Picking a new modchip

[Canuck77]

For what its worth, I don't agree.

1) The Magic3 (or Apple2) will both play all games on the market right now. (The mods on this forum themselves did a review of them and gave them 100%). The Messiah2 has a couple of things that the Magic3 and Apple2 don't have, including being able to boot using any button (rather than having to use the 'reset' button on the other 2 chips) and a deactivation mode (which I think the A2 and M3 have anyway). But those are - in my opinion - very minor.

2) The mods here are biased towards the Messiah2 for a couple of reasons (both financial (see the referrals to Charlie_PS2 their services basically everywhere on this forum) and moral (since the M2 arguably came up with most innovations found in Magic3 and A2 chips)). For that reason, you'll see a lot more Messiah2 info than the others.

3) Price. You can - literally - buy 2 Magic3 or Apple2 chips for the cost of the Messiah2 in some places. To me, that's gouging, and it's only helped out by people who are making a higher profit on a more expensive chip than a lower one.

I installed 2 Apple2 mods myself and have them running just fine. They play my games - I don't need to patch, do special copy techniques, nothing. So why would I spend $30 extra per chip? I've got a buddy with the Magic3, and he's in the same boat - everything works fine.