The Pragmatic Addict

Playstation 2 Soft Mods

FreeDVDBoot - DVD Player Exploit

This is a way to create a DVD disc with an exploit that soft mods the playstation to run wLaunchELF. It looks like this project has been abandoned. I used it on a PS2 slim to install FreeMcBoot.

wLaunchELF - File Manager & Executable Launcher

Excellent file management tool. New versions even support ExFAT! This is basically the swiss army knife of the filesystem.

FreeMcBoot Installer - Mem Card Exploit

This is another exploit that can be loaded into the memory card. Once you use FreeDVDBoot to run this you can install into your PS2 memory card. This is the way going forward to boot your PS2 with the softmod. No DVD needed!

Integrate the latest utils into FreeMcBoot

This was a bit tricky at first to get right. Here are the locations of where to install newer versions of apps once you get FreeMcBoot going on your mem card:

APPS/OPNPS2LD.ELF
BOOT/ESR.ELF

Open PS2 Loader (OPL) - Game Launcher

This is the utility to run your .iso images of games. In my case I’m using a samba server to store all my game CD/DVDs. Newer versions of this also support ExFat.

OPL CFG files - Config files for EVERY game!

OPL Dir Structure

ESR - Play a modded burned disc.

ESRtool - Mod ISO file for burning.

Burning a modified ISO image

growisofs -speed=1 -dvd-compat -Z /dev/sr0=/tmp/SLUS-20675\ \(1.03\).iso

Convert .bin to .iso

sudo apt-get install ccd2iso
ccd2iso MyImage.bin WhateverFilename.iso

Created: 2024-06-16 Modified: 2024-06-24