[charlie_ps2]

Welcome back. You didn't get him, did you?

Also when you left, I was on 500 posts and when they moved this forum, they lost my data (though not my old posts). I had reached 1850 posts by then! You weren't around so someone (with help from a few others) had to carry this thing on.

No, it wasn't me who drove them away! It was the crippled speed of the forum coupled with the opportune moment over Christmas (when everyone gets their PS2) when PS2OWNZ got their latest home sorted out.

The MESSIAH that you presaged in August has been and gone in that time! It was so successful (depsite only shipping a couiple of thousand) that SONY got them nuked in the UK courts. So it's gone underground and there is a supply drip that keeps prices high - and demand i insatiable for the best chip ever to come to earth.

The NEO4 is and remains a crap chip, but disappointed Messiah fans have had to turn to this 44 wire piece of mis-design inorder to get something better than NEO2.2. They've also discovered that bolting on an Origachip (15 more wires) makes the NEO4 a complete no swap solution. So that's something.

Talking of the Origa, that's doing a lot better now. I had both my JAP PS2s OrigaChipped and the power of the Forum had grown their revenues enormously.

Sony's v5 have crapped on the NEO2.2 community because GS2/1.x won't work on it; and GS2/2.x won't work on the earlier models with DVD-Rs. So that chip has gone to Ludwig (as we say). The NEO2.5 sort of deals with everything but the GS2/2.x process is so convuluted that it isn't worth it.

So the chips of the moment are Messiah/CLones (when you can get them - NTSC is unproven); Origa and NEO4+Origa.

So, nice to see you again. Anything else you feel I haven't told you?