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I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 10-09-2009
Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much.
I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one.
Thoughts?
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 10-09-2009
Just ordered a memory card too. I seem to remember them being 8MB... so 64MB seems... huge.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=390083689682
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Matt - 10-09-2009
Anything other than the Sony brand 8MB cards fucks up after awhile. I just picked up a PS2 not long ago at a garage sale for $15 with GTA3 and GTA:VC. Then picked up a new controller, memory card and FF12 for another $30. Then picked up Suikoden Tactics for $1.50 at a garage sale, brand new. Lol.
There's a bunch of other games I wanna pick up. All are RPG titles. Lol. If you find any that are good, let me know.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 10-09-2009
Matt Wrote:Anything other than the Sony brand 8MB cards fucks up after awhile. I just picked up a PS2 not long ago at a garage sale for $15 with GTA3 and GTA:VC. Then picked up a new controller, memory card and FF12 for another $30. Then picked up Suikoden Tactics for $1.50 at a garage sale, brand new. Lol.
There's a bunch of other games I wanna pick up. All are RPG titles. Lol. If you find any that are good, let me know.
Mhh, well I'll probably pick up a handfull of 8MB cards later on. What kind of time-span are we looking at for a wear out?
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Matt - 11-09-2009
Robin Wrote:Matt Wrote:Anything other than the Sony brand 8MB cards fucks up after awhile. I just picked up a PS2 not long ago at a garage sale for $15 with GTA3 and GTA:VC. Then picked up a new controller, memory card and FF12 for another $30. Then picked up Suikoden Tactics for $1.50 at a garage sale, brand new. Lol.
There's a bunch of other games I wanna pick up. All are RPG titles. Lol. If you find any that are good, let me know.
Mhh, well I'll probably pick up a handfull of 8MB cards later on. What kind of time-span are we looking at for a wear out?
The research I did gave it about a month or two. I personally haven't tried them and so have no personal experience with it. Just shit I read.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Rian - 11-09-2009
Both of the non-sony-brand cards I bought seemed to fuck up around the one year mark. I've been thinking about buying a PS2 as well. It's hard to resist the now dirt cheap awesome titles. And like you said Robin, a lot of good new titles are still being released.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 11-09-2009
Is it worth buying a HDD? It'd be nice having a hard backup of my saves.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Jacob - 11-09-2009
You can't save / load games to the HDD. You can copy things from your memory cards to the HDD and back, but that's it.
(I have the HDD because of FFXI)
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 11-09-2009
Jacob Wrote:You can't save / load games to the HDD. You can copy things from your memory cards to the HDD and back, but that's it.
(I have the HDD because of FFXI)
Yes, thats what I mean. If I can do that, it means I don't have to have hundreds of memory cards, I can simply backup old save games.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - GIAKEN - 15-09-2009
Robin Wrote:Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much.
I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one.
Thoughts?
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Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 16-09-2009
GIAKEN Wrote:Robin Wrote:Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much.
I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one.
Thoughts?
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I have an XBOX. There's not many decent RPGs however.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Matt - 16-09-2009
Robin Wrote:GIAKEN Wrote:Robin Wrote:Spent £35 on an old Playstation2, and £10 on Dark Chronicle!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220477199492&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280394065559&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:GB:1123
I've been deciding whether to buy one of these fancy consoles for a while. The last time I had a console, I was 8 years old or something, and I had a shiny new Playstation and a new Nintendo64. I loved them so much.
I never really went on from there, but I've been looking on in envy at the great RPG titles which were, and are still being, released for the PS2. So, I bought one.
Thoughts?
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I have an XBOX. There's not many decent RPGs however.
The only good thing about the XBox is soft modding. Lol. That way you can play all the SNES, Genesis and GBA RPGs on it.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - halla - 16-09-2009
You can also do that on PS2
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Matt - 17-09-2009
halla Wrote:You can also do that on PS2
Not soft modding. You need a chip.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 17-09-2009
PS2 came through
Enjoying playing FFX & Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 to you Americans).
Also found FFX-2 for £5 on eBay, so bought that as well.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Matt - 17-09-2009
Robin Wrote:PS2 came through
Enjoying playing FFX & Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 to you Americans).
Also found FFX-2 for £5 on eBay, so bought that as well.
X-2 is just gonna piss you off. Lol.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Aaron - 17-09-2009
I found Dark Cloud 1 to be much more of a crisp game than Dark Chronicle. I suggest purchasing it if you don't happen to have it.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Rian - 17-09-2009
Lol Aaron, I live in Smyrna Tennessee.
And Robin, FFX-2 is lame
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Aaron - 17-09-2009
Hah, thats pretty awesome. I wonder how many other Smyrna's there are.
And yes, FFX-2 is pretty lame.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 18-09-2009
-shrug-
It's £5, I might as well get it.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - halla - 21-09-2009
Matt Wrote:halla Wrote:You can also do that on PS2
Not soft modding. You need a chip.
You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Matt - 21-09-2009
halla Wrote:Matt Wrote:halla Wrote:You can also do that on PS2
Not soft modding. You need a chip.
You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go.
That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - halla - 22-09-2009
Matt Wrote:halla Wrote:Matt Wrote:halla Wrote:You can also do that on PS2
Not soft modding. You need a chip.
You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go.
That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol.
Yeah a chip is easier but its a cheap method that works. And its really easy to do so unless you cant follow instructions you wont mess up your system.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Robin - 22-09-2009
halla Wrote:Matt Wrote:halla Wrote:Matt Wrote:halla Wrote:You can also do that on PS2
Not soft modding. You need a chip.
You don't need a chip its just easier. You can do the swap method... you insert a special CD/DVD and then you open tray with a tool... insert the burnt game and then lock the tray back in and its a go.
That's annoying and you can break your system with that method. Lol.
Yeah a chip is easier but its a cheap method that works. And its really easy to do so unless you cant follow instructions you wont mess up your system.
Have you chipped a PS2? It's fucking hard.
Re: I bought a Playstation2 - Matt - 22-09-2009
It's hard to do but in the long run doing what you wanna do on the PS2 is MUCH easier. Lol.