just do not really excite me. The PS3 was nice, my roommates and I still have an early PS3 with the full PS2 hardware inside, but it needs to be repaired, the PS4 and now the PS5, really do not excite me. These days, I stick to PC gaming. However, I would love to have a PS2 again and a SNES. I am glad to see that this exploit has been found finally. I may just have to find myself another PS2......
Snes & PS2, best combo!
i agree ps4 & ps5 are boring. For me that excited me and was the best gaming years for me was the N64, PS2 and early Xbox 360 era. Nowadays modern gaming doesn't excite me anymore
i know you're my age! They have the retro SNES on eBay with the compilation carts. They're great.
Played yesterday
Alright! Now I can copy rented DVD's from Blockbuster!!
@KonicavaBR what about online streamed movies you buy? its forever yours as long as you have the password to your account.
@@MarkARoutt Unfortunately there's nothing to stop the streaming platform from going out of business, or to stop carrying the film, or to update to a modified/edited "PC" version of the film. Owning digital only means you only own the right to access it on their system as long as they choose to carry it. It doesn't guarantee us the right to a particular version of the film. I had a digital copy of the Battle of the Five Armies and when the platform it was on (Ultraviolet) went under, the digital copy was gone. I had transferred everything over to VUDU before this happened, but it got lost in the shuffle. The only way I can get it back is to buy it again, or email Warner Media and plead my case. I have the Blu-Ray and DVD, so I haven't bothered, but just to illustrate that it can (and does) happen with something you technically own.
@@Brinx01 I realized this after the fact. Maybe just tossing a digital copy onto a flash drive would be an easier way.
is blockbuster even still around?💀
@@extended2988 "no" there's one that refuses to die.
Thats incredible! Time to buy a giant stack of DVDs. Might even buy cases and print the cover art as well.
😂
Been able to do this for years
find a light scribe burner
Don't waste time burning dvd's. OPL with SMB (or an HDD in a fat) is the best way to play and preserve your Ps2.
The only DVD you need to burn is one that will allow you to install the homebrews on you memory card.
@@fernandoricardomagalhaes8521 the method I used way back when, yiu didn't even need to burn a DVD to install it. It's been so long, but there was a program/disc that allowed you to backup and restore from a USB thumb drive. You put the special file onto the thumb drive and restored it to your memory card (it was a 32MB card if I'm not mistaken) and it allowed the exploit to work. This was before the FreeMCBoot
EDIT: It involved a PS1 game for the exploit. It was called the PS2 Independence Exploit
Great stuff sir and thank you so much for uploading this video and all that you do regarding the retro scene with respect to exploits and such!
I'm not even involved in the modding scene but like this community is so awesome and wholesome, keep doing cool stuff guys.
Probably a super dumb question, but would this allow me to play Japanese PS2 games in my US console?
Possible I think from what I can see.
You wouldn't be able to play an original japanese disc with any softmod. You could use this method though to install a proper softmod (FreeMCBoot) and then play a ripped ISO of the game using OpenPS2Loader. Or you could patch the ISO such that it is bootable using this method and then burn it to a disc.
@DGR I love you Dave haha
@@YouareDEDnotbigSurprise thank you for the reply, I appreciate the info!
@@YouareDEDnotbigSurprise I'm guessing it wouldn't work for PAL region games though. There are a couple that weren't ever released stateside I want to play, but I don't know Japanese so those version wouldn't do me much good.
This is extremely similar to the Dreamcast. Imagine if this was found during the PS2 lifespan.
Your voice is such a soothing sound in this awful, awful world.
Props to CTurt for their hard work getting this done for the community!
5:00 I hate to be nit picky, but I'll leave this for anyone using/going to use Free McBoot.
I'd recommend that you configure Free McBoot to run off of Memory Card slot 2 rather than 1. The reason being that quite a few PS2 games default to saving onto Card 1 and have no support for Card 2. Play a few of those games with Free McBoot on Card 1 and you'll be out of space real fast.
I always pull the card out as soon as the game starts to load and then replace it with a card I use for game saves only.
