Author Topic: PS2 Help (Read 4564 times)

Hard Bot · « **on:** May 19, 2012, 10:17:34 PM »

I just got a refurbished PS2 Slimline today with four games, but one gets the Red Screen of Death. However, the other 3 work.

kill343gs · « **Reply #1 on:** May 20, 2012, 12:05:30 AM »

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.

Mouldy · « **Reply #2 on:** May 20, 2012, 01:19:41 AM »

Hmmm... Have you tried a 'disc cleaner'?

FOTEPX · « **Reply #3 on:** May 20, 2012, 02:55:17 AM »

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.

powerrave · « **Reply #4 on:** May 20, 2012, 07:29:27 AM »

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.

NFX · « **Reply #5 on:** May 20, 2012, 07:53:29 AM »

The disc is probably just scratched as

. Or it has a blue back. Sometimes discs with a blue back don't get read.

Hard Bot · « **Reply #6 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:03:14 PM »

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.

J · « **Reply #7 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:20:35 PM »

>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.

Hard Bot · « **Reply #8 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:25:40 PM »

But the scratches were DEEP, coming from bottom to top.

GarvinTheGreat · « **Reply #9 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:45:41 PM »

I agree with fotepx, the fat ps2 is much better.

Virus Bomb · « **Reply #10 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:57:32 PM »

Only the early PS2s had problems with the lasers IIRC. I should know because I owned one the early models (doesn't work anymore)

Quote from: FOTEPX on May 20, 2012, 02:55:17 AM

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

GarvinTheGreat · « **Reply #11 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:59:19 PM »

Come to think of it, Why doesn't he just get a PS3?

Virus Bomb · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2012, 08:01:02 PM »

Quote from: GarvinTheGreat on May 23, 2012, 07:59:19 PM

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?

Hard Bot · « **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2012, 08:02:12 PM »

Quote from: Virus Bomb on May 23, 2012, 08:01:02 PM

Quote from: GarvinTheGreat on May 23, 2012, 07:59:19 PM
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.

GarvinTheGreat · « **Reply #14 on:** May 23, 2012, 08:03:16 PM »

Quote from: Hard Bot on May 23, 2012, 08:02:12 PM

Quote from: Virus Bomb on May 23, 2012, 08:01:02 PM
Quote from: GarvinTheGreat on May 23, 2012, 07:59:19 PM
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?

Hard Bot · « **Reply #15 on:** May 23, 2012, 08:17:55 PM »

There are GAMES I want to play on it badly, and my PS3 can't read PS2 discs.

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #16 on:** May 23, 2012, 08:18:45 PM »

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.

Hard Bot · « **Reply #17 on:** May 23, 2012, 10:03:36 PM »

Will Hot Wheels: Beat That! work? It is from November 2007.

HurricaneAndrew · « **Reply #18 on:** May 23, 2012, 11:23:55 PM »

Quote from: Hard Bot on May 23, 2012, 10:03:36 PM

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?

Hard Bot · « **Reply #19 on:** May 24, 2012, 12:27:17 PM »

Quote from: HurricaneAndrew on May 23, 2012, 11:23:55 PM

Quote from: Hard Bot on May 23, 2012, 10:03:36 PM
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.