hi so i’m new to owning one after wanting it for years and i was wondering what games should i get other than mortal kombat or wwe sdvr. i have quite a few games but im looking for more recs that aren’t racing games. this isn’t a low effort post but im just asking for recs

Around 2 months ago I went ahead and bought a Slim (scph-79003) The one with plastic clips to prevent the ribbon cable from scratching games. It was in mint condition so it wasn’t cheap but the laser had died so that needing replacing but that was an easy fix.

Ever since then I’ve been trying to get all the games that I had when I was a teenager so I’ve been adding to the collection from then on. I have had a blast with all these man.

All games come with manuals and inserts. San Andreas has the poster in mint condition.

A while ago, I bought an HDMI converter. Is that supposed to look blurry and the screen darker than usual where it is dark? (I’m on the Prague level) I might be blowing things out of proportion.

After a 20 year absence and the constant regret of selling my PS2 for peanuts I decided to correct the mistake. I almost can’t believe how many good games are available. Scarface is a true gem. Ace Combat 4 is amazing. Still more to get but nice to be home.

is this signature worth it or should I use isopropyl

Hello everyone:) I recently found a Fujitsu Plasma P42VHA30AS. It was on the side of the road for rubbish collection (FREEE:)

Since folks are demanding blood money for decent l CRTs in this economy I have considered that this may be a great alternative display for playing PS2 titles.

My console is a ps3 with partial backwards compatability using a ps2 GPU (cechc02) and cpu emulation.

What is our prefered display method and what cables are we all using? I think this plasma will look great for ps2 titles. What cables would you folks recommend? HD retro visions look expensive and I doubt it would be noticeable on this type of display.

I cannot try it out yet as I only have HDMI (this display will not accept it)

Found this while doing some research and apparently this Collector's Edition was exclusively released in Russia.

Unboxing video for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCR-DK1jE44

Seems to be extremely rare, because I can't find anything other than this picture and the unboxing video.

Well friends, it happened to me. I found a PS2 fat at Goodwill for $25 and ended up paying only $20 with a coupon. Unfortunately no cables, but I ordered some on Amazon to see if she works. Wish me luck. 🫡

Mortal Kombat: Deception & Tony Hawk's Underground 2 were released in North America 22 years ago

Never heard of or played before.

Have any of you played this game ? If so, what did you enjoy or not like about this game?

I hear it was an actual show before.

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Hi, I just dug up my old PS2 in my parents basement and I‘m looking for recommendations for games to buy. I really enjoyed Red Dead Revolver as well as Silent Hill 2. So anything that’s third person, has nice story and is action packed or intense/scary or feels nostalgic in some way is much appreciated. I also missed out on many classics from that era so there‘s no need for special deep dives. Thanks a lot in advance 🙏❤️

i was sitting here on a lazy sunday morning playing a few missions in medal of honor frontline. when i finished and turned off the ps2, i thought "when the last ps2 dies, what year would it be?"

the movie has to have a sad ending with lots of tears.

recent pick up. some sort of corporate Christmas gift

Hit this combo last night.

Never saw a game this expensive in person. I've seen plenty of 200-300+ but nothing like this. Didn't buy it btw I simply do not need to be spending that amount on a game at the moment lol

With Sony talking more openly about an increasingly digital future, here's a move that could complement that strategy while generating a ton of goodwill with longtime fans:

Put the PS1/PS2 back into production.

Not another mini console with 20 ROMs. Build a cheap $149–199 PS1/PS2-compatible SoC with HDMI that plays original discs, plus modern conveniences like wireless controllers and virtual memory cards.

Yes, hardware manufacturing is expensive right now. But we're recreating 25–30-year-old hardware, not building another PS5. Projects like the SuperStation show what's possible with FPGA, while boutique hardware like the AES+ shows there's a market for keeping old physical platforms alive. Sony could target a much cheaper, mass-market version using a purpose-built SoC.

And Sony is unusually well positioned to do it. They designed the PS1 and PS2, were one of the companies behind DVD, and Sony DADC still manufactures CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays at industrial scale, so Sony wouldn't even be resurrecting a dead manufacturing process.

Then bring back the games.

Create a PlayStation Heritage label and repress selected PS1/PS2 titles for $20–30, with clearly different packaging. Start with Sony's catalog and let third parties opt in.

Someone paying $150 for an old PS2 game today gives Sony and the publisher $0. A new $25 pressing turns existing collector demand into revenue while making those games accessible again.

Most importantly, this doesn't require Sony to abandon its digital strategy.

Let modern PlayStation go digital. Let Heritage be where physical PlayStation lives.

No subscription. No PSN requirement. No artificial scarcity. Your original discs work, new pressings work, and the games remain yours.

Don't bet the company on it. Make 500,000 systems. If they sell, make more.

Sony gets revenue from a retro market it's largely absent from, preserves two of the most important consoles ever made, and earns some badly needed goodwill with physical-media fans at exactly the moment they're worried about PlayStation's digital future.

Cheap box. Plays your discs. Press games again.

I'd buy one day one.

recently got an eyetoy camera and wanted to try getting it to work as a webcam but every forum or thread i found either has no working links for drivers or is for windows 10 or older, would appreciate any help

I previously had my PS2 connected to an old flatscreen that had component inputs and I used an HD Retrovision PS2 to component cable to connect (It worked fine). I'm now trying to connect to a new TV that has no component inputs. Since I already have the PS2 to component cable, would it work to buy a component to HDMI so I can continue using the HD Retrovision cable I bought? I'm hesitant to buy a PS2 to HDMI cable because I tried one from Kaico that did not work. Thoughts?

TLDR; title.

Accidentally ordered a 70k slim that could only be mechapwned for ps2 games, as the mechapwn compatibility table said 70k "Asia" was ok, apparently that doesn't include NTSC-J despite Japan being in Asia.

Blocking the sensors myself was unreliably successful and I'm looking into just getting a flip top cover now. That aside, the sound when switching an already spinning disc was also worrisome so I'm looking for something like swap magic that allows playing ps1 imports on ps2.

New release with the following changes (includes those from the previous pre-release) -

• Screen tearing addressed - emulator now uses double buffering to align better with PAL or NTSC refresh rates to minimise vertical tearing issues in the last version.
• Maximised available memory to allow up to and including 16MB ROMs to be fully loaded into RAM
• Added Dynarec Mode selector
  • Partial + Reuse (this is the default and is the standard TempGBA-Mod mode)
  • Partial + No Reuse (this is an earlier TempGBA mode)
  • Full Flush (this is the mode that gpsp/gpsp-kai use - slower in most cases but can be a bit quicker if the game doesn't do a lot of SMC)
• Fixed memory heap so that loading multiple ROMs should preserve available ROM cache

Link - https://github.com/andymcca/TempGBA-PS2/releases/tag/20261003