Joining the PS2 Boat at last: Advice please!

[Ouenben]

Well Im thinking of joining the PS2 boat sometime next year. 6 years late better than not at all right?


Some things I'm wondering:

1) how easily would I be able to get a white Slimline ps2 capable of running PAL or American titles?

2) What are your 10 top titles for the system?

3) Do you stick with offical Wired controllers or do you like unoffical wireless ones?

4) Slimline or Original PS2 which is more reliable?

5) What advantages do American NTSC Games have over PAL ones?

[Pavey]

1) Tokyochojin has a modded white Jpn slimline for sale on GHZ.

2) Have a search on here mate. Plenty of threads with numerous lists.

3) Always official. So wired on the PS2.

4) Think it depends if its an early model of both of them. Early slims had laser problems,early chunky ones will probably by now have laser probems,due to thier age.

5) Prog scan on some of them. Have a look on HDTV for a compatible list.

[Mad Gear]

What sort of games you into?

[tom-nook]

No.5 - US games are all in 60hz. 'nuff said.

[egparadigm]

Games you simply must own:

Okami (when it finally gets an EU release)
Shadow of the Colossus
Ico
Gregory Horror Show

[Matt Horne]

I have a SCPH70000 slimline is that one which has laser issues.. I have hardly ever used it currently.

Is it fixable ?

Ta

Matt

[Ouenben]

What sort of games you into?

well allsorts really. I know the main ones to pick up when i get one are:

god of war, resi 4, ico, shadow of the collosus, guitar hero 1 + 2 etc

[Matt Horne]

sounds like the list I have

[Mad Gear]

Also check out (tip of the iceberg):-

MGS 3
Disgaea
FFXII
Okami
DMC + DMC3
Onimusha series
Canis Canem Edit
If you like fighters go for Tekken 5, SCIII and VF4 Evo.

[Concept]

A few more to the ones already mentioned.

Silent Hill 2 and 3, MGS2 (flawed but worth a look if only for the amount of discussion and debate which has gone on post-release), Katamari Damacy/We Love Katamari Damacy, Gitaroo Man, Frequency, Rez (if you've not played the DC version), Project Zero, Forbidden Siren 2, Graidus V, Jak & Daxter and San Andreas (forget the negativity surrounding GTA on certain forums, it's probably the greatest free-roaming game ever made) are all worth playing.

I think you'll be more than aware of this, but bar the extra Ada missions, Resident Evil 4 is in my own opinion technically inferior to its GameCube counterpart. It's a very good conversion, but it lacks a lot of the sheen.

[JulioBaptista]

1) Tokyochojin has a modded white Jpn slimline for sale on GHZ.

2) Have a search on here mate. Plenty of threads with numerous lists.

3) Always official. So wired on the PS2.

4) Think it depends if its an early model of both of them. Early slims had laser problems,early chunky ones will probably by now have laser probems,due to thier age.

5) Prog scan on some of them. Have a look on HDTV for a compatible list.

What is GHZ?

[SuperDanX]

Green hill zone forums.

[Champloo]

I would go for Resi 4 on the cube if you have one, it really does look a lot nicer. Although the PS2 extra's are nice.

The PS2 is brilliant if you like your RPG's though, lots and lots of top titles. It's about all I play on mine to be honest.

And definitely get a US machine or a modded PAL machine.

[Escape-To-88]

2.) Okami, Okami, Okami...oh yeah and Okami.

[Roddie]

Guitar Hero