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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 2 2013, 06:36 PM (499 Views) | |
| 5star | Feb 2 2013, 06:36 PM Post #1 |
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Newbie
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I had 6 ps2's in my life because they always went to junk. By junk I mean they would work fine and then over time would start to only read some disks and other disks they wouldn't read when the disks were perfect. I would use cleaner disks to clean the laser which never helped. Is that how all ps2s work? Gave up on ps2's a year ago so traded it for a super Nintendo because they always work. |
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Just getting back into gaming. Have pretty sweet cars to. A eclipse on 19s and a 2.4 5cyl volvo putting out 350hp on 20psi that sounds like a dodge viper and back fires like a machine gun. Have a few race quads. 1 was in a mag. And a modded street bike that is the world fastest for it's brand. | |
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| stinger9142 | Feb 2 2013, 06:41 PM Post #2 |
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Endure and survive...
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Mine certainly didn't. I have owned one since 2003. I have put thousands of hours on it between gaming and movies. It still works like a top. I don't recall any friends having their ps2 screw up either. I would be curious to hear if others on here had the issues you did. |
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| The Red Shadow | Feb 2 2013, 06:41 PM Post #3 |
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The Seeker
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I bought my PS2 in February of 2002 and it is still plugging along. Only very rarely does it give me an issue playing the blue bottomed (CD-ROM) PS2 games. Plays pretty much everything PS1 and 2 plus DVDs with only those rare aforementioned hiccups. |
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| Waddle Dee | Feb 2 2013, 06:43 PM Post #4 |
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Nope, PS2s are amazing, I will actually probably be buying another one soon, I had mine for the longest time and mine worked until the day I sold it to gamestop (bad mistake) |
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| Mk II | Feb 2 2013, 06:55 PM Post #5 |
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Sony sucks
Edited by Mk II, Feb 2 2013, 06:55 PM.
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| justinwebb | Feb 2 2013, 06:57 PM Post #6 |
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Had mine forever, maybe its the environment its in? |
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My collection and wanted list! | |
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| dataDyne | Feb 2 2013, 09:22 PM Post #7 |
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Forum Dinosaur!
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Had mine since 2004 and it still works a treat! Although I did play the poor thing so much that my original DualShock 2's analogue sticks are even wonkier and more unresponsive than my N64 controllers. Hard to believe, right?
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Give this man a fish, and he can throw it up eleven times -alxbly PSN: LifeIsPreachy Mario Kart Wii: 0088 - 2869 - 9843 | |
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| scooter77 | Feb 2 2013, 10:06 PM Post #8 |
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Had mine since they first came out and have had no issue with it what so ever. Man that cuts deap MK
Edited by scooter77, Feb 2 2013, 10:07 PM.
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." -Albert Einstein PAL Collection: 243/243 NTSC-U only Exclusives: 50/50 NTSC-U / NTSC-J Exclusives: 11/11 NTSC-J only Exclusives: 85/85 64dd 0/9 Only 9 to go. | |
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| DeeMoney | Feb 3 2013, 04:47 AM Post #9 |
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Might be down to the operator on that one. Things will last if you respect and look after them. Sounds like no one else has had that issue. Btw, I agree with you Mark!! My brother has owned his since day 1 and it still runs just like the day he bought it.
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Nintendo Network ID - DeeMoney19 PSN Network ID - hallxx81xx Xbox Live Gamertag - DeeMoney 2K19 ![]() | |
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| Cabanon | Feb 3 2013, 08:31 AM Post #10 |
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mine allw orked too. i bought a slim brand new, sold it to upgrade to a ps3. then 4 years later i bought one at a city auction sale that still worked fine. sold it last summer because i found a BNIB satin silver slim model for 50$ i couldnt pass on. dunno if i want to open it or simply buy another one for cheap. |
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| Vekoma64 | Feb 3 2013, 09:52 AM Post #11 |
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In the UK the normal (fat) PS2 had really bad reliability. The drives and laser being the most common problem. It never reached RROD levels but it was still bad. When I worked in a games store we had real issues with this console and many came back once they had been resold. It is almost felt like they had shelf life rather then a random problem. The SNES is a work horse, I had a customer that used their SNES as a toilet and it still worked. although once this information had been divulged it could not be traded.
