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). Just search eBay for “Free McBoot” and purchase a 8MB memory card with the Free McBoot hack already installed on it. If you take a look at this and decide that it’s not for you, you can forgo this entire guide and spend around $10 on eBay to achieve the same result. So I went down in to the basement, dug it out of a box, blew the dust off it, and got started.īefore you read through this guide, let me save you some time. I didn’t know such a thing existed, but hey – I’ve got one of those. While researching Vita homebrew, I came across a video from 2012 where someone demonstrated a soft mod for the PlayStation 2 slim. What scene isn’t booming in 2018? The PlayStation 2 scene. The PS Vita scene has blown up in 2018 and a flood of new mods and homebrew are out. I recently did a write-up on how to softmod a PS Vita and a PlayStation TV.