Hello everyone. First of all I want to thank everyone here on Emuparadise, I use this site since I started on PS1 emulation and you guys helped me A LOT. So free hugs for everyone.
Okay, I have a beautiful PS2 Slim SPCH-90006 with Matrix modchip (original, 1.93) here. He runs every DVD backup of my PS2 games really fine without any problems, even some emulators of Sega/Nintendo consoles that I burned on crappy CDs.
When I bought it (5 or 6 years ago I think, brand new), my PS1 Slim was still alive and running smooth as well. But recently the small silver beast retired from his battles because of a problem on the optical drive. I don't want to finally broke it trying to fix it myself, so I put it at a well deserved rest. Aaaaand because of that, I discovered that my PS2 can't run PSX games. Unfortunately I have only burned backups of my PS1 games, so I can't test with original ones.
I live in Brazil so I don't trust any of this folks to touch my PS2 trying to reach the problem, and I have no knowledge on electronics, but I've read that must be some parts of the modchip that wasn't properly welded to run PSX games... So, if it was really the problem: Is there any other way that I can do for the PS2 to read PSX games without the bringing my console to some guy to mess with my modchip? Well, to tell the truth, PS2 maintenance around here will be very difficult to find, so it's important if you have another way.
I've tried PS2PSXe and POPStarter to run PSX games on PS2 directly from an USB stick but they are terrible with most games. That way I prefer using an PC emulator like ePSXe, which is less terrible but still terrible... It's hard for me to play games on a bad emulator quality when I passed so much time playing these games on a real PS1.
Thank you guys very much.
(English is not my native language, sorry if I had any mistakes)