I mean the GameCube literally had a carry handle lol

Agreed. When travelling with school, me and my friends always took a slim PS2, a couple of controllers and games and we were spending the nights in hotels and host houses playing on this thing. I still have mine in my room here.

So true

I'd say it's more portable than the switch, that dock is SO annoying to carry around

@PAUL MH still got mine, and I still use it to this day

"Put it in his pocket" did he have on cargo pants 😂

@@dajam9035 naw lol he was just big! Like 6.4

@@TheGimGamer he may have been 6.4 but he probably felt like an absolute giant that day.

@@TheGimGamer Hahah damn

He must have had some big pockets wow

For the phaty 75% of the time it was a small removable fuse on the power supply not the actual power supply I had it happen to me. Now I have a extra power supply just sitting around no complaints tho.

Honestly, fats are more durable in my experience, and that PSU isn’t difficult to replace if you know what you’re doing. Drive assembly and motherboards on fat models are FAR better 💯

@@sp0re8900 I wonder if that fuse is what crapped out on mine. I had it plugged in without using it for several months, hit power and POP.

Never personally seen a phat PSU fail, I have a couple launch edition consoles aswell

Fat models are more reliable all around even with the PSU inside the console.

It was easy, they just removed EVERYTHING that made it a good system.

@@zybchcope

@@zybch Like turning a Pioneer Receiver into a boombox 🤦😂

Huge Monster really?

@@chrisspearline767 I don't care, this comment is two years old, if you don't think it was that big, then cool.

What kind of Games you Have for your PS2 slim?

@@taytayrazors9033 WWE SMACKDOWN HERE COMES THE PAIN

I still have my fat PS2 from 2001... and yes, it does indeed still work to this day

@@Vendiktuss no lens problem? Any repairs? Do you play wwe HCTP?

You were born in 2006? 😳

Might be a big issue but it is easily fixable

@@crf80fdarkdays How would one go about fixing it?

@@crf80fdarkdays its only a matter of time before the problems returns though

@@canopus5498 not if you fix it properly.

@@HybridAngelZero one option would be to glue it back down, the other option would be to make a bracket that keeps it in place and buy spare ribbon cables. Or just get the correct model

The ssd is an overkill tho

@@abderrahmandjaib3942 not really. It runs cooler because there's no moving parts. The PS2 is twenty years old man, we don't want to stress them any more than they've already been. I'm happy with my 500 GB SSD in it, with the small file sizes of PS2 and PS1 games there's more than enough games on it to last a lifetime.

Even is PS2 slims you can boot faster games with a mini router with usb port using the RJ45 cable and is much easy than PC smb share method

My suggestion would be: Get an SCPH-3900X model if you want to use discs, or an SCPH-5000X if you want to use the HDD due to the mechacon

Version 4R revision and earlier had the Firewire port that some games (Armored Core 2 + AC Another Age) used for lan-style multiplayer; A big deal to me. Later revs lost the Firewire port. V9 added built-in IR sensor & progressive scan for DVD functionality. It used a new model remote vs the older model that included an IR dongle.

One of my cousin's friends gifted me his chonko ps2 like 10 years ago. I have it on my shelf but a lot of the games he had weren't ones I really play so I gotta find some that won't cost me an arm and a leg haha.

@@peskypengy Mod it and use ROMs on it instead. Modern Vintage Gamer made a video about it.

@@PSYCHOV3N0M I just got a fat boi and added an HDD. Really easy to do, and there really are a lot of benefits

I think they were able to do so as they shrank the chip circuitry down so much that there were able to do so feasibly (the original ps2 was using the ancient 250nm process while that all-in-one chip used 65nm)

furry!

Interesting comment on the 7900x series regarding disc scratching issue, this problem is mainly caused by the laser ribbon cable that pops up as the adhesive no longer sticks over time, creating contact with the spinning disc. I would assume the laser ribbon cable for 7900x were assembled in the same way as say 7000x series? So why is it exactly that 7900x doesn't have the disc scratching issue then?

I wonder if you were to make a PS2 today with modern transistor size, how big wouold the chip need to be

@@prich0382 probably no bigger than a fingernail

the original wii is

The PS3 slim is imo. It’s so sleek

Hell no lol. It's an ugly blsck box with asymmetrical shapes and fake grills. Far better looking consoles out there.

I think the launch ps4 looks the best, or maybe the ps5 even

@@ass.blaster2000 This is the correct answer. PS3 Slim and PS4 Slim are simple yet elegant. Reasonably sized.

