u still got buy the boot disks
buy fliptop cover
viod your waranty to fit cover
possibly damage cables(this happens as anyone thinks they can do it ,they arent careful at all
then newer games wont boot
rips wont boot
ps1 wont boot
lol u still got to do swap
buy a good no swap chip and be done with it MESSIAH2 wins again
ps will flip top have a Z on it if so u find it real hard to sell