"Back Up" games for the PS2

[Setherzam]

anyone here actually modded their PS2? I'm horrible at soldering and don't udnerstand teh mod chips but was wondering if the Swap Discs from Swap Magic are reliable?

[BaKaFiSh]

I bought mine modded!

And yes, I'm alive =)

but about to vanish for another 3 or 4 months =]

[Rectifier]

Holy crapfuck!

Seth, if you're questioning that modding stuff, that usually means you haven't researched it enough.

I mean honestly, if you poke up once your entire system could go *bzzt* and just not work.

[Dyn0m1te]

Soldering is my bane...

how I miss my old ps2...

; ;

[Beware the talking cat]

Noobs. Real men mod their PS2 to play PS3 games.

[Hiiragi Kagami]

If you don't know how to mod, it's best not to do it yourself.
I was thinking about modding my PS2 too, but I just decided to get Swap Magic, since I've never taken the screws off more than a battery compartment. It's kinda annoying to stick that flat thing in the PS2 every time I wanna play an import game, but I guess I'd rather do that than completely fry my PS2 (even though that would give me a good excuse to get a PS3. ).

[Setherzam]

sorry to ask this again, but is a swap disk a good idea then? I don't know much about soldering so I'm not oging to try it myself. but other then swap magic is there any other reliable swap disk?

[HolyCow]

LOL mine came modded. In Malaysia, unless you buy your PS2 from an official retailer, it's bound to be modded. Mine even came with 15 free pirated game CDs

[Setherzam]

ah screw it, went and bought swap magic anyways. now to torrent

[Umiman]

That's a good choice. If you don't know how to solder, there's a good chance you'll just ruin your system. Some of the pinpoints, like in the Wii, are around 1mm in diameter or smaller.

[Setherzam]

they have a swap disk for the wii? O.o I know what I'm getting next time...

edit: nevermind there's only mod chips... damnit

[Beware the talking cat]

For the wii, I'm pretty sure you can use the twilight hack to load foreign games.

edit: nevermind, that was a seperate freeloader, which does exist but doesn't work for updates 3.3 or higher.

edit edit: there is a region changer, but it once again, is only for foreign games.

[ainsoph9]

Just a word of caution in using swap magic: since the PS2 is not intentionally designed to use swap magic, it may end up shortening the life of your PS2 and how well the games that do not use swap magic play. This is what eventually happened to my NES and N64 with Game Genie and Game Shark.

[Beware the talking cat]

Aren't those problems because of the cartridge format?

I know the problem for the NES was it bent out the 72 pin connector(no idea for the n64), so I doubt this would create the same kind of problems.

[ainsoph9]

They both were cartridge systems. I know that the risk involved could be completely different, given that they are different systems by different companies after all. However, I have heard more problem stories over success stories on these kinds of things. But, hey, while the party lasts, rock on, I guess.