I was looking at this yesterday and didnm't reply becasue there was something else nagging me about Silent Hill 2.

On the face of it, the TOC problem looks favourite. It has a very large TOC and itr varies between region (you didn't specify which region SH2 you've got) and I reckon that we're down to the last digit of TOC size.

Silent Hill 2 PAL is one of those games that doesn't boot as an original with certain versions of the OrigaChip on JAP PS2s and a few days ago I was browsing sites with Patches and came across a wadge for Silent Hill 2. Unfortunately (and uncharacteristically) I didn't bookmark the site. So it's still nagging at me.