please help me im caught in an import/american copy mess

[import ant]

ok i have a jap import ps2 and american ps2 but my american ps2 is broken and i only have the american games is it posible to burn a back up of them to play on my jap ps2 so i can playthem and wont have to purchase another american ps2 these r the games i have ...................madden2002/nba street/knockout kings2001/nba/live2001/quake3/and tekken tagg they r the bluish colored disks but inoticd my import games come in that bluish color and silver i have streetfighter ex3/dancesummit2001/and all star pro wrestling and they r blue but my GT3 and final fantasyx is silver so could the disk color be the case and i dont have a chip so if i need one where can i get one all i have is my PHILIPS CDRW1200 COMPACT DISK RECORDABLE REWRITABLE MULTIREAD BURNER I JUAT BOUGHT IT 3 WEEKS AGO FOR THE PURPOSE OF NOT HAVEING TO BUY ANOTHER AMERICAN PS2 AND I STILL HAVE BOTH OF MY UTILITIES SO IF THERE IS ANY WAY U CAN HELP ME PLEASE DO.

[Charlie]

The OrigaChip (JAP) is designed for your situation and will play the US (i.e.import) originals without swap.

####://www.origachip.com

I reckon you'll have to mail order it and have a pro solder the 15 wires.

Works for me.

[codex]

I'm in a similar situation, so I'll just piggy-back on this topic. I have a SCPH 35000, Japanese; it came pre-modded, so I don't know what chip it uses, although I need to use AR2 as well. I cannot load a US original PS2 game.

My question is, can a new chip be installed if one is installed already? How would one go about finding a professional to solder it? Also, for those who do the soldering themselves ... was it difficult in the beginning (i.e. how likely is it that a newbie would simply ruin the console)?

Thank you.

[Charlie]

codex (03-12-2001 00:46):
I'm in a similar situation, so I'll just piggy-back on this topic. I have a SCPH 35000, Japanese; it came pre-modded, so I don't know what chip it uses, although I need to use AR2 as well. I cannot load a US original PS2 game.

My question is, can a new chip be installed if one is installed already? How would one go about finding a professional to solder it? Also, for those who do the soldering themselves ... was it difficult in the beginning (i.e. how likely is it that a newbie would simply ruin the console)?

Thank you.
There aren't too many on this forum with 35000 experience, I guess. But in all likelihood you are kitted with the modchip.com final version chip that works with AR2/GS2. It should also work with DVD Region X (although you can't play PAL DVDs).

The OrigaChip (JAP) will piggyback with the modchip.com chip (and I suspect all other 8 wire mods); indeed this is what I have and makes it very easy to boot DVD-Rs (see my eralier last week post). The OrigaChip will boot US import originals.