Can’t wait for starburst tear down

Emphasis on tear, that wrapped is actually melded inside of the central starburst unit

When human beings are extinct, that question will remain. We also won't have found out who let the dogs out.

@Woz the Scott Oh, that's easy. You just read the ingredients on the Starburst wrapper.

Alchemy. Purely. I'm convinced.

That's the WORST model of the PS2 die to it overheating a lot more often than not. Between my 70001 Slim and 90001 Slim the 70001 Slim is still operational, and that's with using both of them in open areas where ventilation is more than possible.

@@aiodensghost8645 THey also patched out the memory card exploit starting with these models so MCBoot wouldn't work anymore.

@@aiodensghost8645 7000x rev.b is the best slim. it retains PS1 HW backwards compatibility and it got the nasty MECHACON firmware bug fixed that fry lasers. also it can be modded to support IDE drives.

@@aiodensghost8645 mine still does the job

@@realFoxBox ulaunchelf and OPL work without needing FMCBoot...

I’ve had the slim ps2 and I played San Andreas all the time

Which one?

No way. Og all the way. But this is nice. I will say

Or even a PS4. How hard can it be?

@Snake24 or even a ps3

People can’t even have ps5s in their rooms

dude, these days video cards are bigger than PS2, what are you talking about?

That would be so hot. Literally. But cool of they could. Bet they’ll slim em down to PS3/PS4 slim size or so by third revision

Yes, that was the 9000x series... it looks lovely with the smooth shiny top panel next to the disc lid! Very convenient too with it's built-in PSU... I have one and it's permanently hooked-up! 😉 People criticise it for 'emulating' PS1 games, but I've never had any issues with that... Harder to find now, 'cause not many were made/sold, but I prefer it to my original PS2 that I've had for the last 20-odd years! Sony did really well with this version of the Slim... 😉👍

Yes but because of internal power addition it's much heavier than previous Slims

Happens all the time !

Yeah so did I. A silver one for $80. How much did you see it for?

@@I_SuperHiro_I $80 is super expensive. You can get one of ebay for the same Price, but with alot of Games on top! And "Silver" is nothing special. It was sold alongside the black modell, it's not rare. More like "another option".

@@I_SuperHiro_I I Have Sliver One Too.

@@UndeadCollector I didn’t buy it. It wasn’t in the greatest shape and I thought $80 was a lot too.

😆

Everyone used it for a little stash of something 🤣💯

Hope it didn’t dry out faster. For some reason my brain recalled the dorm room smell from back in college. Good play times

I use to hide my money in there

bruh, that's where I kept mine too!

True half my ps2 games have a circle round the middle of the discs also when the power button starts to go bad you'll get disc tray open while playing games

PS2 fat was the best one tho.

@Serhii Khrypun - 👍... especially with having the option of upgrading the network adapters with sata interface boards. 2TB hdds work great in fat PS2 models.

@@TexasHollowEarth Word! personally tho - I had no internet connectivity throughout the whole time.

News to me, I've never had that problem.

I'd like to see it mostly because the current PS5 is seriously huge

I'm gonna wait for the PS5 Slim too!

I always wait for the pro version. If a pro version of the ps5 isn't released yet by the time I want to buy one, I'll just try to buy the first ps5 model.

Yeah, I want a PS5 but it's way too huge and frankly not a great looking console so I'll wait for the inevitable slim. Hopefully it's pretty easy to get by then too.

@@thekangaroo1880 But then by the time you buy an original PS5, the PS5 Pro will come out not long after and you'll wish you waited.

It’s an awesome system with an incredible game library. Keep those games!

I have over 40 games so far, I have a long list to finish up 😅.

@@damascus6480 it’s a PS1 game, but if you’ve never played it, you must try Legend of Legaia. It’s soooo good.

I love how this kid was born later but STILL got to experience the golden era even if it was later

@@Matanumi Thanks! I appreciate all the time I got. Also grew up with GameCube via Wii back compat.

I prefer fat lady PS3 because she has way more features, specially PS2 compatibility. PS2 slim added a feature when losing one-removed hard drive in each for baked in internet? Sure.

@PAUL MH I'm fine with needing to open the system and replacing the drive if I need to. I did that with my original PS1 from 1998 just a few months ago without any issue, so I doubt it'd be that much harder to do.

