Knife Trick is the safest way

[Alex O]

It amazes me the amount of people on these boards actually advocating Mod chipping as safer than using the knife trick.

Aside from the no solder method which is the only relatively safe mod, mod chipping your PS2 is the single most damaging thing you can do to your PS2.

You are opening up your PS2 and exposing it to dust. You are then permentaly SOLDERING a foreign object into a mass produced product. Solder is renowed for drying out, getting dusty, and coming lose which will screw up the insides.

Soldering wires and a chip into a PS2 is far far more likely to damage your PS2 than a simple knife trick, ask anyone who has actually done it.

MOD CHIPS CAN FRY YOUR PS2, the Knife trick cannot. Even if you do manage to damage your PS2 with the knife trick which is very unlikely, the cost of repair is far far less, only the tray mechanism can get damaged, not the PS2. This is very cheap to replace.

I have yet to read anyone who has actually done the knife trick properly say it's bad.