*Fun fact for those interested:* The PS2 controller he has is definitely legit, and RARE, and it's actually kind of a collectible. It's controller model SCPH-10520 and is basically a DualShock 2 controller with the rumble motors removed. The timelines here are a little fuzzy to lock down, but for some time in 2006 Sony sold these controllers in blue packaging with the notice "DOES NOT SUPPORT VIBRATION" printed on them. The controllers themselves were cheaper than DualShock 2 controllers so most people thought Sony was introducing budget-friendly peripherals to the market. But in reality this was all due to a lawsuit with a company called Immersion over the vibration function of the DualShock controller. Sony was able to keep selling the DualShock 2 while they had an appeal under review with the court, but they actually lost their first appeal in 2006 which is why these controllers were released, and filed a new appeal with federal court. If anyone here remembers correctly, the original PS3 launched in 2006 with the SIXAXIS controller which also had its vibration functionality removed. Sony eventually settled the lawsuit in March of 2007 with Immersion and was granted the right to continue to use the vibration technology/design. That same year at a press conference in Japan Sony announced the DualShock 3 controller, which was essentially a SIXAXIS PS3 controller with the rumble motors put back in to it (lol, right?). Sony released the DualShock 3 controller in North America in 2008. For some reason a lot of people don't remember the rumbleless time period between 2006-2009. Even I forgot about it until I did this little research after seeing this video. When Sony released the PS3 Slim in 2009 (the one most of us had and remember) it came standard with a DualShock 3 controller, and since then we've had uninterrupted vibration functionality. So if you think about it, the controller he has in this video (and for anyone else who has one) could be considered a collectible because it was made only for a specific reason and had a short lifespan.

The last wave of the PS2 controllers had the haptic feedback removed as a consequence of the patent lawsuit with Immersion and Sony not wanting to pay the licensing for the PS2. The rumble-free version should have a different model number on the bottom.

I'm assuming from the comments calling this video clickbait that people expected him to say he got something totally opposite from what he ordered? All it takes is watching a couple other videos of his from the series to find out that the point is to show the quality and contents of what they end up selling so people know. Really not too hard of a series to understand, and definitely not clickbait.

Man buys ps2 slim. It works fine. He got a good deal. I'm confused.

Conspiracy theory time. GameStop has taken note of you and is making sure to send you deluxe examples of their retro selection.

FIX YOUR SEGA GENESIS BOX!! ITS CROOKED.

I ordered a ps2 from Gamestop this is what they sent me.. A ps2

my dad had a PS2 installed in our old minivan and on road trips my step brother and i would always play battlefront 2 and mortal kombat Armageddon!

I have a ps2 controller that doesn't have any rumble motor in it so maybe there were some made

That's not your average GameStop refurbish. It's GameStop PREMIUM refurbished.

Still got my PS2 from 2007 and still works perfectly fine

I'm waiting for this series to keep escalating to a point of ludicrousness. "I Ordered A Refurbished Dog From Gamestop...And This Is What They Sent Me"

This series amongst others that you have done has quickly became a favorite of mine. It's probably because i can't see myself doing this at all but you also break it down very nicely, and it's well paced and overall really enjoyable ! Keep up the great work Spawn !

Controller model is SCPH-10520, released around 2006/2007. Sony announced at E3 2006 that it would remove the rumble feature from the PS3 controllers because of "interference with motion controls". In actuality Immersion's lawsuit against Sony considering haptic feedback was the cause for this, as proven by this rumble-less PS2 controller, which appeared at the same time.

Yes, there was an Official PS2 Controller without Dualshock capabilities around 2008 (from my research) and it didn't have rumble for the reason that Sony had to temporarily stock stores with tweaked controllers to dodge licence fees when it comes to vibration but swiftly got the licence for vibration back so they could continue the manufacturing process for Dualshock 2 controllers.

From what I remember, there was an official version of the PSOne Analog controller that didn't have haptics. They were fairly quickly superceded by the DualShock1.0 controller and then later DualShock2.0 on the PS2, which wasn't all that much different in terms of design.

