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I’m pretty sure the issue with Half Life not being read is an issue of the Disc Reader dying, the issue stems from the part of the laser that reads CD’s
it's a sign of either maintenance needed on the lens itself (good ol' alcohol rub) or the laser being on it's way out. Half Life is an early PS2 game, still on a CD, not a DVD. I've had 2 fat PS2s not reading CDs or PS1 discs. Cleared both and they played well. Didn't like scratched CDs much but that's to be expected, I've seen mad damage on PS1 discs.
Blue and black DVDs have trouble on a lot of older PS2s. This was an issue when trading them in, and some game stores wouldn't even take them if their DVD readers couldn't play certain games.
It must be the flat cables going loose while the lens is moving to read the Half Life CD. I had the same issue, and I just had to make sure the flat cable from mainboard to the cd/dvd lens was pretty secured ^^
Due to the sound I can hear, it's the clip that connects the dvd reader to the motor track to move it back and forth. The grinding sound is the motor trying to move the laser to another part of the disk extremely fast and resulting in the clip slipping off the track. I've fixed this issue 3 times in my current PS2.
I think the reason the fan plug on the noctua was snipped like that is it's a used return to Amazon from another customer and Amazon are notorious for just re-using returns and refunded products. An Amazon worker wouldn't have any idea the fan header was snipped.
If you hated replacing the fan, you'll absolutely despise replacing the clock battery. You have to take off all the shielding on the motherboard to replace a 2032 battery. Also, 700mb for the OPL partition is NOT enough if you plan on having box art for all your games. Once it fills up, OPL refuses to save settings (because there's no storage left). It did this to me after about 100 games, and when you realize how good the PS2 library is, 100 isn't a lot.
Those screws were driven by hand operated torque moderated drivers and they tapped their own threads at speed. That snapping sound you’re hearing is the mechanical bond between the friction melted plastic threads of the chassis, and the metal threads of the screw.
It's been a LONG time since I had found a new (to me) channel and felt like I'd struck gold but I've binged the entire backlog and eagerly anticipate new releases. 10/10, no notes. Also, I've been shopping for a new office chair and that ad read really spoke to me 😏
Hi, I'm from Brazil and I wanted to say something that shocked me PS2 HAS NATIVE SUPPORT FOR LINUX (I'm sure a lot of people know but when I found out it was a mind blowing) (and I'm very grateful for mentioning Brazil, I've been following you for a while and seeing my country being mentioned is really cool, so Hello FROM BRAZIL)
@@Arctic_silverstreak Not much, but it's a fun curiosity. Imagine how limited an early '00s Linux distro would've been, and then imagine how much more limited it would be trying to run on a PS2. Basically you got a word processor and a paint program and that was it. Michael MJD (I think?) did a video where he got the Japan-only PS2 Linux kit and installed it, if you want to see one in action.
I have CONSISTENTLY laughed out loud at the “half life scientist screaming while absurd gore comes out of the wire I’m cutting” joke every time you do it
I showed my non-hardware-technical wife this video. She had no idea what you were doing but thought the video was funny. You have great presentation. We loved the sponsor segment too.
fun fact, you can literally just lift the entire thing out of the case, there’s no need to remove the optical drive. also, on my first (very worn out) ps2, i had to keep the top case off and press a screwdriver on the center of the disc drive to get it to boot anything
Fun fact: Those Intel SSDs can last forever. I have one at the Lab that's done almost 400 TB written from the previous owner, and it's still happy as can be.
Brazilian here, jailbreaking the ps2 is in fact so easy that everyone i know who's owned one bought their console pre-jailbroken, and absolutely every game you could find was a poorly burned CD you'd find going for a couple of bucks at the flea market
The PS2 actually can do "HD" output! Some games from the very end of the active lifespan of the console support it, too! I think the last Gran Turismo game that was supported on PS2 is one of those games. You do need to get a component AV cable to replace the default composite one in order to get HD output, though.
GT4 on 1080i is still glorious. You don't even need the expensive component cable anymore either, there are HDMI adapters for 5 bucks that can output that all day long. You just need to blindly change output settings, but that's PS2 for you.
@@Delcaek are those component cables expensive these days? Could swear I got mine for like $10 5 or 6 years ago. HDMI mods are great, though, regardless.
