Or, instead of wasting so much money... You could buy a mod chip and have someone install it into your PS2 for a very small fee (maybe even free!). That way you can play games from Japan, Europe and America!

Then you can import the versions that have all the extra features, ala Final Fantasy X PAL.

By the way, I live in Australia, and we get all of PAL (but generally altered a bit from the European release). We never got those huge black borders on FFX, at least not that I can remember. x.x;