This allows the user to then easily swap Swap Magic for another game, be it a backup or an import, as long as the tray’s sensors are all blocked and the PS2 doesn’t know that the tray is being opened, then you can easily swap it. Swap Magic has a set of intentionally bad sectors where some files are supposed to exist, when Swap Magic tells the PS2’s CDVD drive to read these files on such bad sectors, it fails, the PS2 keeps retrying but is eventually unable to read them, causing the CDVD drive to stop both the laser and motor, so the disc stops spinning.
The PS2 reads SM’s main ELF and loads it as any other game, and this is where the fun begins. Swap Magic is a pressed disc that the PS2 recognizes as legit (how they managed to press PS2 discs is beyond me, but unofficial pressed discs have been existing since the PS1 era). Once the PS2 verifies the disc, it starts by loading the ELF file pointed to by a SYSTEM.CNF file inside the disc, from there on the game has the ability to do whatever it wants, as there’s no real Operating System, the game runs on bare metal, the only check the PS2 does from now on is on the laser sensors (which vary depending on the model) to know if the tray has been opened or not.
PS2 games have the ability to load ELF files inside the disc, as long as the inserted disc is verified. Disc Swapping was also out of the question, Sony learned from their mistakes and you can no longer simply fool the PS2 as you did with the PS1.ĭespite this, hackers weren’t stopped and many ways to circumvent the PS2’s security were found, most of which relied on modchips, but I will not reviewing them, I will review other PS2 hacks I consider clever or a stupid mistake by Sony.Īlso, since the PS2 security is vast, I will not talk about it as I did for the NES and PS1, I will only talk about the specific hacks and how they work, not more not less.Īlthough the swapping trick used on the PS1 doesn’t apply for PS2 games, Swap Magic made good use of a feature the PS2 had.
#Free mcboot ps2 game swap trick Patch
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