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I got gifted an abused ps2 by a friend of mine who had been using swapdisks and a slide tool to play his backups, untill he loaned it to a complete moron, and he forgot to give the moron the slide card...
so moron goes and rips apart the drive tray in order to swap, leaving the cover open... anyways he broke some stuff and lost most of the parts to the tray, leaving the ps2 mostly useless... so my friend gives it to me, and I soon start cutting a hole in the lid...
so this thing is missing almost all of the eject mechanism, meaning any time anyone presses the eject button during play, the spinning disk gets lowered into the gears...
also, when using the cogswap method, I'm forced to press the dreaded eject button to get it to read the new toc... well whenever I do, it goes through the motions of ejecting the nonexistant tray, spinning different things, raising and lowering other things, etc... and the only way I can figure out to make it think the tray is out, etc is to do the following stupid little dance: take out disc, press eject, wait 4 seconds, slide this little white plastic thing to the right, wait 2 seconds, hold the new disc in place with the other hand, let go of the white thing while quickly throwing the disc in the way of the laser before it starts reading, then get my hand the hell out of there and pray.
I get here (afterdawn) though, and start reading some old threads on fliptops, and I'm seeing all these extra parts like "tool A" or "apparatus D" and "disc brakes", do these have something to do with tricking the ps into thinking it still has a tray? or like is there some switch I can jam to make this easier?
sorry for the long read, but any insight would be muchly appreciated!
Cheers!
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