The soldering ain't really that bad, it just the piss poor laser you have to work with after the mod.

I swear I'm the luckiest guy ever. Two of my v4's now have read +R's after modding with no problem!

- Gurm

U R lucky. We dropped a new laser in my m8's version 4 and sat with a scope setting it up perfectly for about 2 hours amd we still couldn't get it to read GTAViceCity or The Getaway reliably both on traxdata dvd-r. Maybe I should have got him to try dvd+r.

Regards

MESSIAH 2 WORKS ON SCPH 50000
 

I am authorised by the Messiah 2 Team to announce version 1.31 of the Messiah 2 chip.

This version supports the Jap SCPH 50000.

Subject to regression tests currently being performed on the earlier PS2 models, the new version of Messiah 2 will be in production with the next production batch.

There are no functionality changes in this release.

You gotta love the M2 team.:)

your right about that

How the hell do they do it?????????

I've only just worked out how a soldering iron works :D

damn right, all the chip developers (especially the M2 team) deserve big respect :cool:

anyone got any idea when this PS2 v8 will be released in the UK?

I have HUGE respect to anyone who can even think about modding a PS2 :p . It IS hard as hell and I wouldn't dream of doing it! By the way, my V4R laser is absolutely superb - not one problem, never skipped, never jumped or chopped at all - and it ain't never been cleaned (well, ONCE in two years)! I really am lucky.