You found a PS2 during a large containment storage and you would like to be able to put it back into service to discover the richness of the platform? This is undoubtedly the situation in which a fairly talented developer found himself. Talented to the point of finding a solution surprising enough to rediscover the joys of his old game console, by diverting a banal mechanical operation, common to all DVD players and present in the second generation of Sony console.
Calling himself CTurt, this developer has developed a software solution which makes it possible, to put it simply, to make the console believe that it has a DVD in the player and not a game. To do this, he explains that he proceeded in two stages.
He identified and modified a system file that all DVD movies have in common and that allows the console player to identify them. A file which opens only a restricted access to the resources of the console, to answer the need for reading of the video stream.
Then he coded another file allowing him to enlarge the path, so that all the material resources can be exploited and therefore run games, called from this file and engraved on the cake. As proof, he posted a video of the final result.
At your peril
According to his maker, it would even be possible to compile several games on the same disc and to be able to make a simple interface that would look like a small DVD menu and instead of choosing a movie scene, we would select a game. Other track reflection highlighted by this developer: on paper, it would be possible to do the same on all other Sony consoles. Current and to come. Only the All-Digital model of the future PlayStation 5 expected for the end of the year is excluded since it does not have an optical drive. We remind you, however, that copying games is illegal and that the whole procedure described by the developer in his log book is not in the nails either.
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