Someone finally cracked the PlayStation 2's security chip, 26 years later
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Broken DRMs: Thanks to the efforts of the PCSX2 team over the years, PS2 emulation is now a "solved" problem. However, retro enthusiasts are still pushing the old gaming hardware to its limits in an effort to extract even more secrets from its chips.
Reverse-engineering enthusiast "DiscoStarslayer" recently announced that the MechaCon security chip used in PlayStation 2 consoles has finally been dumped. The "secret" chip is now being fully documented, which should help developers with modding projects designed for original hardware.
DiscoStarslayer said that the MechaCon chip has now been broken wide open. The developer worked for four years on the project, decapping the physical chip and optically dumpingthe firmware hidden within it. DiscoStarslayer worked in partnership with another developer named "Libby," who found the exploit used to dump the firmware...
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