Anything newer than 8B may require a physical mod chip be soldered in. Mine is 4C, which means it was manufactured in the third quarter of If your date code is 8C, the mod may or may not work. This can be anything from 4 to 9 to and also 0 to 3 to The second digit in the date code is the quarter of manufacture, A through D for first through fourth quarter of that year. You must have a PS2 slim that is manufactured before the 3rd quarter of The first digit in the date code is the year of manufacture. The list looks like a lot, but you should have most of this stuff lying around if you already own a PlayStation 2.Ī not on the version of PlayStation 2 slim required. Keep in mind that you still need a Free McBoot-compatible PS2 slim for this to work details for determining your PS2 slim version are below.
Before you read through this guide, let me save you some time. So I went down in to the basement, dug it out of a box, blew the dust off it, and got started. While researching Vita homebrew, I came across a video from where someone demonstrated a soft mod for the PlayStation 2 slim. The PS Vita scene has blown up in and a flood of new mods and homebrew are out.