So, tonight I hooked up my PS2 to play some Dark Cloud. Problem, though, it won't boot.
I check the "browser" menu and it's stuck on "Reading Disc". I tried a couple other games and same problem. I tried both upright and sideways, to no avail. I tried blowing some air but my blower's pretty powerful so I'm scared of breaking things.
The disk appears to turn, at the very least, so there's that...
It's one of the fat, black models. Is home repair possible? Is repair at all possible?
I'm not super technical but i'm willing to open it up.
Thanks in advance.
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Sometimes the PS2 has a hard time gripping the disc and the spindle will slip instead of spinning the disc.
What you can do is lay tape around the spindle hole on the disc, just slightly overlapping the edge. I usually do a pentagon of tape, but mspaint makes it hard to draw diagonal rectangles, so use your imagination.
For clarity, make sure you are only taping the labeled side of the disc
Didn't work, sadly, but thanks for the help.
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Could be the laser has some dirt or grime on it preventing it from reading the disc, or that the laser is failing and needs to be replaced.
If the latter is the case it'll probably cost you more to replace the laser than just buying a new one.
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I suggest you try a PS2 CD game, PS2 DVD game, PS1 game, regular CD, and a regular DVD if you have all of those. That should narrow down the type of issue a bit.
If you can track down a Network Adapter and an old IDE hard drive you should think about softmodding it though. You can play games directly from the hard drive installed in a PS2 and not have to worry about an aging laser assembly, and as a side benefit your load times will drop considerably.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
It's laser adjustment time!
There's a little screw on the laser that you can adjust to move the laser closer or further away from the disc. Just fiddle with it a little bit and it should sort itself out! I stopped putting any of the screws back into the Ps2 because of how often I had to open it for that adjustment. Wasn't worth the time of screwing them in and back out.
Random video that looks to be correct on brief viewing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIwbu5zb-kw