thanx for the quick reponse charlie..
well, i am based in Singapore, so I guess I can't send u the AR2 to verify, haha. I tot maybe my backups have some error, but surely an AR2 (jap) can load a NTSC (J) without codes right? yet, it didn't.. thus I sort of think it's the AR2 fault. It booted fine, just that it hanged at the swap disc screen, no matter if I press X, R1+O, and all four (triangle, square, X, O) buttons together.
Right, now I am sourcing for people with GS1.6 to swap with my AR2, doesn't look very optimistic though... :P
But seeing that most games that I am going to have more NTSC(US) games like MGS2, FFX, I guess investing in a Gameshark will be more worth it, huh? :P
haha, I dun have the old modchip.com mod and thus the autoeject feature, so i guess the backup dvd region X (jap) method is out too... :P I patched it with the universal patcher already, but I chose the UT patch, so i doubt I can use GS1.6 to do it? Anyway, the CD i burnt made quite a lot of noise in my PS2, never happened before. :P
Charlie, I think u are having a lot of joy with your jap PS2 and origachip right? haha, i think I need some more time, more burnt CDRs, much more money before I can attain that.. :P Will Messiah be a possible future solution to us Jap PS2 users, u reckon??
cheers!! Thanx for the help!