About ps2dev

ps2dev is an open source development environment for Playstation 2® development.
This allows you to create applications, games, and more (homebrew) to run on Playstation 2 console.

Community

Discussion forums, wiki, and chat rooms are available:

• Discussions
• Wiki

Chat

You can chat using many clients:

Channels are bridged, so e.g. users on Matrix can see messages on IRC (and vice versa).

• Matrix
• IRC
• Discord (coming later)

Getting Started

Installing

See the installation instructions for ps2dev.

Updating

Repeat the installation instructions above to update the development environment.

Removing

To remove all traces of the development environment, just delete your $PS2DEV directory. You can then reverse the steps in installing the prerequisites.

Platform

Writing Code

See the API reference.
Once the development environment is installed, samples are available at $PS2SDK/samples.
Also, see ps2homebrew for full programs using the development environment.

Building

Building is generally done using GNU Make with Makefile files.
CMake support is also available when using the definition -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$PS2SDK/ps2dev.cmake.

Running

To run homebrew, you need an entrypoint.
For ease of use, installing FreeMCBoot, FreeHDBoot, or Opentuna is recommended.
Use one of the above exploits to launch ps2link
Once ps2link is running, use ps2client to load the executable file (in .elf format) and to receive debugging output.

Debugging

The current recommended way to debug is to use ps2link and ps2client, as mentioned above.

Porting libraries

See the ps2sdk-ports repository.