my problem

[theheckwithyou]

hi i would like to say that this site kickass

Here my problem i had bought a refurbished PS2 at gamestop. A v4. I was told at my local mod-chip store that there is a chance that a modchip would not work booting up a backed up dvd ps2 game. Due to something about my laser would not last that long or something. And he talked me in to buying a swap magic, and i did and i'm pretty happy with it. but after a few months later i realized that i can not use gameshark/actionreplay with backed up games of any kind.

currently i am wondering would i have a problem with a modchip of any kind in my v4?

i did a serach on "problems with v4" and nothing really answered my question

thanks ahead of time

[mann75]

get the:

messiah 2 pro
dms
dou
steer clear of the magic chips

[ShadowKnyght]

Well usually it is more common to have laser problems with the V1-V3. I have yet to have a V4 laser die on me.

But then Sony does make pretty shitty lasers in the PS2's so depending on how often you use it, the guy may be right - I have had an almost new V7 laser die on me once...

Personally on a V4 I would go cheap and easy whilst keeping reliability - so I would stick with the 17 wire DUO.

[theheckwithyou]

hmm thanks for the help.
i'm wondering lets say i do get a messiah 2 pro
how would i know if my laser died on me?
and how much would it cost to get the laser replaced?

[ShadowKnyght]

lasers show age by working with originals and not with copies.

one can adjust the laser in many different ways to get some life back into it. a quick search will help on this. A clean sometimes also helps.

From what I have seen re-conditioned lasers can cost anywhere from US$40 to US$68 and they are never new and some are not even working i.e. they have just been ripped out of old PS2's untested and onsold.

[pak0ra]

dude forget all these daddy's account using ppl who are tellin u to do upgrades of $100-150...i have a v1 ps2 from the US launch date with a magic 3.1 and i havent had a single problem. I regularly watch dvds on it and sometimes it even is kept running for days. It has easily logged more than 10000 hours of game time.

[Snoopy007]

Originally posted by pak0ra
dude forget all these daddy's account using ppl who are tellin u to do upgrades of $100-150...i have a v1 ps2 from the US launch date with a magic 3.1 and i havent had a single problem. I regularly watch dvds on it and sometimes it even is kept running for days. It has easily logged more than 10000 hours of game time.

guess u r one of the lucky ones.

[mann75]

yeah very lucky... just as lucky as catching the site of halleys comet

[ShadowKnyght]

cos wasn't that exciting!

but as I said - with a V4 you are more likely to be ok than not.