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| bikingjahuty:
I have a love/hate relationship with the PS2. On one hand its one of my favorite consoles of all time with literally hundreds of great games for it, and truly a classic console if there ever was one. On the other hand, it's the most unreliable piece of hardware I've ever had the misfortunate of owning! I've been through a total of 6 PS2s since they first came out back in 2000, with my most recent PS2, a slim, having gradually lost its ability to read disks over the last year. It's at the point where it'll read some games if the moon is full and if half the planets are aligned. This is essentially the story with every PS2 I've owned; they play games great, for a time, and then they gradually lose their ability to read disks, typically PS1 games first, then purple PS2 games, then DVD-ROM PS2 games and DVDs. Sometimes this takes a couple years as with my first PS2 and the slim I owned before my current one, and a few have lasted me five years or more, with my current PS2 slim having lasted a good 8 years or so since buying it brand new. Unfortunately Brand New PS2s are now very expensive, and after having bought a few used ones recently, all with problems reading disks to some degree, I have reached the point where I'm sick of replacing these things and am wondering if anyone knows of any alternatives to playing PS2 games on hardware that isn't an official PS2 or PS2 Slim? Also, does anyone have any tips for extending the life of the PS2's ability to read disks? The only thing I've found is to use it only for PS2 games since the lasers seem die out due to use, so using it less technically might be the way to go I guess. And for the record, I am aware of some PS3s having the ability to do so, but these backwards compatible PS3s have their own reliability issues and there emulation of PS2 games is spotty so it isn't an option I'm willing to explore. |
| btsierra:
The first thing that comes to mind is something like FreeMCBoot + ripping your owned games to ISOs and either using an adapter to play them from a SATA HDD (Fat PS2) or over the network via an SMB share (Slim PS2). Since there's no disc reading involved, it should be far less taxing on the machine. |
| NickAwesome:
My PS2 from like 2001 still works, don't know how or why, and it doesn't play blue discs, but it still plays everything else. I use a slim though at the moment, faster/easier for changing discs. FreeMcBoot is great if you don't want to use the laser. |
| telly:
My PS2 from 2003/2004 still works but I had to take it apart and clean it and the laser. Mine also can't read blue discs anymore I would try giving the console a deep clean and see if that helps? |
| oldgamerz:
Somehow my used PS2 phat still reads all the different types of discs, and it is one of the vary first models of PlayStation 2. it used to freeze up but a technician fixed the problem. He said he cleaned it and it works fine as far as I know. Because it's been some time since I played it. But I definitely played it quite a bit after it was fixed. I don't know of any PS2 clones or alternatives. PlayStation 3's phat models are iffy I heard when it comes to PS2 games, I heard many stories that the PS3's compatible with PS2 games often overheat and melt to death when used for any length of time :( |
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