[CTurt]’s new hack may come many years after the PlayStation ... DVD drive will normally read comes in the form of DVD video discs. Thus, [CTurt]’s search began in the code of the on-board DVD ...

He explains that the PlayStation 2 couldn’t keep the entire open-world game map in its tiny 32 MB of RAM. Instead, models had to be streamed from the DVD drive as the player moved around the world.

The DVD player in the console made it accessible ... According to Guinness World Records, 157.68 million people have owned a PlayStation 2 in their lifetime. That's ahead of the 154.90 million ...