Edited by Vekoma64, Feb 4 2013, 01:00 PM.
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Nintendo gaming since 1989 WiiU NNID- Vekoma64 | |
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| The Red Shadow | Feb 3 2013, 06:55 PM Post #12 |
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The Seeker
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Nice! I'd snap up one for that price as well.
Edited by The Red Shadow, Feb 3 2013, 06:56 PM.
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| YogurtStorm | Feb 3 2013, 07:40 PM Post #13 |
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Your mom is a nice lady
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I never had a PS2, but I had every other Sony system and they all still work just fine. |
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My Youtube Channel: All game. No bla-bla. PS4 ShareFactory gameplay | |
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| Claret64 | Feb 4 2013, 10:32 AM Post #14 |
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Newbie
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had a ps2 slim, it had a problem with the power lead socket in the system, had to balance a pretty heavy item on it for it to work properly. inevitibly it died so got a cheap fat ps2, that worked no problems ever, got rid of it in the end due to getting a 360 and preference for the gamecube |
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| Grizzmeister | Feb 4 2013, 11:57 AM Post #15 |
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Latter-day Nostradamus
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My US launch Playstation 2 is still chugging along. A couple of years ago I picked up a second fat PS2 for around 10 dollars and all I had to do was clean the laser to get it to read discs properly again. I like the fat models because they have the firewire port for linking some early PS2 titles like Armored Core 2 & 3 and Gran Turismo 3. |
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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| Kerr Avon | Feb 5 2013, 09:25 AM Post #16 |
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Mine works fine, but then I hardly use the DVD drive (can't remember the last time I did), as I use a hard drive to load all my PS2 games, thereby not only speeding up loading immensely and also stopping all loading errors, but also saving wear and tear on the PS2's DVD drive, as once I've installed the game(s) to the hard drive then I never need to use the game disc(s) again, so Iput them away safe in my cupboard. This is what I do, and it's *fantastic*. I don't even use a disc in my PS2's DVD drive any more; when I turn on my PS2 it boots up almost instantly, from the memory card in slot 2, then comes up with a menu on screen allowing me to load any game from hard drive, and whilst I'm playing any game, I can press a certain combination of joypad buttons to reset the PS2 (at any time) and go back to the menu to load a new game. It really is fantastic. The only limitations are: - you can't play PS1 games like this, PS1 games must be played from the original discs, - not all games work from hard drive, but every game I've tried does, and the compatibility is being increased all the time as work progresses on the loading software, - you can't save game-saves to the hard drive, you still need to save to the memory cards, but this is the same even if you run the game from the disc, so either way you're stuck with it. You can also load games from a USB stick, these are very common and cheap nowadays, but since the PS2 only supports USB standard 1.1, then it's very slow, around the speed of loading from a real PS2 disc. For a real speed increase, you need to use a hard drive which only fat PS2's support. Slim PS2's can only load via the USB port, both USB stick and (so I've heard) USB hard drives, but the speed will only be a fraction of a fat PS2 with an IDE hard drive. To play games from a hard drive, you need: + a fat PS2 (does not need to be modded), + a network adapter, + an IDE hard drive, most will do, I currently have a 250GB in mine, though only 220GB is seen by the PS2. I think the software can be made to see larger than 220GB on larger drives, but I've not yet looked into it, as 220GB is more than enough for my current games collection. IDE drives are very cheap, though getting harder to find, as SATA drives are becoming more common, and you can't use a SATA drive in the PS2, + the software (see below), + a USB stick (for transfering the software to the PS2, afterwards you don't need the USB stick, so you can just borrow one if you like), + a memory card (game save card) if you wish to boot from a memory card - it uses up just less than half the space on the memory card, and you can use the rest of the memory card (and any card in the other card slot) to save game saves as usual. Otherwise you can boot from DVD as usual, but then you'll need a commercial boot disc, like HDLoader. To play games from a USB stick, you need: + a PS2, either a fat or a slim, either will work as far as I know, + a USB stick (for transfering the software to the PS2, and then the same or a different USB stick(s) for loading the games from), + a memory card to boot from. The