Nataku
15-08-2002, 22:46
Here's my situation:
I live in the NC area and recently dropped off my PS2 at a shop to get chipped with the Messiah. Unfortunately, I received a call later in the day from the owner telling me that the chip could not be put in the PS2 because it was on backorder, and wouldn't be in for about another 3 weeks (this was about a week ago..so from today, I have two more weeks) -- I had two choices. Get a swap chip put in, or bring it back in when they had more in.
I decided to leave the PS2 at the shop; I head back to college at the end of this week in Greensboro, and there's no one I know of in that area who can install a modchip. My question is..was that the wise choice? I've noticed that the U.S. Messiah is out of stock everywhere, and to be honest I'm not *entirely* sure if my version PS2 is compatible with it, but the person in charge of soldering only said they were out of chips..nothing about an incompatible version.
The total cost was $120, which for a Messiah and installation, I found to be a good deal in comparison to ordering the Magic Chip, sending it off to Bill in Chicago, and paying the installation/shipping costs..that whole total if I'm not mistaken, comes out to somewhere close to $200 ($80 for the magic chip, $60 for the installation, $30 for shipping to Bill, and then back..) so by comparison..it seems much cheaper and prudent to do it here for $120.
Of course, I'm afraid of waiting the three weeks for the chip to arrive and find out that it can't be installed in my PS2, or something equally horrible. With my luck, something like that is bound to happen. As I stated before..I'm not entirely sure what version PS2 I have..I can only tell you that it's either a v4 or v5 (got it around Christmas; R model). I was wondering if anyone here can offer some advice on my situation? I know that modchips aren't exactly cheap, and I found $120 to be a reasonable price..but considering that 90% of the things I'm playing are only imports (the other 10% are the few PSX copies I made of some imports..) $200 may be better spent on a Japanese console.
*Any* help is appreciated..I'd really like the modding experience to go as well as it did with my PSX..
I live in the NC area and recently dropped off my PS2 at a shop to get chipped with the Messiah. Unfortunately, I received a call later in the day from the owner telling me that the chip could not be put in the PS2 because it was on backorder, and wouldn't be in for about another 3 weeks (this was about a week ago..so from today, I have two more weeks) -- I had two choices. Get a swap chip put in, or bring it back in when they had more in.
I decided to leave the PS2 at the shop; I head back to college at the end of this week in Greensboro, and there's no one I know of in that area who can install a modchip. My question is..was that the wise choice? I've noticed that the U.S. Messiah is out of stock everywhere, and to be honest I'm not *entirely* sure if my version PS2 is compatible with it, but the person in charge of soldering only said they were out of chips..nothing about an incompatible version.
The total cost was $120, which for a Messiah and installation, I found to be a good deal in comparison to ordering the Magic Chip, sending it off to Bill in Chicago, and paying the installation/shipping costs..that whole total if I'm not mistaken, comes out to somewhere close to $200 ($80 for the magic chip, $60 for the installation, $30 for shipping to Bill, and then back..) so by comparison..it seems much cheaper and prudent to do it here for $120.
Of course, I'm afraid of waiting the three weeks for the chip to arrive and find out that it can't be installed in my PS2, or something equally horrible. With my luck, something like that is bound to happen. As I stated before..I'm not entirely sure what version PS2 I have..I can only tell you that it's either a v4 or v5 (got it around Christmas; R model). I was wondering if anyone here can offer some advice on my situation? I know that modchips aren't exactly cheap, and I found $120 to be a reasonable price..but considering that 90% of the things I'm playing are only imports (the other 10% are the few PSX copies I made of some imports..) $200 may be better spent on a Japanese console.
*Any* help is appreciated..I'd really like the modding experience to go as well as it did with my PSX..