Remember when the PS3 was first released, Sony was hit with a lawsuit from a company stating that the rumble mechanism was their creation; not Sony's. The lawsuit claimed that Sony was using the rumble feature without compensating the company. Thus, the 1st round of PS3 controllers only had SixAxis controls and NO rumble feature. A few months later, the lawsuit was settled and Sony released the PS3 controller with SixAxis & rumble feature. All that said, I wonder if Sony was still making PS2 controllers at the time and had to remove the rumble feature in them?

I bet GameStop loves these videos you do.

The OCD in me is freaking out about the boxes in the back. lol

10:40 I'm pretty sure I remember a couple of my PS2 controllers didn't have the dualshock or vibrate. It feels so long ago haha.

>Gamestop Employee: We got another order from Spawnwave, time to breakout the good stuff.

Sony made those cheap controllers as an alternative to the Dual Shock ones. They are quite common and sold for like $25 back in the day vs the $40 Dual Shock controllers. Not sure how youve not seen one before.

As soon as he flicked that stick on the N64 controller I let out an audible “Oooh!” sound. That’s a rarity with those old controllers and it brought back fond memories

Your videos really help me out. Nice to see someone that knows what they are doing!

I Ordered A Refurbished PS2 From Gamestop...And They Sent Me A Refurbished PS2.

I ordered a refurbished bomb from GameStop... And this is what they sent me: It appears to have a defect, it seems like the fuse is already li-

I would recommend placing tape on the door lock on the door closed detector. This is a common problem with the PS2 Slim if your system does not read discs. Mine had this problem, and this fixed it.

@9:40 Yes, there are 3 PS2 discs, CD-Rom, DVD-Rom and DL-DVD-Rom.

I wish GameStop would ship to us Canadians. But nope.. we are redirected to the EB Games website.

What about a video about all the build differences between all the PS2 SKUs?

there was a specific model of PS2 slim that came with 2 non-rumble controllers. My wife's parents bought one around 2007 - 2008 and I thought it was so weird that they had no rumble feature.

So I skipped the intro And though they send him a n64 instead of a ps2

The PS2 controller is legit. They were cheaper because they were without the rumble. A lot of people, myself included, never liked the rumble so that was a good alternative to save some cash and have a nice legit controller.

There were some early ps2 controllers that didn’t have rumble motors. I remember my very first ps2 the original model didn’t have any rumble motors but looked like a DualShock 2, and was jealous when my parents bought my sister a ps2 slim and hers came with a DualShock 2 with rumble motors

How did he get it for 34 they are like 90 now

there was different versions of the ps2 slim. the ones where the whole left part of the top was glossy, not just the stripe in the middle, had their poweradaptor integrated, so just a 2 pole power cable coming out of the system straight into the wall, no trafo box in between.

Chances are the PS2 was bought at the end of its lifecycle and hardly used or bought mainly as a dvd player

maybe game stop got those ps2 controllers from a prison inmate who used the motors to make a tattoo gun

I believe the controller that you received is a Japanese PS1 Analog Controller, which came out over there before the original Dualshock 1. It didn't feature rumble but was identical in every other way, and it came in black. It did not indicate any label next to the shoulder buttons like the DS2 did later.

Me: “reads title” Me: a refurbished PS2?

Why bubble wrap on just the top? Kinda defeats the purpose if the box drops and lands on the bottom or sides

PS2 will forever be my favorite console. My original fat version lasted 14 years before it gave in I bought a silver slim to replace it. I have my original standing on a top wall shelf by itself. I remember when it came out thinking how cutting edge the DVD player on it was. All the great games it had. Never had as much fun on any console as the PS2. And I don't think I ever will.

From browsing an older-ish (08') message board, it seems that Wal-mart was also selling those PS2 controllers. from what they described on the board it also had places for the rumble motor housing

On the controller without the rumble motors, those were out around the first year of the PS3, the non-rumbles were made since Sony was facing a patent case that could have caused them to not be able to import rumble controllers, one to the key reasons the PS3 original controller didn't have rumble. The Non-rumbles came in a Christmas Bundle back in 2007 as a second controller. Source: I worked at Wal-Mart and sold a ton of the 2007 PS2 Christmas bundles...

