CD Audio menu. o Get a local CD that matches the country of the machine you have. (ie a Japanese game for a Japanese PlayStation etc.) o Find some tape, Blu-Tak or something similar. Several people I know have found the corner from a cornflake packet works well *shrug*. o Open the lid and look at the top right of the bottom section, near where the hinge is. See the small circle in the groove? Good. This is the lid sensor. o Insert your local CD. o Put the tape, Blu-Tak or whatever over the sensor and *gently* push it down. The CD will now spin for a few seconds. o When the CD has finished spinning take it out and replace it with the foreign game you wish to play. o Now shut the lid and exit the CD Audio menu. The game should now work fine (see above for exceptions.) o When you have finished playing, open the lid and remove the tape, Blu-Tak etc from the sensor. This will stop the CD. Notes: i Try and get a local CD with as many tracks on it as you can. The local CD must have at least as many tracks as the foreign CD or you won't get all the music. Depending on the boot CD the foreign game may give poor results or even crash. Unfortunately the number of music tracks is NOT the only deciding factor (the length of the data track is another) and you may find that you are unable to get your foreign game to work satisfactorily with the choice of boot CDs you have. See the other methods, they may give better results. ii Owners of Japanese SCPH-1000 (later batch), SCPH-3000 machines and later European/US models will find that this method does NOT work. Sony has removed this particular loophole in the latest ROM revision. iii You can ONLY run PAL games on NTSC machines if you have an RGB cable (not s-video, composite or ANYTHING else.) This also applies to NTSC games on a PAL machine. In Euro...
