FreeDVDBoot Compatibility List: Which PS2 Models Work, Honestly
The one-page answer before you burn a disc: Slim, Fat, Bravia, and the models these ISOs cannot help.
Short answer: All PS2 Slim consoles and Sony Bravia TV units are supported by one universal ISO. Fat (Phat) consoles work only if their DVD Player version is 2.10 (named models only), 2.12, or 3.04. A Fat with DVD Player 3.00 or 3.02 — including every SCPH-500xx — cannot use the prebuilt FreeDVDBoot ISOs.
How to read this list
FreeDVDBoot does not care about your model number first. It cares about your DVD Player firmware version. Boot the console with no disc inserted, press Triangle in the browser, and read the DVD Player line. Then find that version below. Your system language must also be set to English, or the exploit will not trigger — that rule comes straight from CTurt’s README and applies to Slim and Fat alike.
PS2 Slim: one file for all
File: All PS2 Slims – English language.iso (1,366,016 bytes). MD5: 2f79111a91c8b90f4068d8c284dd7716. This covers the early Slims (700xx, 750xx, 770xx) and the late Slims (900xx, all datecodes). You do not need to check a DVD Player version for a Slim. Sony Bravia TV units with an integrated PS2 are listed as supported in the README as well; this site has not published a test of one specific Bravia model, so treat that as README support, not a lab result.
- Download the Slim ISO from GitHub first, Terabox mirror second (see the homepage).
- Burn it to a DVD-R at the lowest speed and finalise the disc.
- Set the console language to English, then boot the disc.
PS2 Fat: only three DVD Player versions
- 2.10 — certain models only. Working examples named in the README: SCPH-30001 R, SCPH-30000, SCPH-30004 R (with specific ROMGEN codes). SCPH-39004 is listed as not working / todo. Do not assume any other 2.10 machine works.
- 2.12 — regions U, J, and G. File: the shared 2.10/2.12 ISO (7,344,128 bytes). MD5: e47c861f376df877ce02cbe0c10b97b9.
- 3.04 — region M tested in emulator only. The README guesses most other regions except J will work, with English set. That is a guess, not a verified result. File: 1,370,112 bytes. MD5: 503415ee98580dd1d18f9d7031af5abd.
Fat models these ISOs do not support
SCPH-500xx (DVD Player 3.00/3.02), DVD Player 2.14 (Sony patched the exploit there), and early Japanese launch models on DVD Player versions outside 2.10/2.12/3.04 are not supported by the prebuilt ISOs. If your Fat shows 3.00, do not keep burning discs hoping one will work — the payload for that version does not exist in this repository. Your honest alternatives are a different entry point (see FreeDVDBoot vs Fortuna) or a newer DVD exploit such as YADE, which is reported to work on 3.00E (see the YADE note).
SCPH-390xx deserves a warning of its own: the PS2 Dev Wiki compatibility list marks it Partial. Some units report disc read errors or a black screen even on a supported version. A failed boot on a 390xx does not automatically mean your burn was bad.
After you know your version
Slim owners go straight to the burn guide. Fat owners with 2.10, 2.12 or 3.04 should double-check the exact region note for their version, then burn the matching file — 2.10 and 2.12 share one file, so there is no separate 2.12 download to hunt for.
Next steps
Verified against: CTurt FreeDVDBoot README (GitHub, master branch) and the PS2 Dev Wiki FreeDVDBoot Compatibility List, checked 2026-10-24. ISO sizes and MD5s were re-verified by re-downloading the GitHub files and hashing them.