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Originally Posted by EVOLghost
and I haven't played xenogears.....One reason was because it's hard to find a copy. and my ps1 was never modded.
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Really? I've found quite a few copies of Xenogears at local pawn shops. Want me to look for a copy for ya? It'd be $10. Plus shipping. If I sold it to you. The original black label version is worth like $35-50, but the greatest hits one is worth only $20 ish. There was a time when XENO, SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT, VAGRANT STORY, and a few others were worth a bit, but eventually the stupidity of greatest hits titles being that much made people more into modding/roms and less into buying em, haha. So, I noticed prices went down on AMAZON (I remember buying SHIN MEGETAMI TENSEI: NOCTURNE off of amazon.com -- it had been $80-100 and then it just seemed like no one wanted to pay for it anymore or something, and it SUDDENLY dropped to $30 for a spell.. It's stayed there ever since, I think. The game's had 3 pressings, for fuck's sake -- it's not rare!).. Rarest game I ever owned was Castlevania: Dracula X for the SNES. Bought it at a pawn shop for $4. Sold it for $92!
You do know you don't have to mod a PS1 or PS2 to play burnt PS1 games right? Probably don't need to even mod a PS3. The best, and easiest way, to play burnt games is with a PS2... using the swap trick. Get a "PS2 FATTY" (roughly $40 at pawn shops; this is the opposite of slim). Get some CD-R's. Get Nero, or whatever, will burn either .cdi or .bin/.cue.... eh, I'll justll walk you through it, since it'll be useful to others too (unless you just have a PSP, which you can EASILY play downloaded and/or burnt games for -- just look it up online.... btjunkie.org has a ridiculous amount of "PSX OPTIMIZED FOR PSP GAMES")...
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MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
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MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
MY FATTY PS2 GAME SWAP DISC TRICK
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TOOLS: An original PS1 game in good-enough condition, a FAT PS2, some CD-R's, Nero (or any other decent CD burning program), EMUPARADISE.ORG in your Firefox "Favorites"...
GETTIN' STARTED
1) BREAK OFF THE FACE OF YOUR PS2. Yeah, that "Reduces the value of your used PS2" (used FAT PS2's go for $20-50 nowadays. They're easy as hell to get. Slims go for a bit less. If anyone tries to sell you one for more than $50, tell em to fuck off. If they try to sell you one for less than $20, there must be something wrong with it). A warning... the first-edition PS2's (the ones where, when you play a DVD, you won't see how much time is remaining; only what chapter you're on.. there's a LOT less options) have a tough time playing CD-R's... PSX games... early PS2 games (purple backs)... really, a tough time playing just about any fucking thing, that piece of shit.. has any Sony system
not had a shitload of problems when they debut? Fuck me. PSP's had missing pixels, haha. Can you imagine playing a game and pixels fall out? I love game glitches. I should throw in some glitching games in my next movie. Ohhh... maybe for my shmup, I'll have some level textures that nothing
but glitches!).... one way to fix this is to turn your console... on the side.. or upside down. Oh, and yes, they'll eventually work, period, but they're usually.. it's almost RANDOM how they work.. it takes time.. keep in mind, too, these fucking things are usually 10 years old. I actually think they might still be making fat ones, so try to get a new fat one. There is a slim trick, but THIS IS FOR THE FAT ONES. Okay? FAT ONES. So, anyway make sure they work....
GETTIN STARTED ..
REALLY!
1.. again) Uh, so I ranted a shitload. Anyway, there's a "Faceplate" in front of the PS2, right? Well, yo, master of gore, BREAK THAT SHIT OFF. Trust me, you will thank me later. I have hundreds upon hundreds of burnt PS1 games. I've reduced the value of my working PS2 by $10. I've spent, you know, over $100 on CD-R's. Okay, let's say I've spent $120 overall. Okay, I burnt VALKYRIE PROFILE, that's one of the, oh, 300 games I have burnt. That game alone goes for $120. See my point? Yeah. Yeah, you got it, okay. BREAK THE FACE OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Use a screwdriver or something.
2) Now, I want you to get a credit/debit/some kind of card. Any kind. Something plastic and floppy. I have an old Wal-Mart employee card.. it was
perfect.. it was almost..
meant to be. I love the pseudo-almost-irony of a card that says "ALWAYS LOW PRICES" with a smiley face, helping me commit piracy. Anyway, cut this into, sort of, an L shape. In other words, take your box knife (preferably from Wal-Mart, ha)... and cut a little chunk out of a card. The reason it has to be an L, or a C, or whatever.. is bsides it needs to slide in, but it needs to HOOK....
note a) Okay, once you have this tool, you have access to the guts of PS2.. the idea is, you have to open the PS2 without hitting eject... if you hit eject, the magic is up. And I love magic. Things like this little trick blows my mind. The idea of fucking with components, with technology, for your bidding. I think I've always made my music to kind of destroy itself. My movies? Same idea... turn the plot against itself. Make the characters hate themselves. Break rules, you know? Make new languages. In this case, technology works against itself. Something kinda poetic about a plastic card giving you access to every video game ever made, just about.
note b) Some idiots will tell you snorting pills doesn't get you fucked up. Then you snort some pills and you get fucked up. Weird, eh? Same thing here.. some idiots will tell you FUCK means FORNICATION UNDER CONSENT of KING. It doesn't. Moral of the story? People usually don't know what the fuck they're talking about, yet they always "know somebody" who does. Right. Well, I have experience. I've been burning PS1 games for a year. I've been playing them. I've been saving them. I've been doing this trick, and showing others -- online, and in person -- and I've never BROKEN A PS2. Yet everyone else will say "OH SHIT. THIS BREAKS YOUR PS2." Perhaps they're jealous they aren't smart enough to do this trick themselves. Which leads to ...
note c) Again, the idea of putting the card in is to move the tray -- the tray you put your disc on -- out. This will not break your PS2. Reason? YOU ARE MOVING THE SAME GEARS THAT ARE MOVED WHEN YOU HIT EJECT. You can even be as aggressive as FUCK with it. It makes no difference. Think of sex. If you fuck hard, you're probably not going to kill your dick, or kill her vagina. You'll cum though. If you don't fuck so hard, you're still going to cum, maybe, it'll just take longer. Either way, you're doing the same thing. It doesn't matter how hard you fuck, how you twist your dick, whatever.. all that matters is you manipulate the same spot.