After quite a bit of fiddling, it finally stayed in place. My fingers alone didn’t do the job so I had to grab a screw driver and shove it into position. The first plastic piece required that it be pushed into a small hole. The first thing I had to do is install the three small plastic pieces. With instructions in hand, so to speak, I give the installation a try. After about a half hour of searching the web I finally found a PDF with instructions that were very detailed and contained great pictures of the installation process. There were no instructions included in the package so I headed over to the website in search of directions but came up with only a dead link. The kit comes with a CD, for CD based games, a DVD, for DVD based games, and three small plastic parts which are to be inserted into crevices under the popup cover of the Slim PS2. With the import enabler in hand, I set out to play some Japanese PS2 games on my US Slim PS2. It took less than three days to arrive and the product was in perfect condition. So with one scam under my belt I looked for a more reliable store. I also tried many times to find and e-mail the staff of this website store but their support e-mail is so well hidden, if existent, on their website that I could never find it. I waited for weeks for this thing to be delivered before I finally gave up on it.

Luckily I had the PS2 version it supported, the Slim PS2, so I took the plunge and ordered it up from ModChip.Com. This looked to be the solution to my problems.

I looked a little further and found a new version of the product which required zero modification to the console. It looked interesting but upon further inspection I realized that it required opening up the console to install. After searching a bit I came across the Swap Magic product. I’m absolutely terrible at soldering and I’m not a fan of the PS2 modchip scene seeing as it’s rampant with piracy so I didn’t want to install a modchip.

I’ve always been fond of tinkering with my consoles which is evidenced by my blue see through modified Dreamcast and the mod switch on the side of my Gamecube, so I looked around at the current PS2 mod options since I already own a Slim US PS2. With that in mind I set out to find a more cost effective method of playing import games. Seeing as I need to have a machine that plays Japanese PS2 games I went looking around at prices for a new one and unfortunately found the price tags to be in the $180 range. Recently my Japanese PS2 that I got way back at the Japan launch died on me.

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