How To: Play Super Nintendo Games on Your PS2

I LOVE video games. Yep thats about it. I love being able to take the form of some heroic figure to save the day. Be it a highly advanced space ship trying to save the galaxy or a lowly fairy boy trying to save a princess and her kingdom. I have been playing video games since the Atari 2600 came out with its stick-figure-like graphics. With the systems as advanced as they are now, it is as if you are part of a live action movie making your way to the credits. Sometimes, in between tearing heads of gorgons in "God of War 2" and running over prostitutes in "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City", I feel the need to relive those days where you only needed a couple buttons to be a hero. So instead of hooking up every system I have ever had in my life, I did some research on how to get the PS2 to play the old classics. And to help my fellow old school gamers, I put my research in this handy, easy to follow, tutorial.

First, and most importantly, you must have a modified PS2 or some sort of swap method disc to play burnt or copied games. A modified PS2 is just that, a PS2 that is modified with a mod-chip to be able to play games or other software that the normal out-of-the-box PS2 wouldn't. Modifying a PS2 voids the warranty so you may have opted for the second method, swap disc. The swap disc method is a method that uses a regularly programed PS2 game or disc to start the loading process then you "swap" your copied or burnt game. Normally games for the PS2 have whats called "boot sectors" (these can not be copied by a dvd writer, they have to be "stamped" at the factory) preset in to tell the PS2 it is a legit game for your region. The mod chip or swap disc bypass that part of the PS2's programing. A simple google (or your favorite search engine) for "PS22 mod chip" will find plenty of sites that sell mod chips or swap discs. If you don't feel you are that technically inclined to do the job yourself, there are sites that will do the service for you so you don't have to worry about ruining your black box.

Snes-Station lets you play those favorite SNES games on your PS2.

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