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How To Make A Bootable PS2 Game Backup Disc

The document provides a tutorial on creating bootable PS2 game backup discs using FreeDVDBoot, detailing the necessary tools and step-by-step instructions for manually patching game ISOs. It emphasizes that there is currently no automated process for this task without a modchip and includes specific hex editing instructions. The tutorial also mentions an easier alternative method for users who prefer a simpler drag-and-drop solution for patching their PS2 ISOs.

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How To Make A Bootable PS2 Game Backup Disc

The document provides a tutorial on creating bootable PS2 game backup discs using FreeDVDBoot, detailing the necessary tools and step-by-step instructions for manually patching game ISOs. It emphasizes that there is currently no automated process for this task without a modchip and includes specific hex editing instructions. The tutorial also mentions an easier alternative method for users who prefer a simpler drag-and-drop solution for patching their PS2 ISOs.

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[FREEDVDBOOT] How to make a bootable PS2 Game Backup Disc


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 Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:15 am

Alright ladies and gentlemen, here it is the FreeDVDBoot tutorial for creating your own PS2 disc backups.

Message from: JBela Lugosi

! First of all, this tutorial could become outdated very soon. For the time being there is no known
automated process to patch your game backups to run it on your PS2 without a modchip. So we'll
have to make it work manually.

The main idea of this tutorial is to burn a bootable backup of your legally owned games without any kind of
console modification required.

Here is what we'll need:


ESR disc patcher GUI v0.24a: Click Here
ESR R10E: Click Here
A Hex Editor, in this case I'll use HXD: Click Here
FreeDVDBoot files from the github: Click Here
ImgBurn: Click Here
A properly patched VTS_01_0.IFO : (download attachment below)

DOWNLOAD:

[patched]_VIDEO TS.zip
ZIP MD5: 1DDCEEABC83B8DC6A41357634909527A
(1.38 KiB) Downloaded 416 times

So, after reading a lot, this is the short version tutorial from CTurt's explanation of the exploit. Source |
Mirror

CODE: SELECT ALL

VIDEO_TS.BUP -> VTS_01_0.IFO (to rename the file)


f0 07 00 00 0a 00 -> 00 38 00 00 0a 00 (VIDEO_TS.IFO filesize to 14336)
0x45000: paste VIDEO_TS.IFO exploit contents (compiled with LOAD_FROM_SECTOR_RELATIVE_TO_VIDEO_TS_
f0 07 00 00 0b 00 -> 00 30 00 00 11 00 (VIDEO_TS.BUP/VTS_01_0.IFO LBA to 145 and filesize to 12288
0x48800: paste VTS_01_0.IFO contents
0x4B800: paste loader ELF

So the main idea is, we rip our game using ImgBurn, hex edit our rip with HXD, changing a file name, some
address locations and writing our files in Hex.

STEP 1 - First, let's rip our game using ImgBurn, it's pretty straightfoward and save the ISO on any folder for
now.

STEP 2 - Extract the contents of FreeDVDBoot

STEP 3 - Open our modified VIDEO_TS.IFO , VTS_01_0.IFO (that is found inside FreeDVDBoot-
master/Filesystems/3.10 + 3.11 Hybrid 2 atempt to fix 9000 series/ ) on HXD.

Now, we'll modify our ISO.

Open ESR disc patcher GUI v0.24a and run it on the game iso file.

Close the GUI and drag and drop the ISO in HXD.
Extract ESR R10E and drag an drop the esr_r10e_direct.elf to HXD.

STEP 4 - On our iso tab, do a CTRL+F and search in the text-string tab VIDEO_TS.BUP . Rename it to
VTS_01_0.IFO

STEP 5 - Do a CTRL+F again, and on the hex-values tab, search for f0 07 00 00 0a 00 without quote
marks. Edit it to 00 38 00 00 0a 00 just like the picture below.

STEP 6 - Do a CTRL+F one more time, and on the hex-values tab, search for f0 07 00 00 0b 00 without
quote marks. Edit it to 00 30 00 00 11 00

STEP 7 - Scroll down to offset 0x45000 , copy all contents from our modified VIDEO_TS.IFO file and
paste-write it.

STEP 8 - You should now be on offset 0x48800 , copy all contents from VTS_01_0.IFO and paste-write on
this offset.
STEP 9 - You should now be on offset 0x4B800 , copy all contents from esr_r10e_direct.elf and paste-
write on this offset. -- NOTE: I'm using the r9c release in the pictures, but I've already tested with the
newer version (R10E) and it is working perfectly.

STEP 10 - Save the ISO, and burn with ImgBurn. We're done. You can use our modified VIDEO_TS.IFO ,
VTS_01_0.IFO and esr_r10e_direct.elf to any R10E patched image. Do keep in mind that you're bound
to R10E's compatible games. Other than that, this should be fairly easy to do.

Thanks: SP193, CTurt, ffgriever.

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Re: [FREEDVDBOOT] How to make a bootable PS2 Game Backup Disc


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 Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:31 am


Thank you very much in providing lots of info on how to do this manually. It's very informative and quite
educational.

As you may already know there is an easier method for noobs to simply drag and drop their PS2 ISOs and it
will be FreeDVDBoot patched and ready to run: FreeDVDBoot Auto Patcher by kazuma

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