Sony's SOCOM II Gets Cheat Patches

An anonymous reader writes "According to an email reprinted on the GameBattles.com forums, it seems that Sony has released the first mandatory downloadable patches for the Playstation 2 online game SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs. This is nothing new in the PC gaming world, but is relatively novel for PlayStation 2 gamers - there's no official word on what changed, but there's a list of perceived changes on the official SOCOM II boards." 1UP also notes that the patch "occupies some space on your memory card in the blocks already used by the game", but doesn't need the forthcoming PS2 hard drive in any way.