Now that Playstation 3 is out, you may have an old PS2 laying around eh? If so, I suggest you mod it and turn it into your own little personal fun machine. Have you ever wanted to play your old school SNES games on your Playstation 2? Have you ever even thought about it? Well, either way you can do it. I would like to send out a special thanks to the creator of SNES Station who has made this possible! In case you don’t know already…SNES Station is a Super Nintendo emulator made specifically to run on a PS2. However, to run the emulator you will need to either have a mod chip installed on your PS2 or use a swap method. Whichever method you choose you can get a good deal for either here (opens in new window). Personally I chose the DMS4 Pro mod chip for PS2 and loaded it with Toxic OS because it’s just cool to have all those options, etc. However, many people don’t feel comfortable or don’t want to try installing a mod chip so they choose something like the Slide Card Combo or MagicKeys II. Those two methods are the easiest and you don’t have to risk ruining your PS2 because of a mistake. It gets the job done just the same, just without auto-boot and some other cool options that an actual PS2 mod chip will give you. So if you can install a mod chip…I would do it, but if not just go with one of the other methods. Also, you can buy pre-modded PS2’s as well but you may not want to fork out that much money for an old console. I guess it just depends on your budget and what you want. Anyway, back to SNES Station. Once you have the modding complete all you have to do is download the Snes emulator here: snes_0_2_3_20040124.zip. Unzip it and then burn it to a disc using Nero. In Nero you need to take the following steps to correctly burn the CD image.

1. Open Nero then select CD-ROM (ISO)
2. Make sure “No Multisession” is checked
3. Click the ISO tab and make sure “Mode 2/XA” is selected for Format:
4. Make sure “ISO 9660″ is selected for Character Set:
5. Click new
6. In the file browser select all of the contents in the folder you unzipped. (except the readme)
7. Browse for your roms and place them wherever you want (recommended to use separate folders for each rom)
8. Click File, then Write CD
9. Done!

Once you have your CD burned it is time to test it out. Pop open your PS2 and either let it auto-boot if you have a mod chip or do the swap trick and let it load up. Your screen should end up looking like this if all goes well:

If you see that screen then you are ready to play Super Nintendo on your Playstation 2. If you don’t see that screen then you most likely messed up one of the steps in the burning process or your PS2 is not modded properly. If you are sure you did both correctly, then just reset the PS2 because sometimes the emulator hangs up for no reason. It could take multiple boots before it actually works. However, when it does work it’s freaking awesome! Enjoy!