Anyone hear about the new PS2 Exploit?

No this can't do that. It required you to patch and burn your games.

 

Well its very easy to back up your imports and then patched to play.

 

Indeed, and then you can preserve/protect your imports that you paid good money to get. Also it's worth mentioning again that PS2 CD-ROM games must be converted to run on DVD in order to work with this exploit as it requires a DVD-Video disc to read from.

 

So lets see if I get this stright,I put the ESR dvdv direct elf on my memory card and have it named boot.elf then patch a ps2 game then the game should boot.
Is that it or am I missing something.

 

First you have to install Free Mcboot on your memory card, then you put and rename the ERS dvdv direct elf.

 

I would recommend you install Free MCBoot with uLaunch as the Boot.ELF. Then use that to launch ESR. This allows you to use uLaunch for other things such as updating ESR.

 

Yeah, I'm doing that. The only downside of installing FMC is that it weights too much (like 1.5 megs).

 

I don't mind it that much, and I only have 1 memory card. Ofcourse I tend to delete games I don't play that much or don't see a point in maintaining a save for.

 

Ok cool,I knew it wasn't that easy lol

I can install it just fine as I have have installed exploits before,makes it a hell of alot easier when you have a modded ps2:icon_bigg

 

SwapMagic discs will do the trick too. So will anything that lets you put files on your memory card if you have a Fat PS2 so you can install PS1Drv exploit to then run the installer for Free MCBoot. With only a Slim PS2, your best option would be Swap Magic 3.6 or newer since you can use it to load ELF files from USB.

 

I felt this was worth mentioning. The ESR program is now version 0.8a and seems to have very good compatibility now. The one game I was having issuses with was Street Fighter Alpha Anthology, which also has issues with HDLoader where the frontend works, but none of the games actually load.

As of version 0.8a SFA Anthology works perfectly. So I don't currently have any games that don't work with ESR. It's quite nice.

 

i just love these new efforts in the ps2 homebrew scene.

but i still prefer a chipped ps2, makes life just a little bit easier not having to patch the stuff etc.

 

SUcks they are hard to find now.

 

^ agreed

I do love that my ps2 is modded but I really don't play it that much.

 

Patching backups is only an issue if you already have burned backups that weren't patched. Also it's important to note that a "patched" backup doesn't really do anything much to it, and the game will work find with modded systems and swap tricks. All it does is modify the UDF file system to look like a DVD-Video. The games themselves use the ISO file system so they aren't affected.

I like this break through because it enables you to use most backups on ANY system with no effort. No tweaking or anything at all is needed. Just plugging in your card and you're good to go. I mean you can't get sweeter than that. Unless you figure out a way to burn a 1:1 backup as in with protection intact.

I used to want to get a modchip for my system because I was tired of swapping discs. But then I got HDLoader which does most of anything you could want, though it has issues with some games. Now FreeMCBoot & ESR have come along and they let you basically have a plug in modchip, not in the way they had those for PS1 but in a real way that you don't have any funky business.

And who knows, maybe in the future someone will make it so you plug in your card and it loads a hacked PS2 Browser.ELF that will automatically boot patched backups like real games (with the Sony logo and all that) as well as let you load homebrew from the browser menu.

Again the part that rocks is that you don't need anything special and can use it with any PS2. If you have a PS1, you have to hunt down a modchip or settle for a swapping trick that is limited in what games will work. On Sega Saturn you have to swap trick or hunt down a mod. But, with PS2 all you will have to do is put a program on a memory card.

GameCube was close in the way you just booted Action Replay with SDLoad, but those items aren't all that common, not like the PS2. The Xbox system itself isn't all that common even though you can softmod that. Anyway, I'm sure I wouldn't think this was so nice if it weren't for the fact that the PS2 has a very big library of nice games. And it's interesting it took until the end of its lifespan for such an amazing thing to come along and hopefully it will not be fixed in any later PS2 revision.

 

This seems a bit tricky, is there a pre-made ISO which installs this exploit on the memory card?

I only found info and tutorials about the PS1 exploit, you insert a PS1 disk and it triggers the old exploit, but how does this one work exactly?

What triggers this exploit?

 

Well, nothing triggers it. It's taking advantage of something Sony put in the system where at boot it checks a folder on the memory cards to see if OSDMAIN.ELF exists. If it does it checks if it is signed properly and if so it is loaded. The break through came when people managed to make their own loader this way.

You could install it by making a CD and swap booting it or whatever. There's a FreeMCBoot installer ELF program. I would suggest grabbing ULAUNCH, the FreeMCBoot installer, and ESR v0.8a and burning them on a disc with ULAUNCH being what the SYSTEM.CNF loads.

From ULAUNCH you can copy ULAUNCH.ELF to the memory card in the proper folder, I forget which it is. It might be like mcx:/BOOT/BOOT.ELF. Then you just install the FreeMCBoot by running the installer program and from then on ULAUNCH will boot on powerup if you have that memory card inserted. Then just put ESR on the memory card too.

It's not hard to do really, especially if you already have the PS1Drv exploit or SwapMagic.

 

I tried to use free mc boot and esf but its way to confusing,I wish there was a nice all one in one package instead of throwing everything together.What confuses me is adding elf's to the mc card and then having them to be in a certion folder and has to be a certion name.

 

this is a bit tricky x_x

so I make a CD with all of these which will boot uLaunch, then when uLaunch starts i have to run freeMCboot which is the apps that will install both uLaunch and ESR on the Memorycard, am I right so far?

So when the above steps are done I just power on the system and it boots into uLanch (which I assume is just an app/elf launcher) and then run ESR ?

sorry Im a bit confused im a ps2 n00b, I got my first PS2 a few weeks ago and never messed with ps2 homebrew stuff

 

I think it will only install freeMCboot, then you have to rename the ulaunch elf to Boot.Elf and place it in the Boot folder in your Menory Card.