Hi,

Just thought I would pass on that I have found about 20 ARV2 (v2.23 BootCD) in Virgin MegaStore, Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK for £29.99. This ARV2 bundle comes in a DVD case (not the card board box) and has a picture of Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 2 in the lower right hand corner of the cover. The ARV2 dongle is included inside the case.

This version will work with V7 PAL PS2 and with DVD firmware 2.10 and higher :-) Here is the contents of SYSTEM.CNF from Disc 01 which has a time stamp of the 14th Auguest 2002.
BOOT2 = cdrom0:\SLES_500.09;1
VER = 2.23
VMODE = PAL
Thanks to those of you who contributed to the following threads which helped me find what I need...
[list=1][*]DVD Region X for v7 US - http://ps2newz.net/forums/showthread...&threadid=2347[*]DVD Region X HELP - http://ps2newz.net/forums/showthread...&threadid=2246[*]Anyone use DVD Region X - http://ps2newz.net/forums/showthread...&threadid=2070[/list=1]Hopefully this info will be useful to anyone else in the Maidenhead area with a new PS2?