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Hi Guys,
I just managed to destroy my old PS2. The cable which goes between the FOXCONN and the mainboard literally burnt out. Instead of the fuses going, it cooked the insulation. I put it on the bench and found that a bunch of resistors weren't resisting anymore and that the fuses were all giving about 1ohmz resistance, which is way out of spec. Bye bye, old friend. One of the results of the insulation cooking off is that it fouled my Ghost Recon 2 disc. While the game is not spectacular, I did enjoy it. The smell was fantastic.
I went to ebgames and got lucky. Someone had just traded in a PlayStation 2 Slim ("PStwo" as I've seen it lurking here) and I bought it with a warranty for the used system price. Sweet!
Checking the forums, I haven't seen a really great comparison between HD Advance and Swap Magic. It's obviously time to invest in one of these as cleaning the fouling off the GR disc resulted in a disc that looks fine to me and my PC, but the PSTwo is taking forever to read it. It hasn't done this with any other games, so I'm pretty sure the disc is on it's way out also. Swap Magic has a bundle with the tools for cheap a few places, but the idea of using a spare hard drive from my junk pile on the PSTwo is interesting. Any HD Advance gurus here know if the PSTwo can accept a USB hard drive? Also, if I see fit to copy my DVD games to DVD-Rs, will HDAdvance run them off the DVD-Rs or do I need to copy them to the hard drive first?
Are there other programs aside of HD Advance and Swap Magic which are preferred? Is there a Big Matrix of Features Between Mod Programs I can look at?
Thanks,
Josh
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