Maybe I should get a premod instead, help?

[Cyber Akuma]

Problem is the V4s themselves have a faulty lazer, it will still fail eventually even if I replace it, and I am worried about what problems usign a chip on a system that I play FFXI on as well as use cheat devices (on my OFFline games of course) might do. The older Gameshark dosent even BOOT if a hdd is attached. It also means almost a month of not being able to play FFXI or any other ps2 game while its being modded, the modchip, install, new lazer, and install will probably cost about 75% as much as a new premod PS2 anyway.