Author Topic: PS2 going to hell (Read 9365 times)

The D · « **on:** Dec 16, 2004, 09:23:35 PM »

Ah, the bane of all PS2s is happening to mine... god dammit.

You would think the bastards would have recalled the fucker back when the error popped up and give people replacement PS2s, but that's just too much to ask for a electronics monopoly like Sony. Asking any evil company for something free is like walking down the freeway at 4:59pm. So I'll probably have to buy a new one, as usual.

And until then, I'm just going to have to get used to:

DISK READ ERROR!!! DISK READ ERROR!!! DISK READ ERROR!!! DISK READ ERROR!!! DISK READ ERROR!!! DISK READ ERROR!!!

Max Con · « **Reply #1 on:** Dec 16, 2004, 09:30:21 PM »

My PS2 makes a grinding noise when the tray opens or closes, and only sometimes won't read black-sided CDs.

Beauty.

Extra Zero · « **Reply #2 on:** Dec 16, 2004, 09:53:51 PM »

See, that's their gimmick. Just as soon as the ticking time-bomb inside your PS2 causes it to go faulty...they release a "slimmer, more capable PS2."

blanktoe · « **Reply #3 on:** Dec 16, 2004, 10:04:45 PM »

I guess it's a good thing that I never play with mine.

B E C K · « **Reply #4 on:** Dec 17, 2004, 12:18:57 AM »

I guess it's a good thing I never bought mine.

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #5 on:** Dec 17, 2004, 12:30:54 AM »

Dust buildup, perhaps.

B E C K · « **Reply #6 on:** Dec 17, 2004, 12:31:56 AM »

Or jizz mayhaps.

Evil Monkey-Tom · « **Reply #7 on:** Dec 18, 2004, 11:10:27 PM »

Fuck Sony. Game Cubes are perfect, and my N64 works like a wonder.

Max Con · « **Reply #8 on:** Dec 19, 2004, 12:13:39 AM »

Nintendo makes their stuff durable because their products are aimed at a generation that will abuse them.

B E C K · « **Reply #9 on:** Dec 20, 2004, 06:15:56 AM »

My cousin's dad sat on theirs.

Fiero · « **Reply #10 on:** Dec 20, 2004, 09:58:30 AM »

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My cousin's dad sat on theirs.

I didn't know he meant old people.

B E C K · « **Reply #11 on:** Dec 20, 2004, 10:34:30 AM »

Sorry. I meant that more as my irresponsible cousins, the generation he was speaking of, allowed their drunk fatass dad to sit on theirs.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #12 on:** Dec 20, 2004, 11:32:54 AM »

i had a n64. each of us(me and my brother and sister) had one so we wouldnt fight about it(which is a good alternative)... i dont know where mine is now:'( i loved it

B E C K · « **Reply #13 on:** Dec 20, 2004, 01:34:56 PM »

Steal the other two and combine it into one cool mutant 64 for yourself.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #14 on:** Dec 20, 2004, 04:02:11 PM »

cant, they are all in peru. and soon in singapore too

B E C K · « **Reply #15 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 01:11:38 AM »

The 64's or your siblings?

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #16 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 09:56:50 AM »

the oldest brother is staying in peru with two n64(if he can find mine wherever the fuck that shit is), my sister and my younger brother are going to singapore(with her n64..the youngest one didnt get shit cause hes only 2years old)
damn i still dont get used to the "i have 3 siblings" shit...

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #17 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 02:10:49 PM »

Anybody praising Nintendo's console construction obviously skipped out on the NES and SNES. Those things were garbage in terms of durability...particularly NES. Remember blowing in the carts and console to make the games work? That was the first blue screen of death I remember seeing. I don't even remember how many SNES controllers I demolished, when the NES pads to their credit took far greater abuse.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #18 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 02:17:29 PM »

oo i loved nes and snes

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #19 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 02:23:45 PM »

I loved them, too, but they were just as crappily constructed as anything else that's ever come out in the video game market. People pump up the Big N's wares like they're made indestructible like Tonka trucks.

Well, like the old Tonka trucks, which were actually solid steel. I was very unpleasantly surprised some years ago when buying one for my youngest nephew. I wound up sanding and repainting an old one of mine to give him, as it was still better than the half-plastic junk from the store.

But that's neither here nor there. The only thing Sony's added to the list of gripes is DRE, which isn't unexpected in that the PS2 wasn't that great hardware and design-wise to start with. They can make good stuff, but they were in a self-imposed bind similar to that PSP faces now...need more units, so manufacturing goes to pot in deference to quality control.

Extra Zero · « **Reply #20 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 07:07:57 PM »

Granted, the SNES controllers were FAR more durable than the Genesis' 3-button controller.

The D · « **Reply #21 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 09:31:31 PM »

that's all nice and dandy, but I was expecting some sort of solution aside from throwing the damn thing against a wall a few times.

Is there a way to fix the disk read error by hand? And since opening the case will break the warranty void seal, should I fix it myself or trade it in at a game store?

Extra Zero · « **Reply #22 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 10:04:34 PM »

Yeah, there is a way to fix it and it's very easy, but you DO have to open the case. If your warranty is expired, do it. Here's the tutorial:

http://www.g4techtv.com/xplay/features/457..._Error_Fix.html

TM2 Rampage · « **Reply #23 on:** Dec 21, 2004, 10:27:03 PM »

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Anybody praising Nintendo's console construction obviously skipped out on the NES and SNES. Those things were garbage in terms of durability...particularly NES. Remember blowing in the carts and console to make the games work? That was the first blue screen of death I remember seeing. I don't even remember how many SNES controllers I demolished, when the NES pads to their credit took far greater abuse.

You blew on them to clear dust out.

Also, there's also the problem of the carts not meeting the contacts in the console correctly. I've read about a method to open up the console and retighten the contacts so they'll work like new...

B E C K · « **Reply #24 on:** Dec 22, 2004, 12:17:27 AM »

My SNES still works. We never played it as hard as other people did, so maybe that's part of the reason. Of course the gay powet adapter that came with it now doesn't. Everyone I knew had problems with those damn things.

MegatronYES · « **Reply #25 on:** Dec 22, 2004, 04:36:01 AM »

I was just having problems with my SNES today. I have just finished only my third(!) run through Zelda:LttP and when I tried to load up the cart again it just plain wouldn't.

Also, my told me tha the somehow dug up a 20+ year old Tonka Jeep in the yard and it worked fine once he greased the wheels.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #26 on:** Dec 23, 2004, 09:02:01 AM »

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You blew on them to clear dust out.

Also, there's also the problem of the carts not meeting the contacts in the console correctly. I've read about a method to open up the console and retighten the contacts so they'll work like new...

The open end is a design flaw...then again, the design of the original NES was a bad joke in general. As crappy as Atari games and consoles were, at least the 5200 cartridges had a self-retracting shield over the contactors to prevent this very problem. They didn't need those goofy little black sleeves. Everybody remember those infernal doohickeys? You always either lost one or a game didn't come with one. I don't know what they did between NES and SNES, but at least they did fix that shortcoming...I never had a dust problem with SNES games.

My old SNES quit working some years ago, and I bought a new one after giving up on fixing it myself. I noticed that the freaking thing had a broken AC plug not a few months later. Hello, I just plugged it in and left it there and didn't even touch the thing again until I disconnected it to move it, and it's broken? Shenannigans! The thing is just fragile with age, I guess. That happens a lot with lighter colored plastics, anyway.

B E C K · « **Reply #27 on:** Dec 23, 2004, 10:24:48 AM »

Those adapters are like infants. You can't really try and make it support its own head without busting it somehow.