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Geek Culture / ps2 won't play DVDs but plays ps1 and ps2 games fine

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Tom0001
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The topic is my problem. When I have the DVD in with my ps2 memory card inserted it simply has a black screen and nothing more. When I do it without a memory card inserted, it goes to the screen with Browser and System Configuration as if I don't have any disc in it. Can someone please help me out? It'd be greatly appreciated.

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Milkman
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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 01:42 Edited at: 24th Apr 2006 01:43
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Buy a DVD player


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Tom0001
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No-I don't have the money. Can anyone post anything which helps me fix this-please?!

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Is this the case with all your dvds?
I have heard of issues with dual layer dvds not working with ps2.
Might want to try a different disk and see if it is the disk itself.

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Tom0001
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Some DVDs play ok, but I have to turn it on and off and take the memory card in and out a bunch of times to get it working. Please can anyone help, i'm desperate here! And can you explain dual layer DVDs to me?

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indi
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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 02:57 Edited at: 24th Apr 2006 02:57
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we cant help you if its pirating games.or movies for your machine.

however the intarweb is full of letters that make words that become sentences, in those sentences are ideas and forums for ps2 related issues.

however dual layer read me is here

http://www.burnworld.com/howto/articles/intro-to-dual-layer.htm

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If the disk is sony protected, ironically they won't play on ps2's (some won't even play on PC). Thats just an assumption since sony customer support are monkeys with the IQ of a glass of water. You can try ripping the protection out, then burning it onto a dvd and trying that, but it might not work because of the ps2s copy protection rubbish.

Best solution is to buy a DVD player, you can get them for under £30 so they are not too bad.
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Quote: "IQ of a glass of water,"


So they have an IQ of 100?
FYI, The Intelligence Quota is not about how 'smart' you are, but what you can do vers what you should be able to do. Basically this says that a 4-year-old kid who does college level work has a higher IQ then the 18-year-old person in college.

So a glass of water that does what water should be able to do at that age has an average IQ.

The problem is, water is non-animate so what it knows would be represented by 0 and what it should know is also represented by 0. Thus 0/0=X or 0=0X. This makes X equivalent to all possible numbers. Thus, the water has all possible IQ's. However, since this discrepancy is achieved via a technicality, it is not valid, but is very fun to think about.

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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 06:56
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Indeed.


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Tom0001
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Erm...well, this is off-topic. Thanks anyway guys.

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Pincho Paxton
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you can get a DVD drive on Ebay for about £10

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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 13:06
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My PS2 did that shortly before it started refusing to play PS2 games.

Solution I came up with was... purchase PS2-Slim

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Do I hear a cry of "I cant afford a new one" ?

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Sounds like the first symptoms of drive death. My Xox stopped reading dvds then it stopped reading games. Mine started stuttering before that though. Get a hover to it.

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Chris Franklin
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lol
my ps2 like goes green when i play dvd's o.0

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Raven
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well it's possible to fix it, but tbh.. not really worth it.
i mean FFXI is the only game that uses the HDD (unless you have PS2 Linux), and there's so many online games.

personally found the PS2-Slim much better in many respects... especially emulation of older PS1 games, and HD modes.

though bugs me about the heating issue

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Posted: 24th Apr 2006 22:35 Edited at: 24th Apr 2006 22:36
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The PS2 sucks. Face it.
My little brother's fries a memory card monthly.


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Does he eat melting plastic then, for some strange reason !?

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Is your PS2 Mod-Chiped?

Mine is, and ever since I got it chipped, it wont play DVDs anymore... Stupid thing

And, before you start spouting all the "But, moding is illegal!" carp, in Australia here, it's not. The high court ruled it to be 100% legal

The reason I have it chipped is that when my mum was in the UK, she bought me a whole load of games as pressies, little did she know they all had region encoding on them, so I went to Sydney, forked out $30, got it chiped, and they all play now

But, DVDs don't play at all.
Some original DL one's do - Burnt ones don't, but havn't tried with burnt DL's yet.

And again, before you say "Copying DVD's is illegal", I know it is, I'm talking about the skate/funny stuff DVDs that my mate makes - they're quite fun

Hurray.

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Quote: "And, before you start spouting all the "But, moding is illegal!" carp, in Australia here, it's not. The high court ruled it to be 100% legal"

I remember reading about that. Poor UK people lost.
Quote: "forked out $30, got it chiped,"

Lol. Even mod chips have a standard price. Mine cost 30€ for the xbox. Haven´t done it to the ps2 though. It has no harddrive rendering it near useless to chip as I don´t have a NTSC tv. I heard of a way to attach a hd to the old model but no news about attaching one to the slim one. Not to mention I don´t relly trust my local pc shop attaching 20 cables to my new ps2 to get the mod chip to work. And I have the Xbox anyway.

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Tom0001
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No, mine is not mod-chipped. I'm in the UK, so it's illegal here.

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Mine started doing that. I wouldn't play DVD movies or any PS2 games that were on DVD. Only Audio CD's and PS2 Games on CD's. Even though I had it for over a year, I some how talked Wal-Mart into exchanging it for a new one.

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Is it a pc recorded disc? it wont work i tried all name of things to get my ps2 to take it and it won't it's the same with pirate copies sometimes my ps2 won't take cheap dvds either.

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oh yeah and if it's a slimline then it could be the lasar it did that on my brother's last week it did something wierd to the lasar and now it refuses to play any dvds.

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