I think the PS2 controller without rumble is a scph-10520, which is a PS2 controller with analoge sticks and no dualshock. Also, thanks for the great series!

I've been trying to order a PS2 from Gamestop for months. Their website always lists them as 'not available online', so how'd you manage to get one?

At least in europe, one of the wildest things I seen was very late revisions of Slim PS2 that has "the Figure eight" going straight to the Slim console itself, so they even packed a internal power transformer to the slim's shell aside rest of the slimmed down PS2. These revisions are though so late that they are immune to memory card based FreeMCboot homebrew solutions and probably most resistant to modchip installations making them a bit less desirable for playing backups or imports...

I noticed each of PS2 games you tested were stored in sleeves. Even the one inside the plastic case. Do you normally store them in sleeves, within the hard case?

“That’s a good feeling stick” - Spawn Wave, 2019

I remember Sony losing a lawsuit over rumble. That is probably an official controller that had to remove the rumble motors.

Cannot believe how fast your channel has blew up, good luck to you.

You should also try dual layer dvd games, like Rogue Galaxy. I've had refurb consoles from gamestop fail to read a dual layer dvd game until I tapped the system on the bottom as it tried to read the disc, and it unstuck something.

These videos are always fascinating to watch..

I have ordered a few consoles from GameStop and they have always been working and in good condition. Disc based games can be hit or miss, but the systems have always been nice.

Purchased one of these refurbished PS2 slims from GameStop this week - in part based on watching your video. Mine turned out to be not as clean - but not too bad. The controller was a dual-shock fairly worn - but useable. The system works - plays PS2 games fine. PS1 games, not so well. Some appear to work, but then simply stop. Some don't play at all. Guessing its the laser. Will probably replace it with a new one. Enjoyed the video.

I used to take out the rumble motors on my remotes all the time! I always turned off the toggle anyway in game. Then I just got used to the light weight controller.

I remember seeing ps1 non-dual stick controllers once.

I'm so happy that he chose to use Jak and Daxter to test. In my top 3 favorite franchises ever.

i just did some research and i believe what you got is called the "dual analog controller" which is actually a ps1 controller produced in 97 and 98 then discontinued and superseded by dualshock 2 when the ps2 came out. the is an article on wikipedia called "dual analog contoller" which is where i am getting this info from.

When you repaired PS2 slims, have you ever encountered some that left a ring around discs? I'm noticing that my old ps2 slim is doing that now. I think from some videos I found it says that the ribbon for the laser is coming up and scratching the disc. A solution is to bend the ribbon down, but in your video, you said that if you bought a laser replacement that ribbon would be taped down. Thoughts and solutions?

Kind of clickbaity. I ordered a refurbished PS2... and got a working ps2.

I went to out to find a ps2 this is what I discovered... 😀 It works it was 15$ and it's almost brand new fat model

There are three types of PS2 disc - blue back, silver back, and gold back. The gold ones are dual layer DVDs, and a lot of the failures with the PT1 up to like PX3 fat models were with those gold discs. God of War is one that comes to mind.

How did your get old consoles from game stop I’ve been on there website and can’t find it

I Ordered A Refurbished PS2 From Gamestop...And They Sent Me a Helicopter.

I got a refurbished ps2 from gamestop as a kid and I accidentally stepped on the disc drive, it still works fine the silver part on the front is just not on that great and DVDs show a black square on the screen

for a little time when the PS2 came out the controllers stopped having the rumble motors but brought it back after heavy negative feedback. I think it had something to do with a patent

Great video. I’m definitely going to buy a couple of official controllers now for different systems since they seem to give you good ones most of the time.

It's clean and the stick feels good. All a man really wants to hear at the end of the day.

