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PS2's DVD player was a versatile and powerful feature for its time, it supports PlayStation2 format DVD-ROM, PlayStation 2 and [https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/91HAP/what-disc-types-are-compactible-with-ps2 PlayStation 1 format CD-ROM] and offering great playback compatibility for the most common disc formats. While it lacked official support for DVD Audio and VCD, its ability to play DVD Video and Audio CDs, along with additional options like progressive scan and upscaling, made it a compelling choice for entertainment and multimedia playback. Also [[Home_Media_Player#Interactive_media|Interactive film/movie]] formats like DVDi and DVDPG supported.
*PCSX2 has CD-ROM and DVD-ROM support so you can boot your game directly from your physical discs ([https://youtu.be/DJkl4FrDgLw demonstration]), however there are no official DVD-Video and Audio CD support at the moment. See [https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/1981 DVD-Video compatibility] and [https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/4880 CDRWIN's BIN/CUE format, Audio CD support] feature request pages for more information.
:*DVD-Video, [[Home_Media_Player#Interactive_media|DVDi]] and even FreeDVDBoot works in PCSX2's [[#Konami_Python_2.2FKonami_Benami_Python_2|987123879113]] fork but only with it's '''[https://github.com/987123879113/pcsx2/issues/13#issuecomment-1752939271 MagicGate branch]'''.
::*[https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/pull/6719 Requires a complete BIOS dump] ('''4MB''' ROM0 + '''4MB''' ROM1 + NVRAM), use [https://github.com/F0bes/biosdrain this dumper tool] for ROM0, ROM1, ROM2, NVM and MEC files.
