Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years

Breakthrough will improve hardware preservation, repair, and emulation projects.

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(Image credit: DiscoStarslayer ) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The 'magic security chip' inside the original PlayStation 2 has been successfully reverse-engineered and dumped. Canadian retro hardware and software enthusiast DiscoStarslayer was the manic mind behind the cracking open of the CXP102064 MechaCon chip, which arrived inside the 'PS2 Fat' from 1999. It took "four years of effort" to reach this stage, but this milestone should be a boon to hardware preservation, repair, and emulation projects.