Venturing into console gaming!

Congrats on the system, when i read you got the PS2 Phat i was gonna recommend HDloader but i see you beat me to the punch!

I've got two questions for you though! and then a few recommendations .

First of all how did you set up the 5g partition for saves, that sounds pretty freakin sweet, second of all does your playstation recognize all 500g? i recall reading when i softmodded my ps2 that the max it could support was 80g, what model HDD are you using?

Ok, and now for the reccomendations.

Godhand (one of the best!)
Metal gear solid 1-3
Street Fighter Anniversary Edition (includes arcade perfect SF3)
Kingdom Hearts 1
Disgaea
Resident Evil 4
Onimusha series
Bombastic
Burnout 3

(I know im missing a bunch ill edit when i think of them)

One thing i will say Zen, I'll give you many good lucks and good wishes with your "fat boy". They arn't well know for their longevity, I have to beat the crap out of mine just to get it to read a disc and all while i hardly ever use it.

I've had a few in the past that have gone this way also. They don't seem to fully break for some reason, for me, they just "half" break to the point where you're pulling your hair out trying to get a game out of it.

A lot of these problems go away running games from your HDD. Google ps2 hdloader and check it out! Its very easy to set up and I'm available for help if needed.

Well first give me a little time to "double check' my work, I barely got through that whole setting up that 5 Gig file thing, the system was acting very "buggy" at that time and I think I got through it with a hope and a prayer.

Next as far as hard drive sizes that a PS2 system will recognize, there are a lot of different answers to this out there on the net. We got answers like 40 Gigs, 80 Gigs, 200 Gigs, 400 Gigs and up to 500 Gigs but no more. As far as for me, while researching this I found some information that the PS 2 system can recognize up to 500 Gigs top's. I have run into a problem with this for yes, I installed a nice old Maxtor 500 Gig, 7200 RPM, I.D.E. hard drive into the unit via the network interface adapter. But here's the catch, the PS2 is only seeing 350 Gigs of the total drive. I have no clue as to why I have 150 Gigs missing, but hay, I'm not going to try and fight it, it is what it is, I am just thankful that I got 350 Gigs out of it.

As far as your recommendation I think next time I'm at one of my local Gamestop's, I'm going to look for that Street Fighter Anniversary Edition, sounds like something that is right up my alley.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!

Well I have some new information to report in regards to my new purchase of a gently used Playstation 2 system.

Tonight I had a couple of my good friends over at my house, one of them is named Craig. Well Craig is a sneaky little devil, for when I called him earlier in the day and poised him the invite, I let it slip out about my new ventures in console gaming. He started asking me simple but unknown to me important questions.

Well Craig arrived around 7:00pm, while entering I noticed a medium sized card board box. He put it on my kitchen table and said "Aaron have at it, it's all yours"! I opened it and pulled out two black colored matching Playstation 2 wireless controllers that operate on a 2.4 gig frequency, they are made by Katana, they appear to be a licensed partner of Sony for the Playstation logo was on the controllers.

Next I pulled a Sony Playstation 2 "Multi Tap" out of the box, this device allows more stuff to be connected to your system. The Multi Tap supports additional game controllers to be connected and also supports the memory cards.

Next I grabbed an actual Playstation 2 DVD remote control, lots of little buttons on that thing, with actual game controller buttons on it, like the "X" & "Circle" & "Square" & "Triangle". It came with a little black receiver that connects to the machine via a controller port. It works, put two AAA batteries in it and we were off to the races.

Then I found 4 Playstation 2 8MB memory cards in a zip lock baggy, I asked him are these for me as well? yup, their yours pal.....

Lastly he had about 8 old Playstation 2 games tucked away in one of the corners of the box, those were mine as well. Some of the titles are like "ATV Off Road Fury 3" and "ATV Off Road Fury 4" and "Onjmusha Warlords" and "Need For Speed Hot Pursuit" and the regular "Need For Speed" and "NASCAR 2007" and so on. Also Craig told me that he might have an original Playstation 1 in his attic, with about 20 very old games with it, if he can find it he will make sure it lands into my hands.

So I guess the video game God's have smiled down upon me, I am very lucky to have been given such a wonderful gift, or should I say gifts from a great friend......."thanks Craig, hope your in bed, you got to work tomorrow"!

"So what else do I need"............lol.........

Wow, a multi tap. I used to have one of those, It was magic. When i bought the game Operation Winback (about 8 years ago i'm talking) me and my mates used to get in with a four player setup and have some right laughs on it. I still think that's one of the best multiplayer games you can get for the PS2.

I lost my multi tap in the end though...boy, what a piece of kit that was. The amount of hours i got out of it was amazing.

Just got home from a brisk trip out on the town and wound up at one of my local Dimple Record shops. I originally went in there for a pre-owned music CD, for I have a "customer card" with them that had like $50.00 in store credit on it. I made my way over to their PS2 section and found some items that I grabbed.

