Does the North American PS2 differ from the Japanese, and what does it matter?
The North American PS2 was physically altered to enable Sony to plug a Hard Disc Drive (HDD) into the system’s rear section. This was done to enable players to eventually buy a separate HDD, for downloading movies, games, music, and other data. The PCMCIA card slot has been removed, and is now part and parcel with the new HDD, which still enables Internet access. The new system configuration helps Sony get past the nagging DVD copyright problems that has plagued the early version of the Japanese PS2. The New North American version has DVD drivers built into the hardware itself, instead of using the software drivers placed on the Memory Cards themselves. This will hopefully prevent copying from DVD to other media, and solves data corruption problems on the PS2 Memory Cards, too. Can you play video CDs on your PlayStation 2? No. You cannot play video CDs on the PlayStation 2. Just music CDs, PlayStation CDs, PlayStation 2 CDs, and DVDs, and video (movie) DVDs. (That’s all…) What’s anti