Alternatively, use OPL for your legally owned copies and set it to use a virtual memory card on a USB or Hard drive.
Unless you buy a 64MB MC
Or even 128, but then goodbye saving/loading times 😂
I don' own 2 PS2 memory cards.
This sounds like I could resurrect the PS2 at my mother's house. She's been using it as her DVD (mostly bootleg movies) player for at least 15 years.
Will be nice to just pop a bootleg game DVD in there without modding just like she's been popping movies for more than a decade
I'm literally travelling back home to get my old ps2 this weekend
That moment when you realize consoles weren't always designed to break...
How in the world is your laser reader still working? Those things break crazy fast for me.
Reported
@@stickboy8219 Make something of your life as quickly as possible
Don't know if this is the first video of yours that I've seen or not, but this definitely sounds cool! I actually still have my PS2 and it works... I think most of my memory cards have been wiped or their internal battery died as I put them in the other day and found nothing on them, but this does open up a LOT of potential new games for me to play.
Nice! It's always cool to see new and easier mods for the PS2. For over 15 years I've been using the HD Coder CD and DVD on my flip top fat PS2 to boot to the internal 500gb HD via the network adaptor. Although it can play burned CDs and DVDs, I just rip them to the HD then choose a game to play from the menu list. It was a great setup to have back when Blockbuster was around renting games! Rent and rip!
5:07 You absolutely DO NOT need a modded system to generate a Free McBoot memory card. All you need to do is the disk swap trick which you can do very easily on fat PS2s without opening the console. You can also buy memory cards with a USB port or memory card to USB adapters to load the files onto it.
How is the swap trick possible on PS2 fat? Can you plz give link to a video or something.
@@Rotoid PS2 slide card trick. Look it up.
Agreed. I made one with an old memory card to USB adapter I had already.
@@madmatt2024 The slide card trick does run the risk of scratching a disc. The most safest method is to use a CodeBreaker 7.0 or greater but some of these either can't boot or take 20 minutes + to boot on a PS2 slim ...
That's the problem, not everyone has a working fat ps2. The newest ps2 slim is the most difficult to mod
Everyone in my local flea market are gonna sell pirated ps2 games now lol
And all will be right in the world
Ape Escape 3 for 5$ 👀
china gonna start making bootleg ps2 games
@@MrJ0mmy legal backups good sir
@@MrJ0mmy Brazil would like a word with you
Pretty crazy that people are discovering things like this 20 years later
I still have my PS2 slim, and am really excited by this!
So this means i can finally play all those games i totally got the ISO's in a careful and legal way on a PS2?
Hell yeah
free mcboot OPL is still better. i have a router with a samba share in my room so i can play all my *legal* backups without discs
@Benjamin Smith pleb tier, emulator or chipped
@@DarthMotzkus thats not because of OPL but because usb. If you play OPL from HDD no stutter.
Brilliant, if only I had this instead of swap magic back in the day. 20 years too late i'm afraid.
Word
Yep... But 20 yrs later someone figured out for an exploit that was there since the 1st day...
@@raskitoma it baffles me that no one found out about this until now considering the PS2 has sold over 100,000,000 units
@@ItzDion its like the sega Saturn how long it took em to fugure out the wooble for back ups
@@ItzDion Maybe if someone found it 20yrs ago take for sure that Sony would patched it immediately... Right now they wouldn't care... lol
Very very nice indeed. Back in the days ive always been a big "swapper" myself. Modchips
has always been extremely hard& risky to do on ps2s as well. So i think that is why so many chose alternative ways into the ps2 (swap, hdloading, AR memorycard or similar). But having a natural way into the ps2 without any modding/extra equipments is always a welcome. Especially if you like me have a giantoid original ps2 collection & dont want your original cd & dvd games to be scratched. And a big Congratz to CTurt of cause.
I'm just here because I miss the golden ages of gaming , hanging out with my cousins and spending the night playing games , no DLC the game was complete when you first bought it upon release , leaving the PS2 on forever till you got your hands on a memory card good times man good times.
