Problem playing Ico (blue disc)

[Resin]

Hello I've been lurking on the forums for awhile now I really enjoy the community and was hoping for some insight on a problem I'm having. My fiance got me a copy of ico for christmas. It has some surface scratches but none that are real bad. When I went to play it starts up. I can go through the menu and the opening cinematics start but then it freezes at one of the load points. I have a fat ps2, should I try to clean the lens? Or should I get the disc resurfaced? I've never had a game resurfaced before would this work? Any insight would be appreciated, thank you.

[ReddMcKnight]

I would get the lens cleaned. If/when the lens goes bad, the first thing to stop working are Blue-Disc PS2 Games.

[CRTGAMER]

Agree, CDs usually the first that can't be read. Clean both the lens and hand polish that CD.

[Resin]

Thanks for the response, I'll clean it tonight and see what happens.

[CRTGAMER]

Thanks for the response, I'll clean it tonight and see what happens.

Good luck. There is also the sought after PAL version which does have a NTSC 60hz mode. Extra stuff not seen on the U.S. release.

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[flojocabron]

I pretty much agree with the guys here, try and get the lens cleaned.

My fat ps2 kinda died about 2 years ago. I've had it since it came out. It started having trouble reading discs. But now since slims are real cheap I ended up buying a new one.

oh and enjoy Ico, I still play mine all the time!

[jinn]

I don't know how you feel about Free MC Boot, but I would just get FMCB, a HDD adapter and a 80GB-250GB HDD and install your game collection in the HDD to prolong the life of your PS2 lens.

[Weekend_Warrior]

It might help to keep your fat PS2 standing on its side (vertical), if you don't do so already. The reason I think this might help is because a lot of times my fat PS2 won't read a lot of PS1 games or CD-ROM PS2 games (w/blue backing) unless I tilt my PS2 vertically. So it might be a good idea to just keep it in that position if it's having issues reading other parts of the disc after booting up.

[Czernobog]

I have one of the launch PS2s, and despite having cleaned the lens several times, it still hates to play any CDs or DVD movies. It will only play PS2 DVD games. No PS2 CD games, no DVD films, and no music CDs. The fact that it plays PS2 DVDs but not DVD movies thoroughly confuses me, but somehow EVERYTHING will work if I stand the PS2 vertically. Every other PS2 I've cleaned the lens on could play anything fine after a good cleaning, but not my launch one. So I say give the vertical set-up a shot.

[Niode]

I have one of the launch PS2s, and despite having cleaned the lens several times, it still hates to play any CDs or DVD movies. It will only play PS2 DVD games. No PS2 CD games, no DVD films, and no music CDs. The fact that it plays PS2 DVDs but not DVD movies thoroughly confuses me, but somehow EVERYTHING will work if I stand the PS2 vertically. Every other PS2 I've cleaned the lens on could play anything fine after a good cleaning, but not my launch one. So I say give the vertical set-up a shot.

Yep, there's only so many times you can clean the lens. I would clean my lens and have it work for a couple of weeks, and then stop reading CDs, clean it again and it would last for a couple of weeks. Then it would last a week, then a few days and so on to the point where it simply does not read CDs at all no matter how many times you clean the lens. Had to resort to FMCB and HDD.