WiiPower said:
I dont't like the 007 swap trick, it damages your drive, and the lasers of all ps2s are already bad when they are new.
I softmodded my ps2 with some Action Replay + Independence Exploit + FF7(any ps1 game should do it). This requires you to have some cheat device that allows you to copy savegames to your PCps2 and a ps2 that is old enough to not block the independence exloit(don't know which models these are). Oh and you need some small usb storage of course.
I did the 007 swap trick because it was way easier to find. Besides you only need to do the swap once. Even then, I still play ps1 games using the swap trick (CASTLEVANIA!!) and still going strong. I have never had laser issues.
You can put the drive cover back on after you have swapped disks.
007 trick is simply more convenient.
I use the swap trick to play ps1 games too, but that's totally different. When swapping a retail ps1 disc for a backup in uLaunchELF, then the drive is stopped and as far as i know the drive is spinnng the whole time in 007.
QUOTE(Trace_hunter1 @ Nov 19 2010, 12:09 AM)
free mcboot works occasionally now but I can't play any backups
I've tried patching with memento on one iso and esr on the other, the memento patched game booted perfectly once but then refused to do it again
I'm now stuck with two unreadable games (ESR says detecting then not a valid type or something like that) any ideas? the disks are fine I'm guessing it's just the patching that I'm doing wrong...