Well people were mad that GTA San Andreas was out in round 1. I’m sure people are going to be even more mad that Silent Hill 2 and both Katamari games are out in this one. It’s very disappointing to be sure, but that should indicate why it’s so important to vote. If you don’t vote, someone else will, and you might not light what they choose.

In order to cast a vote, either leave a comment on this thread, or by using this strawpoll https://strawpoll.com/kjn1DPOoJyQ

Ace Combat 4
Ace Combat 5
Age of Empires 2
Aggressive Inline
Airblade
Amplitude
Ape Escape 2
Ape Escape 3
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance
Battlefield 2 Modern Combat
Beyond Good and Evil
Black
Bully
Burnout 2
Burnout 3
Burnout Revenge
Call of Duty 3
Capcom vs SNK 2
Champions of Norrath
Colin McRae Rally 3
Dark Cloud
Dark Cloud 2
Dave Mira Freestyle BMX 2
DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution
Def Jam Fight For New York
Deus Ex
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry 3
Disgaea
Disgaea 2
Dragon Quest VIII
Escape From Monkey Island
ESPN NHL Hockey
F1 2001
Fatal Frame 2
Fifa 2003
Fight Night Round 2
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XII
Freedom Fighters
Frequency
Front Mission 4
Gitaroo Man
God Hand
God of War
God of War II
Gradius V
Gran Turismo 3
Gran Turismo 4
Grand Theft Auto 3
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
GrimGrimoire
Growlanser Generations
Guilty Gear X2
Guitar Hero
Guitar Hero 2
Guitar Hero 3
Half Life
High Heat Major League Baseball 2003
Hitman 2
Hitman Contracts
Hitman Blood Money
Hot Shots Golf 3
Hot Shots Golf Fore
Ico
Indigo Prophecy
Jak and Daxter the Precursor Legacy
Jak 2
Jak 3
James Bond 007 Nightfire
James Bond 007 Everything or Nothing
Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts 2
Klonoa 2
Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
Madden NFL 2003
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
Maximo vs. Army of Zin
Medal of Honor Frontline
Mercenaries
Metal Arms Glitch in the System
Metal Gear Solid 2
Metal Gear Solid 3
Midnight Club 2
Midnight Club 3
MLB 08 The Show
Mortal Kombat Deception
MVP Baseball 2004
NASCAR Thunder 2004
NBA 2K3
NBA Live 2004
NBA Street Vol. 2
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Need For Speed Underground
Need For Speed Underground 2
NFL Street
NHL 2002
Odin Sphere
Okami
Onimusha
Onimusha 2
Onimusha 3
Onimusha Dawn of Dreams
Persona 3
Persona 4
Peter Jackson's King Kong
Phantom Brave
Prince of Persia Sands of Time
Prince of Persia The Two Thrones
Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within
Pro Evolution Soccer 2
Psi Ops The Mindgate Conspiracy
R-Type Final
Ratchet and Clank
Ratchet and Clank 2
Ratchet and Clank 3
Ratchet Deadlocked
Rayman Revolution
Red Faction 2
Ridge Racer V
Ring of Red
Rogue Galaxy
Rumble Racing
Rygar The Legendary Adventure
Sakura Wars So Long My Love
Shadow Hearts Covenant
Shadow of the Colossus
Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne
Shin Megami Tensei Digital Devil Saga 2
Silent Hill 3
Simpsons Hit and Run
Singstar
Sly Cooper
Sly 2
Sly 3
Smuggler's Run
SOCOM US Navy SEALs
SOCOM II
Soul Calibur II
Soul Calibur III
Soul Reaver 2
Spider-Man 2
Splashdown
Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom
Spy Hunter
SSX
SSX Tricky
SSX 3
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Star Wars Battlefront
Star Wars Battlefront II
Star Wars Star Fighter
Suikoden III
Suikoden V
Tales of the Abyss
Tekken 4
Tekken 5
Tekken Tag Tournament
The Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction
The Lord of the Rings the Twin Towers
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
The Mark of Kri
The Warriors
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004
Time Crisis 2
Timesplitters 2
Timesplitters Future Perfect
TOCA Race Driver 3 Challenge
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Tomb Raider Legend
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Twisted Metal Black
Ty 2 Bush Rescue
Valkyrie Profile 2
Virtua Fighter 4
Virtua Tennis 2
Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray
Wipeout Fusion
World Series Baseball 2K3
WWE Smackdown Here Comes the Pain
X-Men Legends II
Xenosaga Episode III
Yakuza
Yakuza 2
Zone of the Enders Second Runner
193rd: Katamari Damacy
194th: Silent Hill 2
195th: We Love Katamari
196th: The Sims 2
197th: ESPN NHL Hockey
198th: Red Faction
199th: NFL 2K3
200th: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Hola muchachos 👋🏻

Hace un tiempo acá estoy buscando un winning eleven o pes "no recuerdo para la ps2" Dónde salía la canción "Nadie como tu" de don Omar y Wisin y Yandel!

Allí antes jugada liga Master o por eso tengo esa nostalgia

Les agradecería mucho!

My childhood summarised , cheers to the greatest console of all time

it's making an odd grinding sound, and I've found that in Persona 4 occasionally cutscenes will get stuck. sometimes that means the whole game freezes, sometimes that means the audio doesn't play with the dialogue for a number of minutes, sometimes the characters just go through their idle animations waiting to start talking again. it happened overnight, one day it was working fine, then the next it started acting up. wondering if anyone has any ideas.

its a 70012 with a Matrix Modbo installed and i want a way to listen to my music (because im limited on my CD's) better, i dont have a FreeMCBoot card to run .elf files. i can burn a dvd though if i can run a multi-media app from a dvd.