I've modded my ps2 exactly like yours months ago (I'm from France). It was a pain to disassemble it and do the noctua mod (3d printed myself too). The sound from your cd/dvd reader must come from the "loosy" ide cable connected to from mainboard to the lens, it moves the cable as the lens moves to read the cd/dvd and when not reinserted correctly, it can come loose and bring issues. (I dissassembled my ps2 like 5 times until it was right) So only solution : dismantle your ps2 again and only connect your cd/dvd reader while powering on the ps2 until you get it right :D ! Good luck ! Btw, great video, I love your content !
That makes so much sense, I just took my original one apart no mods or anything to clean it and when I tried playing it the discs wouldn’t read. Bummed me out but I think I’ll try this 👍
thats how you know youve done a great job, when you got one or two screws left over, this means youve assembled it more efficiently than the factory could, kudos!!
@@NickGoblin Try HDL Dump Helper GUI. It's far from perfect and one of it's quirks is that you have to add each game one by one, which is annoying if you have many games to add, but I've found it works the best.
I am from Brazil and i confirmed that ps2 is loved he. I grow up with it while the ps4 was being released. And to this you can still find ps2 for sale here.
Btw there a good chunk of games on ps2 with online working again thanks to the community. Now we just need to make the ps2 Netflix service work again and the ps2 will basically kill modern consoles 😎
@@Abdessamad889.Poor dumass that didn't grow up with a 2000s era console boohoo Seethe in rage as you stare at the ps5's release catalogue 12 and a half games lol
that noctua fan was probably a return that was stocked back as new again. the previous owner probably did some weird cuts to the header to try to make it work for something they wanted to do, but they just returned it instead. amazon sells returns as new products all the time.
as someone who's opened up a dying PS3 to save its hard drive, there comes a point when disassembling a PlayStation where the instinct to _gore_ out of impatience kicks in
I just wanted to say I was recently inspired by you to start doing this as a small business, buying broken old consoles and repairing/"upgrading them". I'm currently working on a Ps2 right now and your breakdown was a tremendous help to actually find information that is so scattered and to see the process before I even started. Huge thanks.
@@trizmo289 the ps2 disc drive was only ever ment to read the discs not write them dvd players were still very expensive back when the ps2 was in development so sony used the cheapest dvd drive they could make
dreamcast does have a harddrive mod, called the TerraOnion MODE, you could also use a GDEMU to replace the optical disc drive for an sd card for like 30 dollars
Here in Brazil, the PS2 is so popular that to this day, you can still find stores selling PS2 games. Here we have this thing called "popular market" where people sell everything you can imagine and in every one of these, you can easily find at least 5 people selling a bunch of PS2 games. And thanks to that we got gaming masterpieces like Bomba Patch, GTA São Paulo, GTA Rio de Janeiro, GTA 4 for PS2 and GTA Armageddon. As you can see, people around here loved GTA. If you had a PS2, you were obligated to have at least one GTA. I remember playing the shit out of GTA San Andreas on my PS2, so much so that I had to replace my San Andreas disk at least 5 times. Unfortunately, the disk reador of my PS2 that I had since I was a child broke and I'm too lazy to fix it. Maybe someday I will do it but today is not that day.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthyjust to add info, the quality of the disks here in Brazil for that kind of stuff were really bad (the counterfeit market was really strong on the PS1/PS2 era, going even on the xbox360 market). Is almost certain that if you try to resurface that disk, the disk itself will break hahahahahahaha
Yeah Brazil is one of the few places where old stuff is still being sold. Like at one point you could get a Sega Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive in retail stores.
Super weird that you're doing this video when I've been doing a bunch of research lately on modding my fat ps2. I had a molded ps2 a few years ago but the movers "lost" over $2,000 of my gaming stuff. Glad to see this one getting new life.
@crowmw8243 Yup! I fought for over six months, and they ended up paying me a whopping $150. Turns out the "up to $10,000 in insurance" they (and most movers) offer is actually paid out as 10 cents PER POUND. So because my games, consoles, controllers, etc. didn't weigh nearly anything, they told me to fuck all the way off.
