I have heard, and seen, some cases of a CD-ROM which I guess changes the software of the PS2 so it thinks that it’s booting a PAL game when in fact it’s booting an NTSC game.
Could anyone offer me any information as to if such a thing exists, and if it is effective or not in playing NTSC games?
Or if you have spare CD-Rs/DVD-Rs, you can make backups of games, apply a patch to convert them to PAL and reburn them.
but mine is still up and running.
You could try one of those new fliptop ones. The only problem is that you can only play it in it’s horizontal position.