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I was a bit skeptical as to how good the wireless controller would be, and aside from having to figure out how to wake the controller from sleep mode (hit START, took a while before I accidentally did that) I have been impressed with just how well it works. The refurbished console itself works just as well as my original PS2 did all those years ago. It has been wonderful to have a means of playing the handful of games that my backwards compatible PS3 doesn't like, and before you recommend emulators most of them are on the list that you have to use special compatibility features or PCSX2 has problems with (and even with using those settings they still have some definite problems), emulators aren't always the answer, especially if you can get a good refurbished console instead like this one.Read full review
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60 bucks for a fat ps2 is amazing. However I was having issues with the system reading discs. Any time I out a game in, the ps2 would go to the boot menu. Then, after 1 or 2 minutes the game would finally play. The only game that would load instantly was guitar hero 1. Really weird. Any ways I took it apon myself to open the system up and carefully clean the laser eye. Welp, now the darn thing won't power on, no stand by light, nothing. I must have blown a fuse in it, but I would have no idea how that could have happened. Very aggravating. Just be careful with the fat ps2's, there not exactly tanks..... There rather fragile.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Thought my slim PS2 went belly up, and didn't want to spent $$$ on current game consoles. I got this Fat Console earlier than expected and set it up, popped in a disc, memory card, and played for a couple hours. No problems encountered, and here and there still enjoying the Fat PS2 console. Worth every cent spent if you enjoy PS2 games without the need of present day's graphics.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I owned two PS2 units, one of them 1st gen, the other 2nd gen... and both of them performed really nice... until the day in which the DVD-ROM simply stops recognizing the game disk. In the case with my first PS1, the drive just died, period (no disk was playable whatsoever). The second one, the drive was able to play certain disks, but suddenly it would lose grip of the disk, and the disk would start making weird noises while spinning + the game would freeze in the middle of a scene. Very annoying, as it does not let you save before it does that... What is remarkable in the case with the dying drive is the actual timing. The drives died on me after exactly 1 year and 2 months of use. Meaning, exactly when the warranty was up! Repairing the console would cost you almost as much as buying yourself a new one... If I was a person who believed in conspiracy theories, I was going to think that Sony put some kind of "time bomb" chip in the drive, to invalidate it, to force the user to buy a new console... Umm!!! Anyway, I think the PS2 is a great platform, especially content-wise. At the time it was also the quality leader out there, hands down. Also I love the Sony brand and it pains me to give such a low rating to their flagship product. But their technical issues cost me a lot of money so Sony Corp. does need to get their act together in order to remain competitive. If you are interested in buying a PS2, maybe you will never have problems like the ones I had, but then again, what are the odds of having two brand new consoles die on the same person in the exact same way, after the exact same amount of time of moderate usage? Buy at your own risk, and consider yourself warned.Read full review
The system and wireless controller worked, but the 2 wired controllers were busted. I had extra controllers already do not a huge issue. The system itself works, as do the other accessories included (dvd remote, extra memory card)
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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