I hate compact disks.

[UBERTRON777]

Specifically trying to play them on my PS2. Every time I put one in I have to listen to the most painful sounds I have ever heard a machine produce and hope that the game will work. Anybody have a solution. I want to play Ico, please help.

[Flak Beard]

Are you using an original fatty? I had this problem with mine, and eventually it stopped reading CD based games altogether. Good news is, Sony fixes it for free.

[UBERTRON777]

Yeah, I'm using the old one. I really don't feel like sending it in (do they still do that?) so if there is any other way, I'd be glad to try.

[Flak Beard]

Yeah, I'm using the old one. I really don't feel like sending it in (do they still do that?) so if there is any other way, I'd be glad to try.

It was sort of a universal problem with all the original models, so it is probably still covered. When I sent mine in, they paid for shipping both ways and I had it back in less than a week. I was jonesin' hard for some Gradius V.

[Gamerforlife]

I used to have issues with my old fat PS2 until I cleaned the lens and that helped a lot. You can probably google a guide to help with that. Eventually though, I traded it in for a slimline. I hate the rather cheap look and feel of the slimline, but I've had fewer problems with it. Emphasis on the word FEWER. I've yet to own a Sony machine that doesn't give me issues. Course Microsoft's products aren't much better. Nintendo is the only console maker I don't have problems with

[millerjm2]

This is purely hearsay but I've heard that the blue discs are lighter than the others. Someone said that sometimes the PS2 cannot read them and to remedy the situation one should put a piece of electrical or duct tape on the disc to add some weight. I've never run into the problem before nor have I tried this so I guess take this with a grain of salt.

[Niode]

This is purely hearsay but I've heard that the blue discs are lighter than the others. Someone said that sometimes the PS2 cannot read them and to remedy the situation one should put a piece of electrical or duct tape on the disc to add some weight. I've never run into the problem before nor have I tried this so I guess take this with a grain of salt.

DO NOT DO THIS.

This will unbalance the disk and damage your disk drive. Especially when it's the disk is spinning several thousand times a minute. Granted it won't happen over night but it will eventually break the drive from sheer vibration alone.

My fatty won't read CDs it's a very common problem. It can be rectified by turning the pot to calibrate the laser. This is only a temp fix and will wear out the laser after a while. Better thing to do would be to keep your fatty, softmod, install a hard drive and use HDDloader. If you really don't want to do this, for (roughly) the same money as buying everything you need to do the above you could get yourself a slim PS2 that won't experience quite as many problems.

Also if you go for the buying a slim option try and get a model without the fan. They seem to work better to me, plus they are a lot quieter.

[UBERTRON777]

Is the slim really better for CDs? My friend told me it was worse. He wasn't able to watch DVD movies at all, granted those aren't CDs but the two malfunctions go hand in hand. Does anyone know how well the PS3 handles the disks? I might just have to wait until I get one of those to play.

[otaku]

yeah ico was a bit of a pain for my on my ps2 as well (something to do with the disc being blue maybe?) my 360 is a noisy disc nightmare (lots of failures) that and they just don't feel/look as cool as carts! cheaper though (well now carts are cheap but they used not to be)

[Niode]

Ico is a CD?! My Ico is on a DVD... I have the LTD ED. with the art cards.

I have quite a few PS2 slims and the ones with the EE+GS chip in them are terrible at watching DVDs, the older ones without the unified EE+GS chip have no problem what-so-ever running any media I put on it. DVDs run fine now skipping, games (on CDs and DVDs) play for ages without DRE, it never gets hot and doesn't have that extremely annoying fan screeching away all the time. All you can hear is the disc spinning when you are really close to the console.

I think the new ones are terrible. I just bought my fiancée one recently and it's terrible, skips all the time on DVDs if they are even slightly dusty (I look after my DVDs too!). Plays CD games for about 2 or three loads and then crashes out to the menu screen.