EA Games with Messiah
 

Trying to play ea game NHL 2002 with messiah do you need to patch this game or should this work as is.

I have version 5 PS2 using Mitsu cdrs and using cdwin to backup.

If you use CDRWin to COPY then a patch (don't know which one) has to be applied to nullify copy protection.

If you use CDRWin to burn from a downloaded copy, then likely the patch is pre-applied. Burn and play.

If you have an original to copy then best done with CloneCD and then no patch is required. Your burner would need to be DAO-RAW+96 compatible.