Clueless and needing help

[Andi]

Hello all. I'm hoping someone here can help me. My son has requested Final Fantasy X International Edition as a gift. We have a playstation 2 and a playstation 3 (the playstation 3 does not play playstation 2 games.). So I'm looking for this game, and I'm seeing things about converters being needed. I don't really know what I should be getting or not getting. Our playstation 2 is the slim one. Here is the place I'm looking at ordering it:

http://www.japanvideogames.com/Final...8601004954.htm

But I have no idea which of those converters I need, if either. And is that a good price for the converters? Hoping someone here can give some advice on this one. Thanks.

[TehJawknee]

But I have no idea which of those converters I need, if either. And is that a good price for the converters? Hoping someone here can give some advice on this one. Thanks.

If you're running FMCB, you won't need said converters since you'll be able to run ESR patched backups. The "converters" they're trying to sell are simply Swap Magic which lets you bypass the region code.

I'm sure the homebrew provided here lets you play without having to buy extra stuff. Then again, I run my .jp games from internal HDD.

[Andi]

How would i know if we're running FMCB? And what is that?

[amp2006]

FMCB logo will show up after you turn on the PS2

[noetikos]

@andi:

save your money and don't buy swap magic or anything else. we have a fmcb install program that is free and the installers have doing this for a good while. you need to have fmcb set up on your mc (memory card) so that it can launch ESR.

this is how things will look like with ESR and your import game,

a. make a rip (disc image) from your original import copy
b. patch the disc image with the ESR disc patcher (the patch is needed)
c. burn the disc image onto a good quality dvd-5 disc
d. ntsc-j games (jap) are watchable on standard american 60 hertz tv sets and this means that you won't need to do anything else.