@PAUL MH ps2 are made for crt tvs so the quality will be worse on hdtv because it was specifically made for crt tvs

@PAUL MH “full screen” You mean stretched out to 16:9

Same, playing all your games off the hard drive with OPL is amazing

Same here. I use a 2.5 inch 2tb sata hard drive in mine, connected to the Sony network adapter via a small cheapo ide to sata adapter. The disk drive on my fatty PS2 died many many years ago but Free Mcboot and OPL has kept the rest of it going strong. I do have a slim PS2 that I bought way back when the disk drive died on my fatty PS2. Trying to play games on a slim with a hard drive via the USB ports is not a pleasant experience... It's a slow stuttering mess. Sony definitely took a big step backwards ditching the hard drive on the slims.

Pa3 super slim is amazing

In Europe we got true RGB through SCART on the PS2.

Mine died too. Yellow light of death

Have to disagree there, the PS3 had issues with a few games not working on the system. The best PS2 is a launch model compatibility wise.

Component can look just as good as RGB with the right cables. Sucks that the Fat PS3 are probably one of the most unreliable consoles ever. I hope that you didn't throw it out, now people has discovered the problem with those models and you just need to replace a couple of capacitors.

@@GenesHand I still have my yellow phat, losing all my game saves was the worst.

I love the GameCube I really do, as it allowed me to get a current console at the time cheaper than a PS2, or Xbox, but I agree the Mini non standard DVD disc Nintendo went with is what hurt the system with it not getting as much 3rd party dev support, but I still had a blast with the system, and still do with all it's great first party Nintendo games, and the 3rd party support it did get like RE4, and the RE remakes on the system. Also the Gamecube controller is still one of my favorites too this day next to the Switch Pro controllers, and XB360/XB1 layouts with staggered sticks.

@@CommodoreFan64 I've just started dedicating time to the GameCube library in chronological order of release with real hardware and I've been enjoying it very much. I see why people fight to the death to defend it

I can't believe that was the thing holding the game cube back....a freaking tiny disc smh

@@dajam9035 Not necessarily developers could have had two discs the same way they did with the Xbox 360 and very long PS2 JRPG games. Also developers ported 3rd party games from PS2 to GameCube. So games were built well for PS2 and Xbox got ports directly from the PC. The true power of the GameCube was never seen in 3rd party games only Exclusives. Which is also why it had the best looking games of the 6th generation that also aged the best.

@@dajam9035 I'm sorry to say there is so much ignorance in your comment, the mini non standard disc did hold back the GameCube when it was launched, as full size DVD support at the time drove console sales because not everyone had a DVD player, and high speed internet 24/7 in your pocket being able to stream anything you want was several years away, and well over a decade for many. When the PS2 launch Sony could not keep them in stock in Japan, because it was the cheapest DVD player in the country, and well over 50% of the people who bought a PS2 bought it solely for watching DVD movies. Also Nintendo charged the same amount to print the smaller disc with less storage space, as Sony, and Microsoft did for the full size DVD-ROM disc in their consoles, meaning many companies did not want to have to pay for the extra disc to be printed plus the cost of the special case to house the disc, again which cost them more not only in the printing phase, but in the time of programming a game across 2, or more disc, and it's why Nintendo never used that format again, and went with full size DVD style disc for the Wii, and full size Blu-Ray like disc for the Wii U. Also yes there was a an official Panasonic Q player that played full sized DVD as well as GameCube games only officially released in Japan that did not sell well because it was expensive(sold for about $500 USD at the time if I remember correctly),and are rare to this day even in Japan, and they need a special even more rare Gameboy player if you want to use one with it, along with a special DVD remote for it to operate fully, that tends to get lost, and are not included many times because of it when they do pop up for sale.

Out of nowhere one day mine stopped being able to play dual layer discs

Yep, 7500x and later have issues with a few games.

If I am not mistaken: Some PS2 games made use of the PS1's processor to do some small calculations on the side. The slims after the scph 7000x all began to emulate this chip rather being something physical. Guess Sony didn't do their homework or simple thought it to be viable

​@@snoopiiii It's the latter since it's no coincidence when Sony discontinued the production of PSone units in 2006, they instead phased out producing PSone components and opted by using an PPC based IOP to emulate the PSX CPU (PS2 IOP) to cut costs. Since the PSX CPU is now emulated in the SCPH-75XXX and later Slim models, its PSX backwards-compatibility is much worse than the Fat and SCPH-70XXX model but Sony attempted to patch / fix those issues in the later Slim models. No clue if Sony ever attempted to fix the PS2 IOP-specific issues (e.g Beyond Good and Evil) for the later models.

