PlayStation 2
You think that this is just going to be some crappy fake like most of the rubbish on here. I wouldn't say "ZOMG THIS TRUELY HAPPND!!111!" just to get ridiculed for my stories and crap.
I'm a little person lucky to live near the capital of my state of California. I was one of the first customers of the Xbox 360. Lucky though, the people that were scattering for the Xbox 360, I got the last one.
It was a brilliant experience of gaming. I had good times playing my previous Xbox games, like Halo: Combat Evolved, but I did play the 360 games as well, since it was of course an Xbox 360, that you wouldn't throw in the garbage can for the original.
Just 3 days ago, I had a flashback as someone mentioned Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the chat on a live stream of GTA 5. Thinking of that game made me think of the PlayStation 2, and how I spent good times playing its power out. I had all 3 GTA games most PS2 enthusiasts should know by now.
It just seems that I got attracted by the power of the Xbox, and forgot about it whole.
Not whole.
Whatever.
So I grabbed the PlayStation 2 and its cords out of my small portable wooden shed in the backyard, which I called "The Dungeon of All Forgotten" for a silly reason. I don't remember who put that there. Maybe my mom put it there. I asked her.
She said that she didn't, but she was 62 years old, so it's obvious that part of her memory was lost in mystery. I was still wondering who put that there, until I decided to ignore it and hooked it up.
Everything started up in good shape as almost like when I last played it. The language setting was English, as usual. I went on the Browser, and since I didn't have the memory card in, it said "There is no data," as usual. I decided to go back into the shed for my memory card.
When I walked back inside, I popped it into the memory card slot, and it popped up as usual. I clicked on it to view my memory, and turns out, all of it, except for my Vice City and System Configuration data, was corrupted. I've heard the problem before, where you couldn't delete the corrupted data, and that happened.
I ejected the memory card and blew into it, as I thought the dust that flew inside it was the problem. And then I plugged it back into the slot. I pressed X.
A memory block was revealed. It was my old save from The Simpsons: Road Rage. It was still one of the games I cherished on my PlayStation 2. Sure, I wasn't a big fan of The Simpsons like everyone else, but I remember how exciting the game was back then.
I took a PS1 game off my shelf, the original Driver. Then I put it onto my PS2 disc tray, and closed it. After about a whopping 55 seconds of waiting for the game to load, I started hearing inexplicable noises from the PS2, so I ejected the disc.
The disc itself was still in its previous condition. So there had to be something wrong with the PS2. I went back into the shed and grabbed my PS1, inserting the disc, and it worked just fine.
"Maybe it was just an error," I thought to myself. So I hooked the PS2 back to the TV and input the same disc. It still made the horrible sounds after only 10 seconds, and as I went onto the browser, it said "Disc read error."
We PS2 enthusiasts know how annoying it could be to get a "disc read error." When I pressed the eject button, the disc tray punched out a lot faster than it usually did. I quickly grabbed the disc as it made an ear-piercing noise that sounded similar to a police siren.
One big but surface scratch was performed on the disc. I put it back into my PS1 and it still worked fine. I decided that I should stop using the disc on the PS2. The rest of that night I played Final Fantasy VII on the former console.
The day after we were going to Los Angeles for the night. It was very nice and made me partially forget about the terror that happened the other day.
As we returned home at approximately 6:00 in the evening after stopping at Pizza Hut for dinner, I just played Smash Melee on the GameCube for a while until finally having the guts to power on the PlayStation 2 again.
As I turned it on, I put in The Simpsons: Road Rage and reset the console. After a long startup, the game seemed like it was going to load. After a blank screen for 10 seconds, it went back to the browser, but the disc was still trying to read. Until the disc appeared. I went and clicked on it. And then there was the usual PlayStation 2 logo before every PS2 game started.
After approximately 8 seconds of pure black, it went back to the browser. Once again, it was still trying to read it, but after 5 more seconds it eventually gave up and popped up with the infamous Red Screen, which happened when you inserted a PC or Xbox 360 game into the console. The disc, however, was a genuine PlayStation 2 game.
I ejected the disc to see what was wrong with it. And it did not have enough scratches to pull off the RSoD. But I knew for a fact, that the system was faulty. I would get it to a repair center, but I figured that they wouldn't even support for a PS2.
I figured this was an error of some kind, once again, and just tried it out again. After a short startup this time, I was given 15 seconds of pure darkness, until it went back to the home menu, but before the text appeared, it froze. 10 seconds later, the torque animation played in reverse and faded. I was given yet another black screen for 15 seconds, before the console shut itself off.
When I turned it back on, the startup from halfway went pitched down, and the screen stretched vertically. Once again, the game loaded. There was still the unusual audio problem. Until it eventually gave up and pulled the RSoD again. However, it was clearly grayscale. 15 seconds later, it just faded to static, and the console shut itself off after 2 seconds.
I was going to take this to a repair center, but most of them refused for some reason. I put the PS2 back into "The Dungeon of All Forgotten," and left it alone ever since. I'm planning to buy another PS2, or just move on with PS3.
Update
I have, like other times, lost interest in gaming. However, I still wasted time on my Xbox when I had nothing else to do. Oh, and about buying another PS2? Well, that failed.
Nearby retro game stores did not have PS2's on stock, all they had was PS2 games. When I looked on eBay, there were consoles, but they were broken/as is. That night I just went to the store and picked up another game, NFL Street, at the price of 9.99. Why am I wasting 10 dollars on a PlayStation 2 game while the console is dysfunctional?
Honestly, I thought I could try to fix it.
It certainly wasn't going to be that night, since I was tired and doing this at nighttime would be all the more terrifying. I had a nightmare where I was playing my Xbox as usual, and then it reset itself and showed the Red Ring of Death. When I tried to reset it (stupid me didn't know I had to get it repaired), the RSoD showed. The low-pitched, more bass-boosted version of the unnerving screen kept playing as a giant storm came in.
I looked back at my Xbox. It along with my other gaming systems had smoke and fire coming out from them. And at the moment they exploded, I woke up in horror, and the time was only 5:29am. In spite of my terror that night, I pulled my PS2, memory cards, wires and crap from "The Dungeon of All Forgotten," hooked it up, and taped the issues with the console.
The video had mysteriously been deleted the next day (today), so sadly I can't show any proof. But anyway, I felt like sharing this, and I might be able to fix the problems with my PlayStation 2.
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