i heard that v9's and 10's cant play AR's i got a AR max and it works fine on my 50001 unit i have not tryed any lower then that i read of a fix on
www.ps2ownz.com for AR's but u have to have a way to put it on the mem card me myself never used it seemed to confuseing for me to figer out so just go there and look in the newz post its there some were