[Question] Playstation 2 IMPORT question

It's too much hassle swapping discs with the Swap Magic every fucking time you want to play an imported title. I went through this for almost a year and it drove me to the brink of insanity. You're better off getting yourself a modchip or having one professionally installed. Assuming you can't do it yourself.

If you're planning on playing american only titles, buy the NTSC/UC PS2. But since japanese games > american ones, most of the time anyway, you might want to check them out. So there isn't an overall solution for playing games worldwide which isn't the modchip and which isn't annoying.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Soluzar

Seriously, dude. I'm telling you that there is. The HDLoader is almost completely effortless once it has been set up. You can get someone else to do the setup for you, since memory cards can be sent through the post.

Maybe he wants to buy the games instead of downloading them?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Rock

And what exactly is it that makes you think HDLoader would prevent him from doing so?

I never said it would prevent him from doing so.

There doesn't seem to be much logic in importing games if you can simply download games and put them on HDLoader.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah I'm well aware of this, but it's just cheaper to have his current PS2 modchipped by someone. It would be perfectly fine if he wants to start shelling out $176 for a 80 GB PS2 compatible HDD and HDLoader, instead of having it professionally modchipped by someone and importing games directly.

For the price of getting it initialized you could've bought yourself an extra game in the process.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Rock

Lix, I wonder where you're getting your figures from. $176 for a standard 3,5" 80 GB IDE harddrive? Where do you buy your stuff!? Also, HDLoader is free (at least the most updated version is). Shows how much you know about HDL.

Their main website is telling me that one of their packs, which seems to be the cheapest, is $176.

I was speaking idiomatically.

It's pretty simple to use it. The Swap Magic basically works like a boot disc. You stick it in, it loads, you pull the tray out, swap discs, push the tray back into place, and press X.

Then it just runs the entire game you have. I think it also works for burned games as well, but I don't recall trying. The majority of my games are imported and they all work with the slide tool/swap magic 3 just fine.

There's some instances where blue based discs wouldn't work in my machine using the swap magic, but I don't have a large amount of them to worry about. Plus, I had mine modchipped, so it's pretty much sorted now.

There's also a compatibility list on swap magic's site which shows which games can and can't be played.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Almost all televisions these days support NTSC -- I don't see this being an obstable.

As for slide tools and whatevers, watch these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgON_aPWKGw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jonYb8eBEbQ

Demonstrations on how to properly install and use the swap magic. When I bought mine, instructions were included.

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Oh and that link you gave me doesn't work...

You could just google "swap magic", you know.

How ya doing, buddy?

Never.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?