Okay, I'm getting seriously depressed here.
A friend of mine just gave me his playstation 2 (slim), since he's pretty much never used it and he knows I'm just dying to play some games only available on this consolle (mainly FF and Kingdom Hearts... I'm a fan ).
He taught me how to "mod" it (using Swap Magic 3 and just pretty much covering up the two switches to make the playstation think the lid is closed), and gave me all the games he owned.
First, I tried the original games, and they all work marvelously. Then, I tried his backups, and half of them work (including PES 2006, Obscure II, and God of War 2), whereas the other half starts loading but gets stuck before you actually get to play (including Call of Duty 3, Metal Gear Solid, GTA San Andreas). At first I thought I must have done something wrong with the "mod", but once I saw that a few were working correctly I assumed there was simply something wrong with the non-working dvds (my friend hasn't played with it in a long time, he doesn't even remember if there ever was a time he could play any of the games I can't load).
So, I finally decided to try playing the games I actually wanted to play. I downloaded FFX, unzipped it, burned the ISO file on a dvd (Infinity DVD; I used Nero and the speed was 8x), but once I popped it into the consolle it did nothing, just one big black screen. I started researching on the net a bit and found out one has to be super careful with speed and dvd quality, so I tried burning the same game on another dvd (TDK TTH02,which I found out is supposed to be top-notch), again using Nero, and with a speed of 4x. Same result.
Finally, I tried another game (still FFX but another ISO, this time a bit smaller), same TDK dvd, using DVD Decrypter; completed successfully, yet still nothing, just a black screen on my playstation.
Am I doing something wrong? Once I have one .ISO file, am I not supposed to simply be burning that on a dvd? Could maybe the fact that a few non-original games work be simply a coincidence and I have something wrong with my ps2? Yet, why do the dvds I burn not even start loading? Even the other games that don't work at least *do* something, they start loading properly but get stuck somewhere along the line... should I try another game? Or am I making some sort of mistake?
I'm sorry for the uber-long post but I'm really going crazy here, I've tried to look for threads with similar problems but nothing seems to work...
Thanks in advance!