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Will Crystal Chip damage my PlayStation®2? |
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When properly installed, Crystal Chip
will not harm your PS2™ in any way. However, when you
install any sort of hardware inside your PlayStation®2,
you take a risk of making a mistake which could damage your
CC or your PlayStation®2 console. Always follow instructions
and verify your work before powering on your PlayStation®2. |
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Is the Crystal Chip safer for the lens of my console? |
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The number of wires attached to the "CDVD
controller" has no effect the lens what-so-ever. Someone
started this rumor a while ago and certain people have been
helping to perpetuate it. It is marketing propaganda, nothing
more. We could make this claim but will not. |
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Does Crystal Chip suffer from "Ground Bounce"? |
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Crystal Chip has been designed in such
a way that "Ground Bounce" is not a problem at
all. We've tested it under a number of conditions with various
wiring methods and have found no ill effects even when the
wiring was truly terrible. This is not to suggest that you
should be neglectful when installing the ground wire. All
wires should be installed correctly for optimal performance.
To further demonstrate the stability of Crystal Chip, we
should mention that on one occasion the ground wire came
completely detached from the PS2™ mainboard and Crystal
Chip still functioned! Of course this did NOT result in
stable operation... |
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Will Crystal Chip allow me to play copied (aka "backups") or import games? |
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Crystal Chip will not allow you
to play copied or import games. While it does allow you
to read "burned" media discs, we have specifically
designed our software patches to disallow the execution
of game discs. There are 2 main reasons for this. The first
reason is that in many countries, it is illegal to play
copied and/or import game discs even if you own the original
disc. The second reason is that Crystal Chip is intended
for legally launching "homebrew" software. Due
to the aforementioned legal problems, we felt it best to
keep any questionably-legal features out of the Crystal
Chip design so as not to become confused with so-called
"modchip" devices which have been deemed illegal
in some countries. While we understand that many people
use these devices to legitimately back up their game discs
or play import software which is not available in their
region, we also respect the fact that different people are
subjected to different laws in regard to consumer rights. |
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Why doesn't Crystal Chip support SCPH-10000, SCPH-15000 and SCPH-18000 models? |
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The SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000 (the first
2 japanese models) are rather different than the models
which came after them. Given the relatively low occurence
of SCPH-10000 and SCPH-15000 models which still work, we
felt that there was not enough market demand to rationalize
adding support for these models. This allows us to focus
on all the other models currently available and optimize
the Crystal Chip for use on them. The SCPH-18000 is not
officially supported due to some differences in the BIOS
in that model. Crystal Chip will probably work just fine
in the SCPH-18000, however we do not intend to claim support
of any models we cannot gurantee 100% compatability with. |
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Does Crystal Chip support the new Revised PS2™ (aka "PSTwo™")? |
Yes, Crystal Chip works perfectly on all v1-v15 consoles to date.
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