PS2 Owneres with HDD...

[InuTrunks]

I just learned an amazing lesson today, back up all your memory card data on your HDD, it'll come in handy when you lose your 7 year old and 5 year old memory cards.

/sigh.

[Feba]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

Could be worse.

Who else remembers playing with their PS1, starting it up, looking at their memory cards, and going "Hey, format! Wuzzat?! I have ADHD, let's click it and find out! Dude.... wait, what?"

[Eohmer]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

back up all your memory card data on your Memory cards, it'll come in handy when you lose your 7 year old and 5 year old memory cards.

/sigh.

Huh? So where does the HDD come in? lol

[Kuro]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

I get the feeling you can back up the Memory cards on he HD.

[Eohmer]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

You can... and that's what I do... I'm sure he just typed it out wrong.

[InuTrunks]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

Oh, I sure did. hah, haha.

[Aeni]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

Here's something ... if the HDD fails ... lol@you.

Try investing in a USB flash memory and make backups to it too ... just in case.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

I actually think the HDD is the only reliable part of my PS2, I have to get a can of compressed air out or take apart and clean out the PS2 if I want to play anything else.

Worst of all is the PS2's video signal overheats from extended play... which is weird. If I shut down completely and turn it back on, the signal gets scrambled. and I can't make out a damn thing. So I either have to wait for the system to cool off or I just stick it in the freezer for five minutes and hook it up again.

Its not the ideal fix and its definately a weird one, but it works.

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

You don't want to stick a heated electronic machine into the freezer--condensations, you know...

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

that's why it doesn't stay there long

[Icemage]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

For what it's worth, you can also copy PS1 and PS2 save games to and from a PS3 via the memory card adaptor accessory.


Icemage

[Aeni]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

I actually think the HDD is the only reliable part of my PS2, I have to get a can of compressed air out or take apart and clean out the PS2 if I want to play anything else.

I have the opposite problem. When the HDD in the PS2 revs up, it sounds like a the tins cans being dragged at the back of some newlywed's car ... with the sound of a dying ostrich that sucked in too much helium thrown in. The rest of my PS2 is just peachy.

Pro tip: when wiping down the PS2, use Swiffer wipes. OUTSIDE ONRY (Don't come crying to me about your issues when you used the wipes on the HDD platters...)

[InuTrunks]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

Aeni, that sound you describe, that's, your HDD dieing.

It's like Click, click, SPPIIINNN ERRRRGHHHUUGHHHH *death sounds* Click Click?

[Mhurron]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

The technical term for it is the 'Click of Death.'

[InuTrunks]

Re: PS2 Owneres with HDD...

I liked my description better.