The first item is a strange and interesting looking race game controller, it's kind of a partial steering wheel deal. The device is made by a company called "Gamester", it's specifically designed for use on a PS2 system. Here have a look at the thing, haven't tried it out yet, but I suspect it might be fun to use!?!



Also while at Dimple Records, I used up some more of that credit on my customer card and grabbed the following PS2 game titles. I grabbed "Enter The Matrix" & "Star Wars Starfighter" & "City Crisis" & "Power Drome" & "Wave Rally" & "Motocross Mania 3". City Crisis might be fun for my kid, it's a rescue helicopter game, you fly into a city in chaos and have to rescue people.

Also due to fact that I'm pretty happy & proud to have this device, I took a snap shot of the Sony Playstation 2 "Multi Tap" thing that my friend Craig gave to me, it has seen some action and it works!



Well that's it for now, I'm sure as I make my way through life, I will find some more PS2 stuff to blow my money on! At least this time is was only store credits!

Loved reading this topic. Brought me back to my teenage years of gaming ah good times. PS2 is a special little thing. And some games still look pretty decent on it.

I myself have a ps3 now and still to this day have some ps2 and ps1 games i play on it hell even bought ones off the psn.

Reading through all the games i am surprised nobody metioned god of war. Those games are great hack and slash gore fests. And even has really good greek mytholigy storyline. I highly recommend these for some good old button bashing fun.

Gta also has to be a game for buying just for all the fun you can have after completing the game. easy to get caught up in rampages on the story but alot of fun.

Also try geting freekstyle i think it was called great motorbike game with some rad tricks am sure you will enjou. Oh and SSX tricky if you like tony hawks like that but snowboarding again with some rad tricks.

Hope you get as much years as i did playing this console. Has so much to offer even to this day

Hmmm...My multi tap was different to that; mine was a housing that the PS2 sat vertical in.

Still, a great piece of kit there Zen .

Thanks Benny for your support here about me getting that Sony PS2 Multitap thing! And by the way, you wouldn't be talking about this particular multitap model?



It's the only vertical standing PS2 multitap I could find, if so, looks like a good space saver!

No, not that one.

Here's the one i had...

PS2 Multitap with Stand and Remote

Very cheap quality but i had every pennys worth out of mine

Wow that Multi-Tap looks like something right out of a Sci-Fi movie! Looks kind of "star ship-ish"! I was impressed how it was designed to support a docking bay all for it's own with that remote controller. It's kind of cool, you had a PS2 vertical stand, 4 player Multi-Tap and a remote control port all in one! I guess that's making good use of the device's space.

The remote wasn't much cop but the stand and multi were great. I remember picking mine up for about £5 ($7) around 5 years ago, but now they're going for about £15...which i don't understand to be honest

Maybe your old Multi-Tap in the video game world tuned into a fine wine. You know what they say about fine wine, it only gets better and more expensive with age!

Maybe so. I think they're also quite rare now, which could explain it.

Crash Banditcoot games were always a hoot on the PS2. The mariokartish Crash Bandikoot racing game was good fun too.

I'll second that! Loved playing SSX (snowboarding game) series.

Well Zen was slightly a "busy boy", for yesterday in the evening I made a run to my Gamestop shop and picked up some personally chosen and TechSpot member recommended games! I grabbed the following......

Lego's Star Wars.......for $5.99
Lego's Indiana Jones.... for $9.99
SSX 1 & 2..............(original) was $2.99 and the 2nd was $4.99
ESPN NBA 2005.......for $0.99
Madden NFL 2007.........for $0.99
ESPN Major League Baseball 2006.......for $0.99
Star Wars Episode III..........for $9.99
Test Drive "Unlimited"........for $9.99
&
God Of War..........$14.99

God I love pre-owned games, cheap, just the way I need it and like it!

That's it, a little bit of something for everyone on this trip.

Keep the recommendations coming, if any, I'm listening and as you can tell, buying some of what is recommended.

Well I'm quite surprised! My old friend Mr. Raykin just popped me a quick visit here at my place. While here he handed me three Playstation items that he no longer needs and or wants. He gave 2 Playstation 1 games, the first is called "Skydiving Extreme" and the second is called "Rally Cross"! And the third item I was given was a Playstation 2 console stand. It had belonged to Dave's brother, but has left it in his garage for well over 5 years, he figured he'll never be coming back for it, so why not give it to me.

The console stand is cute and really adds a nice classic Playstation 2 color theme to my system, but to be honest, I'm not seeing very much functionality. The thing may add like 2-3 centimeters of gap around the bottom outer portions of the whole console's base. This might make for greater or better air flows under the unit. And there's enough "gap" behind that nice blue colored plastic strip to not impede the air flow to the front of the console.

Plus I like the way Sony went for a little bit of "color matching" here! They matched the color of the stands front plastic strip to the color surrounding the USB connectors on the front of the console. Here check it out......kind of cool!



Well that's about it from me, 2 new/used PS1 games and a Sony Playstation 2 Horizontal Stand.

Got to hand it to you Zen, when you do something you definitely go all in ... let me know how you like Rally Cross