I bought my first* Playstation 2 in 2023
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2023
- It's been 22 years in the mighty PS2 arrived on the scene, so I figured it was time to finally see what all the fuss was about.
3D Printed parts:
HDD Bracket: www.thingiverse.com/thing:364...
PS2 Fat stand: www.thingiverse.com/thing:245...
PS2 Slim stand: www.thingiverse.com/thing:619...
Software:
To copy games across, HDL Batch Installer:
github.com/israpps/HDL-Batch-...
To grab the artwork, OPL Manager:
oplmanager.com/site/
To copy artwork (and anything else) across, PFS HDD Manager:
github.com/leyed0/PFS_HDD_Man...
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You have no idea about how deep the ps2 library is. You could play a different game every day for 3 years and still not have touched half of them.
Because of this i needed to know:
4 3 8 0 games were thrown into the world!!!
And i thought my converted ps-mini i once had, had a large collection with 650 games on a harddisk!... 😂
Hey Mr Lurch - hope you're OK. I'm missing your videos
Were all waiting for the next Video. Hope you are well!
Oh, you are going to have to much fun. The library is so diverse and bridges the old world and new world gaming eras rather nicely.
We’re all missing Mr Lurch
Quick tip if you're using a slim, I'd use ethernet over USB HD. Just set up a SMB shared directory on your computer with the ISOs in it and hook it up to the PS2 via ethernet.
A lot faster on the load times.
I've been wanting to buy a PS2 for years now, but somehow it always eludes me.
I found quite a few cheap PS2s last month, used of course, but working.
I think as an adult who earns his own paycheck, I'm gonna go out one of these days and buy me a PS2 which I never had as a kid.
All about healing that inner child.
Paterson down... No videos in 3 months... Are you okay??
Thanks mate I got a lot of nice tips from you keep posting bro
Great video, always very entertaining :) Thankyou :)
Great video, gives me some ideas for my own PS2s.
You can get HDMI converters for them that plug straight into the back. We recently got one because my son's new TV only does HDMI 😢 AUD$8 shipped, and it looks pretty good. Can't complain. I did the FreeMcBoot and HDD thing years ago - best way to play (except for lemmings as the music is stored on audio CD tracks which don't get ripped).
Look at you showing off the fact that your state has a CEX :P Nice bargain of a PS2, and great mods mate. I keep kidding myself that I'll be happy getting a slim, but it's the fat version I had back in the day, as I had it on pre-order and had it in my house 1 day before the shops even had them. So really I should get the fat. I highly recommend Time Splitters :) Great video Lurch :)
I'm glad I'm not the only one who generally missed out on console gaming. As a kid in the '70s, my parents bought the Atari VCS. We only had a few cartridges, but Space Invaders was THE game everyone talked about.😁 After that I got in to computers, no consoles until the Xbox 360 came out. It's the only console I've owned. Now I feel the urge start collecting a few.
@another3996 wow 😮Atari VCS straight to xbox 360 is a massive jump. That's a lot of great console exclusives you've missed out on from the 80s , 90s & 00s. Definitely get into them 😊
Ps2 og fun to look at will look good with a picture of yourself with it, nice start up animation,best library of games and for me personally loading times not nearly as long as the ps3 and 4. I don’t regret missing out on many game with ps1 and 2 because I was always living in low income but now I can say that I am very grateful for reliving the ps2 era again.
The PS logo on the Drive door can rotate for Horizontal or vertical. The Network adapter does work, you can FTP stuff over to it. But that's it. I imaged the HDD with free mcboot and skipped the memory card
It works on original network adapters, but not on any of the clones. If you get an original you have to faff about with either a PATA to SATA converter or replacing the PATA daughterboard with a SATA one. Or should you actually want to install a PATA drive you probably have to modify the adapter physically since only certain brands of HDD actually fitted the connector spacing. That’s why most people just buy a clone adapter but then miss out on the network connectivity.
Also got a PS2 this year with Need for Speed Underground, Jak 3, and Madden 05. All bangers.
Around the time of the PS/2 I was starting my career and this whole genre of consoles passed me by as well. When I did have a look later I didn't really see any games I was interested to play.
Now so many years later, it certainly is worth revisiting to see what I could do with some of those older systems. Obviously, you want to load disc images, not CDs/DVDs because those drives were just painfully slow IMHO, but with a nice SSD hard drive you could certainly enjoy those systems and they still had decent video and audio.
I think this might be a later PS2 console, the early ones had quite a noisy cooling fan in it. I bought mine in 2001 and its cooling fan was loud. I had MotoGP for my PS2 and I liked that game.
I bought mine in 2002 it was a 3900x model and it had a noisy fan but the laser still works to this day I think it's one of the phat models that considered the most reliable the later 5000X model has a quieter fan but a not as reliable laser but you can always replace the fan with noctua one
As you found out you can do some pretty cool things to the PlayStation 2. I also have my PS2 fat modded with a SSD. It's great to just turn it on and be ready to go.
