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Old 27-12-2005, 10:39 PM   #1
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Default Getting PS2 chipped in Vic

Before someone jumps up and down on their high horse, I'm not even touching burnt games. I need to be able to play region 1 DVDs and I'm too tight to fork out for a DVD player.

Anyway, anyone know where I can get it done and how much it's roughly going to cost? Any dodgy people out there people have had run ins with?

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Old 27-12-2005, 11:08 PM   #2
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Getting your PS2 chipped isn't illegal anyway. Try going to a swap meet, I CBF getting mine done LOL!
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Old 27-12-2005, 11:13 PM   #3
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You can buy cheap DVD players these days for under 100 bux, that plays all 4 regions. Getting a PS2 chipped is over 100. But I would still get the PS2 chipped IMO.

Also, does the chip void warranty? If its brand new, I would wait till the warranty date closes in, just in case
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Old 27-12-2005, 11:21 PM   #4
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ive done a few chips for people, and done my own...

It most certainly does void your warranty.

I charge $50 to do it, + cost if chip anywhere between 50-$100 so yea, I'd say buy an el cheapo DVD player, it will work out cheaper...
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Old 28-12-2005, 12:01 AM   #5
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dvd players are like $50 now, and they play pretty much everything.
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Old 28-12-2005, 12:16 AM   #6
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i bought a pioneer divx dvd player solved all possible problems, now that plays everything possible, avi. mpg. wmv. as is on pc data discs, not as vcd's etc, means as u see it on pc u see it on tv, no encoding on ya pc etc

stay away from the povo $50 players :P
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Old 28-12-2005, 12:20 AM   #7
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download powerDVD for pc, watch dvds of ur computer, i do with mine
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Old 28-12-2005, 11:55 AM   #8
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The $50 DVD players are good for about a week. I got one and the POS stopped working in a couple of weeks......... :|
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Old 28-12-2005, 12:04 PM   #9
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ive got a cheap dvd player (wasnt 50 bucks though) - got it when dvd players pretty much just came out and it was 110.... it works absolutley fine, plays any disc you put in it..

havent used it for a while but, the ps2 is so much more convenient..lol
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Old 28-12-2005, 01:16 PM   #10
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Video Games Heaven in Knox City, I believe they are doing them now...couldnt tell you the price as I have a xbox...
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Old 28-12-2005, 05:38 PM   #11
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download powerDVD for pc, watch dvds of ur computer, i do with mine
That's half my problem. PowerDVD locks onto a certain region after 5 changes or something. Which is just dandy when I want to watch my region 1 DVDs. Sure I could just buy them region 4, oh wait, that's right, they haven't been released here. Stupid money hungry movie industry. And they wonder why people copy stuff.

I'd rather chip the Playstation for the simple fact I CBF swapping all the bloody cables over behind it. Warranty isn't an issue, it ran out ages ago.
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Old 28-12-2005, 05:50 PM   #12
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have a look in the trading post under games, there will be a heap of people that do chips advertising in there. I got my X-Box chipped for the same reason as you, it's conveniant to be able to rip games strait onto the HD too. :P
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Old 28-12-2005, 06:30 PM   #13
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You can buy cheap DVD players these days for under 100 bux, that plays all 4 regions.
All 4? they're is 8 regions but you probably won't come across 7 & 8 very much.

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That's half my problem. PowerDVD locks onto a certain region after 5 changes or something. Which is just dandy when I want to watch my region 1 DVDs.
Get a little program called AnyDVD, by-passes all that crap like copy protection so you can't rip it. I got it when I wanted to watch Apollo 13 in my computer, region 4 and all and it didn't let me play it just cause it was in a computer dvd player, so I shoved AnyDVD up it.
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Old 28-12-2005, 09:36 PM   #14
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Before someone jumps up and down on their high horse, I'm not even touching burnt games. I need to be able to play region 1 DVDs and I'm too tight to fork out for a DVD player.

Anyway, anyone know where I can get it done and how much it's roughly going to cost? Any dodgy people out there people have had run ins with?
Try this place, I think they have modchips where no soldering is needed.

www.quantronics.com.au/
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Old 29-12-2005, 09:34 PM   #15
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Becarfull who u get to do it I got one done at a swap meet and the guy put to much solder on it and it burnt out my board i made him fix it but it still plays up somtimes.
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