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CTimrodDX
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_ 		1. July 2005 @ 11:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm interested in being able to soft-mod my PS2 (first generation one), but I'd like to know what it entails (like, how to make/use one of these "slide tools", if I need to gut my PS2 to get the whole thing to work, and if I need to buy anything). I'd rather spend as little as possible doing this.
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p4_tt
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_ 		1. July 2005 @ 13:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you want to play backups you can either get swap magic or a modchip,

Swap Magic is a disk that with allow you to swap it for backups using a fliptop or a slide card, a fliptop is like a lid for the top of your ps2 and it allows you to swap the disks easy by opening the lid at the top, a slid card is a small bit of plastic that you use to pull out the ps2 tray.

Check this link out to see a fliptop & slide tool

http://www.playstation3.no/webshop/images/Fliptop.jpg

http://www.breakerpro.com/images/Slide-Tool-2.jpg

A modchip is a bit of hardware that you normally solider to the ps2 motherboard but you can get non-solider ones, modchips work about 100% of the time with backups unlike swap magic which can't load dvd9 games (dual layer games)

You will have to buy a modchip or swap magic b4 you can play backups, swap magic is the cheapest and easiest way that you can do by youself unlike the modchhip unless you can solider.

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freebie
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_ 		1. July 2005 @ 18:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
you can also buy a neo-key usb mod chip it is very simple to install just plug into usb port and cost only $18.99 at console source (link below) they also sell other modchips with your PS2 version you can get very cheap modchips like there is a No-Solder modchip that works with your ps2 for only $9.99

http://consolesource.com/ecomm/customer/product.php?productid=11&...
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ps2crack
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_ 		1. July 2005 @ 20:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well i can tell you this, the cheapest way to go is to buy the swap magic , the cheapest i forund was http://www.consoleasia.com at $21.99 . Then you could make the slide card from a credit card. If you good le it youll find a guide. All the old methods are pretty useless and make it easy to screw your ps2 laser quick. Id rather buy the slide card for 1 dollars then mess with my ps2. Thats my style but the methosd above is the cheapest.
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p4_tt
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_ 		2. July 2005 @ 07:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Slide cards in general can screw the tray; fliptops are the best and help avoid tray\laser damage.
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aye aye man

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