Gamestop only cleans but doesnt fix their "refurbished" consoles

I also usually check the dual layer DVD disc(s) when testing a pre-owned PS2 system as some of them had issues later on reading games on those sort of discs. I believe either the first or second God Of War game is a dual layer. I also typically bring out a plain old music CD, since the PS1 and PS2 played those too, just to be certain it can play every kind of disc it's supposed to. As for the controller it could just be that the former owner tried opening it to clean it and messed up the tiny/thin wires typically coming from the controller board to the rumble motors and rather than solder them back to the board they just removed them. I've run into that with used Dualshock 2's before where the wire(s) are just disconnected. So I've just snipped them completely.

Awesome video what would you recommend for playing the ps2 on modern HD TV's

I still have my PS2 and play RE with it and Constantine

The ps2 controller is official, when I the ps2 bundle brand new back in the day it came with 2 controllers and one of them was lighter and felt cheaper

I really want a PS2 slim 9000 model, not the 7000 one, but the problem is most online retailers don't specify which model they have. The only obvious external difference is the power brick on the 7000 (the 9000 has an internal power supply) but the pictures usually don't show that.

Seeing the title, I can only think of the dollar store dad saying “It’s GameStop, how good can it really be?”

Is the ps2 worth buying in 2019 for games like gta san andreas and all the old classic ps2 ganes

I love how his facial expression always looks like they sent him a box of moldy cat shit in the thumbnail. Insta-click every time...

Fu fact the tape you see on the ribbon often, it's not to get it out of the way of the optical pickup, it's so the ribbon doesn't pop up too gmhigh and scratch the disc, we see that very often in PS2 slims.

I've found a few PS2 systems in the trash, including two slim models. One had a jack for the power supply like you showed, but the other one had the figure-8 connector right on the back of the console.

This series is basically, "I got what I ordered from GameStop".

Just got 2 N64 controllers from GameStop and both work perfect

Inspired by these videos, I went to gamestop.com to purchase a ds original or “fat” and a copy of nba jam for the sega genesis. I was pleased to see that nba jam came with the box, however no manual, and my ds, while having some scratches on the shell(both inside and out) looked and worked very nicely. You should do a video like this but on a hand held console like a ds or game boy.

there was a dual shock without rumble motors from ps1 that worked with a ps2 it was from the last ps1 models

The last couple years of PS2 came without dualshock because SONY lost the licensing for the technology and thats why the PS3 launched with no dualshock. This should have been obvious.

Try getting a Ds lite I recently bought one from in store and its needing a new battery and a new stylus because the stylus for it was for a 3ds I assume

Dude when I try looking for ps1 and ps2 systems on GameStop.com it says they don’t sell them anymore

The crooked Genesis Box on the left hand side makes my eye twitch.

I believe there was a time that Sony was infringing on a patent for the rumble feature and did not want to pay for the use of it. They tried to go without it but the negative feedback from consumers and eventually folded and brought it back.

You'll notice that when u play PS2 CD-ROMs, the PS2 vibrates.

The PS2 slim controller was still a Dualshock as far as I remember. The difference was the finish, the original felt very oily, while the slim was rougher. Possibly I was just comparing newer controllers to used ones but that's what I remember.

No rumble motors might be from that time when they also took out rumble for the PS3 at launch. It would line up and could be a model from 2006 on.

It was thing back then I remember not having rumble

Who else thought they sent him a Nintendo controller instead of the ps2 😂🤣

God that Genesis box not being straight on the wall behind is messing with my OCD....

Ever thought a previous owner took the vibration out of the controller? Done it to my Xbox one controller and it makes shit so much nicer to hold

Spoiler Alert: They sent him a Refurbished PS2

Love Tech wave. Ps2 are great, I love the ps2 slim. Great video Spawn

for the ps1, how did you replace the lazer?. Was it the whole lazer module, or did you replace the eye component?

Hey! I need some advice on fixing my ps2 controllers. I have 1 controller where the left analog stick feels broken. If im pressing up on the stick and then click the button, it feels like whatever is holding it is broken, like I have to press extra hard on it for the button to click. And I have another controller where the sticks work, but none of the face buttons work and the d pad doesnt work. Help?