O Put the tape, Blu-Tak or whatever over the sensor and *gently* O Open the lid and look at the top right of the bottom section, Have found the corner from a cornflake packet works well. O Find some tape, Blu-Tak or something similar. (ie a Japanese game for a Japanese PlayStation etc.) O Get a local CD that matches the country of the machine you O Power up your PlayStation WITHOUT a game or demo CD in it. The TOC (Table of Contents)įrom the boot CD is always used which is less than ideal. Works on : Very early Japanese, European and American machines. I have a Playstation manufactured in October 1995, so I've been doing this: Modchip is so cheap that all these hot swap methods are a thing of the past Megavolt85 wrote:do you seriously prefer hot swapping? I do have to turn the console to the left vertically for it to read CD-Rs (legit games read fine normally) but that’s just my specific console. Now that I have an October 1995 SCPH 1001 and use the audio menu swap trick to boot games this is the only ‘live’ swap needed to play Parasite Eve for me. Worked for me even on a SCPH 5501, which usually requires a double swap trick at boot. As soon as you see this happen, swap the legit PSX disc with your CD-R of Disc 2. The disc will start spinning fast (2x speed). Unblock the lid sensor so the PlayStation thinks the cover was open, and then block the lid sensor again (I use an aluminum foil rod I shaped for this). When you get to the Insert Disc 2 screen, swap in a legit PSX game.
#PS1 SCPH 5501 MODCHIP MOD#
Lots of people will tell you that you just won’t be able to play these games without a mod chip. Parasite Eve for example, makes you insert disc 2 while playing disc 1. Some games don’t allow you to save on disc 1, and then boot disc 2 and continue. The Swap trick does indeed work mid game.
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Have not really seen this discussed anywhere, so maybe this might help some people out.