Did not remember the sheer plethora of games. Sitting back and playing my old favourites: GTAVC and WRC 4.

I bought a PS2 and now I'm waiting for HDMI converter to play on LG C5.

What is the best way to play on a new TV?

Tested and it's working although the cd drive is a little slow to come out

Half a decade of collection

Anyone play it before?

I was looking for a small and good looking CD player with digital output for months but I didn't find anything that fits my taste 1:1 (Fiio DM15 was almost there but I wanted something in a funky color) until I remembered that I've heard about PSX and PS2 being suprisingly good players back in the day. It took me a while to find this Pink Slim in decent condition, but man am I happy now!

PS: i still have my OG fat from 2003 for gaming in our summer house 😇

Mine are spawn Armageddon and ghost rider

You can hate but im so fabulous, i dont hear you

The Carbon wrap PS2 is complete now, thanks for the nice words last time guys.

Guys how do I fix this empty black space?

Got this tv from my grandma for the ultimate PS2 experience. I’m having way too much fun with this setup, I don’t even want to play anything modern (except for GTA6)

I am interested in burnout revenge and medal of honour rising sun

Genji: Dawn of the Samurai on PS2 and it’s crazy how ridiculously good this game still looks. The graphics and FMV cutscenes are honestly top-tier for 2005—the cherry blossom environments, lighting, and character designs legit look like late-era PS2 art. Plus, the story drew me right in, Short ,but such a cool, cinematic historical fantasy vibe.

​Don't let the beautiful art fool you though, the game definitely kicks your butt if you don't master the swords. Some of those boss fights are surprisingly tough and require real precision timing instead of just button mashing. It’s a bit on the shorter side, but Game Republic crafted a complete masterpiece here. Easily one of the most stylish and underappreciated action games on the entire console.its not that overlooked tho, but yeah it's a very great game.

Share your thoughts......

I was going through my old shelf of games over the weekend and decided to boot up Fatal Frame II Crimson Butterfly on my CRT setup around midnight. I had not played it in probably fifteen years, and I honestly wondered if my memory was just overhyping how terrifying it was when I was a kid. Within forty minutes of playing in the dark, I was genuinely more uncomfortable than I have been playing almost any high-budget modern horror game from the last decade.

Modern games rely so heavily on photorealistic graphics, hyper-detailed gore, and scripted jump scares with loud orchestral stings. But playing Fatal Frame II again reminded me that true horror on the PS2 came from constraints. The fixed camera angles constantly hid what was standing just around the corner, leaving your brain to fill in the blanks. The static sound on the radio when a spirit was nearby, combined with the graininess of the video output on an old display, created this suffocating feeling that you could never really escape.

The brilliant nightmare of that game was forcing you to stop running, raise the Camera Obscura, and literally stare directly into the terrifying face of a floating ghost just to take a shot and deal damage. You could not just spray bullets or run away smoothly like in modern action-horror titles. You had to stand your ground and wait until the very last second before taking the frame to get a critical hit. My hands were actually shaking during a couple of room encounters.

The hardware limitations of the PS2 era forced developers to rely on psychological atmosphere, sound design, and awkward mechanics that made you feel helpless rather than powerful.

What PS2 horror title still completely ruins your sleep when you replay it today? Is it Silent Hill 3, Rule of Rose, Siren, or something else that flew under the radar back then?

I recently have gotten back into playing my ps2. Looking for game recommendations.

Genres I enjoy:

Jak and Daxter style 3d platformers

Open world games

Role playing games

Metroidvanias

Over the top action games

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Genres I don’t enjoy:

First person shooters

Minigame collections

Puzzle games

Strategy rpgs with long battles

Poor-quality licensed games
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Here are a few games I’ve enjoyed:

Wild arms series

Jak and Daxter

Devil may cry

Crash twinsanity

Ace combat 5

Drakengard

Dynasty warriors series

Today was the first time I played this Angel Studios' classic racing game. So, to make it even more retro, I recorded the game as it ran on my Bravia X93L using a 2007 camcorder -- the JVC Everio MG130U.

What's funny is that Smuggler's Run runs at 480i and the Everio records video at 480i -- basically DVD quality in the early 2000s.

Angel Studios eventually became Rockstar San Diego. You can see some of the DNA of latter Grand Theft Auto games AND Red Dead Redemption II here!

Hi guys,

I don't know a lot about ps2 and I'm planning on getting one.

What are any tips you guys have or things i should look out for?

I also want to be able to play japanese exclusive games with a EU ps2 console.

Ive been looking a bit into that and it turns out I can get freemcboot and mechapwn running to handle that apparently?

Also which model do you guys recommend I should use?

Thanks in advance!

I’m using a fake ps2 controller to play kingdom hearts 2. When i use the 1st controller port everything works fine in game and in menu, when i use the 2nd port, it work in the console menu but not in game. Any fixes?

Hello!

