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hmmm....ok well ive got the new ps2 and i dont want to chip it. will this mod allow me to play ntsc original games?? thats pretty much all i want from it is to play jap games and possibly dvds. does this mean that if i copy the ntsc game onto the external hdd i should be able to play it??

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Yes.

All PS2's play all PS2 games NTSC/PAL/SECAM.

The question is... does your telly support NTSC ??

If not there's still hope. There are appz that patch .ISO images PAL-->NTSC & vice versa. Half the games I have are NTSC from HK and they play as per PAL, no patching.

M'kay ?

OK just checked. did back to back testing with Gran Turismo 3, HD vs DVD load times tested on all the screens available from the main menu. There was between 40-60% improvement across the menu. That's with a WD 7200RPM IDE drive (WD's do fit). the cheap one with less buffer. An 8mb buffer drive would have fared a little better. it's in my older v5/6 PS2 .

the PSTwo's USB port might be an achilles heel. USB disk drives are hella slow on my PC compared to IDE, but on the PSTwo ? Try it & see Gushiken San, at best you'll never have to swap discs again at worst they'll be slow to load.

Scratch that.

Word around the traps is:

No HDD support for PSTwo :cuss:

No HDLoader support for PSTwo. :thumbdwn:

That's the official line from $ony

$ony concocted a story George Bush would be proud of as to the lack of HDD support in the PSTwo.

The truth is PS2 always supported HDD, $ony held back while M!cro$oft was losing $$$$$ on Xbox software revenues from piracy as a direct result of HDD support. It was a commercially smart move to make the network adaptor a critical link in the chain, and to play that ace later in the game.

This is the PSX vs PS1 history repeat. And the lesson from that was: Hold on to your old hardware, it's built to a standard not a price.

I just put a 200gb seagate hard drive in my ps2, running HDAdvance 2.1. I was extremely happy with the loading times, no more load on my ps2 laser. Its nice not hearing the laser struggling to load trees and streets while driving in GTA.

MidnightGTR - check this page http://www.zophar.net/consoles/ps2.html NeoCD emu there.

Neo Geo had the best shoot em ups, hands down. Definitely get a good digital joystick for neo games. Analog response time is too slow.

ABuSD - HDLoader/HDAdvance only supports PS2 games =(

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narkeh... bring your PS2, memory card, a PS1 game and a network adapter ($30 from EB) and I'll do it for you in 5 mins... I've got a memory card editor (so you can plug memory cards into your PC and edit the files on it, same one I used a couple of years ago to get the 9000hp Mines R34 GTR in GT3). So you don't have to f**k around with all this swap magic crap.

oh you'll need a hard drive as well so I can put D1GP on it for you :cheers:

I did Danny's PS2 with a 20gb hdd out of an old PC, and I did one of my mate's PS2 using the 8gb HDD he pulled out of his Xbox :cheers: Most of the tutes out there seem to think 40gb is the lowest you can use. Bollocks to that I say.

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