So you've lobbed out the best part of £300 (or more) for the PS2 (unless you've nicked the staff PS2 from our office as someone has done); you've lobbed out £40 for your first game (or benefitted from the game that was with the nicked PS2).

And now - rather than spending just a few bob more on a mod-chip (more difficult to nick), you are ready to take a knife/screwdriver to this apparatus and risk sending it to oblivion?

Where did you get the screwdriver from?

Use a Modchip!!