Awesome Open PlayStation 2 Projects

Apps, projects, hacks, exploits and homebrews!

• Loaders/Launchers

  • OPL - Open PlayStation 2 Loader
  • wLaunchELF
  • iLaunchELF - Http Based ELF loader Demo For the PS2
  • Free Mermory Card Boot
  • Free DVD Boot
  • Fortuna Launcher - (obs: this is not Fortuna Exploit)
  • OSDSYS Launcher - tool that allows users of PS2 consoles with BIOS v2.30+ to launcher OSDSYS updates

• Game Covers Download repo

  • https://github.com/xlenore/ps2-covers

• SDKs

  • PS2SDK - Open PlayStation 2 Development Kit
  • Prussia - A PS2 SDK Rewritten in Rust
  • Enceladus - Kit to create homebrew software for PlayStation 2 using the Lua language
  • AthenaEnv - Kit to create homebrew software for PlayStation 2 using the JavaScript language
  • Tyra - Kit to create homebrew games for PlayStation 2 using C++ language with VU1 support

• Emulators

  • PCSX2
  • DobieStation

• Networking Tools

  • Homebrew Downloader
  • HDL_Dump - Install games into PS2 HD through network

• SDK's Libraries

  • LIB CRC32
  • gsKit - Graphics Synthesizer Library for PS2SDK
  • ps2rd
  • lib Vorbis - Generalk purpose MPEG-4's AAC and TwinVQ lib
  • VU Trace - Tracing debugger for the PS2's second vector processing unit (VPU1)

• Cheating/Code breaking

  • CheatDevice

• General tools

  • mymcplus - Memory Card manager
  • Cue Maker - Get CUE files to your .bins
  • Linux Kernel for PS2

• Programming Languages implementatons

  • Java Grinder - Translates .class bytecodes to native assembly like JIT compiler - explanation
  • YaBasic - Yet Another BASIC language implementation to develop playing on PS2

• Hardwares Mods

  • Modchips
    • ...
  • SIO2SD - SD Card adapter interface
  • Retro Gem - Universal HDMI Upscaler Kit

• Youtube channels with PS2 related videos

  • [PT-BR]
    • HardLevel
    • Daniel Santos

Homebrew or Ported Open Source Games

• SuperTux port from Linux to PS2
• TyraCraft Minecraft Clone for PS2
• "Dungeon" test demo game from Guilherme Lampert