Free McBoot 1.8b on PS2.

[Zorlon]

Uh, I donno if it really makes any difference, but I like lids to be closed when the games run. If you've been running your PS2 open like that example video, you only need to open it for the swap.

None, but helps it with dust issues anyway so best to keep it closed

The Playstation settings may help if they are set to normal disc speed instead of fast, I forget some of the other settings, but keeping most of it to normal tends to help as some games don't like that.

I know Silent Hill works with this method also so very strange that it is not working at all