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Give Your Video Games an Extra Life: Ps2 Backup

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Walter Stevens is a contributor at Free-backup.info — the home of the popular Amazon S3 based tool for online remote backup — Back2zip. This article can be found at http://free-backup.info/give-your-video-games-an-extra-life-ps2-backup.html

Save Your Video Games With PS2 Backup

Everyone loves PS2, but everyone also knows how expensive the games are, but not everyone knows how cheap and easy it can be to backup your PS2 games. With the advent of DVD Burner technology it has never been easier to backup your PS2 games and make sure that no matter what happens to your disks you will always have your favorite game, from Grand Theft Auto to Final Fantasy, you can rest assured that your video games are here to stay.

How do I Backup PS2 Games?

DVD burners, long discussed, have finally become a reality. Type in PS2 backup into any search engine and you will be overwhelmed with offers for products to assist you in backing up your PS2 games. However, all you need is a DVD burner and the software that comes with that burner installed onto your computer.

Make sure it is a good program, however. Not all burners will allow you to burn your PS2 games onto a disk which are playable on your PS2 machine, unless you have a mod chip built in. Mod chips are excellent tools for your Playstation that will allow you to play backed up games as well as games outside of your region, a system designed by the fascist developers of DVDs and Playstation games to stall the international moving of their products.

If you do not have a mod chip, you will have to make sure that your burner can properly backup your PS2 games in a format that will allow them to be played on your machine. There are many of these in existence however, and they are not difficult to find.

Finding Programs to Assist in PS2 Backup

There are quite a few programs out there that will allow you to backup your PS2 games and make it possible for you to keep your games even if your original disk gets scratched, burned, warped, broken, etc. You might even want to play on the burned copy of your game and keep the original in reserve, or to burn another copy of the game if your original copy gets wrecked. When you are paying 80 dollars for a video game, you want to make sure that you get the most bang for you buck.

If you are searching for programs to assist you in your PS2 backup, the first place you might want to try a site such as www.download.com. This is an excellent source for programs of many varieties, including PS2 backup programs. You will always be able to download from this site for free, although many of the files which you download will be shareware or trial versions of programs which will ultimately require a fee.

However, it can be a great way for you to try different programs and decide which one works best for you before actually committing money towards the purchase of a product that either doesn’t work or is not easy for you to use to backup your PS2 games.

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Keep Your Games Alive: Ps2 Backup

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Walter Stevens is a contributor at Free-backup.info — the home of the popular Amazon S3 based Online Backup software — Back2zip. This resources is also available at http://free-backup.info/keep-your-games-alive-ps2-backup.html

The Importance of PS2 Backup

Ps2 backup is an important thing. The prices of games are high, 40, 60 even 80 dollars for a single video game. And we all know how easy it is to damage a video game so that it is no longer playable. No one wants to have to spend another 80 dollars in order to purchase a video game that they already own. Thus, if you backup your PS2 games you can ensure that you will always have a copy of your PS2 games, even if they are badly scratched, warped, or whatever other damage may befall them.

You can even keep your original copy in reserve and play only on your backups, this will keep the original safe from harm’s way.

How to Backup Your PS2 Games

In order to backup your PS2 games, you will need either a CD or DVD burner. While it is possible to backup your games onto a CD-R, this process requires extreme compression of the game files and is not the safest way to backup your PS2 games. It is a difficult process, and might be difficult to make work for your backup needs, although this method is less expensive. If you have a DVD burner, however, it is far easier to backup your PS2 games onto a DVD-R, as PS2 games themselves are written on DVDs.

You will also require special software in order to burn your PS2 games, however, as PS2 is a slightly different format than a normal DVD. One excellent program is DVD Wizard Pro, which has a special feature included that allows you to burn your PS2 games. The actual process is very simple once you have the required program, as you simply need to write the data from your PS2 onto a DVD burner.

Mod Chips and PS2 Backup

In order to play your backup games on your PS2 machine, however, you will require the use of what is called a mod chip. This is a special chip that you must actually install onto your PS2 console. In order to protect against piracy, manufacturers of the PS2 have put special encoding into the PS2 to protect against what is seen as illegal games so that they cannot be played on your PS2 machine.

However, this program goes cannot distinguish between an illegal copy and your own legal backup of your PS2 game. In order to circumvent this, you must install a mod chip onto your machine. Mod chips are available online, costing between 20 and 30 dollars, and you can install it onto your machine yourself. Once you do this, you will be able to play your backup games with ease.

The process is somewhat complicated, though, and you will want to make sure that you know what you are doing before you install your chip, as you do not want to damage your machine and make it inoperable at all. Your mod chip will come with installation instructions, and there are also web sites online which can assist you in this matter.

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Some Things to Know about Ps2 Backup

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Walter Stevens is a contributor at Free-backup.info — the home of the popular tool for online backup and recovery — Back2zip. This article can be found at http://free-backup.info/some-things-to-know-about-ps2-backup.html

Can I Backup My PS2 Games?

Everyone loves the PS2, but can we backup our PS2 games so that we will always have a copy of our favorite game? While the process has not been perfected yet, it is possible to backup your PS2 games. In order to do so, however, you will need to have the right software and the right hardware.

Requirements for PS2 Backup

It is possible to backup your PS2 games both onto a CD-R or a DVD-R. It is easier with DVD-R, as PS2 works with DVDs and a DVD-R has the size required to hold a complete PS2 game on it. If you work with CD-Rs, you will first have to compress your video game in such a way that you will be able to run the game, and this can be quite difficult. There are programs in existence that will allow you to do this, but it can be quite difficult and might not always work for your PS2 backup.

It is far easier to work with the DVD-R format, but this will require you to have a DVD Burner, as well as the required software.

One of the most powerful software tools for PS2 backup is DVD Wizard Pro. You can also use this program to backup your DVDs, but it has a special interface developed solely for the backup of console games such as PS2. It is a very powerful program as well as easy to use, and can prove to be a very useful program for you and your PS2 Backup.

In order to play your PS2 backups on your PS2 machine, you will also need to modify the hardware of your PS2. In order to protect against piracy, PS2 manufacturers have developed a system which makes it impossible for you to play your backup games. However, if you install a mod chip into your PS2, you will be able to circumvent this programming and play your PS2 backup games. The mod chip will also allow you to play games and DVDs which contain different regional encodings.

Regional encoding is a process built into PS2 and DVD technology which allows DVDs and games bought in certain regions (such as the United States and Canada, which is Region 1) to be played only on machines with the same regional encoding.

How Much Does It Cost to Backup My PS2 Games?

The cost of PS2 backup is expensive, but most of these expenses are first time expenses. You will require a DVD burner, or at least a CD burner, and these can cost 100 dollars or more. You will also need the software which will allow you to burn your PS2 games, a program such as DVD Wizard Pro costs about 40 dollars. However, once you have bought these things, you never have to purchase them again.

You will only need to pay for the actual DVD-Rs on which you are burning your game, and you can purchase these for less than a dollar each if you buy them in bulk. It has never been cheaper to backup your PS2 games.

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