Playing Imports

I have an older PS2 and the Swap Magic system. It works fine, but it is a pain in the ass switching discs.

I don't know how it works for the slimlines, but I would recommend a modchip. If your PS2 isn't under warranty then a modchip is ideal. If it is, you can safely still use the Swap Magic system without voiding your warranty whatsoever.

I've been planning for years to get my PS2 modded, but it hasn't happened. Instead, I took the cover off my PS2's drawer(the part where the PS2 logo is, where you can turn it sideways) and tried out the Swap Magic. The discs are for DVD and CD, because some PS2 games are printed on a CD-R, and not a DVD-R, and vise versa.

If you're going to own alot of imports, foreign material etc, a modchip is best(or a japanese/asian PS2, if you're solely going to focus on imports) otherwise the Swap Magic seems fine.

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Well, it depends. Is your PS2 still under warranty? It's a matter of whether or not you're going to 1) want to swap discs, every time or 2) want to lose your warranty, have the freedom of playing universal PS1/PS2 games.

Might I add, these discs do NOT allow you to play PS1 games. So all those foreign/burned PS1 games are going to be useless unless you buy a modchip.

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Originally Posted by ShadowScythe

is there any chance of tales of abyss and Tales of rebirth being released in the US?

Who cares, this thread isn't to talk about import games, but for people to discuss methods of playing them seeing as how standard PS2s can't play them by default.

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Originally Posted by Musharraf

You can damage your lens if you don't close the drive with the Swap Magic instrument after you inserted the DVD

Yeah, the laser tries extra hard to read the disc, and since it can't it's just struggling. I'ev done that a couple of times myself on accident, but you don't need to reset, just slide to the left and you're set.

Does anyone know why the PS2 can read Swap Magic discs in the first place? Since it can, I don't know why they don't just create discs using the same method for homebrew apps, instead of all this memory card rubbish I keep hearing about.

How ya doing, buddy?

I'm sure violating the law doesn't concern a large portion of PS2 owners.

I'm also pretty sure that Sony don't condone the Swap Magic or the team behind this, either. Even if it doesn't void your warranty, it's still taking off the cover of your disc tray and manually dragging the tray backwards and forwards.

I'm going to end up downloading another Swap Magic disc, because the one I have now I haven't really taken much care of. Switching is just so annoying. I do take good care of my games, but unfortunately I can't say that for the boot discs. Oh well, since my PS2 isn't under warranty and hasn't been for awhile now, this would be a great opportunity to modchip it. Then it'll probably die.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by BIGWORM

To be more technical, I believe the Swap Magic have the Crazy Taxi image mounted onto them, along with boot devices and files obviously.

That.... doesn't make any sense. Crazy Taxi, to download, is 129 MB. You can download the Swap Magic disc for 41 MB. If it had the image of Crazy Taxi, it would be over 150 MB in total. And, well, since Swap Magic discs aren't 150 MB, I don't know how you can come to that conclusion.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Actually you can backup the Swap Magic discs, but it will not be a direct boot, making it an even longer process. You can always go about doing a TOC refresh to boot the Swap Magic discs, which also works.

It's still a bunch of hassle though.

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