magic3 and slooooooow boot of originals

[jirestre]

I am concerned with how the magic3 has altered my ability to play ps2 originals.

F1 2002, MOH Front Line, GTA3, MSG2, GTA-VC all of them have choppy audio and video, like the machine has entered in a slow motion mode....the game finaly loads but it takes forever.
The boot was done in PS1 mode (hold reset until blue light comes up).

Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks.

[charlie_ps2]

Yould try and put a 1uF 35v polarised capacitor into the S line, + towards the Magic 3 pad. This will smooth the noise that is triggering the PS2 into its boot routine. Nobody knows why this happens 0 it happened on Magic 2 and makes me wonder why the bothered with Magic 3.

[jy96]

Why are you booting ps2 games in ps1 mode? Are you trying to put the chip in "sleep mode"? Press and hold the reset for 6 seconds.

[charlie_ps2]

Good point. Nobody's yet got to the bottom of why it happens. It's a carry over from Magic 2, but Apple chip also had that problem - less often - I recall.

We measured the voltage on that line; it pulsed during the boot dequence at 3v when acting normally. But when we had to put the capacitor on, it was randomly noisy, frequently so and pulsing like a yoyo.