PlayStation 2 Architecture

Anti-Piracy

• 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!.

CPU

• 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.

Games

• 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?.
• psx-place.com, Max theoretically and practical PS2 transfer speed with OPL.
• retroreversing.com, PS2 official software development kit (SDK).
• retroreversing.com, Sony PlayStation 2 development kit (hardware).

General

• PS2 Developers Wiki, PS2 developers wiki.
• MARU-CHANG, All playstation model numbers identified.

Graphics

• ps2homebrew, Open-PS2-loader.

I/O

• 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).

Operating System

• Jay-Jay, [PS2SDK] known PlayStation 2 kernel patch locations.
• xfwcfw, Kelftool - kelf.cpp.
• Matías Israelson, PS2 system update documentation.

Photography

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