The story of USBExtreme is the story of the entire PS2 modding scene: messy, unofficial, legally gray, but driven by the simple, pure desire to keep playing games when the official hardware had already given up.

is a classic Windows-based utility used primarily for the PlayStation 2 (PS2) to "rip" or install games onto a USB hard drive or flash drive . It was originally designed to work with the USB Extreme/USB Advance commercial software, though today it is mostly used by the modding community with Free McBoot and Open PS2 Loader (OPL) . How the Installer Works