Hi Jumpstart - nice to hear from you.

I kept the old modchip.com chip (which uses the Utility Disk and auto-ejects the tray); the OrigaChip was installed on top of the old chip.

The OrigaChip/modchip.com combo is brilliant. It guarantees that Univesal Patcher patched games will play and not be rejected by the Origachip.

I can play import originals (US & PAL), no swap. PS2 backups play with a swap. I use PAL DVD Region X as the simple boot method. The version of OrigaChip I've got doesn't do DVD-Rs - but the modchip.com device does. Just boot with a DVD original of larger TOC than the DVD-R, let the tray come out and put the DVD-R in.

In short, brilliant.