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What is PS2 Backup?

PS2 backup involves the backing up of your PS2 games onto separate disks. With the fragility of many PS2 disks, this will protect you in case your PS2 game disk is damaged in such a way to make it no longer usable, you will still have a backup which you can play. You can even create backups and then play on your backup disks, keeping your original in reserve. Then, if you backup is damaged you can create another backup copy from your original PS2 disk.

DVD Burners and PS2 Backup

With the advent of DVD burners, it has become possible to backup all of your PS2 games, from Grand Theft Auto to Final Fantasy and everything in between. PS2 uses the DVD-5 format to create their games, and every PS2 game is actually a DVD.

While it is possible to burn your games onto a CD-R, a CD-R is not itself large enough hold an entire PS2 game on it. There are compression utilities which can allow you to compress your game into a size which is readable on a CD-R, however this can be very difficult to utilize for your backup purposes, and it might be wiser to burn your games onto DVD.

In order to burn your PS2 games onto a DVD-R or DVD-RW, however, you will also need the proper software in order to perform this function. One of the best programs out there is DVD Wizard Pro. This excellent utility can perform many functions in the world of DVD burning, as well as having a special interface designed for the burning of console game disks such as PS2, among others. This will allow you to backup all of your PS2 games, and ensure that you always have a copy of them forever.

This program is not terribly expensive, only costing about 40 dollars, and can help you greatly in the backup of your PS2 games.

Mod Chips and PS2 Backup

If you backup your PS2 games, however, you might also find that you have the problem of not being able to play your burned games on your machine. In order to protect against video game piracy, the manufacturers of the PS2 console have developed the PS2 in such a way that it does not recognize PS2 backup games and will not play them in many cases. In order to get around this to play your own backups of your PS2 games, you will need to install what is called a mod chip. This is a chip that is built into the actual hardware of your PS2 console. This will allow you to play your PS2 backup games.

With a mod chip you will also be able to play games with different regional encoding. The same program built into the PS2 which keeps you from playing backup games also is involved in the regional encoding process. This process means that your video game must come from the same region as your machine (such as the United States and Canada is Region 1), or else it will not be able to play. If you purchase a game from Japan, you will not be able to play it on your US machine without a mod chip.

You will be able to do so with your mod chip, which is an added bonus of installing it on your machine aside from being able to play your PS2 backup disks.

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/difficulties-in-ps2-backup.html