The Shrine

if my ps2 is hosed because I accidentally left it on for the entire day today i am going to be PISSED...DDRMAX2 won't work now...even a $150 system should be built in such a way that it can withstand that!

I read the title as "PS2 hostage" initially. What kind of bastard would take a precious PS2 hostage?!!

PS2s are super-fragile. I'm about to trade my decrepit old model in for a new slimline, but I trust that it won't last beyond a year before it starts acting up. Good old Sony.

I find it funny. I'vde left it on 48 hours straight at one point when I didn't have a memory card and mine is still working fine and I got it on release date

I guess I've been pretty lucky then. My PS2 has been left on for more than 12 hours on numerous occaisions, mainly because I don't have any other DVD player in the house and my sister and her nieces are too lazy to turn it off after they use it. Still works okay. It has some problems, but they were always there.

The controller's another story, though. I have to jiggle the cord every once in a while to get the PS2 to recognize it. And I think I broke the analog X button. I really have to force the damn thing.

Huh...WTF is wrong with you people? I've had my PS2 and XBox on all the time several hundred times. Shit, I'm sure my XBox is still on from since I last had a DVD in there. It's probably cycling through the DVD menu over and over again as we speak.

My XBox and Gamecube are little troopers - the XBox lives on carpet and has spent most of its life thus far on, and is fine. The Gamecube I have accidentally kicked up into the air, while it's been playing, has spun around, landed, and required only a reset to get it going again. But my PS2 has been temperamental from the get-go, like my PS1 was before it. I don't have a lot of faith in Sony's products.

Nintendo products kick ass. My Gamecube controller still works great even after a puppy used it as chew toy. It's scratchy, but everything works great.

I leave my PS2 running for days at a time.....

Jeez, you guys are like Mr. Burns' wet dream - I'd hate to see what your electric bills must be like!

Personally, the only consoles I've ever had major problems with are the NES, Saturn (if I can get the cartridge port to recognize my memory card, it's a miracle), and Dreamcast (I went through three of them on release day, and then replaced the one I ended up keeping a couple years later after the drive started acting wonky). Of course, I always used to prop my PS1 up with a couple of floppies under each corner to prevent overheats, as well.

And except in the case of the PS1 (who the hell designs a console with air vents on the bottom and no clearance for said vents????), I wouldn't really call any of the consoles badly designed or shoddily made - you guys are forgetting how tempermental electrical components really are.

Electrical components are only tempermental when exposed to an bad enivoriment and fucked up electricity.

SineSwiper wrote:Electrical components are only tempermental when exposed to an bad enivoriment and fucked up electricity.

Oh, really? Then how do you explain it when some of the boards here at work - in an engineering lab, no less - stop working because of fried/faulty components?

Occasionally, you're going to come upon a component that's right on the edge of failing, but still passes factory inspection and the slightest thing can screw it up. Them's the breaks.

My motherboard for my P3 was a POS. After 6 months the second IDE channel started going to shit, and I had plenty of cooling in there. Regardless, I've got a used PS1 that my brother bought 4 or 5 years ago and aside from a slight flip during the original playstation screen that shows up on boot, nothing out of the ordinary has happened thus far. I was thinking about purchasing at PS2 at some point, but I've first gotta save up for the down payment on my new car and a radar detector.

SineSwiper wrote:Electrical components are only tempermental when exposed to an bad enivoriment and fucked up electricity.

Or when they're just not manufactured well. Sony has a history of poorly-manufactured systems (PSX had TONS of problems too).

I left my Launch day PS2 running once for 4 days straight. I was training a fighter I had created in Virtual Fighter 4 if you must know. After 4 days, because I forgot it was on, I couldn't beat the little bitch.

PS1, never heard of any trouble with it until this post. PS2, I would say about half the people I know who have them experienced problems, I'm not one of them, mine works fine.

The only systems I have ever had trouble with are the NES and PSX. Yes, Sony does make cheap products a lot of the time, Sony Discmen and Walkmen were crap in comparisson to the competition. TV's though, I am not sure, but I would never buy a Sony TV now that I have Norcent =)

I had my PS2 fucked up while trying to mod it, put in a bunked main board as a replacement, and the thing seems to have gotten BETTER. I can't explain it, but I won't complain :p

hey andrew, i wouldn't get a new slimline...that was why i was so pissed...i bought mine three months ago and it's the one that burned out. i don't think they're really built too well. the old ones are much better.

I would think that a small unit would have more heat problems, sorta like laptops.

I'd hope that Sony would be able to iron out any problems prior to releasing such important systems. I should know better :).

SineSwiper wrote:I would think that a small unit would have more heat problems, sorta like laptops.

Not necessarily. I think they're able to release a new model of the system because they've been able to better engineer and manufacture it, which could mean less power consumption.

Example: GBA SP.