October 27, 200421 yr Im gonna be pisssed if it keeps freezing like this cause i cant play at all. The game completely locks up. It work fine last night, and for about 1 hour today. This is really pissin me off. It happened to me once also. also, there is a way to help out the PS2, by some procedure internally. Look it up on google.
October 27, 200421 yr Author It happened to me once also. also, there is a way to help out the PS2, by some procedure internally. Look it up on google. Yeah, look up "Disc Read Error".
October 27, 200421 yr Yeah, look up "Disc Read Error". Well it worked for about 10 minutes...but now its s*** again, you guys think i should open it up and try to clean it up.
October 27, 200421 yr Author Well it worked for about 10 minutes...but now its s*** again, you guys think i should open it up and try to clean it up. Yes. On a side note, my CJ looks exactly like MR. T
October 27, 200421 yr Still not working, god dammit it worked at my friends house and not at mine... i feel your pain beastly, i feel your pain
October 27, 200421 yr At least you guys have the game. Well the thing that pisses me off the most is it was working fine, then all of a sudden (after i beat some guy in pool) it stopped working. Then i turn it back on, works for 5-10 minutes, then it freezes. What the hell. All my other games work. And the DRE never happened to me before. I guess ill perform some surgery on my ps2
October 27, 200421 yr alright after reading around...i am not gona open my ps2 up and f*** it up, ill prob just send it in to sony. but i gota try one more thing tonight. I tried a little diagnostics test and that didnt work. so now im gonna ttry this This was the trick that personally fixed all of my problem discs. I first heard of this trick in the September 2002 issue of GamePro. In every issue of GamePro, they have a one-page section called "Buyers Beware", which is a Q&A section where readers write in if they're having a problem with their games. As you might expect, a common problem in previous issues of GamePro has been the PS2's Disc Read Error. But in this issue, a reader named "Jim M." wrote the following letter to Buyer's Beware. Jim's tactic involved placing scotch tape on the face of the actual discs. By taking two 1-inch long pieces of scotch tape and putting them on opposite sides of the CD (as close to the CD hole as possible), the PS2 suddenly has an easier time reading discs. How is this possible, you ask? The disc is using the two symmetric pieces of tape to balance itself on the laser, making the disc easier to be read by the laser. According to Jim, an offset of balance on the disc can occur when dust builds on the magnetic rubber device that holds the disc in place. The tape fixes this. However, this trick didn't work for me...right away. After pondering for awhile, I took Jim's tactic one step further, and added TWO MORE strips of tape onto the two sides of the disc that previously had no tape on them. Lo and behold, it works! These two new strips of tape should still be 1-inch long and should still be as close to the CD hole as possible. I understand that these instructions may be confusing, without a diagram, so I made a little picture that will hopefully explain it better, which can be viewed at www.geocities.com/sonicquestcomic/ps2tapemethod.bmp. While this trick definitely worked for me, it doesn't work for everyone. Namely, I've heard that this trick only works for CD-based media, and not DVD-based media. if it doesnt work, i will call sony tomorrow and make em fix it
October 27, 200421 yr Yea...so that didnt work, looks like ill be calling sony tomorrow :headshake what's your series # on the PS2?
October 27, 200421 yr 30001 that's what mine is too, i don't have the game yet, but from the sounds of things, it's a crapshoot with that model my friend has the same one and had it freeze on him once right after he got it after midnight, this morning he bought a lens cleaner and it's been fine since i'm waiting til finals are done to buy it, but i think i'm going to send it to sony before then, b/c i've had trouble with some dvds
October 27, 200421 yr Can I get some help. I just completed the mission with the BMX, the first one. They tell you to go back to CJ's, but where is that on the map, and what do they mean get new colors?
October 27, 200421 yr Can I get some help. I just completed the mission with the BMX, the first one. They tell you to go back to CJ's, but where is that on the map, and what do they mean get new colors? go to the clothes shop and buy some new clothes? Purdue, do you know how much the cleaners are?
October 27, 200421 yr go to the clothes shop and buy some new clothes? Purdue, do you know how much the cleaners are? not exactly sure, my friend is offline... but if i remember right, he paid $12-15 for it
October 27, 200421 yr go to the clothes shop and buy some new clothes? Purdue, do you know how much the cleaners are? where is the clothers store???
October 27, 200421 yr SmokeandMirrors, what is your avatar? I was wondering when somebody would ask that. Anyway, it's Crusader, from the old Crusader: No Regret and No Remorse games. They came out around '96 I believe.
October 27, 200421 yr When you get to the mission "Just Business", prepare for a FUN ASS mission. I've had no PS2 problems, all your guys's PS2's probably need some tweaking as they're close to going DRE on you... I'm about 9% complete myself.. i have to agree...that mission was AWESOME.
October 27, 200421 yr and for you guys having DRE problems....i'm telling you, i've taken my ps2 apart a few times, cleaned the laser...it's easy as all hell and works..
October 27, 200421 yr Author i have to agree...that mission was AWESOME. Yeah, that mission was great. They need an option where you can just play old missions for fun. I kicked some guys ass at pool too.
October 27, 200421 yr where is the clothers store??? Don't you have the big map if you really get lost?
October 27, 200421 yr where is the clothers store??? You don't have to go to the clothes shop right away. Just look on the map and their should be either a disc or a yellow blurb and you can go via that. Also, you can hit start and look on the map and set a target, thats what I did so I always know where it is (It gives you this big red target). Its in the Del Los Santos district or something like that.
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