@vyor8837 In their contract, you have to do mediation first in the state that their headquarters was in, which was Florida. You also had to pay for the mediation up front, and if you won, you were reimbursed. Afterward, you could attempt a lawsuit. I talked with a lawyer about it, and they pretty much told me I was SOL because I'd spend more in airfare, hotels, and time than it would be to simply lick my wounds and move on. It hurt a lot, I lost a bunch of my childhood things, but I had just gotten married and moved my entire life from NY to OK and couldn't afford to pursue it.
Bro the modding the ps2 is so dam fun it’s verry simple compared to other consoles and the community is also amazing for these. Glad you made a video about this
@@Velikannit’s been super long since I did it (10 years) but, from what I remember all you do is put files (the exploit) on an SD card, go to your mail and run the letter bomb hack. You just open that mail and it starts to run it. You don’t even need an SD card you can change the DNS settings to start the exploit. There where a few more things you needed to do but, I remember 14 year old me not having any issues. I think you had to grab the MAC address of your wii for the hack as well. Easily doable within 5 or so minutes.
The 2.5" drive caddy is just supposed to hold it so that it doesn't droop, and put stress on the connectors, there's no other need for it. It doesn't need to *mount* anything, just keep it from hanging there. Though you CAN mount it to the adapter itself, which becomes all the actual mounting you need.
I find this so amusing since Star Wars Battlefront 2 was the exact first game my og xbox had inside it when I got it. My mom got it from a yardsale and it was all I played offline for years.
i'v ran into this problem many times, where the CD or DvD dont read. its a give away on how its making that sound when loading, it's skipping on the track. all you got to do is shim the laser track up and add some grease to the track. there is also pots on the laser you can adjust if it still dont read there marked with a C for cd and D for dvd.
I'm from Brazil, and I can say, THIS CONSOLE IS ETERNAL HERE. Even nowadays it's pretty common to visit someone and the person have this on their living room, we spend lots of hours playing classic games (at least it's classic here), like Naruto games, Crash, Obscure and any other game with split screen. When someone doesn't understand a thing about video game they ask "Você tem play?", can be translated as "Do you have a 'play'?". PS2 still lives.
@@dhoome1234ify yeah i know that, i thought that there’s some joke that he screwed up the fan connector once or something and that there’s an inside joke about macho nacho and removing the fan in the ps2
The blue discs require faster spin speeds, which if your disc drive is dying, it won't read. The later discs that are dvd's require a slower spin speed that's why SWBF read.
Some early launch PS2s had issues reading blue/black CDs, either due to a calibration issue, or the holding mechanism wasn't holding the blue/black CD tight enough (if I remember correctly the blue/black CDs was a bit thinner than standard DVDs/CDs).
I remember when my mom bought me a PS1 from Americanas (is like a variety store for non Brazilian fellows) already modded and me as a kid didn't even know that the games I bought on the "3 for 5 bucks" aren't official. This where the days
6:53 I love that this is the little clip you get when you mouse over the video in the recommended list. "ooh a video about modding the PS2, let's see wha-.................."
22:43 the ps2 actually just sucks at reading CDs because the discs are lighter than DVDs, believe it or not slapping 2 pieces of tape on it fixes the weight. Worked for my Unreal Tournament :P
The blue/black PS2 CDs was thinner usually causing the disc clamp to not hold the disc tight enough and would just spin in the holder when the drive motor would go to spin the disc. There's things you can do to make the blue/black discs thicker where the clamp holds onto the disc, or you can modify the clamp. There was also a calibration issue on a some early PS2s, where the laser wasn't at the correct distance from the CD and the focusing eye couldn't adjust enough to bring the CD laser into focus (but was just fine for DVDs). There is a white cog at the top of the drive you can adjust, but adjusting it can lead to issues, as you have to adjust it to where both the DVD and CD laser can both be focused (it doesn't help that both lasers use a single focusing eye). So you have to choose a happy middle ground for both to work.
The PS2 can also do up to 1080i, tho not many games natively support it (the only one i know that does is Gran Turismo 4) but you can force it on any game with the Graphics Synthesizer Mode Selector tool.
That is upscaled 1080i and not native, but it does look fairly good if you use an aftermarket scaler with deinterlacing software. There are four games in total that can use the high res mode.
