HOWTO Mod a PS2 with Swap Magic to enable out-of-region play

Alice acquired a Swap Magic device for her British PS2 so that she could play the US version of Katamari Damacy (Swap Magic also lets you play PS2 games that have been backed up to CD or DVD, as well as a host of other enhancements that PS2's DRM seeks to block). The Swap Magic device comes with hilariously bad documentation, so Alice has posted a step-by-step HOWTO.

Swap Magic arrived with no fuss, thankyou ESKent; your name and site are not glamorous, but you are true to your delivery word. It arrived with 2 discs (CD version and DVD version), plus the slide tool and an entertaining and not particularly helpful instruction sheet ("If it broke up, don't be frustrated – a little super glue can turn around the situation").

Most importantly though, the one instruction you really need – which way to jam the slidetool into the machine – isn't mentioned. After half an hour of wiggling, one broken-off tray cover (damnit), it all suddenly clicked. Then I played Katamari Damacy for approximately three hours solid, so I am serene.

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