PS2 Boot Disc

[Rush_Omega]

Hiya Im a Newbiee Towards PS2 stuff..
This probly is not like Dreamcast but I heard a Romor about a PS2 Boot Disc is this true or fake?? Do you still need "Chipping" ??

~Rush~

[yippee]

you need a boot disk and your ps2 need chipping.. see www.playstationmods.com

[pato]

There are multiple ways of playing back ups, each with it's own ups and downs. I for one, don't care for installing a chip that Sony will combat sooner or later (and watch it happen on a game you really want). So I opted for Game Shark with the knife swap method. I read web sites for about 2 days to collect enough information to decide on which method I wanted to use.

There are some great sites out there that can walk you thru a step by step process of the various methods. But, I have yet to run across playing back ups with the method I use, although I have only tried 12 games so far. I will let you know what I did, just to give you a run down, since there are so many sources out there, some of which conflict with each other.

I ran down to a local game store yesterday and purchased Game Shark (the cheating tool). Anything you buy in the store should be the latest version which is 1.9. I removed the dust cover for the cd tray and rigged up a method of opening the cd tray without hitting eject. Basically it consists of cutting a credit card a certain way with a hole in the end of the card. Then I slipped the newly cut credit card over a pin under the tray (known as the "white pin") and I can physically pull on the credit card to open the tray (without hitting eject).

So now I burn a back up of whatever game I would like to play. I pop in Game Shark, and tell it to continue playing without any cheats. It then asks for the game to be inserted. This is where I use my card tool or "knife method" to open the tray, close it with the back up game inserted, and hit x on the controller and it then plays the game I swapped.

There are about 5-6 other popular ways of achieving the same result. Some include mod chips, other include re-soldeirng wires on your board, and some others.

One of the best sites I found was

http://www.sgt-dan.com look around by using the navigation at the top of the page, but some of the best sources of information were on his boards. You will find well written tutorials, and an archive of games that tell you if a certain game needs a patch to play correctly, and obviously a board with some very knowledgable people.

[jhemmons]

pato
with your method that you just mentioned you dont have to use any mod chip at all. you just get the game shark and put it games with out hitting eject?

[NightStalker]

No offense to pato but buy a modchip and gameshark2, get the chip installed and forget about the cog,knife method. It will save you some headaches in time. I know several people who have striped there PS2 sticking knives and credit cards into them....Buy the way the only boot disc that will work are gs2, ar2 or regionx. no downloaded or cdr backup will do.

To add unhelpfully to NightStalker's sound advice, the Knife/Cog method is in most cases, along with cracked versions of CloneCD and CDRWin, the prime example of self-defeating cheapskatedness!
Whew - that's better!