Need Some Modchip/patch Help From All The Experts Out There

[ps2LIFE]

Hey everyone and thanks in advance, i just bought a NO-Solder V4 chip (pretty new) and i had some questions about patching games. i know this site is crazy about saying the word "backup copy" but i downloaded some games through irc and aol. This chip says it direct boots ea and regular games...does that mean it does not need to be patched??

This website explains some stuff about it
http://ps2modchips.com/charts/
Mines the 5th one down

At the top says...BOOTS DIRECT, REQUIRES SWAP, and NEEDS PATCH...for my chip it just says SWAP...so the cd's do not need to be patched??????

THANKS!

[charlie_ps2]

These tables are necessarily economical with the truth!

EA games will not need to be patched if they are copied with CloneCD on a 100% compatible reader/burner (DAO-RAW+96). Otherwise you still have to patch the copies made with CDRWin to overcome the copy protection.

Of course EA Games have to be swap booted, nothing other than in-region originals boot directly with your mod.

[MrBojangles]

I had a no solder and all you need to do with all the backups i had was load up action replay first and do the swap trick. no patch was needed not even for ea sports games.