He began by scouring the internet for solutions, typing queries like "opl ps2 exfat" into his computer. OPL, or Open PS2 Loader, was a tool he had heard of but never used. It was a homebrew application that allowed PS2s to read games off a network or storage devices. There were whispers in forums that OPL could be modified or used with the right settings to read exFAT drives.