1:33 “I don’t know much about the PS2, but I know that there is a big ‘ol IDE hard drive right up in here” *Proceeds to play the audio from a Miniscribe SCSI hard drive from the 90’s*
Yesterday, my mom mailed me an old fat PS2 she found in her basement. I have never owned one, either. Today, this popped up in my feed and literally every one of your mods is on my list of "todo" mods - plus a few others. Thanks for posting this vid for inspiration! P.S. something tells me you already figured this out (or knew the entire time, you clever, clever dude....), but I am pretty sure that spring in the hdd/network adapter bit is for grounding between the boards.
Absolutely epic modding as always! The way you transformed that old PS2 fat into a modern gaming beast is just mind-blowing. 🤯 The custom paint job and the LED lights are the cherries on top. It's like watching a phoenix rise from the ashes of retro gaming consoles. Keep up the great work, and can't wait to see what you'll bring back to life next! 🔥🎮 #BringusStudiosMagic
Hey you didn't have to touch the DVD drive at all, just remove the controller port and the screws near the rear IO and you can easily pull the PS2 guts out. It's a nicely put together console that's very easy to work on. From there removing the power supply board screws and lifting it from its pins will give you easy access to the fan power connector. Also with the latest PS2 software we're loading games off of exfat storage, managing all their data on a PC and doing it right through windows explorer.
The main branch of OPL still doesn't support exFat on an internal HDD/SSD (it does for USB), so far only GrimDoomers OPL fork supports exFat for the HDD/SSD. And that fork is well out of date in comparison to the main branch of OPL. GrimDoomers OPL has compatibility issues with some games, if any game that used mode 7 or mode 8 to work (which was removed from OPL) won't usually work on GrimDoomers version of OPL.
im sure another keyboard warrier already said, but it didnt boot from the hardrive, it booted from the USB, it was meant for firmware as well as some peripherals
with the network adapter you could run games from a shared folder from your pc, iv set up a raspberry pie as a host and have all my games on it, it's a faster way to load games then off the HD and you can have as much storage as you would want for games and cover art.
Loading games from network is only slightly faster than loading them from a HDD (probably due to HDD having seek times), BUT there is virtually no difference between loading from network and loading from an SSD. There's a few videos showing the loading speeds of the different methods of loading the games.
There was a common issue with some PS2s where they had trouble reading the blue and black disks. Not 100% sure of the reason. But I know I was severely disappointed as a kid who just rented a PS2 game for the weekend only to not be able to play it :(
Hey Bringus, just watched the latest LinusTechTips video titled "I dont want to clean this." It features a pool cleaning robot, which Linus mentions the specs at 7:38. Quad core ARM 1.8GHz, 4GB RAM. Think you could do something with that?
You should try cleaning the laser lens and lubricate the rails that lens assembly sits on with some molytone grease. Grease the gears on the loading mechanism while you're at it
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bazonga I love the PS3 more!
a 10$ office chair from ebay is as ergonomic as this money furnace
i still dont understand why people spend hundreds of dollars on chairs
Cause the better gaming chair means you’re better gamer
This was the dumbest sponsor segue I've seen, and I've watched Linus Tech Tips
11/10, no notes
What the hell why'd you have to call me out like that?
That chat gpt intro was the most DougDoug delivery I’ve ever heard. Love it.
ChatGPT canonically makes it so that if you ask it to do a youtube intro involving a fat console, it will make it a DougDoug video
To be fair chatgpt was made just for dougdoug so ofc it sounds like him
The fallout part was hilarious
it was copilot not chatgpt
@@AwesomeHawthie F
"so grab your screwdrivers and join us" Has to be the most Chat GPT written statement I have ever heard
Put down that chainsaw and listen to me!
Brazil Mentioned!
We REALLY love PS2 around here, i had 5 while growing up (2005-2015).
Brazil Mentioned!
I still have my slimline model that I got in 2009. I've modded it with MX4SIO
EVERYONE that was EVERYWHERE loved the ps2. shit is the bestselling console rn.
brazil mentioned
bro got the ps10
After discovering your channel, I watched every single one of your videos. I realized I need more because your videos are the one thing that makes my meal bearable. Thank you so much.
