PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK

[Turnarcades]

Check out this very recent article:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/13/appeal_court_weighs_in_on_modchips/

So why is it I still can't find anyone who does fitting in the UK? After my last fat PS2 broke down, I want my replacement slimline PS2 doing.

[Hoagie_one]

have you concidered the Freevast project?  Its working now at the cost of a memory card.

[SavannahLion]

Tony Blair was hubby with Bush right? How's this new guy, Brown? Does he like being Bush's pretty boy as well or is he a bit more independent minded?

Since Tony Blair left, I haven't heard anything about the political landscape in the UK.

Bush is doing a lot of questionable things here (go look up the U.S./Mexican border wall and what he's done to get it built) and I can't help think Brown might be like-minded.

[Ginsu Victim]

have you concidered the Freevast project?  Its working now at the cost of a memory card.

Freevast is fake.....right? Prove me wrong, please. This is something I'd love to be wrong on.

[Hoagie_one]

http://www.psx-scene.com/forums/freevast/

[Ginsu Victim]

Thanks! Reading up now. I've been using several exploits for a while now, so I'm interested in seeing what this can do!

(EDIT: Now that I'm using it, I see it doesn't allow backups to load without a swap, which is fine because I already have a flip-top lid on my v7. I can't get CDloader/DVDloader to work with it, but SwapMagic 3.8 ELF and HDadvance work fine. The only benefit so far is not having to pop in a PSX disc to boot the memcard, but that wasn't a big deal anyway.

I could take this or leave it.)

[ark_ader]

Check out this very recent article:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/13/appeal_court_weighs_in_on_modchips/

So why is it I still can't find anyone who does fitting in the UK? After my last fat PS2 broke down, I want my replacement slimline PS2 doing.

This is all very good news.

I can get back into the modding business once again. 

But unfortunately mods prices will start to rise once again. 

PS2 mods are very easy, not as easy as the xbox or the gamecube.

I agree with the verdict, mod chips are perfectly legal, its the pirates who copy the discs who are to blame. 

Thanks for the heads up! 

BTW whats up with the PS2? Is it not reading the discs or completely dead?

[Jdurg]

It's not likely to happen in the USA because here the Nazi-Like DMCA states that any circumvention of copy protection, or encryption, is illegal.  The mod-chips typically hack the BIOS and if the BIOS contains encrypted code or custom code, then the creation of the mod-chip breaks the DMCA.  Stupid, but true.

[northerngames]

yeah like bypassing the electronic key security on a automobile igntition to make a street car into a push button start race car.

same thing with the radar detectors and cable scrablers they can sell them but not use them 

theres to many comparables and to go after a few only and look the other way on the rest.

[Hoagie_one]

Thanks! Reading up now. I've been using several exploits for a while now, so I'm interested in seeing what this can do!

(EDIT: Now that I'm using it, I see it doesn't allow backups to load without a swap, which is fine because I already have a flip-top lid on my v7. I can't get CDloader/DVDloader to work with it, but SwapMagic 3.8 ELF and HDadvance work fine. The only benefit so far is not having to pop in a PSX disc to boot the memcard, but that wasn't a big deal anyway.

I could take this or leave it.)

I think you might be doing something wrong.  As long as your iso's are patched you can boot them up without a swap using the free MC boot tool and the ESR direct dvd elf that goes with it.

[Ginsu Victim]

I'm not patching 500+ already burned games, not when I can already boot them without Free MC Boot.

[Hoagie_one]

I'm not patching 500+ already burned games, not when I can already boot them without Free MC Boot.

Duh?

[Ginsu Victim]

Definite duh.

[Malenko]

ok so Im tired of reading and not finding an answer.....

I used to have HD Advance, lost the disc ages ago, how can I make my PS2 boot up to run games off the HD? I cant find anything in the threads along the lines of a tutorial.Ive flashed and softmodded XBOX, flashed NDSs, firmware flashed PSPs after making a pandora battery etc etc so its not like Im clueless on how these things work; I just need a darn tutorial!

[Ginsu Victim]

Do you have an Action Replay Max Evo? (Or any way of getting files from a USB flash drive to your mem card?)
Do you have Swap Magic?

[Malenko]

Do you have an Action Replay Max Evo? (Or any way of getting files from a USB flash drive to your mem card?)
Do you have Swap Magic?

got nothing, but I can swap trick any ISO(s) you can point me to (I just take the lid off, heh)

[Ginsu Victim]

That link above that Hoagie_One posted has a lot of good info. I think on page 3 or so you'll find a tutorial.

I had an easy method if you had the above items, but just go read up on what that site has, and any questions you've got, just PM me.

[Malenko]

That link above that Hoagie_One posted has a lot of good info. I think on page 3 or so you'll find a tutorial.

I had an easy method if you had the above items, but just go read up on what that site has, and any questions you've got, just PM me.

PM'ed