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It has 32 groups of instructions, and is interesting because it could potentially be used to dynamically manipulate internal memory state to prime an exploit, or it could be used to create a universal DVD with a menu which allows you to select your firmware version and trigger the appropriate exploit.Д¬learly it's not practical to do most of our testing on the real hardware since burning hundreds of test discs would be wasteful and time inefficient. The interaction machine is what allows for interactive menus and games in DVD Videos. The IFO file format is probably the simplest format used, and is responsible for storing the metadata that links the video files together. For the proprietary aspects there are some freely accessible unofficial references. Whilst the complete DVD Video specification is unfortunately behind a paywall, it is comprised largely of open formats like MPEG, just bundled together in a proprietary container format (VOB). If we think about what a DVD Video consists of there are quite a few main components, each with the potential for vulnerabilities: The console supports playing burned DVD video discs, which exposes significant attack surface we could potentially exploit to achieve our goal.

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Obviously we can't just burn a disc containing an ELF file and expect the PS2 to boot it we'll need to exploit some kind of software vulnerability related to parsing of controlled data. Loading backups of commercial games is also possible. This blog post will describe the technical details and process of reversing and exploiting the DVD player. Ultimately, I was successfully able to achieve my goal by exploiting the console's DVD player functionality. Is it possible to just burn our own homebrew games and launch them on an unmodified console the same way we would launch official discs (without going through any user interaction like disc swapping or triggering a network exploit in a game)?

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LetвЂ™s check out how Free McBoot works.Don't have a PS2 Slim compatible with Free Mcboot. Playing Games via USB on your PS2 is now very easy using Free Mcboot. 3.2 Locate 'uLE v4.38 boot CD ISO.iso' that you've extracted it into the desktop earlier then set the Write Speed to 16x for e.g according to your disc. Free McBoot is a homebrew software which is designed to setup your PlayStation 2 console with. This leaves an interesting question which I've wanted to solve since I was a child:ДЇree McBoot - PS 2.

But unlike say the Nintendo 64, where we don't really have any other choice but to resort to exploiting games over interfaces like modems, the PlayStation 2 has one key difference: its primary input is optical media (CD / DVD discs), a format which anyone can easily burn with readily available consumer hardware. The PlayStation 2 has other sources of untrusted input that we could attack games which support online multiplayer or USB storage could almost definitely be exploited. I decided to write-off that exploit as being impractical, and so the hunt continued for a better attack scenario for the PlayStation 2. Although I was successful at producing the first software based entry-point exploit that can be triggered using only hardware that came with the console, the attack was largely criticized due to the requirement of having to enter the payload manually through the controller or keyboard, and limitation of being PAL only. My initial attempt to solve this problem was to exploit the BASIC interpreter that came bundeld with early PAL region PS2s. For the best selling console of all time, it deserves better hacks.

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You need to either purchase a memory card with an exploit pre-installed (or a memory card to USB adapter), a HDD expansion bay (not available to slim consoles), open up the console to block the disc tray sensors, or install a modchip.

I've previously discussed how the PlayStation 2 doesn't have any good entry-point software exploits for launching homebrew.

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