Architecture de la PlayStation 2

Anti-piratage

• Gauvain Roussel-Tarbouriech, The PlayStation 2: From emotion to emulation. FOSDEM 2021, 2021.
• loser, ps2boot.txt (accessed 06-September-2026). Github.
• Aric M, Pixel, ps2cdvd (accessed 06-September-2026). Github.
• The Cutting Room Floor contributors, PlayStation 2/security implementations (accessed 06-September-2026). The Cutting Room Floor.
• Acid_Snake, 10 days of hacking, day 3: The PS2.
• Joe Grand, Game console hacking: Xbox, PlayStation, nintendo, game boy, atari and sega. Syngress.
• Marcus R. Brown, PlayStation 2 independence: The PS1DRV hack (Archived).
• wmxp, FMCB / FHDB history (how it all began...).
• ffgriever, [ESR] how does ESR work?.
• ps2dev, PS2SDK - PS2DEV open source project.
• Jay-Jay, [PS2DEV] an introduction to PS2DEV and it’s history.
• Jay-Jay, wLaunchELF releases by SP193 and AKuHAK.
• ps2homebrew, Open-PS2-loader.
• cturt, FreeDVDBoot - hacking the PlayStation 2 through its DVD player.
• krat0s, PS2 fortuna project (homebrew launcher) by krat0s.
• alexparrado, OpenTuna - an open source version of "fortuna", based on reverse engineering!.
• MechaResearch, MechaPwn.
• CosmicScale, PSBBN-definitive-project.

Processeur

• Anthony Cataldo, Artile samples processor based on playstation 2 engine. 2001.
• Kenneth C. Yeager, The mips R10000 superscalar microprocessor.
• Tom R. Halfhill, Mips R5000: Fast, affordable 3-d. 1996.
• cpu-collection.de, Toshiba MIPS Rx000.
• Pavan Tumati, Sanjay Patel, Todd Martinez, Sony playstation-2 VPU: A study on the feasibility of utilizing gaming vector hardware for scientific computing. 2003-01.
• Jon Stokes, Sound and vision: A technical overview of the emotion engine (Archived). 2000.
• Krysto, PCSX2 documentation/nightmare on floating-point street.
• Jon Burton, Crash & LEGO star wars "impossible" effects.
• Robin Green, Procedural generation: Procedural rendering on playstation® 2.
• PSI-rockin, ps2tek - documentation on PS2 internals.
• EDN Staff, MIPS R4xxx: EDN’s 25th annual microprocessor/microcontroller director. 1998.
• Toshiba, Toshiba licenses MIPS technology’s latest RISC microprocessor. 1999.
• Toshiba, Toshiba product guide microcomputer. 2006.
• Linley Gwennap, R5000 improves FP for MIPS midrange. Microprocessor Report, 1996.
• Toshiba, ６４ビットＲＩＳＣ形マイクロプロセッサコア「ＴＸ４９」の商品化について. 2006.

Jeux

• Ars Technica OpenForum, PS2 linux kit.
• Chris Antista, Wanna see every PlayStation 2 game ever released in the US?.
• discmakers.com, What’s the difference between a DVD-5, DVD-9, and DVD-10?.
• retroreversing.com, PS2 official software development kit (SDK).
• retroreversing.com, Sony PlayStation 2 development kit (hardware).
• CosmicScale, PSBBN support for larger drives definitely possible.
• gamesindustry.biz, Sony confirms PS2 online plans. 2002.
• Ecma International, 120 mm DVD - read-only disk - standard ECMA-267. 2001.
• Ecma International, Universal disk format (UDF) specification - part 7 (revision 1.02) - ECMA TR/1127. 2023.
• Sony Interactive Entertainment, Dynamic network authentication system for PlayStation®2 to begin commercial service. 2001.
• International Telecommunication Union, STUDIO FORMAT PARAMETERS FOR ENHANCED 16:9 ASPECT RATIO - 625-LINE TELEVISION SYSTEMS (d- AND D2-MAC, PALplus, ENHANCED SECAM). 1997.
• Shahed Ahmed, Sun-denshi discusses PS2 modem. 2000.
• PS2 Developer Wiki Contributors, DVD player (accessed 04-September-2026). PS2 Developer Wiki.

Graphismes

• themaister, PlayStation 2 GS emulation - the final frontier of vulkan compute emulation.
• PS2 Developer Wiki Contributors, Graphics synthesizer (accessed 07-September-2026). PS2 Developer Wiki.

• ps2dev, gsKit/ee/gs/include/gsInit.h. Github.

E/S

• ASSEMblergames, The PlayStation 2 busses + DEV9.
• Berion, The future of the PlayStation 2 internal hard drive.
• PS2-Home, PS2 network, what’s actually the bottleneck?.
• PS2 Developer Wiki Contributors, Deckard (accessed 11-April-2025). PS2 Developer Wiki.
• Matías Israelson, PPC-monitor (accessed 11-April-2025).
• wisi, PlayStation 2: Are there any hardware mysteries left? (Archived).
• Julian Uy Et al., DECKARD/PPC-IOP discussion (accessed 11-April-2025).
• PS2 Developer Wiki Contributors, MechaCon (accessed 28-August-2026). PS2 Developer Wiki.
• PS2 Developer Wiki Contributors, Storage (accessed 28-August-2026). PS2 Developer Wiki.
• PS2 Developer Wiki Contributors, SysCon (accessed 28-August-2026). PS2 Developer Wiki.
• ConsoleMods contributors, Model differences (accessed 28-August-2026). ConsoleMods Wiki.
• MARU-CHANG, SCPH.

Système d'exploitation

• Jay-Jay, [PS2SDK] known PlayStation 2 kernel patch locations.
• xfwcfw, Kelftool - kelf.cpp.
• Matías Israelson, PS2 system update documentation.
• SomeGuyPlays, Playstation BroadBand navigator - an offline exploration (no notes). 2020.
• Sony, トップページ＞セットアップ方法 (Archived, Japanese). 2006.
• Xbox, Power on: The story of xbox | chapter 1: The renegades. Youtube.

Photographie

• Evan Amos, The vanamo online game museum.
• Rodrigo Copetti (Me), Diagrams, motherboard, slim model photos, screenshots and videos.