PS2 Discs Now Load on Jailbroken PS5 Consoles Through PS5SX2 Emulator

What happened

Developer Sword has added physical disc support to PS5SX2, a native port of the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator for jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles . The feature arrived as a beta in version 2.01 on October 10, a day after Sword showed it off on X with a clip of a PS2 disc going into a PS5.

According to the release notes, PS5SX2 copies the disc to storage the first time it is inserted and then launches the game from that copy. Sword adds that this has only been tested on one original PS5.

That said, the PS5's optical drive apparently cannot read CDs, so PS2 games that shipped on CD are out, at least through the internal drive. Contrary to how it may appear at first, the game does not seem to run straight off the disc.

Key facts

• Sword adds that this has only been — tested: on one original PS5