Dms3

[GFX]

In anticipation of Charlie's DMS3 review....

we have installed DMS3 to V8, V7 and V4 Pal and to a 3500 V4 Jap console

One of the 8 chips we used in total was faulty (tested twice)

All consoles tested with various CD-r, DVD-r and out of region DVD movies.
All worked great and booted first time.

The only game that would not boot but has been tested working with Messiah and Messiah 2 is Robot wars PAL cd-r. This was not a direct copy but a download so am not sure on the horigin. This game does not boot with Magic 3 either.


My conclusions......

a great chip with loads of potentials


Looking forward to Charlie's full review

FX

[jy96]

Have you tried it with a ps1 anti-mod game?

[villasg]

Please check with the max payne ( original or copy ) work after the intro ??

[Gradius]

This chip can support load on browser as in Messiah2 ?

Gradius

[GFX]

yes it does support load on browser as you don't have to press reset either to load.

I will test max payne tomorrow

FX

[2 Tru CReW]

u didnt say whether u used the chips as they came or upgraded to v1.1 first -_-

[charlie_ps2]

Here is the game test result for the DMS3 v1.1 tested on NTSC v8 model: SCPH-39006 BIOS 090 GH-022.

Please note that the update disk had to be created using specially padded files supplied by Divineo (who were very helpful). I used CDRWin to burn special cue/bin files and the upgrade worked. The upgrade cured Region Free problems.

The DMS3 v1.0 performs broadly like Magic 3.1 on PS2 games. It does not perform to the standards of Messiah 2. No DVD-R would boot and nor would some rips that wouldn't boot on Magic 3.x but did on Messiah 2. DVD9 and DVD9 backup were fine. Region Free worked fine. MM16 support was fine.

The Controller modes appeared to work although I had no way of knowing if Sleep mode worked. I scored that as a fail because it booted a backup game and did not reject an Region 1 DVD movie. Pressing EJECT for 1 second is a dodgy way of doing it and, of course, it ejects the tray. You put whatever object you wish into the disk tray and press EJECT again. You expect backup games to be rejected ans with out-of-region movies. Well that did not happen.

The Controller Modes needed the respective buttons to be pressed for 4 or 5 seconds from pressing RESET.

Xenosaga DVD9 NTSC-J Direct Boot------------------------100%
Xenosaga DVD9 NTSC-J Booted behind AR2/GS2--------------100%
Gran Turismo Concept DVD9 "Silver" NTSC-J Direct Boot---100%

FF X NTSC-U DVD original---------------------OK
GTA3 PAL DVD original------------------------OK
DOA2 NTSC-J DVD Original---------------------OK

GTA3 PAL DVD-R (Princo)----------------------RSOD
Tony Hawks 3 PAL DVD-R-----------------------RSOD
Headhunter PAL DVD-R-------------------------RSOD

EA NBA Street NTSC-U CD-R--------------------OK
Twisted MB Kalisto Rip CD-R------------------OK
GT3 Rip NTSC-U CD-R--------------------------RSOD
FIFA 2002 Rip NTSC-U CD-R------------------OK
Tony Hawks 3 Rip NTSC-U CD-R----------------RSOD
Woody Woodpecker NTSC-U CD-R-----------------RSOD

FF IX NTSC-J PS1 Original--------------------OK
FF IX NTSC-U PS1 CD-R------------------------OK
Syphonfilter 3 NTSC-U PS1 CD-R---------------OK
Spyro NTSC-U PS1 Original (Anti-Mod)---------NO - needs Jap Original in Sleep mode
Spyro NTSC-U PS1CD-R (Anti-Mod)--------------NO

AR2/GS2 GTA3 Orig. With Codes----------------OK
AR2/GS2 GTA3 DVD-R With Codes----------------NO - DVD-R

Toystory NTSC-U Movie------------------------OK
PAL Movie------------------------------------Not Tested

MM16 Save/Load (GTA3 PAL Orig)----OK
Boot on EJECT--------------------------------OK
Always Boot on Reset----------------------OK
Switch off Mode------------------------------NO

My overall impression of DMS3 v1.1 on the v8 PS2 was one of disappointment principally for two reasons:

1. DVD-R did not work on v8 although the DMS3 site implies support
2. Some DVD rips on CD did not work; these work on Messiah 2 on the same PS2

[kizmet]

lol great review chalie, wow this chip really sucks magic 3.1 is better

[Prelude]

hopefully the flash upgrade feature will be put to use and have all of these problems fixed.

[jy96]

That is disappointing. I hope it at least pushes the price of messiah chip lower.