Same here, lots of good games to play with a second person back then. Streets of Rage, Super Double Dragon, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, The Raiden Project 1 and 2, Power Stone, Legend of the Mystical Ninja (faaaantasticly good games all of em) and I could go on for days lol.
I feel like this is Dreamcast's revenge after this many years.
Too little too late doesn't even cover that remark :p
yeah Sony done made their millions
Lol Dreamcast piracy was out of control. Even as a kid I knew it was bad for Sega. Most of the kids I knew just didn't buy Dreamcast games lol. There was guy at local pawn shop selling bootlegs for $5 a pop. Had every single release.
Jay Rivera and now those original copies are worth 80-200$ a pop. So if you did buy a Dreamcast you have one heck of a value and one hell of a console.
@@boogiedownnyc I found out that you can just burn the files to a blank cd-r from the local retro game store :) I own all the dreamcast games now lol
I've PS2 Slim for around 10 years, it's unmodified. But I can play the games from the burned DVDs and in some cases from the CDs too (Contra: Shattered Soldier
). It's PS2 Slim PAL India. I had purchased it sealed so I'm sure it's unmodified. Can someone explain to me the reason?
Some countries sold PS2's pre-installed with modchips, like Brazil and India
@@crustjunkie in all europe ...hah..i buy with chip ps2...in the store, with waranty..that was 2005
Repackaged? Fake seal?
@@crustjunkie Same goes with Indonesia
@@wibs0n68 betul kak, semua console di glodok hasil refurbish. nggk ada yg perawan.
In LatinAmerica this was completely normal since the games were too expensive to buy.
In Russia we has pre install mod chip in all PS1 console. And piracy was normal too.
What was normal was to buy PS2 witht eh Matrix chip already installed. Most people here never bought an official PS2, just a version already modded on the 'grey market' and most had no idea about that and just thought it was normal to pay so low for games.
Time to dust off the PS2!
Too bad I sold mine last year..oh well.
@@st4rpt_603 And I found a working one a few weeks ago, in the e-waste. I never expected myself to own one 😅
I just don't have space on the cabinet to set it up though. It's why my TI99/4a is put away in it's box.
I need to buy controllers cause if not my discs wont even start up
I just fixed mine today! 😁
This is really cool. I can see another use of this, other than charging FreeMcboot or backups. Since it can run homebrew, this exploit open the door to new, easy commercial release of games for the PS2, in the vein of what we see for older, cartridge based console. With this, everybody can create a game and easily make it run on stock PS2s.
I thought his name was Sea Turd until I read the description. Thanks CTurt!
Lmao :D
XDD lol
That sounds like a great ironic name for a yacht
Super interesting stuff, I'm surprised this sort of exploit wasn't looked into sooner, but it's very cool nonetheless.
Excited for this project as nothing better than to have all games on disc and to free up hdd space well done 👏
Never had much consoles when growing up, only my DS, and closest to homebrew I've ever been was with the R4 cards. Still I'm hoping that someday I can buy consoles like this, "mod" them to my heart's content and live the childhood I wish I had. It's cool!
Ps Vita would be perfect for you
The reader died on mine. It's still lying around at my parents' house.
RIP buddy. You are missed.
Open it and clean the lazer with a cotton soft cloth. While open put game inside see if it sorts the problem. If not Four screws around the cd-rom first tighten them then try game again. Still not sorted try loosening (4screws) not fully but a bit then try game agian. Should work if not new reader or ps2 of ebay.
Or use network to load games with OPL. It's simpler than you expect.
It's a kinda hard mod, but you can make it run from an HDD.
Suman Roy The laser deck (laser, worm motor, spindle motor, and base) is about $30+ or so dollars on ebay. Find out your ps2 model number first. You can also find parts on richspsxparts.com. Its not hard to install on your own.
Fixing it's not worthy, just mod it with free mcboot
Hey there Great Video💯 I really appreciate all the effort and time you put into your video's.😊
Great effort, huge work for keeping PlayStation alive! Big news, indeed! Quick question: Would a PAL PS2 run an NTSC game, in that way?
