

Note that DVD Player updates, like all memory card applications, are locked to the individual memory card MagicGate ID and to the console's MagicGate region additionally, DVD Player updates are locked to the console's DVD region, but the following steps will take care of everything Note: JAP.ELF and US_EU.ELF differ in which button is OK and which one is Back.

It is also made in a variant runnable from USB, for the lazy people or the Memory Card (8MB) (for PlayStation 2) free-space challengedĪs most commercial software, it's not legal in most countries to redistribute it, however thanks to The Internet you may find it with the keyword " 3.11J_PROGRESSIVE3_FINAL.7z". Luckily for us (all sixty people who watch movies on PS2), krHACKen of AssemblerGames has dumped the final version of DVD Player (Japanese 3.11) and developed a hacked version that is region free and outputs interlaced video as RGB! These updates have been inconsistently released to the public as update CDs, although not in every region, and not the same versions for every region. YUV/YPbPr mode forced instead of RGB (as RGB skips Macrovision copy protection).Movie region lock bypass button combo removed.Progressive scan (only on SCPH-500xx and above, and only with component video).New console support (Slims have a region setting in the write-protected part of the EEPROM on previous models region-specific roms are used).Multiple DVD Player updates have since then been developed, with features such as: Notably, the earliest Japanese consoles did not have builtin DVD player software, but rather came with an update installation CD!

As you may know, while the PS2 system software is stored on hard ROM, it is designed to support updates from memory card or internal HDD (except for "non-softmoddable" SCPH-900xx's with ROM version 2.30 indeed, FreeMCBoot works by installing itself as an OSD update).
