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cba to read this? skip to the bottom and theres the long story short version.
ok, heres the story.i got my PS2 in Brighton, England on 19th January 2002 in Virgin megastores. About 12- 6 months ago (cant remember) my PS2 just stopped working. everytime i tryed to play a game, especially good ones, my ps2 used to make "straining" noises when playing / loading from discs. this only occured on good games, but tawards the end of its life it did it all the time. When it actually broke it still started up, just "could not read the discs".
O.K, i had recently got an 1337 PC, and i had a GC, so i wasnt actually too pissed off when it broke. i put it in the box and locked it away, placing a seal on it so that it would be revived when humankind had the technology to restore it... well, i put it under some books.
As time passed and the months twindled by i gradually sold all the games for money, eventually selling my two PS2 controllers for quick cash. My PS2, however, never moved. its box collected dust. The only thing that survived was the PS2/ leads/ memory card, and Final fantasy 6, 7 + 9 for the PS1.
Time passed.
Thismorning i awoke with a thought, in a hot sweat... what if my PS2 had only overheated? or 2 years of standing upright had temporerily sent it to sleep? i had heard stories that made me think not, stories that told of dodgy systems released in whole batches that broke, and all my freinds had had dodgy PS2s at some point.
But my PS2 called me. i scrambled out of bed and scurried over to the dark corner of my room. I drew my longsword and battled the deongeon boss i had placed to protect it. I slayed my oponent and took my prize from its eternal slumber! (i removed the books, for those of u less imaginitive people).
I scrambled the leads, plugged them in and turned on the PS2, casting my GC aside. my hands were sweating. the moment of truth. i inserted FF7 into the horizontal disk drive... And pressed the reset button.
I could feel my heart beating. Time passed. My hopes faded.
Then, as if by magic, a screen appeared reading:
"please insert Disc one". My eyes widened and a smile grew across my face. to my pure pleasure, when i did as it instructed, the FF music came on. SUCCESS!!!
I found, lying in the FF6 case, a FF10 demo. Glee! a DVD!!! i can see if PS2 games work!!! and guess what... to my suprise, it did. I thought, hey, i havent played FF10 for ages. what a pleasant suprise.
So i reached down for my controller, heart full of glee when...
"NOOOOO!!!!! why did i sell my controller to game so i could by mario kart???? whhhhyyyy!!!!!"
So basicly, my ps2 works now. What i need to know, is how long will it work for, why this happened in the first place and what i should do to keep it working.
So there it is. my ps2 broke, now it works. below is the long story short....
January 19th 2002 i bought my PS2. 12- 6 months ago it broke, and did not read the discs i inserted, showing a "cannot read disk" note. I had allways kept the ps2 upright for style and space, but maybe not common sense.
After the "incident", i sold everything except the ps2. Today, i tried to play one of my ps1 games on it, and to my utter suprise it worked. so did a PS2 demo, and it worked upright and horizontal.
also, would it be worth it to go out and buy a controller / FF10-2 ????
PC and GC have been making me dizzy, i need some PS2 back into my life....
all of the above was posted in a ps2 forum, but those ppl never read any posts and find long words intimidating. BTW, this isnt general gaming bcause
a) its a peice of hardware and
b) i want to know something and more ppl read this forum
ok, heres the story.i got my PS2 in Brighton, England on 19th January 2002 in Virgin megastores. About 12- 6 months ago (cant remember) my PS2 just stopped working. everytime i tryed to play a game, especially good ones, my ps2 used to make "straining" noises when playing / loading from discs. this only occured on good games, but tawards the end of its life it did it all the time. When it actually broke it still started up, just "could not read the discs".
O.K, i had recently got an 1337 PC, and i had a GC, so i wasnt actually too pissed off when it broke. i put it in the box and locked it away, placing a seal on it so that it would be revived when humankind had the technology to restore it... well, i put it under some books.
As time passed and the months twindled by i gradually sold all the games for money, eventually selling my two PS2 controllers for quick cash. My PS2, however, never moved. its box collected dust. The only thing that survived was the PS2/ leads/ memory card, and Final fantasy 6, 7 + 9 for the PS1.
Time passed.
Thismorning i awoke with a thought, in a hot sweat... what if my PS2 had only overheated? or 2 years of standing upright had temporerily sent it to sleep? i had heard stories that made me think not, stories that told of dodgy systems released in whole batches that broke, and all my freinds had had dodgy PS2s at some point.
But my PS2 called me. i scrambled out of bed and scurried over to the dark corner of my room. I drew my longsword and battled the deongeon boss i had placed to protect it. I slayed my oponent and took my prize from its eternal slumber! (i removed the books, for those of u less imaginitive people).
I scrambled the leads, plugged them in and turned on the PS2, casting my GC aside. my hands were sweating. the moment of truth. i inserted FF7 into the horizontal disk drive... And pressed the reset button.
I could feel my heart beating. Time passed. My hopes faded.
Then, as if by magic, a screen appeared reading:
"please insert Disc one". My eyes widened and a smile grew across my face. to my pure pleasure, when i did as it instructed, the FF music came on. SUCCESS!!!
I found, lying in the FF6 case, a FF10 demo. Glee! a DVD!!! i can see if PS2 games work!!! and guess what... to my suprise, it did. I thought, hey, i havent played FF10 for ages. what a pleasant suprise.
So i reached down for my controller, heart full of glee when...
"NOOOOO!!!!! why did i sell my controller to game so i could by mario kart???? whhhhyyyy!!!!!"
So basicly, my ps2 works now. What i need to know, is how long will it work for, why this happened in the first place and what i should do to keep it working.
So there it is. my ps2 broke, now it works. below is the long story short....
January 19th 2002 i bought my PS2. 12- 6 months ago it broke, and did not read the discs i inserted, showing a "cannot read disk" note. I had allways kept the ps2 upright for style and space, but maybe not common sense.
After the "incident", i sold everything except the ps2. Today, i tried to play one of my ps1 games on it, and to my utter suprise it worked. so did a PS2 demo, and it worked upright and horizontal.
also, would it be worth it to go out and buy a controller / FF10-2 ????
PC and GC have been making me dizzy, i need some PS2 back into my life....
all of the above was posted in a ps2 forum, but those ppl never read any posts and find long words intimidating. BTW, this isnt general gaming bcause
a) its a peice of hardware and
b) i want to know something and more ppl read this forum
