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Off-Topic => Games => Existing Games => Topic started by: Hard Bot on May 19, 2012, 10:17:34 PM
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I just got a refurbished PS2 Slimline today with four games, but one gets the Red Screen of Death. However, the other 3 work.
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You're trying to use a playstation 2, I honestly don't think there's any helping you.
No, really i think the disk is probably junk.
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Hmmm... Have you tried a 'disc cleaner'?
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Hard Bot, I'm sorry to tell you this, but the lazer on a PS2 Slim is bollocks. I had scratchless games that wouldn't work with it. I recommend you get a fat PS2; Cheaper and a lot more efficient.
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Fotepx, that's a load of bull. The lazer from the slim is just fine. Never had trouble with mine, friends and fellow SAGS clan members never had trouble with theirs.
HardBot, check the state of the disc and maybe try to get it 'cleaned', like MKB said. Maybe some gameshops offer a disc cleaning service, if so, go there.
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The disc is probably just scratched as heck. Or it has a blue back. Sometimes discs with a blue back don't get read.
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Bump: I am convinced I the disc got the Red Screen of Death because there were 2 scratches on the small PLASTIC RING surrounding the hole in the disc. Anyway, I forgot tell you it was the disc for Hot Wheels: Beat That!, which does not have a blue back.
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>PS2 has a red screen of death
I've gone through 3(well, 2 and a half) PS2s. not one of them has had that problem.
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But the scratches were DEEP, coming from bottom to top.
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I agree with fotepx, the fat ps2 is much better.
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Only the early PS2s had problems with the lasers IIRC. I should know because I owned one the early models (doesn't work anymore)
Hard Bot, I'm sorry to tell you this, but the lazer on a PS2 Slim is bollocks. I had scratchless games that wouldn't work with it. I recommend you get a fat PS2; Cheaper and a lot more efficient.
Don't believe this bullcrap
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Come to think of it, Why doesn't he just get a PS3?
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Come to think of it, Why doesn't he just get a PS3?
Cuz new PS3s can't play PS2 discs and old PS3s are dropping like flies?
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Come to think of it, Why doesn't he just get a PS3?
Cuz new PS3s can't play PS2 discs and old PS3s are dropping like flies?
I already have a PS3.
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Come to think of it, Why doesn't he just get a PS3?
Cuz new PS3s can't play PS2 discs and old PS3s are dropping like flies?
I already have a PS3.
Then why bother with the ps2?
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There are GAMES I want to play on it badly, and my PS3 can't read PS2 discs.
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Had a slim for 8 years and only had a problem after I started using it as a DVD player as well. DVDs are a PS2's worst enemy. They make the laser read more information than it was meant to, causing it to overheat and eventually stop working.
Another issue I have heard is that a PS2's laser will often weaken after a while and begin to get picky about the games it will play. Simpler games that were earlier releases may be readable, but newer releases may not be.
The only reason the Slim PS2 is supposedly less efficient is because it has a more powerful processor which would pull more power. Also in the newest slims that can still be bought brand new for $100 no longer have the brick in the power cord, whilst the older slims did.
I bought a brand new PS2 just a few weeks ago... There is no real evidence that the "fat" PS2 is any better in any way.
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Will Hot Wheels: Beat That! work? It is from November 2007.
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Will Hot Wheels: Beat That! work? It is from November 2007.
It would depend on how weak the laser has gotten. If it is pretty graphically intensive on the system, probably not.
As a reference, what other games have you tried on it and gotten to run?
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Will Hot Wheels: Beat That! work? It is from November 2007.
It would depend on how weak the laser has gotten. If it is pretty graphically intensive on the system, probably not.
As a reference, what other games have you tried on it and gotten to run?
ATV Offroad Fury 3, Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, and Gran Turismo 4.
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You could always try the old xbox. Never had a single problem with mine, and they're easy to mod.
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You could always try the old xbox. Never had a single problem with mine, and they're easy to mod.
It's also very useful for someone who wants to play his PS2 games.
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You could always try the old xbox. Never had a single problem with mine, and they're easy to mod.
It's also very useful for someone who wants to play his PS2 games.
Haha, yeah. But if some of his games don't work, buying an xbox will almost certainly be cheaper than buying a new PS2 or fixing his current one, and you can mod the xbox to play pirated backed-up games.
Edit:
A 30-second check on Google shooping shows that a used xbox is as cheap as 15$, whereas a PS2 is about 100$
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That's great, but we're not on about getting an xbox. I personally wouldn't want one, but that's not relevant. Now it's about the kid wanting to play PS2 games.
Also, the only problem I ever had with PS2 was parents not putting the disc in properly. But apart from that, no problem.
How people handle the console (or disc) also makes a difference, since there are some cases where people don't handle their stuff as they are supposed to, so to say.
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You could always try the old xbox. Never had a single problem with mine, and they're easy to mod.
It's also very useful for someone who wants to play his PS2 games.
Haha, yeah. But if some of his games don't work, buying an xbox will almost certainly be cheaper than buying a new PS2 or fixing his current one, and you can mod the xbox to play pirated backed-up games.
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A 30-second check on Google shooping shows that a used xbox is as cheap as 15$, whereas a PS2 is about 100$
I have an old Xbox, but there are exclusives on PS2 such as Gran Turismo 4.
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... there are exclusives on PS2 such as Gran Turismo 4.
Yeah... Pretty sure you can't play Gran Turismo on an Xbox...
And TRB's "facts" are always when it comes to gaming. He thinks he knows more than he actually does. Don't listen to him.
You can buy a brand new PS2, not a refurb, for $99 at any Walmart. There is no way that $100 is the minimum for a used one. An original Xbox is usually roughly $30 unless it is a special release such as the Halo Edition, and that doesn't necessarily always mean it's more valuble.
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But the scratches were DEEP, coming from bottom to top.
Hate to tell you this your disk is far beyond help because it only takes one deep scratch on the data reading parts to turn a game disk into a hi-tech Frisbee. Since you say you have two well you're better off getting another copy of that game it has nothing to do with the ps2 at all (at least that's what the guy at Play N Trade said when I brought a disk with a deep scratch in it to be repaired).
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Bump: I am convinced I the disc got the Red Screen of Death because there were 2 scratches on the small PLASTIC RING surrounding the hole in the disc. Anyway, I forgot tell you it was the disc for Hot Wheels: Beat That!, which does not have a blue back.
The way it sounds from this post, the disc was actually cracked rather than scratched.