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The USA Beatmania controllers work just fine, since they're made in Japan. ;P If you don't have a controller (like I didn't for a while), you can do what I did and use an arcade stick. Not ideal, but not horrible.
I just did a bunch of soft-modding to my PS2, so I'll see if I can help out any.
Swap trick without paying for it -- The .GIF above shows you what you need for making one. Another example is here: http://www.exploitstation.com/articles/cogswap%20guide.php ...but you still need the program. That's where the rest of the exploitstation.com comes in. You'll need to do a few things (depending on what you do or don't have), but the long and the short of it is that you'll put something on your memory card that, once it tries booting up a PSX game in the disc tray, it instead goes to a program that lets you run homebrew on your PS2, which includes HDLoader, Cogswap (disc-swapping), and a few others like transfering files between your PC and PS2 (with a network adapter attached to your PS2, of course).
HDLoader without paying for it -- For this, you'll still need an HDD and a Network Adapter for your chubby PS2. You'll also need a way to put the file on your memory card. Like I said, exploitstation.com tells ya what ya need. After that, installing games is pretty easy. You can't install burned media, but you CAN put it on your PS2 HDD either by networking your PS2 and PC or, and this is my favorite way, putting your HDD from the PS2 into an external HDD shell and using WinHIIP.
You'll PROBABLY need to buy something in order to do this stuff. Ain't no such thing as a free lunch, buddy. But the amount of relatively cheap options ARE out there.
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