I’m pretty sure the issue with Half Life not being read is an issue of the Disc Reader dying, the issue stems from the part of the laser that reads CD’s
From my experience, once the CD laser goes, it’s a matter of time before the DVD laser goes
it's a sign of either maintenance needed on the lens itself (good ol' alcohol rub) or the laser being on it's way out. Half Life is an early PS2 game, still on a CD, not a DVD. I've had 2 fat PS2s not reading CDs or PS1 discs. Cleared both and they played well. Didn't like scratched CDs much but that's to be expected, I've seen mad damage on PS1 discs.
Blue and black DVDs have trouble on a lot of older PS2s. This was an issue when trading them in, and some game stores wouldn't even take them if their DVD readers couldn't play certain games.
It must be the flat cables going loose while the lens is moving to read the Half Life CD. I had the same issue, and I just had to make sure the flat cable from mainboard to the cd/dvd lens was pretty secured ^^
Due to the sound I can hear, it's the clip that connects the dvd reader to the motor track to move it back and forth. The grinding sound is the motor trying to move the laser to another part of the disk extremely fast and resulting in the clip slipping off the track. I've fixed this issue 3 times in my current PS2.
I think the reason the fan plug on the noctua was snipped like that is it's a used return to Amazon from another customer and Amazon are notorious for just re-using returns and refunded products. An Amazon worker wouldn't have any idea the fan header was snipped.
Agreed. They bought the fan, it didn't fit, they snipped the tabs, still didn't work, then returned it.
If you hated replacing the fan, you'll absolutely despise replacing the clock battery. You have to take off all the shielding on the motherboard to replace a 2032 battery. Also, 700mb for the OPL partition is NOT enough if you plan on having box art for all your games. Once it fills up, OPL refuses to save settings (because there's no storage left). It did this to me after about 100 games, and when you realize how good the PS2 library is, 100 isn't a lot.
It's not that bad if you ask me, I had fun taking PS2 apart to bare bones to swap the battery lol.
@@crafciak31 Those ribbon cables under the disc drive are too awful to ignore. Had to use tweezers to get em back in and it took way too long
Ohh
some versions of the SCPH-30001 have the clock battery attached on the side of the dvd drive
@@euvo_sound I wish I had one lol
optical media good. digital media good. you aren't gonna delete a disk, but you can't scratch digital.
With discs, you can just lose it oh somewhere and it would be gone
@@cyclist_sam_official they both have advantages.
@@cyclist_sam_official yeah if you're irresponsible and leave it in random places, be responsible and own a shelf
@@cyclist_sam_official with digital media (depends where you buy it) if you get banned from where you bought it well its not really your media
@@cyclist_sam_official With digital, Ubisoft can just remove The Crew from your library and it would be gone
2:56 truly a world crispiest fries moment
Are these the most crispiest screws ? Lets find out. [insert bone cracking sound]
turly
@@poble real
Bro gaves us time to make a group of 4 and think about it
crispiest screws had me dying
Those screws were driven by hand operated torque moderated drivers and they tapped their own threads at speed. That snapping sound you’re hearing is the mechanical bond between the friction melted plastic threads of the chassis, and the metal threads of the screw.
I love looking at the gaming bits. I'm such a pervert.
Oh you PERV
dirty
@@flappyjay_gaming🤨
@@flappyjay_gaming saw that /j a second too late
Umm, lewd! 😂
It's been a LONG time since I had found a new (to me) channel and felt like I'd struck gold but I've binged the entire backlog and eagerly anticipate new releases. 10/10, no notes.
Also, I've been shopping for a new office chair and that ad read really spoke to me 😏
Hi, I'm from Brazil and I wanted to say something that shocked me PS2 HAS NATIVE SUPPORT FOR LINUX (I'm sure a lot of people know but when I found out it was a mind blowing) (and I'm very grateful for mentioning Brazil, I've been following you for a while and seeing my country being mentioned is really cool, so Hello FROM BRAZIL)
I've heard about it but never seen one in action, given ps2 capability, what can you do with it?
@@Arctic_silverstreak Not much, but it's a fun curiosity. Imagine how limited an early '00s Linux distro would've been, and then imagine how much more limited it would be trying to run on a PS2. Basically you got a word processor and a paint program and that was it. Michael MJD (I think?) did a video where he got the Japan-only PS2 Linux kit and installed it, if you want to see one in action.
