Google (much less the ars search, which won't search any three letter words) completely failed me on this. <BR><BR>I have an original PS2. I just bought a DVD burned on DVD-R (not a game, this is ...

Building on an idea he’s had since he was a kid, security software engineer CTurt has developed a way for people to play unofficial games on a PS2 console by burning them onto a DVD alongside an ...

CTurt created software called FreeDVDBoot that uses the PS2's DVD player as an entry point to bypass disc checks at the software level. No hardware modification is required.

However, it might just be a matter of using the discs themselves to fool the console. Security software engineer CTurt has developed a homebrew app method that exploits the DVD player function to ...

A security software engineer has figured out a way for people to play unofficial games using their PlayStation 2 consoles, and all that is really needed to do so is a game burned onto a DVD disc ...

Grab your PS2, a normal-size Phillips and a flathead screwdriver, a small or jeweler's size Phillips screwdriver, a can of compressed air, and one each of (if you own any): a DVD, a PSone game, a ...

The only burnable media the PS2 DVD drive will normally read comes in the form of DVD video discs. Thus, [CTurt]’s search began in the code of the on-board DVD player software.

One thing that the PlayStation 2 is famous for doing is reading DVDs. It was because of that one feature that most people began to view the console as a cheaper DVD player that could also play ...

It also upgrades the PS2 DVD drivers to version 2.10, which fixes some compatibility problems (the two-disc Disney SE's now work flawlessly) and allows the remote to perform some new actions that ...

Will the current PlayStation be able to play new PlayStation 2 games? Absolutely not. ... (650 megabytes) discs as well as DVD-formatted discs (4.7 gigabytes).