The Diet Playstation2: Is it good enough?

[DustyC]

That new fat free slim PS2. Is it OK?

Whats it got on the older fat one?

>>> Edited by DustyC on Thursday 16th December 12:28

[Plotloss]

3", its a better dancer and a lot more fun to be with...

Identical really, just a smaller box and more surface mounted componentry...

[Raify]

It's got an integrated network adaptor.

[DustyC]

I thought I read something (probably here) that said it didnt play all the old games. Is that a load of tosh?

[Raify]

I should think so, they managed to make the PS2 backwards compatible with PS1 games!

[Graham]

They have one thing in common though....


You can't get hold of either of them.....


Mine old full fat one died a couple of weeks ago in the middle of gta:sa

can i get a new one... nope.


i've had to resort to getting a customer to buy a sony projector which comes with a free low fat ps2... still going to take a couple of weeks to get the ps2 though...


ARGHHHH no gta:sa over christmas

[robbieduncan]

It also doesn't have space for the harddrive. No massive loss as there is only 1 game (Final Fantasy of some description) that requires it.

[ceebmoj]

as I understand it the only real difrnce is that in the thin one ther is no bay for the hard disk and hence no port to conect it up with. this means that any games that ues the hard disk wont work with them. however I am not awhere of any games for sale over hear that ues the hard disk. for that mater I am not sure if the harddisk was ever oford for sale in this ry apart from as part of the developers kit.

Blake

[bad boy]

ive got one and its fine, for what i use it for(just games, but no internet) its exactly the same as the old one(mine broke too btw), plus it doesent make all the annoying chirping or fan noises the old one did, its silent unless loading, so i like it

[ceebmoj]

as I understand it the only real difrnce is that in the thin one ther is no bay for the hard disk and hence no port to conect it up with. this means that any games that ues the hard disk wont work with them. however I am not awhere of any games for sale over hear that ues the hard disk. for that mater I am not sure if the harddisk was ever oford for sale in this ry apart from as part of the developers kit.

Blake

[Plotloss]

They've got slimline PS2's in Virgin in Wimbledon if it helps anyone.

I think, anyway...

[trooperiziz]

As with all first generation sony games hardware, the new slimline ps2 isn't as well built or reliable as the full fat version at present. Something to bear in mind...

[Raify]

Well my (full fat) PS2, must have been one of the first sold in the country. It worked fine from day one and hasn't skipped a beat.

[Graham]

trooperiziz said:

As with all first generation sony games hardware, the new slimline ps2 isn't as well built or reliable as the full fat version at present. Something to bear in mind...

reminds me of a certain car maufacturer in blackpool..

[DustyC]

bad boy said:

ive got one and its fine, for what i use it for(just games, but no internet) its exactly the same as the old one(mine broke too btw), plus it doesent make all the annoying chirping or fan noises the old one did, its silent unless loading, so i like it

Excellent!

FYI: I found a book on play.com on how to fix playstations. About £7.99 I think.

[stooz]

ceebmoj said:

as I understand it the only real difrnce is that in the thin one ther is no bay for the hard disk and hence no port to conect it up with. this means that any games that ues the hard disk wont work with them. however I am not awhere of any games for sale over hear that ues the hard disk. for that mater I am not sure if the harddisk was ever oford for sale in this ry apart from as part of the developers kit. Blake

also the power supply is external now, not internal, hence the size benefit. NOt sure if that means large plug, or laptop style adaptor box in between..

[Raify]

AFAIK it's a laptop style adaptor on the mains cord.

[rj_vaughan]

it is an adaptor midway between plug and ps2.

mine just hides behind the tv with all the cables

[basil brush]

Graham said:

trooperiziz said: As with all first generation sony games hardware, the new slimline ps2 isn't as well built or reliable as the full fat version at present. Something to bear in mind... reminds me of a certain car maufacturer in blackpool..

Yea and I've got one of those as well.

No problems with either as yet. The mini ps2 does look a bit ridiculous next to my xbox though, or should that be the other way round.

[ceebmoj]

hi again,

I was realy anoyed with my ps2 worket great for one year then just stoped playing DVDs it is a resnobly well reported bug but anoying all the same