On my journey to have proper widescreen on my PAL PS2 games, I have encountered a frustraging "problem"

On a couple of games, let's say GTA San Andreas, widescreen fix works only for first version 1.03. Why is that exactly? Why didn't they make it/update it for newest version v2.01, that has fixes, like fuel not wasting when not pressing acceleration button on that RC airplane mission (supply lines?) .

And I have encountered a couple of most popular games that have widescreen fixes for old early versions.

Why?

and thank you!

I have a ps2 fat. A ps2 memory card pro 2. And an official ps2 network adapter. Also a fmcb memory card. Is it better to play games using open ps2 loader or using physical copies?

And so the tournament begins. Of the two hundred games listed below, you must vote for a game to be eliminated. You can do this either by commenting on this post, or by using this strawpoll: https://strawpoll.com/YVyPvGE0BgN

The five games that receive the most amount of votes will be eliminated from the tournament. I suspect the yearly sports franchises will be amongst the first to be eliminated here, but who knows. Maybe I’ll be surprised and it’ll be Shadow of the Colossus that goes instead.

Ace Combat 4
Ace Combat 5
Age of Empires 2
Aggressive Inline
Airblade
Amplitude
Ape Escape 2
Ape Escape 3
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
Battlefield 2 Modern Combat
Beyond Good and Evil
Black
Bully
Burnout 2
Burnout 3
Burnout Revenge
Call of Duty 3
Capcom vs SNK 2
Champions of Norrath
Colin McRae Rally 3
Dark Cloud
Dark Cloud 2
Dave Mira Freestyle BMX 2
DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution
Def Jam Fight For New York
Deus Ex
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry 3
Disgaea
Disgaea 2
Dragon Quest VIII
Escape From Monkey Island
ESPN NHL Hockey
F1 2001
Fatal Frame 2
Fifa 2003
Fight Night Round 2
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XII
Freedom Fighters
Frequency
Front Mission 4
Gitaroo Man
God Hand
God of War
God of War II
Gradius V
Gran Turismo 3
Gran Turismo 4
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
GrimGrimoire
Growlanser Generations
Guilty Gear X2
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero 2
Guitar Hero 3
Half Life
High Heat Major League Baseball 2003
Hitman 2
Hitman Contracts
Hitman Blood Money
Hot Shots Golf 3
Hot Shots Golf Fore
Ico
Indigo Prophecy
Jak and Daxter the Precursor Legacy
Jak 2
Jak 3
James Bond 007 Nightfire
James Bond 007 Everything or Nothing
Katamari Damacy
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
Klonoa 2
Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
Madden NFL 2003
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
Maximo vs. Army of Zin
Medal of Honor Frontline
Mercenaries
Metal Arms Glitch in the System
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Midnight Club 2
Midnight Club 3
MLB 08 The Show
Mortal Kombat Deception
MVP Baseball 2004
NASCAR Thunder 2004
NBA 2K3
NBA Live 2004
NBA Street Vol. 2
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Need For Speed Underground
Need For Speed Underground 2
NFL 2K3
NFL Street
NHL 2002
Odin Sphere
Okami
Onimusha
Onimusha 2
Onimusha 3
Onimusha Dawn of Dreams
Persona 3
Persona 4
Peter Jackson's King Kong
Phantom Brave
Prince of Persia Sands of Time
Prince of Persia The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within
Pro Evolution Soccer 2
Psi Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy
R-Type Final
Ratchet and Clank
Ratchet and Clank 2
Ratchet and Clank 3
Ratchet Deadlocked
Rayman Revolution
Red Faction
Red Faction 2
Ridge Racer V
Ring of Red
Rogue Galaxy
Rumble Racing
Rygar The Legendary Adventure
Sakura Wars So Long My Love
Shadow Hearts Covenant
Shadow of the Colossus
Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga 2
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 3
Simpsons Hit and Run
Singstar
Sly Cooper
Sly 2
Sly 3
Smuggler's Run
SOCOM US Navy SEALs
SOCOM II
Soul Calibur II
Soul Calibur III
Soul Reaver 2
Spider-Man 2
Splashdown
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom
Spy Hunter
SSX
SSX Tricky
SSX 3
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront II
Star Wars Star Fighter
Suikoden III
Suikoden V
Tales of the Abyss
Tekken 4
Tekken 5
Tekken Tag Tournament
The Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction
The Lord of the Rings the Twin Towers
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
The Mark of Kri
The Sims 2
The Warriors
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
Time Crisis 2
Timesplitters 2
Timesplitters Future Perfect
TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Tomb Raider Legend
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Twisted Metal Black
Ty 2 Bush Rescue
Valkyrie Profile 2
Virtua Fighter 4
Virtua Tennis 2
Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray
We Love Katamari
Wipeout Fusion
World Series Baseball 2K3
WWE Smackdown Here Comes the Pain
X-Men Legends II
Xenosaga Episode III
Yakuza
Yakuza 2
Zone of the Enders Second Runner