Nice video. I noticed the white MS Mouse attached to the PC complete with red lighting. I used to own the same.
You too eh, I also spotted it immediately, my mouse of choice back in the day, still should have 2 around somewhere.
At the end of the day, whether it's a playstation of whatever generation, xbox of any gen, pc gaming of any era or any of the retro machines out there, gaming is gaming and many hours of fun can be found from it. Awesome video and yeah, GT4 is by far the best of the series hands down in my honest opinion.
GT5 was amazing, great fun for online play with friends, especially custom tracks, so much variation, and the car trading/gifting. But then they took the servers down and basically ruined the entire game. When GT6 introduced credits for real money I gave up on the GT series completely.
@@wich1 I also thought that GT6 had been dumbed down a bit as well. With GT4, the focus was on the cars, tracks and racing and that's what I loved so much. I still play it through an emulator on my pc using my original disc.
And mine still works and runs most games smoothly. 15 years down the line. Half my age. Slim version
Similar to me, i just had no money for PS2 or (1) when it got out. Games are different universe compared to contemporary games. They are gooood!
Yes it was and I loved helping to work on it at Sony.
There is a slim model that has the IDE test points on the motherboard, i pulled my optical drive out my slim and replaced it with a HDD.
Great video, and going to be a lot of fun for you. There are so many mods and fun stuff you can do, You should try ps2 to hdmi adapter, gives great image and dirt cheap, i did the whole upgrade to 2023 thing recently (wrote a dutch article on it) and it's incredible. Also mx4sio let je play games from a modified (takes sd cards) memory card, works with OPL like a charm for a lot of games. (Also Retroarch is a must piece of homebrew on the PS2)
I dont understand why the HDD Kits dont have a Network port, i dont like taking out my hdd every time. So my next upgrades going to be a Real original Sony HHDLan adapter, mod it with a board from IDE to SATA so i can FTP my files. Other upgrade will be wires controller adapter that make it possible to use any blue tooth controller on the PS2.
Where can your article be found? Still need to set up mx4sio on mine
Same to me- been always been a Homecomputer afterwards PC gamer, so I skipped consoles, except the Gameboy and GameGear. But I not only got my first Ps2 but also Ps1 AND Ps3 last year when a friend gifted me a lot to repair. I even got all of them working. Pretty fun along with an old, smal! 30cm TV..
I alsoo got myself a Dreamcast and bui!t in a Blueretro ESP controller to use any wireless controller that I have.
I used to have a Dreamcast. One of the few consoles I wish I hadn’t sold.
@@MrLurchsThings You should get one again along with a gdemu. I feel there never has been a console that felt more "arcade" than the Dreamcast.
Scored my first PS2 at a swap meet in 2019. It must've been stored in a puddle, coz its a rusty bugger. FreeMcboot is a gem.
Yes, the menu is over to one side. The glowing ball is meant to be several spinning in a circle, them being clumped together like that means the clock battery is dead. After changing it there's some button combo you need to do on the menu iirc. Then you can set the time under System Configuration.
Ahh. Good to know - cheers. I’m guessing FMCB ignores the clock battery.
@@MrLurchsThings possibly. I'm not sure if there are any games which need the clock battery working. Maybe some which store saves in date order so it could get confusing if you have multiple saves. Mine (SCPH 30003R aka v5, also a phat model) has a regular CR2032 which don't tend to leak, but it could be worth removing or replacing it sometime anyway just in case.
@@dant5464 I had mine apart and reassembled several times, so one more can’t hurt 😂
Is the Green Shed near the Goat Shed pinball repair?
Well geez.. now i feel the need to dig out my old PS2 and set it up.. I probably won't yet, because I can't think of a place to put it where I can realistically hook it up where it won't be in the way.. I'd also need to get wireless controllers because i'm too old to have cords strewn across the floor. :) I do miss all the great local co-op games that the PS2 had, the newer consoles have mostly moved to online gaming which isn't the same.
"Gotta love optical drive load times" 🤣 Much better than growing up with "Press play on tape" 😴
Too true. Although it makes me appreciate cartridges on consoles.
Did you not replace the clock battery while you had it in bits bud?
If you like, you can get a used Logitech Driving Force Pro and it will work with Gran Turismo 3 on the PS2. Also, several other driving games as well. GT4, the Ridge Racer series, and others.
What's your opinion about powering on a ps2 7000 with a laptop charger instead of the original?How much worth do you think it is in actuality?
The ps2 was the console I used the most. I was in my early 30s with a good job and console gaming girlfriend at the time. We spent hours in the evenings playing Splashdown, the SSX series, and of course GTA series. Good times!
I never had one back in the day either. I got one 4 years ago, cleaned it up, got a bunch of games for it, played a couple and now its been sat in a cupboard unloved for 3 years 😂
You can install freemcboot onto that GT4 formatted memory card again, just get the installer on a USB stick and launch it from the file manager thing. Once you have one freemcboot memory card you can make as many as you want. Always wise to have a working freemcboot card in storage as backup for those cases when a card gets corrupted. Oh, and you can also use freehdboot, then you don’t even need a special memory card.
