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Title: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Turnarcades on June 26, 2008, 08:16:25 am
Check out this very recent article:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/13/appeal_court_weighs_in_on_modchips/ (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.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Hoagie_one on June 26, 2008, 02:25:28 pm
have you concidered the Freevast project?  Its working now at the cost of a memory card.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: SavannahLion on June 26, 2008, 03:15:49 pm
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.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 26, 2008, 04:12:50 pm
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.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Hoagie_one on June 26, 2008, 04:54:11 pm
http://www.psx-scene.com/forums/freevast/
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 26, 2008, 05:35:38 pm
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.)
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: ark_ader on June 26, 2008, 07:45:08 pm
Check out this very recent article:

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

But unfortunately mods prices will start to rise once again.  :cry:

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.  :angry:

Thanks for the heads up!  :cheers:

BTW whats up with the PS2? Is it not reading the discs or completely dead?
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Jdurg on June 26, 2008, 09:33:35 pm
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.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: northerngames on June 29, 2008, 05:00:49 pm
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  :dunno

theres to many comparables and to go after a few only and look the other way on the rest.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Hoagie_one on June 30, 2008, 07:32:54 am
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.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 30, 2008, 11:01:20 am
I'm not patching 500+ already burned games, not when I can already boot them without Free MC Boot.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Hoagie_one on June 30, 2008, 04:45:02 pm
I'm not patching 500+ already burned games, not when I can already boot them without Free MC Boot.

Duh?
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 30, 2008, 05:27:42 pm
Definite duh.
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Malenko on June 30, 2008, 06:37:16 pm
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!
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 30, 2008, 06:40:27 pm
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?
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Malenko on June 30, 2008, 06:41:49 pm
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)
Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Ginsu Victim on June 30, 2008, 06:46:45 pm
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.

Title: Re: PS2 chipping now legal again in the UK
Post by: Malenko on June 30, 2008, 07:25:10 pm
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  :laugh2: