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shame about me being in UK is right, damn.

A silly question maybe, but is it possible to run a PS2 and play games without using a CD drive? I.e. like you can with a modded XBOX?

naa 100% dead CDs, completely fcuked. one doesn't even have a tray, other one the laser is melted.

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Ok maybe a little bit of exageration, basicly they don't read disks. One of the trays comes off sometimes aswell. If anybody wants them let me know, bearing in mind I'm a UK based human.

I've just aquired two dead PS2s, what does one do with such things? They both have dead CD-ROMS (what a surprise)

Maybe I can burn them and film it, to get me some street cred (they don't LOOK broken lol)

Or maybe I can stuff them full of spiders, dunno. What you think?

That helps a lot... I only have one, so no modding for me.

by the way, what exactly does a crystal look like?

I'm starting to think it'd be easier to just get an NTSC radica, but will it play uk pal games? It's just modifying the LCD seems to be proving difficult.

That's a totally different board to mine, but as there's only one 16 pin chip on my entire board It must be that. Only thing is the pins are not labeled as to which ones are what.

I assume it goes left to right, down, left to right (assuming the text on chip is right way up)?

I chucked out the one with pots, I'm looking at the one that connects to the LCD directly via ribbon cable.

Upon looking at my hip pad board, I'm not 100% sure we're looking at the same thing, my hip pad doesn't have ANY components on the back at all. An I can't find one label 4053 on the front.

That is unless you're about the radica, but I couldn't find that chip on there either.

Thanks very much Gannon, I'll try this at my own risk, i've nothing to lose.

I'll report back shortly, this could be very useful for other fools like me who buy the wrong one.

when I think about it some of us are a little young, but there have been many child geniuses, for example Mozart (played like a pro when was only 5), maybe we're just the next step down...

I've been having fun with electronics since I was 7, mainly due to my dad being a electrition

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Just checked and it just gives serious scrolling with PAL.

XBOX in NTSC mode is great however. But that defeats the object of having a portable genny, or Megadrive as we call it.

I've just got myself loads of kit to start an Exodus, but then I realised something very bad...

Hip Gear Screen - NTSC

Radica - PAL

All my GEN games - UK PAL

I got my hip gear screen from canada, as they're like £100 ($180) over here. The weird thing is, is the lcd controller board has about 8 ...