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		486sx33 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Burning and Playing PS2 Games Without a Modded Con... Years ago I soldered a physical mod chip into my original PS2, it had like 18 or 20 wires or something insane . Took me a solid week of a few hours after work each day, not to mention the pretty involved disassembly and reassembly Crazy !

486sx33 10 months ago | [–]

Roughly like this I guess https://quade.co/ps2-modchip-guide/modbo/v12/

willcipriano 10 months ago | [–]

I used the hacked disk and did the cover mod that let's you open the drive without opening it.

Way simpler.

rimunroe 10 months ago | [–]

I did that at first but quickly grew annoyed with it. The modchip took me a few hours to install but it was a huge improvement to usability

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