@@ndnixlon9548 That makes sense but they still didn't do their homework! Hehe

Bear mode lol

@@TheDinoKitteh That and HDD support, good for OPL.

@@TheDinoKitteh Depends on which mini-revision of the Slim model.

@@TheDinoKitteh I'm using my Slim for over 10 years. And it never damaged my disc's.

@@DeadPhoenix86DP see comment above yours.

@@crf80fdarkdays Explain?

Also, I think one of the reasons they made the "Clam shell" a thing is because the issue of disks falling out of the tray if tipped or moved while running, rendering the CD unreadable. The OG ring of death if you will haha.

Not much. Its less powerful than a modern gaming phone. Honestly just look how shitty apex legends run on it

I wouldn't know I don't play trash like apex or Fortnite or PUBG I play games with adventure story and purpose not battle royal bs

at best try to get as much of the original chips on the board as possible so the compatibility is as high as can be, if not 100%

After how badly they handled the PS1 Classic, no. But I'm sure you'll see FPGA consoles before too long. Would be nice if Sony at least made old PS1 and PS2 games work/available for purchase on the PS4/PS5 via emulation. That's one of my favourite features Xbox has. But Jim Ryan sees no value in it.

Please learn how to search for converters. If you figured out that the mini video adcs (opposite of vdacs) suck, go for some in a metal housing, those are most likely good. I prefer wiring PS2 video to my AVR by an really expensive YPbPr cable and audio through fiber to prefarrably use DPL II or Neo6.

With classic consoles you probably can't make it work unless you use off the shelf hardware because you're not moving 10s of millions of units.

@@SLightningHedgehog In an ideal world we could get a rockstar version that had all the PS2 rockstar games on it.

Don't be jealous. They won't have any exclusives to play.

Xbox uses software emulation, Sony could do the same (at least for PS1 and PS2) if they cared for it

@@sundhaug92 PS2 hardware was very specialized compared to Xbox 360. So PS2 emulators are generally more inaccurate.

You just did tear it down. Its a Switch, with OLED haha. That's it.

Nintendon't is at least 10 years behind with tech lmao

@@djj1 Just like your brain is 10 years behind everyone else, the Switch is perfect for you 💪💪

@@MikeUK66 Perfect for you, Nintendon't has been trash since SNES lol

@@MikeUK66 Switch lacks in titles, at least for Americans. And Nintendos owned exclusives usually never come down in price below $45-$60 new. And it's not like Switch is a power house console. It's 1080p at best and 30FPS. Usually to play cartoon kiddy games.

Just unscrew the base and get rid of the dust (and change the clock battery at the same time) it's all really easy on the slim (check a video guide). Then it will last a lot longer. I still have mine I bought brand new as well and it's working fine, I haven't opened it yet but I've always kept it clean so I don't think it's bad inside.

yeah it was quite janky now that I think about it

NonsensicalVids Word, every game had something happening with it lol. Second part of a console’s lifetime - it was even shame to pull it out. Cuz PCs got so powerful.

@@SergKhrypun however still one of the best times of games a long with 360

Calling it "janky" at any point in its lifespan would be extremely subjectively at best. Care to elaborate on what was no doubt an unlucky experience? I say this as someone who had their first PS2 scratch some of their first games, I'm not pretending they are perfect, but that's a very minor issue as far as issues go especially considering the next gen issues with the Xbox 360 and PS3. It's one thing to have laser pickups fail that you can replace yourself in less than an hour, it's another to have "general hardware failures" that even the manufacturer takes a year or more to figure out. Again, I'm very curious to hear what you mean by "janky" since the PS2 is nearly objectively less "janky" than the consoles that came after it.

awesomeferret Hi, PS2 was like too heavy. Surface had scratched super quick at made it look like a random black box lol. Being janky I mostly talk in a graphics/performance way. Resolution was always low or frame dips etc. GTA San Andreas was downgraded a lot from the PC version. Controller got some joystick drift and so on. Enjoyed the hell out of the console, but all type of odd jank was also included. 🙌🏻🙏🏻

Haha that's such a bad idea putting frozen stuff near a warm PCB

I have both and never had a problem. Maybe the ventilation wasn't working probably

I had the last slim and never have problems with overheating, and playing gran turismo 4 for hours. Maybe his fan stoped working. Now i have a FAT because its beautiful lol

You are big brain. Seriously though, I wish I had thought of that. Very good point. That's one of those "I knew that most of my life but it never actively occured to me until now" things.