Jailbroken PS5s Can Now Emulate PS2 Games Using Discs

The vibe-coded horror show continues to get worse for Sony, as there’s now a brand new, Claude-coded model of the PCSX2 emulator, named PS5SX2, that may be put in on jailbroken PlayStation 5s and permits customers to dump their PlayStation 2 video games to the console’s SSD to emulate them. Unlucky timing for Sony, contemplating the most recent PS5 jailbreaking advancements.

After all, utilizing a PS5 to emulate PS2 video games isn’t technically new, so why is that this headline-worthy? As a result of the newest model of PS5SX2 lets you emulate video games utilizing your PS2 discs. No have to obtain a ROM from a sketchy web site anymore; you simply pop your personal PS2 disc in your PS5 disc tray and dump it immediately from there.

This information comes immediately from Swordpdf, PS5SX2’s lead coder. As they detailed in a publish on X, and in PS5SX2’s GitHub README, PS5SX2 model 2.01 can certainly learn and dump bodily PS2 discs. As Swordpdf explains within the PS5SX2 model 2.01 launch replace on GitHub, when you “put a PS2 disc within the drive,” PS5SX2 then “dumps it if not already dumped and launches the sport.”

PS2 discs. Straight right into a PS5.
20+ years of nostalgia, one disc away.
PS5SX2 🎮

particular because of @_AlAzif

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— Sword (@sword_pdf) October 9, 2026

Nevertheless, there’s a catch: as a consequence of a selected {hardware} limitation, it seems that a PS5 operating PS5SX2 can’t be used with all PlayStation 2 discs and, by extension, any PlayStation 1 discs.

The PlayStation 5’s disc drive can learn Blu-Rays and DVDs, nevertheless it can’t learn CDs. That implies that any of the blue-tinted PlayStation 2 discs (that are CDs, not DVDs) can’t be learn by the PS5’s optical drive laser, and due to this fact can’t be burned to the SSD or an exterior HDD utilizing PS5SX2. Likewise, PS1 discs are CDs, so the identical problem applies there.

And sure, earlier than you ask, PS5SX2 is an AI-assisted undertaking. No have to guess or examine on that entrance, as Swordpdf is kind of upfront about this. Plus, Claude is actually one of many three contributors listed on PS5SX2’s GitHub.

However Swordpdf isn’t fairly completed ruining Sony’s week simply but, as they’ve already introduced {that a} PS5SX3 emulator, which can enable PS3 video games to be dumped on the PS5 from a disc, is within the works on each X and of their Discord server. Swordpdf additionally appears to assume they’ll do the identical for PS1 discs, however contemplating that shouldn’t bodily be potential, I don’t know the way that’s going to pan out.