Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
I recommend against a swap disc. I got one myself once, and I found it annoying. It's not that much more expensive to have your PS2 modified, and if you live in a reasonably sized city (100k or more), you should be able to find professionals who can do it for you.

You never have to pay for an emulator. One of the best emulators avaliable is free of charge (ePSXe).
That's the bad thing about swap discs. Every time you want to play the import game you need to use two discs instead of one. And it's not just a simple "open your disc tray", you have to pull the tray out so that the PS2 doesn't know the discs have been swapped.

The reason I chose a swap disc, though, is that in New Zealand, you won't find a non-dodgy-looking chip dealer and certainly not one that would offer a guarantee to their work. Not at the time I was looking at getting one, anyway.
I'm not that comfortable with a person who deals from a back-alley poking around in my PS2. I'd likely do a better job myself.

I'd agree that ePSXe is the best way to go though.