After your uLaunch ELF CD is burned, label it uLaunch ELF and set it aside.

The PS Vita scene has blown up in 2018 and a flood of new mods and homebrew are out.

I didnt know such a thing existed, but hey Ive got one of those.

So I went down in to the basement, dug it out of a box, blew the dust off it, and got started.

If you take a look at this and decide that its not for you, you can forgo this entire guide and spend around 10 on eBay to achieve the same result.

Not kidding. Just search eBay for Free McBoot and purchase a 8MB memory card with the Free McBoot hack already installed on it.

Keep in mind that you still need a Free McBoot-compatible PS2 slim for this to work (details for determining your PS2 slim version are below).

You must have a PS2 slim that is manufactured before the 3rd quarter of 2008.

This can be anything from 4 to 9 (2004 to 2009) and also 0 to 3 (2010 to 2013).

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The second digit in the date code is the quarter of manufacture, A through D for first through fourth quarter of that year.

Mine is 4C, which means it was manufactured in the third quarter of 2004.

PS2 slims that were manufactured in 3rd quarter 2008 came with different versions of firmware, so its a crap shoot.

Anything newer than 8B may require a physical mod chip be soldered in.

The goal here is to install a hack application called Free McBoot on a memory card.

Although a PS2 slim is required to do this, after the Free McBoot application is installed, the memory card can then be used in another PS2 slim manufactured 8B or earlier, as well as any fat PS2 Because of this, some people have made a business out of selling PS2 memory cards that already have Free McBoot on them online, so if you have a fat PS2 or an 8B or earlier slim, you could just purchase one of those cards and use it straight away.

Slim Hacking Archive Site Like

I even found tutorials from 2014 that mentioned the sites were gone and that you needed to use an archive site like Wayback Machine to access archived copies of the sites to get the tools.

Lucky for you Ive collected all of the required tools and put them in one RAR archive.

All of these tools, as well as the method, are 100 tested and working on my own hardware.

The file that we insert will be the payload to launch unsigned code.

Insert a USB version 2.0 flash drive in to your Windows computer and format it as FAT32.

Extract the contents of noob.rar to the root of the flash drive.

While you still have the flash drive inserted, go ahead and copy the OPL0.9.3.ELF file from OPL0.9.3.rar to the root of the flash drive as well.

Extract the contents of uLaunchELF-v4.12CD.rar.

You should have a.bin and.cue file.

If youve ever burned a CD before you should know what these are.

If you dont already have CD burning software, you can search the web for software that will allow you to burn BINCUE images.

Ps2 Slim Hacking