Smart Gamers Know How to Backup PS2 Games

Feb 5
08:29

2010

Jack Bush

Jack Bush

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If you're a long time PS2 game player, you undoubtedly know the sinking feeling you get when you install one of your favorite game disks into your PS2 console, and it will not play. It's damaged beyond repair. At that moment, you realize that if you ever want to play that game again, you'll have to come up with the money to buy a new one. That's $50 to $100 out the window. Please read the Game Copy wizard Review for more...

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If you're a long time PS2 game player,Smart Gamers Know How to Backup PS2 Games Articles you undoubtedly know the sinking feeling you get when you install one of your favorite game disks into your PS2 console, and it will not play. It's damaged beyond repair. At that moment, you realize that if you ever want to play that game again, you'll have to come up with the money to buy a new one. That's $50 to $100 out the window. If only you knew how to backup PS2 games, you'd still have a game to play. But you can learn. It's easy.

PS2 games are a technical marvel, but their storage media are simple fragile disks that can be damaged, lost, or stolen. Routine normal use over a long period of time causes enough wear and tear to damage a PS2 game disk permanently. It's important that all gamers learn how to back up PS2 games. It will guarantee that your favorite games are always available, and it will save money in the long run. All you really need to back up Playstation 2 games are a computer with a DVD burner, game burning software, blank DVD disks, some original PS2 game disks, and a little free time.

If you've ever tried to make a PS2 game backup using the software that you normally use to copy music and videos, you undoubtedly understand that the PS2 games are copy protected. The traditional copying software cannot bypass that protection. You need to acquire a good game copying software application; one that is designed to bypass that copy protections and duplicate your games.

With a copy of game copying software installed on your computer, PS2 game backups are easily created. It's a simple matter of inserting and removing the game disk and blank DVD disk a few times, following a few onscreen instructions, and clicking a few commands. In a very short time, you'll have an excellent playable backup copy of your game. To play the copied game on your PS2 system, however, requires one more important step. You need to make some physical modifications to your PS2 console to enable it to read and play the copied games.

To safely have your console modified, if you are not a computer technician, you should take it to an expert in these matters. The modifications are not that extensive, involving the addition of a simple piece of hardware, but it does involve some soldering and the dangers of static electricity to your electronics. Your system is too expensive to take a chance of damaging or destroying it. For a few bucks, a good computer geek can make the necessary changes that will allow you to make PS2 backups and play PS2 games with no difficulty. So don't wait until your games are no longer playable before you find out how to back up PS2 games. Get you PS2 console modified, buy a good game copying software application, and backup your valuable games to ensure that they are always there when you want them.