One engineer came up with an interesting idea of how to run unofficial versions of games on the PlayStation 2 console without modifying it for that purpose.
The PlayStation 2 still holds the best-selling home console record to this day. There are several reasons for this, and we will not lie - and piracy is one item that helped sell the console. Namely, unlike later consoles, playing pirated games on the PlayStation 2 console was possible from its very beginnings. There were various methods of piracy, but one thing they all had in common - the console had to be modified in some way to be able to run unlicensed content.
But years after the PlayStation 2 did its thing, a software engineer nicknamed CTurt came up with a very specific way that bypassed the need to modify the console to run games not intended for that console.
In short, he took advantage of one flaw in the PlayStation 2 console as a DVD player. This means that it burns the desired games on a DVD-R disc together with a file that confuses the console and through this omission allows you to play games that you could not legally play on the PS2. And that's it: just insert the disc into the console, just as you insert the original game - no need to pre-install chips or buy memory cards to hack the console.
CTurt places emphasis on running games from older Nintendo consoles and the like, but has also demonstrated the ability to run PS2 games that are not originals but copies. Of course, this is now in the realm of piracy, which the author of this hack is not interested in, but he is interested in the idea of applying the same principle of exploiting this flaw on other PlayStation consoles, primarily PlayStation 4.
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