MY PS2 just died in my arms last night, and with superb timing too - my x-port just arrived in the post, but I can't use it!
It's as old as PES2 (2-3 yrs?), so I'd had to open it up and clean the laser eye a lot to get it to load up the DVD's over recent weeks. (Games and Audio on ordinary CD's will still load fine.
Has anyone re-built an old PS2 including installing a new Laser (best price £45) and added a mod-chip themselves? I reckon the price for both would be about £90, but I don't know about the practicalities of chipping.
Is it straight-forward for someone who isn't into soldering, and hasn't even got a soldering iron? Are there reliable chips that only require minimal risk to intall (I don't want to buy laser and chip then find I've broken either them or the PS2 by botching the install)?
With an x-port, would I be better off getting a new UK PS2 (best UK price £125) and sending the old one to a professional to fix and modify (£90 + labour and post)? That would leave me playing PES3 with option files, and eventuallly the old machine returns able to play patched versions of PES3, plus WE7, and WE7i when that's released.
In short, if your euro PS2 died, what would you do, fix it up yourself, get a pro to do it, buy a new one, or buy a pre-modded PS2?
It's as old as PES2 (2-3 yrs?), so I'd had to open it up and clean the laser eye a lot to get it to load up the DVD's over recent weeks. (Games and Audio on ordinary CD's will still load fine.
Has anyone re-built an old PS2 including installing a new Laser (best price £45) and added a mod-chip themselves? I reckon the price for both would be about £90, but I don't know about the practicalities of chipping.
Is it straight-forward for someone who isn't into soldering, and hasn't even got a soldering iron? Are there reliable chips that only require minimal risk to intall (I don't want to buy laser and chip then find I've broken either them or the PS2 by botching the install)?
With an x-port, would I be better off getting a new UK PS2 (best UK price £125) and sending the old one to a professional to fix and modify (£90 + labour and post)? That would leave me playing PES3 with option files, and eventuallly the old machine returns able to play patched versions of PES3, plus WE7, and WE7i when that's released.
In short, if your euro PS2 died, what would you do, fix it up yourself, get a pro to do it, buy a new one, or buy a pre-modded PS2?