Newbie Question

[Michelha]

Ok, a friend has asked me to make some backups of his games and honestly, I don't know if I can, it seems to be very confusing. I have a Philips CDRW800 Series, and CloneCD (The newest version) I'm pretty sure I got the PS1 stuff figured out, Just like burning a regular CD cept slightly different settings? But for the PS2 games I'm lost, I've read 3 tutorials, and I still don't get it. I was under the impression that it can be done without a DVD burner, they just have to be ripped, cept the tutorials say that to rip them you need a DVD burner? And what is a modchip, will he need one of those for his system? Honestly I'm lost, I don't even have a system to test the backups on. And I don't want to send him back a bunch of coasters. What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated, even for someone to say give up. Thanks.