Messiah modded US PS2 ... problems

[johno69]

This is a tricky one to explain...here goes:

I moved to Japan from the UK; I bought a pre-modded Messiah US PS2 to play my Euro PAL games on - from modchipworld.com. However, they won't play - I get the old flickering B&W screen. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with my having a Japanese NTSC TV (is it different than the US NTSC?)

The company I bought it from suggested I make copies and apply the PAL/NTSC selector patch ?? But I've never backed up a PS" game, let alone patched one - where should I start if indeed that's what I need to do?

Any thoughts are welcome; I'm desperate; I'm PS2less.