Well now i can play fan translations of stuff like Dragon Quest V and Persona 2
I wants to play the Japanese version of final fantasy 12 with English translation
@a swirl of silliness dude just get the collection on ps4 or ps3
Can you add fan translations to them. I have a copy of dq5 how would I do that?
@mazrimalthor
Because I'm a broke motherf**ker.
FreeMCBoot Memory Cards are actually easy to get hold of, and once you have it, you can make more.
However. would be interesting to see if this runs on the 90xxx series
The 90xxx series has the fortuna project now, its running on my 2009 90004
@@RFLCPTR Cool, I didn't know that, been out the PS2 lop for a couple of years :)
@@RFLCPTR fortuna still needs you to copy the files to the memorycard somehow though, so you need access to a modded ps2 before being able to do anything
@@davidoli Nope, I did the glorious swap trick with 007 Agent in Fire
@@RFLCPTR that's still not ideal since you have to buy the game first. I'm really glad FreeDVDBoot is a thing now, you can add ulaunchelf to it then install freemcboot or just run your stuff off an USB stick
Great summary, thank you man
This is HUGE. I remember how much of a process it was to get Free McBoot installed, what with disassembly, disc swapping, finding the right USB drive....
I can finally sell my copy of 007: Agent Under Fire.
Lolololol I remember around 2014 I tried modding my ps2 which I didn't know was modded.
That game was for hacking an original xbox mate nothing to do with the ps2 im afraid
@@kocsis1978 is this a joke? cuz the same game was used to also hack the ps2.
@@lonttugamer2939 it can be used to hack any console from that era. Xbox og, ps2 and GameCube.
@@bitelaserkhalif huh never knew that
This is great news and pretty cool! Regarding newer firmware exploits, I feel like they're going to get more complicated on more recent systems, because there are systems in place like stack smashing protection, position-independent code and the likes that make exploitation much harder. We don't rely on programmers to secure their software that much anymore (thankfully - to err is human after all). If anything, the release of this exploit could be the event that triggers OEMs to use safer compilation flags for their code... but I suspect this has been the case for a while.
Amazing! After many years someone finally did it.
Not very many things makes me feel old, but realizing PS2 is 20 years old sure did it! Wow.
This is really cool. To me, it means that homebrew and unlicensed games from the 8 and 16-bit era can be burned to disc and ran on PS2 with emulators. That opens up a huge market for those developers, and I hope they capitalize on it.
Pseudo Saturn: 20 years later
Free DVD Boot: 20 years later
Is there a pattern here?
Yes, legal matters
20 is a bad omen
so we have to wait till 2026 till there's a PS3 homebrew boot hack?
@@ninjartist36 You mean good?
The title is a joke, nothing more as miss information, to collect clicks.
Most PS2's can play burned dvd's without a mod chip for at least 10 years, with FreeMcBoot.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_homebrew
nice summery, crazy to think this was just sitting there for so many years and able to play games
1:12 that crude drawing of a ps2 disc of Tetris made me laugh haha
Now this is epic. it only took 20 years lol
Thats bc the RE Tool (Ghidra) was released by the NSA less than 2 years ago. Doing that w/o Ghidra whould be A LOT harder
Welp, it took almost 17 years to remake Spongebob BFBB as well.
Meanwhile in the year 2049 A.D.
"Guys we did it! We finally managed to bypass the copy protection on an unmodified PS5. The PS5 can now play burned games."
"Too bad only two people bought the version with the drive. And i am one of them. Hey Jerry, do you still have that PS5? Good news"
It's gonna be worthwhile tho. Graphics are brimming with 4k 60fps and certain titles are gonna be one of the best in consoles for decades to come.
Miss me with that trash ima be vibin with my nerve gear in a gta 9 strip club
See you in 2049
Luichin Playstation ye bro add me in 2049 on the neve joint, my tag would be: dimmydude
This was a positively wonderful explanation of how the technology actually works...so rare to find..thank you much..i want to learn as much I can...lol I'm so fascinated with how things really work.👊
I just tried it on my PAL SCPH-90002 with 3.11U DVD and it worked perfectly for me.
Before reading the description, I thought you were crediting this to a guy named "Sea Turd".
