I am thinking of buying an old PS2 and Craigslist has them for $50 in some places. However, most of them are the old fat one. Wasn't the slim one better? My brother had a fat and I thought it had some loading issues? My other brother borrowed the slim once and I thought it was awesome and loaded better. Is there a big difference? Should I hold out for a slim or go for a fat?
I have both. I prefer the Slim because the disc tray on my Fatty broke. The one on the slim you open and close manually so it isn't prone to malfunction. Also the slim is much smaller and cool looking...Not that that really matters...
Yeah, I thought the same as you with my limited experience with PS2. I would think the automated loading in the fat would be more prone to going out of alignment, etc.
The only thing I'm peeved about the slim version is that it no longer has that nifty boot-up sequence with the top-down view of the rectangles. Its only a minor issue though.
Fatty will end up dying on you and stop reading discs in most cases. The slim fixed those problems, so go out and get a slim. People worry about the slim overheating, but that has never happened to me. Unless you play your PS2 games over 13+ hours a day without stopping, then there shouldn't be a problem. The only advantage a fatty has is that it is compaitable with the HDD Hardrive required to play FFXI.
I got the fat one and have had since the first week they came out and it loads games perfect and stuff i've never had a problem with it.bigd575
Yeah I've heard launch fatty tend to not have problems. But the fattys that came out around a year or later after the initial launch have the disc read error problem, etc.
My Fatt one broke the other day. I found that my fat one was better at reading scrached disks but it got jamed a lot. The way they built the slim you have internet, No jamming, and small. Get the slim. I got mine used about 3 years ago and its fine. I also knew a friend whos ps2 stopped reading disks.
You might want to look at an X-box I heard they wher only 60$ now.
My Fatt one broke the other day. I found that my fat one was better at reading scrached disks but it got jamed a lot. The way they built the slim you have internet, No jamming, and small. Get the slim. I got mine used about 3 years ago and its fine. I also knew a friend whos ps2 stopped reading disks.
You might want to look at an X-box I heard they wher only 60$ now.
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Yeah I looked at XBoxes as well but I want a PS2 to play Final Fantasy X, XII, Kingdom Hearts, and Tales of the Abyss. I feel I missed out on some of the best RPG's in recent history. I have a Wii and hope for some good RPG's soon but until then, these classics would be great to play.
The fat one is said to haveless compatiblility issues with PS1 games....
I don't know if this list is still valid, but Sony put this up a very, long time ago: http://www.us.playstation.com/News/ConsumerAlerts/softwareTitles_75001.html
Really the only important games on that list is most likely, "Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete" But then again that list may only apply to the first versions of the slim models, in which case, it's probably not a problem anymore. Fight Night Round 2 is also on that list... I'm still using the fat, so I can't verify it myself...
[QUOTE="bigd575"]I got the fat one and have had since the first week they came out and it loads games perfect and stuff i've never had a problem with it.CommanderShiro
Yeah I've heard launch fatty tend to not have problems. But the fattys that came out around a year or later after the initial launch have the disc read error problem, etc.
Mine was around 2months after launch and it disc read errored. The one I got after that has worked well to this day though.
TBH it's really hard to imagine many fat units not having some issue with certain disk types given how old they are now. That and the original PS2 is actually hard to find. You don't even save that much between the two systems in price either.
Eh, I've had my fatty' PS2 since it's release. I don't have any problems with it. However I know my friend bought a fatty' some years ago, and it had quite a few disc read errors. I've also heard the slim PS2s from their original release have some problems, but the newer ones apparently corrected whatever was wrong.
So I'm not really sure what to suggest. But considering the original fat PS2s are very, very difficult (I'd imagine, anyway) to come by. I'd suggest purchasing a PS2 slim.
My last 2 PS2s were phat, and both had the DRE problem. I now have a slim and it seems to be doing fine, and so far has lasted longer then my second PS2.
Also the slim has the internet ports right in it, so you don't have to buy an adapter.
I would just go with the slim models. They've fixed those disc read error problems and it's much more smaller and up to date. Plus you can hook it right up to the internet without buying a network adaptor. Just google both PS2s and compare.
Well, when SONY started making the slim ps2 the stopped making the fat model. So if you buy a fat ps2 be aware that it is going to be an older console and therefore may give out on you. That said I bought a used fat ps2 back in 2004, i gave it to my cousins and it's still going now. That said, when I bought a fat ps2 a year ago I found that it wouldn't play some DVDs, I've never had that problem again since i got a slim.
Either way, your best bet is to get a slim. Ideally get a new one as it should last you as long as you want to keep it.
Son, I've had mine since launch and the only prob I've ever had was that I have to wigglr the mem card every once in a while for it to read. Never had a disk prob of any sort. The slim version is nicer looking though. If I were you I'd drop my dime on the newest system I could get my hands on simply because you never know how a previous owner treated his/her system.
I went through 3 fat ones before getting a slim one, the fat one seemed to jam alot and say disc is unreadable and then from then on you couldn't play it. It also drew in alot of air as well as dust which seemed to kill itself. So i had to replace that one twice. But once i got the slim one i had no problems ive had it since it came out and its been fine.
I have that fat and have never had problems. The slim is BETTER for one main reason. It comes with an internet network adapter so it makes online gaming MUCH MUCH easier.
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