Here’s what the date code looks like on the PS2 slim.

You must have a PS2 slim that is manufactured before the 3rd quarter of 2008. Find Your PS2 Slim Manufacture DateĪ not on the version of PlayStation 2 slim required. The list looks like a lot, but you should have most of this stuff lying around if you already own a PlayStation 2.

Some tape – I used Scotch, but a lot of people use duct tape.

A DVD+-RW drive capable of burning DVDs and CDs.

One USB 2.0 flash drive formatted FAT32.

One retail legal Playstation 1 game disc (game doesn’t matter) or CD-based PS2 game disc (these are rare).

One retail legal PlayStation 2 DVD game disc (game doesn’t matter).

A PlayStation 2 controller (wired is preferred).

A PlayStation 2 slim model manufactured 3rd quarter 2008 or before (more on that later).

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). Just search eBay for “Free McBoot” and purchase a 8MB memory card with the Free McBoot hack already installed on it. If you take a look at this and decide that it’s not for you, you can forgo this entire guide and spend around $10 on eBay to achieve the same result. So I went down in to the basement, dug it out of a box, blew the dust off it, and got started.īefore you read through this guide, let me save you some time.

I didn’t know such a thing existed, but hey – I’ve got one of those. While researching Vita homebrew, I came across a video from 2012 where someone demonstrated a soft mod for the PlayStation 2 slim. What scene isn’t booming in 2018? The PlayStation 2 scene. The PS Vita scene has blown up in 2018 and a flood of new mods and homebrew are out. I recently did a write-up on how to softmod a PS Vita and a PlayStation TV.

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