Not just me, then. 🤣
Yeah, me too
Amazing how it took 20 years for someone to try this out, now that I think about it the DVD drive would make sense to try to find an exploit with it especially since DVD players were still relatively new at the time.
Brother Davi Sancti yeah that is kind of surprising
I was just looking at getting a ps2 again! and now this !! Keep my eye on this, tnx
This is pretty awesome. Going to keep an eye on this.
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This would've been great about 13 years ago when I was so desperately trying to launch a burned Shadow of Colossus. Played it on PS3 and PS4 since then.
For the record, I didn’t have a modded system to generate Free McBoot on my memory card. I used a GameShark disc lol.
I just used a ps2 USB memory card adapter for PC
You can use PS2 Fortuna Project to load OPL in consoles without chip but still need to put the files on the mc. Some friend with unlauchelf can do it for you
I remember installing my mcboot on a completely unmodified PS2, I used 007 Agent Under Fire, there's an exploit where you remove the disc and replace it during the loading of the 2nd or 3rd level.
I'd love to see a video about this exploit and why it works specifically with that game!
Great content as usual. Thank you!
Using the official PS2 memory card usb adapter for PS3 you can make a freemcboot memory card easily using either your PS3 or PC.
not to mention that if you have a fat ps2 you can just install browser 2.0 or freehdboot to the hdd instead.
no need for an already modded system.
Do you people not grasp that every alternative you keep mentioning costs money? A blank DVD costs pennies. Your adapter does not, your pre-made FreeMcBoot memory card does not, your mod chip does not. And with every passing day as this gen gets older and older your alternatives get more and more expensive.
@@Xathian It always infuriates me that these people ignore cheaper alternatives because they are slightly less convenient. It's like this for every console that I want to hack.
@@Xathian I'm just clarifying that this new method is not such an enormous deal if you have a fat ps2.
And if you have a fat ps2 you want to install an internal hdd anyway, using dvd's on fat ps2 is not the brightest idea.
@mazrimalthor your experience is the exception, and is not the rule.
I live in Chile and I never have seen a Playstation 2 for sale without mod.
Esta es tierra de piratas, no es igual en el resto del mundo. Si hay un metodo lo usamos.
En Chile se ven a veces en el marketplace algunas PS2 sin chip. Hay gente que las valora más de hecho por tener esa característica.
y si no era chipeada, esta venia con el magic swap disk.
Thank You Very Much. I'm sorry I don't have more right now, as I took a look at the two color codes and pricing. The Holy Grail, huh?
We need a update on the progress of further development on other firmware models of the PS2, great video man this truely is the holy grail, can’t believe it took 2 decades for discovery. I have a freemcboot and honestly don’t like it, I don’t want to use the interface and my son isn’t old enough to figure it out at times, I want him to just put a game in and play it just like we did when we were kids
When premieres a new MVG video but it comes without the intro
Me: This is some serious shit right there
Damn this reminds me when I was a kid and I played bootleg movies on my PS2 Slim. Good times
Come to think of it, me and my dad pirated fight night, because the original cd that we had has a lot of scratches, and so we pirated even though our internet back then was so slow. So much nostalgia 🥺
This might blow the PS2 homebrew scene wide open. I hope it does.
Might end up seeing DVD releases of homebrew games like you do with the Sega Dreamcast now! I might even start researching game development for the PS2.
The first thing I thought of while watching this was "Wait, that means that you could potentially run the McBoot loader install homebrew app to prep a memory card WITHOUT needing a chipped system!"
This feels like an unsolved Easter Egg got finally found.
Omgggg amazing congratulations to this guys 👀👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I love the way you explain things you should teach an IT course :)
Saw this on Twitter, i knew you will make a video about it!
death, taxes, and piracy.
And we are all considered winners
I don't get it
@@EpicTyphlosionTV read it backwards, (piracy, taxes and death) its all you'll get from it :)
@@EpicTyphlosionTV The only certain things in life.
What is taxes?
Everything is hackable, some sytems just takes way longer time to crack. Awesome video man :D
It's incredible that people work on these consoles after such a long time. Makes me wonder why someone didn't discover it after release