Because they don't look beyond the end of their noses! There's all the hype about NEO4 - and hype and hype and 33 wires, 33 wires and where was it since August until last week and does it boot import originals? But the Origa people keep quiet - God knows why. I came across it because I'm in the special position of having a JAP PS2 and I needed to break out of the Utility Disk constraints. So I went looking. You went looking and got a reply and now you're having doubts.

If my 900+ posts are worth anything it might be that I've made the right chip decision and the same chip (actually with one ore two additional facilities) works on the PAL PS2 (it didn't two months ago).