Modchip installs....

[orion731]

I have a big problem... First of all I haven't posted on Fileforums for forever so I guess I'm out of the scene. My favorite installer went out of buisness. www.freedomlives.com. I'm totally freaking out. I've had two consoles done by them and I haven't had a chance to send in some of my consoles. I have a Matrix infinity sitting around needing to be installed in my slim PS2. I also have a qoob modchip that I will eventually need installed into my cube. I've checked out many of the installers in the UIS, (norcalmods, modchipman etc...) but it seems like their webpages don't load either. Does anyone install chips anymore and if so does anyone know of any?? I can't install these myself or I will have a very expensive doorstop. Thanks for the replies. -Orion

[hakz]

lufcfan is an installer on this forums, pm him

[DABhand]

Most of the chips look easy to install. They should come with instructions to show you how to do it.

All you need is a soldering iron and some solder wire.

[hakz]

a steady hand, and a tiny soldering iron tip, the ps2 has TINY points to solder to, trust me

[DABhand]

As long as you dont solder two points together, you dont have to be exact in your soldering

[Warlock]

Modchips are very difficult to install. The diagrams posted on the net are very misleading . The points on the board are very tiny and close together. The average person with no electronic soldering experience has maybe a 20% chance of sucess .

Anyway, Modchip raids have closed down most installers here. Its no longer safe to openly advertise modchips/installs here in the US.

This was posted at Gamespot:







Mod-chip merchants get ICE'd
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency executes largest-of-its-kind sting on sellers of pirated-software-enabling devices.
By Tom Magrino, GameSpot
Posted Aug 1, 2007 4:04 pm PT
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced today that it has executed its largest crackdown yet on game piracy, illegal mod chips, and game-disc copyright circumvention devices. As part of the investigation, ICE officials served 32 federal search warrants in 16 states against suspects involved in "the direct importation, installation, sale, and distribution of the devices that are of foreign manufacture and smuggled into the United States."

According to the Entertainment Software Association, worldwide software piracy costs the US entertainment software industry billions of dollars every year. The ESA has hailed similar busts in recent months, including the arrest of a San Diego man in possession of more than 1,000 pirated discs as well as numerous mod chips last June.

Hoping to curtail the escalating drain on the entertainment industry, ICE noted that it had arrested more than 700 individuals and secured 425 convictions stemming from counterfeit merchandise distribution worldwide since 2002. ICE also mentioned that, along with help from the US Customs and Border Protection agency, more than $750 million in counterfeit goods have been seized since 1998.

"Illicit devices like the ones targeted today are created with one purpose in mind, subverting copyright protections," said Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "These crimes cost legitimate businesses billions of dollars annually and facilitate multiple other layers of criminality, such as smuggling, software piracy and money laundering."

Though names of the suspects were not revealed, ICE stated that the warrants were served at locations in California, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin.

[orion731]

ya I've noticed. I've searched and searched and I've only found one. A install tech that works for but seems independant from www.divineo.net. He's asking about $90 for a Matrix infinity in a v12 Slim PS2 including shipping. About what I was paying before pretty much, but It scares me when I don't know how reliable he is. Bill at Freedom lives did an excellent job. Fast shipping and very good install. So idk. Maybe I'll have to take a chance.

As for doing it myself. I once tried to solder only ONE wire in a really old ps2 (my first back in 2001) because it was a USB type mod. And I screwed that up. PS2 still worked but the USB was useless. So that would be a big no can do on soldering about 25 wires from something the size of a quarter to MANY parts on the Motherboard.