I had a PS1 that I was able to do the swap trick with, but the trick to getting it to work successfully is that you need a game that has a lot of content on the disc so that the TOC that it reads from the burned disc won't go past the length of the original disc's length. Games that are good for doing this are games that are usually sold in multiple discs, so FFVII, VIII, or even IX, sadly enough. There's probably a few other good ones, but I haven't had any luck in that regard.
But yeah, at this point, you're probably best off just emulating or something, unless you want the nostalgia factor.