Acekey v5 w/ GS2 v2.0 will not boot DVDRs!

[skiman777]

Originally posted by Warlock
Have you tried the "nightstalker" method posted in the stickys??

Warlock,

I believe these are the directions you are referring to:

Thanks to Nighstalker for this method!

• Boot GS2 disc 1.
• At the main screen, press the EJECT button to eject the CD tray.
• Replace the GS2 disc with an original PS2 DVD game.
• Close the CD tray (press EJECT again) and wait for 15 seconds.
• Select gameshark codes and turn on or off any code on any game.
• Press start, select with codes and press x to load game.
• A black screen will appear saying "updating codes please wait"
• Do the R-mod swap by pressing and holding eject, swap with backup, tray will close and game will load.

• NOTE: The swap must be performed within the time you see the black screen.

• Nighstalker has tested this method with GS2 v 2.01 through 2.11.

• It works 100% of the time providing the backup is good.

Yes I have tried this one, but I figured it should not work because this is for v2.01 and beyond. I did everything as stated but it never leaves the "updating codes please wait message" and the game never loads. My box says Gameshark 2 version 2.0 but maybe there is some further numbers there they do not mention on the box. I wonder if you can find the version somewhere in the Gameshark program after you have loaded it? If so I have not stumbled upon it yet.

My wife thinks I hosed up the chip when I recently added the one-wire to the chip that was supposed to enable no swap booting for PSX backups [it did not work however, but the PSX/PS2 backups still work so I assume everything is fine.

I could not locate the yellow wire that came with the unit so I used a wire I had laying around, a thicker guage non-stranded wire so I am sure this is worse than the one that came with it. I do not have a low power soldering iron so I used a standard one and wrapped some wire around it to fashion a wire point tip so that I would not inadvertently overheat the electronics. I made the connection but I believe the end result was a cold solder joint on the PS2 side of the wire. But I do not believe I burned anything up. Any further ideas? Thanks for all the help guys!

Rich