PS2 & CDclone ?????

[wow1234]

I'm new at this so sorry for the stupid questions:

1)Do I need to put the patches after making an image with CDclone?
2)What speed should I burn the backup with? 1x is too slow could I do it faster?
3)Do I need a mod chip to play the game or I have to do the PS2 Swap Trick to play the game?
4)Then do I need a special boot disk and where could I get one?


thank you for the help :-)