Hello world!
Welcome!
You and I are here because of our mutual shared interest in the PS2 Scene, and more specifically the last best 3rd gen modchips.
What makes a third gen modchip? Boot from something other than CD/DVD: - Memory Card - Hard Drive - USB - MMCE (yay for Crystal Chips BootManager being extensible!)
I was heavily involved in Xbox modding. But that was easy. I could have one done in ~30 minutes ready to go for a customer. But PS2? That was much more difficult. Things were rapidly changing. 16+ versions of potential motherboard variations. I had installed only a few hundred PS2 modchips back then, and that started with the last gen: Matrix Infinity, DMS4, and Crystal Chip.