chip or not?

[jonx1]

hi,
after browsing through some posts ive been put off from buying the slide card and swap magic discs,are they really that bad? what ive read from other sites they work on 90% of backups.

would i be right in saying that if the ps2 is chipped,a straight 1:1 copy of the original in nero (clonedvd etc) will boot straight away?
and that if you use the slide card some patching to the iso/image needs to be done?

any help will sway my decision!

cheers
jonx
(uk)