software you need is all free and legal, but I won't post links here, in case that's against the board rules. Just use to google.com and search for: free mcboot and open ps2 loader Currently the first link Google puts up is the right link for these, and currently Free McBoot is version 1.8, and Open PS2 Loader is version 0.9. Free McBoot simply boots the PS2 up from your memory card - you don't need this, but if you don't have it then you'll either have to have your PS2 modded (say with a mod chip, which I know nothing about), or boot from a commercial hard drive menu DVD (the only two are HDLoader and HDAdvance). Open PS2 Loader is the hard drive menu program, just like HDLoader or HD Advance, except that Open PS2 Loader is free, has much better compatibility (it runs a lot of games that crash with HDLoader and HD Advance) and it's more user configurable, if you like personalizing your system. Even if you boot up with HDLoader or HD Advance, you're still advised to load Open PS2 Loader (via HDLoader or HD Advance) and use Open PS2 Loader to start your games, due it's it's much higher compatibility rate. Aside from the hard drive and the network card (I bought the latter from ebay) you'll only need to buy a USB stick, although you can probably borrow a USB stick off someone as you only need it to install the software. The software is all free, unless you need a commecial boot disc like HD Loader, but I'd recommend booting from memory card instead, as it's quicker and saves wear and tear on the DVD drive. For a list of compatible hard drives, google: ps2 hard drive compatibility though I bought two off the shelf, without checking as I didn't know that some drives didn't work with it, and they both (a 120GB, and later this 250GB) worked fine. Anyway, before you do anything, read up on everything, and know what you're getting and what you'll have to do to install everything. It's a bit of trouble if you don't know what you're doing (but all questions are answered on their forums), but once done it's done for good, and believe me, a hard drive really transforms the whole PS2 experience, and I couldn't go back to loading from disc every time I wanted to play a game. Moderators - please note, everything in this post is legal, and I've not posted any links just to be on the safe side. |
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| Cabanon | Feb 5 2013, 01:50 PM Post #17 |
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i would higly suggest editing the modding part. you'll get a huge warning and a potential ban as it's against the rules of this site. I had a fat ps2 network model but i sold it. should have kept it go that route. im having remorse now because i want to play some ps2 titles but i dont want to open my BNIB slim lol |
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| Grizzmeister | Feb 5 2013, 02:24 PM Post #18 |
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How rude of me to not share a picture of my two Fat PS2's in my previous post.
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| clarky_n64 | Feb 5 2013, 02:55 PM Post #19 |
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I had a PS2 phat from new and that eventually went bad so I bought a slim and never had any issues. I also know of a few others that had issues with the PS2 faulting in time. Thinking about it now, my old phatty used to be on for 6-8 hour stints on a regular basis.
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| Kerr Avon | Feb 6 2013, 02:08 PM Post #20 |
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I don't think it is against the TOS, as I've given no links, just described how my PS2 is modded, and what it can now do. And my PS2 is, I think, legally modded, as (a) I own the original discs of the games I play (is there any excuse at all to pirate PS2 games now they are so cheap used?), and (b) neither I nor anyone else has altered the PS2's hardware to bypass the PS2's built in protection. The process by which the PS2's check-for-signed-code-and-refuse-to-boot-if-it's-not-found routines are bypassed are done purely in external software, which as far as I know is not against the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (as far as I know, the DMCA only makes hardware modifications illegal), but even if it is, then (whilst I respect this forums right to uphold whichever rules they choose*) then personally I don't care and will continue to use my PS2 this way, as to me the user should be allowed to bypass the security of devices they buy, to run third party software or to modify the devices to run how the user wants - you paid for the console (or phone, or tablet, etc) and should be able to do what you like with it, as long as you don't do anything immoral with it. Piracy is immoral, but loading games that you paid for, from a different storage medium (i.e, in this case, from a hard drive instead of from the game disc) is not wrong on any moral level). * If Cabanon is right and this is against the N64F TOS then of course please delete or modify my post and I won't post on the subject of PS2 modding again. If that is N64F's rule on the subject then I will respect that, though I don't personally agree with it. |
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