It's recommended to keep your Swap Magic disc clean, and free of scratches of course. Luckily, over time you will become accustomed to this process.Ī personal experience I had with Swap Magic was that, my modern day Slimline PS2 had trouble reading CDROM PS2 games altogether, so the CDROM functionality was thrown out of the window. One partial disadvantage to Swap Magic is, that, it becomes a hassle to wait for Swap Magic to load, switch the discs out, and load the backup. The online functionality is taken away once a backup is created, but there are patches that fix this problem, so it is still possible to play online with your backup(s). Swap Magic also isn't compatible with all PS2 games either, but it is compatible with a healthy amount of them. Poor media can hurt how well a game loads, or if the game loads at all. When you burn numerous backups, you can experiment with which speeds, and brands of media your PS2 likes or dislikes. A similar exploit existed in Motorstorm.When it comes down to using Swap Magic 3.6, you will have to pick out the best media for DVDs, and CDs.
Apart from this, apparently Team ICE managed to get unsigned code working using this exploit, but nothing good came out of this. It required an original copy of Resistance: Fall of Man and was performed by starting the campaign, pausing the game, ejecting the disc, putting the other game in the drive and selecting “quit game” in the pause menu.
This exploit allowed you to bypass the firmware update check to play newer games without updating. – Resistance: Fall of Man and Motorstorm exploit
This exploit was found in an mpeg video file, but sadly nothing more than a POC came out of it, it might not even be an exploit (as you might have learned from the psp scene, not all crashes are exploits).Ī vulnerability was found that allowed the use of Remote Play on non-PSP systems, such as a PC, by simply disguising our PCs as a PSP, this was patched in firmware 2.80, but not for long since we can now patch the official Vaio Remote Play to use on any PC.
It is also known that firmware 3.21 fixed a potential vulnerability in the playback of mp4 files, we may never know what this vulnerability was and what it could have brought to us, but if Sony patched it, it was for a reason. Other such methods were tried to hack the ps3, including corrupted mp3 files that the ps3 recognized as working and later crashed when trying to play it. While the tiff exploit was real and allowed one to bypass the firmware update check, it’s use to play ps1 backups was never confirmed. Unfortunately, it was patched in version 2.10, and people who have a version lower than that (if there is anyone on earth with such a low firmware) are better off updating to 3.55 CFW and use otherOS++.ĭifferent exploits and possible exploits in media files, such as image files or video files were found, here is a list of them:Ī tiff exploit was found for firmware 1.90, it was alleged that it could allow the playback of ps1 backups and a youtube video showed up demonstrating it. For more information about BD-J, check this: Ī hack was found that allowed access to the RSX in otherOS and a linux kernel was compiled with such access.
Very little homebrews were created for this, amongst them we can find pong and an nes emulator with no sound. This method was patched so you can’t play them on a USB anymore, but it’s still doable on a burned Blu-ray Disc. This allowed hackers to code BD-J homebrews and play it on a USB stick as the Ps3 recognised them as video files.
Swap Magic works on a Ps2 and a Ps3 because it’s pressed the same way as any other Ps2 game, so it would be very difficult (and even impossible) for Sony to patch it.īD-J is essentially a way of adding software content to Blu-ray Discs, similar to the Dreamcast’s Mil-CD. This method is still available today to any user with a backwards compatible console, but the availability of the Swap Magic discs have been reduced, greatly, since this method was discovered.
This hack required an original copy of Swap Magic 2.6 or up and allowed you to run pretty much any Ps2 homebrew (by means of UlaunchElf) and even Ps2 backups on a usb hdd (by means of USB Loader or Open Ps2 Loader). One of the first hacks that existed on the Ps3 was not even a Ps3 hack, but rather a Ps2 hack, similar to how we can hack the Vita’s pspemu.