I get black screen with DVD backups ???

[spedmetal]

Originally posted by ihaveanosebleed
Yes an original DVD Game will boot with the chip but a DVD MOVIE usually needs the chip turned off to play as the PS2 is being forced to boot a PS2 game by default from the chip, not a movie. So if you can put a DVD movie in the PS2 and power it up and the movie starts to play with no problems, without holding reset to disable the chip, this may indicate that the chip is not sending the default PS2 game boot data. I hope that made sense.

I am not 100% sure of how a magic V handles booting DVD movies, I mostly use Apple Pro but I believe they work exactly the same, as far as reset button changing the chip modes.

This is good information. The magic V switchs modes with the eject button though just so you know. And yes if you just put a DVD movie in with out doing anything the PS2 will be in PS2 mode and not boot the DVD movie.... if the chip is not patching the bios like ihaveanosebleed said it will boot up like normal.