PS2 Independence Exploit

The PS2 Independence Exploit allows the execution of homebrew programs on an unmodified PlayStation 2.

Benefits
With the exploit installed, the user is able to run programs from Memory Cards, optical discs, network or USB flash drives. Programs are found in the ELF executable format.

Popular programs include media players, Memory Card/hard disk management tools, emulators, and loaders (able to launch other programs).

The exploit on newer consoles
The PS2 Independence Exploit does not work on newer Slim (V12) models (see PlayStation 2: Hardware revisions), since the buffer overflow has been corrected, although there are alternatives.