mod chip...

Connor MacLeod · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: mod chip...

Not positive if this is in the right forum. Sorry. Any place where I can get hooked up with a mod chip for my PS2? I just got my Gaidens back and seem to be lacking one.

Rocky · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:01 pm Post subject:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD: 2004-07,GGLD:en&q=mod+chip+ps2

Lotsa resources available on the net. Can purchase one and install it, or even buy a PS2 with it already installed (probably find a good deal like that on Ebay, I would imagine). Also, there's "swap discs" which you can look into - Another way of playing "back-up" copies of games, or out of region games, this one doesn't void your warrenty however. I also believe there's a way to use a Gameshark to do it. Hope that helps.
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Horned Loa · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:09 pm Post subject:

No illegal content is to be posted here even if it is Suikoden related!!! Use MSN or outside contact methods for that. Closed!!!

Saben · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:39 pm Post subject:

I'd just like to point out that mod-chips are not illegal provided they are only used for the purpose of IMPORTING games from international sources. So I will re-open this topic tentatively, however should the discussion turn onto illegally copied games then it will be closed again. So you can continue to discuss how to play imported games such as the Suikogaidens on a non-Japanese system. But it will be monitored heavily, so let's keep it on imports and not let it turn to piracy.

Filipe · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:

There are actually quite a large number of importable games that I would love to play. Generations of Chaos series for the Playstation two comes to mind as one. Along with any number of games around only in Japan that i would simply love to get my hands on. Unfortunately as it stands right now I dont know of any places where I can get my Playstation two modded for importing games. I still find that modding a system so you can illegally play copied games and anything of the sort is sad and pathetic.
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Lunarblade · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:54 am Post subject:

A mod chip wouldn't do much for me, I don't speak Japanese, nor do I have the know-how...

BTW, love thy conrad, you should stop by the Highland board once in a while...
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Axiose · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:28 am Post subject:

Saben, I'm not too sure, but I can strongly remember the UK law changing quite recenently (last 6 months) when I heard that Mod Chips had been made illegal in the UK full stop.

That obviously wouldn't stretch to other countries, but you never know what might happen...

Does the Swap Disc method work? I know they're not illegal.
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Arcana · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 3:38 am Post subject:

I thought it was illegal to install a mod chip in your playstation in your US. Using a mod chip counts as attempting to route digital encoding, as far as I understand, which implies a criminal activity. Code-cracking can actually grant you a sentence worse than murder.

Routing this bootup code, whether it's the Region codes or the boot-up sequence for pirated games, may be illegal regardless of if you intend to import games. If you're found installing mod-chips for people as a commercial store front, I would not be surprised to see that as a target.

In Canada, the story's a lot different.

In any case, getting a system modded isn't actually that cheap, at least not in Canada, where it can cost up to $150 to get a chipped PS2. The price is probably significantly less elsewhere, but with $150, you can pretty much buy yourself a Japanese PS2 (though that doesn't solve the problem of TV encoding; not sure if the power is the same or not.)
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Elc · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:38 am Post subject:

There are games which I'd love to have been able to play, such as the Suikogaidens, but the inability to read Japanese really restricts the enjoyment I'd get out of it. I'm also not a fan of doing anything which would void the warranty, though I'm sure the warranty plan on my PS2 has already expired but the added cost of a mod chip (as seen here) is also enough to convince me against the idea.

Pirated games, of course, I have no interest in. Whenever I buy used games, it has to at least come with the packaging (and instructions, if possible) as the official package looks far better on my game shelf than a generic jewel case thrown in.
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Deleted User 1 · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:50 am Post subject:

hmm... mod chips... I have heard of them and can order them on sites... but never have I thought of getting one for the PS2... if it allows suikogaiden then that's great... but with no english version it's as good as unplayable...

instead there is a different way to enable your PS2 to do what the modchip does... I don't exactly know but I have seen some men burn something in the PS2 (some little metal thing, they melted it, added some little wire and such) and then told the man what to do this and that and that if there is a problem he can come back and get a new PS2...

Decado · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:04 am Post subject:

That just sounds like he was soldering in a mod chip.....
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Deleted User 1 · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:06 am Post subject:

but ain't a mod chip a small piece that you put in? instead of a wire... hmm... oh well, my bad then...

Decado · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:

No bad, don't worry about it.

Maybe I mis-understood? Was the PS2 case open so you could see all the circuits etc...?
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Connor MacLeod · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:25 am Post subject:

I paid for all my Gaidens with hard earned money. Er, actually, my brother paid for his Gaidens in Japan with his hard earned money. So the only illegal activity that I know of going on here was the infiltration of my brother's room.

And yeah, I'm pretty sure a mod chip is something you have to get like, installed inside the playstation 2. My bro just went off to college and took his with him, so I'm stuck with mine now.

If it's an illegal thing to do this then I just won't bother, I can always play it on epsxe which I know is legal. I don't want anyone on this board, namely me, to get in trouble.

Arcana · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:56 am Post subject:

Is this a PSX 1 game?

If that's the case you're going to save yourself AT LEAST $40 by playing it on epsxe, as well as the potential legal troubles and so forth, unless of course, you're planning on buying more imports.

Frankly, if you're not pirating and not planning to get PS2 import games, it's a waste to mod just for one PSX game.
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