ESR Patching & Modded Slim PS2

[WhiteZombie]

I do not know if this is the correct group. But I have a question, I have a modded PS2 with ChipMod Pro 2.0 installed. Do I need to ESR patch the games that I back up? Also what is ESR patching used for?

[amp2006]

since you have a modchip then you dont need ESR

just backup your original games with imgburn and then burn to a blank cd/dvd good quality media .

[dlanor]

I do not know if this is the correct group. But I have a question, I have a modded PS2 with ChipMod Pro 2.0 installed. Do I need to ESR patch the games that I back up? Also what is ESR patching used for?

The one and only purpose of the ESR patching is to make the mechacon (CDVD drive controller) of an unmodded PS2 accept the disc as being a DVD-Video movie. Since such movies are permitted to be read even from DVD-R, the mechacon will not block the attempt to read such a disc, which it would do for normal DVD-ROM content of a DVD-R disc.

The ESR driver then interacts with the CDVD device drivers so that the normal game-running routines of the console will treat the disc as a normal PS2 game disc of DVD-ROM type, even though the low-level mechacon still 'thinks' that the disc is a DVD-Video movie being played.

None of the above is needed when you have a mod-chip, so you can use normal unpatched backups, like amp2006 already said.

Best regards: dlanor

[TehJawknee]

Although ESR Patching isn't needed when playing on a modded PS2, it still is a good idea to do so in case your chip fails for some reason, then you don't have to re-rip, patch and re-burn your games.

Your modded console will read the game and play it just fine, patch or no patch.