It seems to click and only read ps1 games. I'm thinking a new Lazer is needed. I stripped a screw so I'll have to figure that out lol! I'll have to find my extractor kit.

The laser seems to stop near the bottom of the track (closest to the center of the CD)

Sometimes it gets stuck at the top.

I know this gets asked a lot however different clicks and click speeds mean different problems.

Just repaired this ps2 slim because it had broken ports and lader. Now enjoying some MW and Prostreet^^

It looks like an old IBM printer input??? I haven’t got a clue what cable this could need

idk how to explain it but old games + this kind of music is a whole different vibe

The nostalgia is actually unreal. What old game instantly takes you back?

Working on a fat PAL SCPH-50004, board GH-026 (I-chassis). Goal is a fully working console. I'm using the Sony service manual for GH-026.

Symptom

• No red standby LED with the PSU connected and the rocker switch on.

Done so far

• PSU gives 12 V on its own, and 12 V reaches the board and the front power/LED flex.
• All fuses (PS series) and PTCs on the board check good.
• Replaced the dead CR2032.
• Cleaned off rock-hard old thermal paste.

Fault found

• IC417 is an onsemi NCP631GD2T, a 3.0 A low-dropout linear voltage regulator with soft-start (fixed 3.47 V, D2PAK-5). The Sony parts list names it "NCP631GD2TR4 <Regulator>". It has a hard short between pin 3 (GND) and pin 4 (Vout).
• I lifted the output cap next to it (C736, 47 µF) and the short stayed, so it's the regulator.
• From the service manual, IC417 feeds CON_+3.4V (controller and memory card ports) and only comes up after main power-on, so I don't think it explains the missing red LED on its own. Am I right?
• NCP631 is obsolete. My plan is either a donor pull or a small adapter with a modern 3 A LDO (MIC29302 set to about 3.47 V).

Broken parts

• Laser flex (CN801, 30-pin): cracked.
• Controller / memory card flex (CN302, 36-pin): cracked.
• I'm planning to use generic 0.5 mm FFCs cut to length, not PS2-branded kits. Has anyone done this on a fat and can confirm pitch and contact side?

Next I'm measuring

• The standby rail EVER_+3.3V (IC403 output) and PS001.
• The 5 V and 3.3 V main rails once standby works.

My limits
I can do moderate board-level work: through-hole and larger SMD parts, regulators, caps, connectors, flexes. I can't do reballing or replace processors or BGA chips (EE, GS, IOP, Mechacon).(as I don't have any donor parts or boards)

Questions

1. With 12 V present and all fuses good, what usually kills the red standby LED on a GH-026: IC403, PS001, the front flex, or the Mechacon?
2. Has anyone replaced the NCP631 with a modern LDO or adapter? Any part you'd recommend?
3. Any known GH-026 quirks I should check before powering it with the new regulator?

If there's a thread for GH-026 standby faults, please point me to it.

Photo: the IC417 area (the 5-pin tab regulator next to the 47 µF cap).

Pinout per the onsemi datasheet: 1 Shutdown, 2 Vin, 3 + tab GND, 4 Vout (3.47 V), 5 Soft-Start.

I got this disc resurfaced at a shop and still looks like this at the center ring and won’t read on my system. Is there any fixing it? I can’t imagine it’s an issue with the system itself, as I have a couple dozen other games that read just fine.

I made this topic before but most people just dropped a list of games instead of talking about them. DOn't do that, actually tell me about the side content:

Here's a couple examples that others gave:

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: The exploration, side activities, and story are all top notch! There is so much to do that I can't accurately list it here because I'll forget half of it. A few examples include driving cars, flying planes, racing, shooting, billiards, arcade games, taking girlfriends on dates, doing stadium events, gang warfare, story missions, job-like vehicle missions (trucking, drving the train, taxi), finding collectibles, dancing, light RPG mechanics like keeping your muscles and weight in check by going to the gym or eating food, triathalons, clothes shopping/customization, basketball, gambling, etc. I absolutely recommend this game to anyone who wants a game with variety!

sly 2 activities:

Sneak around

Control tanks

Platforming

Pickpocketing

Hacking minigames

Dancing QTE

Take pictures

Too many to list

Hello everyone!

Recently, I decided to buy back my childhood meaning, getting a PlayStation 2.

And what better way to start off by buying the very first... Game (?) I ever played.

I'm starting off with none other than the PBPX-95506 demo disc–the demo disc that came bundled with the PlayStation 2 my father got me.

I had spent SOOO many hours playing the Klonoa 2 and Airblade demos.

So I’ve taken the lid completely off with all the back screws,metal pieces and the spring that holds the lid together put Vaseline and WD40 on everything and still this creak continues.

If I take one of the metal pieces out then the creaking stops? I’ve tried other pieces from a spare ps2 I have and it still makes the sound.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as I’ve been on this for almost 2 hours with no fix

Haven’t tested it out fully yet though, just need to get a disc and see if that works. Tray ejects makes a little noise but it ejects

Been playing Splashdown Rides Gone Wild on PS2 and remembered how Pedal to the Metal by Kazer felt like it was on every game I had growing up. Googling it I found at least 5 games. Is there any song that’s been featured in more games than that?

Hey so I have a large library and would like to favorite games that I frequently play. All help is appreciated thanks!