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Nostalgia hits hard (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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Playing Need for Speed: Most Wanted on my PS2 and Sony Trinitron, even the calendar is form 2009

The room at my parents house seems permanently stuck in mid 2000s, too bad I can't take the TV with me

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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Oh nice! I’ve tried to play my PS2 slim yesterday, but it would read half of the discs I’ve tried. I think the Laser is on its way out. 🙁

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    That's quite bad, on mine the second controller port doesn't work. Fortunately the drive works fine.

    Maybe you could try FreeMcBoot

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Now that you said it I think I got a FreeMcBoot memory card somewhere. Hmm, now I need to set up a smb1 server again.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I just run most of the games from a USB stick. I would go with an HDD, I have dozens of ~250 GB laying around, but I don't have the network/HDD expansion, YET

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I have a PS2 slim without the HDD bay and I've read that the USB 1.1 is slower than the 10 Mbit/s network connection. A PS2 fat with HDD bay would really be the best option.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago

    I also heard that USB 1.1 is slow, but it seems faster than the DVD drive, and that's my only comparison point. I was going to get the memory card to SD card adapter since I've read is faster, but I don't care honestly.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Dont fret!!

    First , put a video DVD in. This will actually recalibrate the laser and then your DVD games will play. Ive done it.

    If that doesn't work, adjust the laser power potentiometer. Its really not hard.

    If that fails, you can stream games off your desktop or nas via Ethernet !! Its a bit involved but not bad.

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