At 8/15/15 09:41 AM, iMini wrote:
Buy a another PS2, they're like what? $10?
At 8/15/15 12:26 PM, Zombified wrote:
PS2's are fairly cheap in pawn shops and whatnot these days. Maybe you could replace it? If not Emulation is probably your best bet. I'm sure your computer could handle it.
That's highly variable. I don't doubt someone could get a used one for $10 (or even $5 or for free) but it's also far from guaranteed. And that'd be more if I bought it from a flea market or garage sale which, I haven't had good luck with electronics I've bought from flea markets. Or if someone just didn't want theirs and straight-up gave it to you.
If I'm going to a used games place to buy it though, it's going to be far more than $10. (Probably at least $35 or $40 or more)
And besides I like long-term solutions, not having to keep re-buying shoddily-made game consoles every time they fail.
At 8/15/15 02:54 PM, Patcoola wrote:
If you're getting read errors, you may have to open it up and tighten a screw by the CD drive, you can look it up online, it's very common.
That's useful information, and thank you. I'm not sure it'll help but it certainly won't hurt anything and might help.
At 8/15/15 03:39 PM, Eddmario wrote:
I've had my PS2 for almost 14 years now and it still plays like brand new. Well, usually anyway.
Your problem sounds like the laser might be dirty. Open up the disc tray, turn the system off with the tray still open, and then take the casing off and clean the laser with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol. Easy to do. You should also use a can of air spray to clean out all the dust as well.
Also useful information, and thank you as well. Yeah I've cleaned it out a while ago so I don't know if that'll help, but it's possible it could need cleaning out again. Another one of those things that might not help but probably won't hurt anything and might help.
At 8/15/15 05:40 PM, DoctorStrongbad wrote:
Did you end up getting a new PS2 or going with emulation?
I'm still using the PS2 as-is for the time being but I might take up emulation if it keeps this up and I can't seem to fix it. It actually started acting a bit better these past couple of days so, ... I'll see what happens but if it starts acting up again I'll try some of the DIY advice first, then resort to emulation only if that fails.
At 8/15/15 10:01 AM, mysticvortex13 wrote:
gamecube discs on the other hand scratch beyond readability more easily. and the lens that reads them gets damaged, and the b button fragments.
Really? I've never once had that happen to GameCube discs although I've had scratched PS2 discs, but mostly either discs I got second-hand or after someone else used them. If they're discs only I used they tend to be in pretty good shape. And I never had a problem with GameCube controllers breaking down. The buttons are a bit tiny for my liking but they don't seem to break under normal use.
my ps2 controller never melted per se, but it did have the padding shed off the edge of the analog stick.
You've been lucky then. So far I've had two PS2 controller begin the melting process on me, and that would be the initial controller that came with the system brand new, and also an official Sony replacement controller I bought to replace that one, which it's also started doing the same stuff. My best PS2 controller is a no-name bootleg controller which never did that crap.
at any rate, if your compy can handle the ps2 emulation, go for it as was mentioned here. but whether it's legal or not depends on what state you live in.
in some areas, even possession of dissected code is illegal.
This wouldn't be possession of dissected code though. What you're talking about is disassembled code, and this isn't that. If you copy the BIOS files, they're copied as-is, in binary form. They're not disassembled. I'd think that should fall under fair use rights, provided you only ever use one at a time (either the game console or the emulator, but never both at once), using the BIOS files strictly to get the emulation to work. And as for the games, they'd be the on-disc games which could remain on-disc -- no copying there. Just using as-is. So I'm pretty sure that'd be in the clear.
You're not allowed to break any copy-protection, but typically console BIOSes don't have any. And you're not allowed to download or distribute ROMs but this isn't that -- all the games are still on their original discs and would be played that way, and the BIOS files would neither be downloaded nor distributed. And you're typically not allowed to disassemble any code, but this isn't doing that either. I'm pretty sure it would fall into one of the legal use-cases of emulators. The other legal use case being strictly to run homebrew software.
And other than when the DMCA gets you, you are typically allowed to make one backup copy of software, in case you didn't know that. Even with the DMCA you are allowed to do that, although it typically renders this right technically impossible to use. But if you'll notice, in the days before all the copy protection, there would typically be notices on everything saying you were allowed to make exactly one backup copy. It was because they were legally obligated to allow this under consumer fair use rights.
So I mean, if you want to research up any of this, or feel you need to, consult a lawyer or such, and I'm not a lawyer, but this is just my understanding of it.
