Yes, I still use it from time to time to play some of my favorites. If I get a good discount I might even buy some new game.

In my experience, each hard drive is "locked" to one specific PS3. It means, if you put a hard drive from one PS3 into another, it wants to format the hard drive before it can be used. It won't start ...

To me it looks like your PS2 is broken. A faulty cable or TV would not make the picture look like that. And by the looks of it, it might be very difficult to repair.

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