I did play with FHDB, but found it a little…. Clunky. It did work tho.
@@MrLurchsThings hmmn, yes the install process is a little clunky, but after it’s there it works just as FMCB afaik, what were your issues?
I heartily recommend the first couple of Ratchet & Clank games! Amazing fun. 😄
My Nephew was/is a SEGA/PlayStation/Amiga boy.
So I experienced the Master System, Mega Drive and PS1-3 (have my own Amiga) through him.
He has not shared the PS4 or 5 with me though.
At the start of August I won a pair of Xbox 360's.
One 'working' with a 'Sticky' drive the other Drive OK (?) but would not update.
Fixed the 'Update problem' and have some drive belts coming.
Also got a 60 GB Hard Drive, a Remote Control and 3 Games (from CEX) = £6.
I only got them to try playing HD-DVD discs, I've had the HD-DVD drive for ages and have Ripped some ----
[ All the Warner discs are Dead and about half the Universal + Paramount discs are damaged. ]
But neither X-box will play anything (HD-DVD, DVD or Audio) from the HD-DVD drive.
The LED flashes rapidly + constantly but 'Nothing' --- No Error --- Nowt !
There are a lot of people complaining on PS2 slims models that when they are running games through the USB port, they are experiencing so called "frame-drops", but on my PS2 slim version 90004 I played the games on a USB port without experiencing any issues.
I found the video during intros could be a bit choppy but games seem to play ok.
There is a jacket that seems new and has been in my closet for at least five years now, and I have no idea where it came from. Current theory is maybe someone gave it to me as a present and since it's not my usual style I promptly forgot about it and it got pushed to the back where I re-discovered it years later. I wish I could find some consoles that way!
Yes.
Where can I get a ps2
“Going for the tried and tested method of removing screws until it falls apart”. You mean there’s another way? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Why is the Patreon down?
I bought the Linux Kit for my PS2 back in the early 2000s ... the nic worked great....
My son had one of these back in the day. Power supply blew up and, at the time, were WAY too expensive to replace. No idea what voltage/current it needed but noted most capacitors were rated at 16V & so I thought 12V would be OK. 🤔 Used on old PC power supply as an external power supply instead. Bulky and janky but work well. 🙂
That dedication right there 😂 I had to replace my ps2s PSU with another another model I found one with a none working disc drive for dirty cheap
You just need to build the Bluetooth controller module and you are 100% done with the PS2.
The ps2 5000 Model is the quitest model
I'm actually not interested in what I think are modern game consoles ;-), but enjoyed the video nevertheless. Funny twist with the slim in the end!
greetings. I watched this one time so take me only half seriously. I believe your tape storage may be working, it requires a command from the computer to play/start .. (atari 800 haul/love) (placed here so you might catch it ...
It's kind of interesting that when you use Free McBoot, you don't see the classic PS2 startup screen.
My goto game on the PS2 is still GTA San Andreas. (the disc has been in the PS2 for many years) I went to play it the other week, turns out the batteries in my wireless controler are dead. Oops. (I've got some on order.)
Are you going to do a PS2 slim next? 🙂
Haha, just typed that around 19:30 and then you went straight into PS2 slim.
Word of advice: Don't shift the PS2 position while running with a disc inside. I've seen this scratch discs well beyond repair.
just like the xbox 360, it is quite loud when the disk is reading though.?
Nothing noticeable
Please turn off auto focus on your overhead camera. Thanks.
I bought a PS2 phat as well for only £30
You forgot to change the C moss battery with a new one 😅
WD40 is magic to get rid of adhesives. "just rip it off" band aid horrors from my childhood is bs. I use WD40 on my kids bandaids. No need for suffering. Let it dissolve and gently peel it off. I recommend the same for stickers.
Prince of Persia Sands of Time is fantastic.
we have online play too dont use the fake hdd network adoptor use a real one and upgrade the adaptor inside for sata
Agreed, however that’s a significant step up from just ordering something from Amazon.
@@MrLurchsThings 1 got mine from flee bay
We have all the PlayStations from 1 thru 5 in my house. The Playstation 1 is useless to me - coming from an AMIGA then a PC gaming background, it just looked muddy and yucky. The PS 2 has some quite good games, and I like it OK. I would say we have not used it for more than 5 hours in the 4 years we have owned it. My PlayStation 3 still gets frequent use. My son uses his PS4 all the time, and my Stepson still occasionally uses his PS5.
If they went in the trash tomorrow the PS3 is the only one I would kind of miss, really
Great 👍 Ps2
You've missed a lot! ;-)
DVD drive on a PS2 is its weak point, not very good at all.
seeing you put it upright made me cringe, PS2 is known for scratching disks in the upright position, its your choice, your console but i wouldnt do it
I have ps 4 pro,Ps 5 and I'm buying today PS 2 FAT scph - 50003 with network adapter,disc500gb with over 120 games . 👍