<sniff sniff> I think she's dying...

Shino

I think my PS2 is about worn out. After over 3 1/2 years of use...

There were two times before this morning where Champs of Norrath froze up on me during a loading screen.

Well today, Champs froze up mid game. But it's only a problem with Champs of Norrath so far. No other game has given me any problems. I have noticed that for a while now, it has taken a little longer at first power on to load the inserted game. Sometime it makes it all the way to the PS2 menu screen (where it says browser and if you select it you can look at your mem card and disk that's in it.

Bawl

Well, looks like it's time to go get another PS2.

what am I going to do if it totally dies before I get a new one... Play my XBox? Oh the horror Errr

. Oh wait... Metroid Zero is still waiting on me to play it. Saved!

Has anyone else seen these problems with Champions of Norrath. Besides the freezing, it skips the music a lot, has a long pause before speech starts, loses frame rate often. I mean could this be the disk?

Silver Adept · Otaku Lord Age: 42 Gender: Joined: 20 May 2003

Check the disc for scratches and abraisions. If the disc is marked, that will make things tougher to load and read. If the disc is clean, it could be the PS2, then. You'll probably want to play hard on several of your other games to see if you can dulpicate the effect.

Shino · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 10:59 am Post subject:

well we saw the same problem on another ps2 so I'm actually going to return it and get a new copy and see hwat happens

Terin · Huzzah! Gender: Joined: 27 Oct 2003

yeah, mine was a 1st gen too, I gave it to my mom cuz she kept bugging me for it. The motor for the disc tray was starting to make noise, and it wouldn't play DVD's anymore. So I got a new one.
-T

PS- before anyone starts raging about how I must be rich or something, let it be known that I work full time andhave only 2 bills of which the total cash per month comes out to be under 200$, and I don't have a car.
-T

BWS-1 · Otaku Lord Gender: Joined: 25 Sep 2002

O man I feel your pain ... I really thought my 32X would live forever too but ... *sob looks like it didn't like that me and my bro played soccer with it for a while one day (yeah, we were young, we were dumb

)

So huh, my words of recomforts:

... the saturn still works! And it's been like, what, 10 years?

Saturn 1
PS2 -1

Strong Bad

''0wned''

Excel Zero · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject:

Question. What are the symptoms of sudden PS2 death??

most of our games are good but GTA Vice City freezes or just doesn't load, and .hack//mutation still won't load??

sound like death?

Chibi Knight · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject:

Ah welcome to my world friend

actually the problem is that CoN is a dual layered disc. Seem the firstgen PS2s have problems with these new-fangled DL DVDs. I've had countless problems with CoN and cam offer some suggestions.

1. Save Often!!!!
2. If you get stuck at the NOW LOADING screen simply eject the game, wait 5-10 secs and re-insert disc. Usually does the trick.
3. If you get the BLACK SCREEN OF DOOM, gate back to town and walk back to said dungeon, take a while but at least you wont lose your data.
4. SAVE OFTEN!!!!! Smile

Any other problems let me know or check the gamfaqs message board for Norrath.

GL - CK - Proud owner of a Lvl 50 Barbarian of Whoopass

GAAZ · MOD Black Sheep Commander Gender: Joined: 14 Oct 2002

I hadta send my PS2 in to be fixed once...It was the saddest like 2 weeks of my life...I cried I tell ya! I missed her so much..The way she'd always expose her tray to me..The way thing connected to her so smoothly. How her memory untis were always so receptive...*sniffle*

Shino · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 11:20 pm Post subject:

Chibi Knight · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 11:24 pm Post subject:

I told you via IM but I thought I'd post as well.

50 is the kinda max, you can gain XP after 50, just at a friggin snails pace. It would take you a week of casual gaming to maybe get one level.