External PS1 Mod Chip

[Moodmon]

Sorry about the vague question in advance.

I want to play Chrono Cross and Xenogears (which I own). I need a chipped PS1 to play them on. Someone has offered me one with an external mod chip (it plugs in the expansion port, you pop a UK game in, swap it with the game you want to play, and away you go). I was just wondering whether these two games would work on it.

Still haven't played them yet. ft:

[ObsessiveCompulsive]

i do remember these.. i never used one (had internal mod) but i do remember some of the older ones had trouble playing games with more than 1 disc. Xenogears and Chrono Cross are of course both 2 Discs.

If you know the person selling it to you, prehaps ask if you can test it..

[gossi the dog]

They're ****. You have to get past the UK region with a PAL disk, then quickly take it off while it's spinning and change it for the NTSC disk. A PS1 boot disk does the same job but at least it stops spinning after getting past the Uk region.

[johnkiddier]

My old PSOne has one of those external chips.

Put a PAL game in, when it stops spinning put the other game in and select start from an onscreen menu and you're away.

Had a problem when trying to boot multi-disc games however....

[Papercut]

anyone know anywhere in the uk selling stealth mod chips for the ps1?

[Jay]

They're ****. You have to get past the UK region with a PAL disk, then quickly take it off while it's spinning and change it for the NTSC disk. A PS1 boot disk does the same job but at least it stops spinning after getting past the Uk region.

Er, no. After the boot code from the UK disc has been read, the disc stop spinning, a menu pops up, you change the discs over and press O. There's no spinning disc swapping involved.

As far as multi-disc games go, I'm not so sure. I'm under the impression that some games work and others won't. Maybe there's a list online somewhere?

Jay