PS3 had it for a bit too, I believe the US Military bought a bunch of them for server farms.
counterstrike must be run on the PS2
come to brazil
The crispy screws are just something, it makes opening old radios satisfying for me
I have CONSISTENTLY laughed out loud at the “half life scientist screaming while absurd gore comes out of the wire I’m cutting” joke every time you do it
It's quickly becoming my favorite gag
thanks for spoiling it
@@BringusStudiosI mean, you are killing the purists out there. And they bleed. A LOT.
Worth it
love it
I showed my non-hardware-technical wife this video. She had no idea what you were doing but thought the video was funny. You have great presentation. We loved the sponsor segment too.
fun fact, you can literally just lift the entire thing out of the case, there’s no need to remove the optical drive. also, on my first (very worn out) ps2, i had to keep the top case off and press a screwdriver on the center of the disc drive to get it to boot anything
Fun fact: Those Intel SSDs can last forever. I have one at the Lab that's done almost 400 TB written from the previous owner, and it's still happy as can be.
9:23 we got Mrs. Bringus before GTA VI
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthybruh its not that deep chill
What do you mean? That's just Bringus' third hand.
@@AstrolaveyI guess we know which one he uses for what.
I think he ate uranium for breakfast
Brazilian here, jailbreaking the ps2 is in fact so easy that everyone i know who's owned one bought their console pre-jailbroken, and absolutely every game you could find was a poorly burned CD you'd find going for a couple of bucks at the flea market
The PS2 actually can do "HD" output! Some games from the very end of the active lifespan of the console support it, too! I think the last Gran Turismo game that was supported on PS2 is one of those games. You do need to get a component AV cable to replace the default composite one in order to get HD output, though.
GT4 on 1080i is still glorious. You don't even need the expensive component cable anymore either, there are HDMI adapters for 5 bucks that can output that all day long. You just need to blindly change output settings, but that's PS2 for you.
@@Delcaek are those component cables expensive these days? Could swear I got mine for like $10 5 or 6 years ago. HDMI mods are great, though, regardless.
@@explosivelybrilliant The official ones are expensive but some third party ones may be cheaper (and not be as high quality).
What i was about to say, but imho as long as you step away from composite even 480i will look way better
That’s full HD not HD
It took me several seconds of staring at the crispy screws moment to actually realize the joke. Bravo
Do you remember what is is 2 month later since i dont get it
Did you get the joke 10 days later since I don't get it also
@@ANG-249 no
@@ANG-249 both of you look up world's most crispy fries
I've modded my ps2 exactly like yours months ago (I'm from France). It was a pain to disassemble it and do the noctua mod (3d printed myself too). The sound from your cd/dvd reader must come from the "loosy" ide cable connected to from mainboard to the lens, it moves the cable as the lens moves to read the cd/dvd and when not reinserted correctly, it can come loose and bring issues. (I dissassembled my ps2 like 5 times until it was right) So only solution : dismantle your ps2 again and only connect your cd/dvd reader while powering on the ps2 until you get it right :D ! Good luck ! Btw, great video, I love your content !
I just got a fat ps2 but im just gonna do opl and fmcb and get a hard drive because im kinda broke
That makes so much sense, I just took my original one apart no mods or anything to clean it and when I tried playing it the discs wouldn’t read. Bummed me out but I think I’ll try this 👍
thats how you know youve done a great job, when you got one or two screws left over, this means youve assembled it more efficiently than the factory could, kudos!!
btw you don't even need an optical drive, any consumer-grade DVD drive can read PS2 CD/DVD games, that's usually how i rip them.
Good ol Imgburn and WinHIIP. I fuckin hate WinHIIP but I can't get HDL_dump to work as well, so I'll deal with a necessary evil.
@@NickGoblin Try HDL Dump Helper GUI. It's far from perfect and one of it's quirks is that you have to add each game one by one, which is annoying if you have many games to add, but I've found it works the best.
@@NickGoblin Not anymore. There's a version of OPL that supports exFAT formatted hard drives.
@@davidgill7412 Using an exFAT drive makes FreeHDBoot incompatible. No thanks.
@@davidgill7412all current releases of OPL support exFat
I had no issue disassembling these as a teenager... It's so funny watching you struggle 🤣🤣🤣
I am from Brazil and i confirmed that ps2 is loved he.
I grow up with it while the ps4 was being released.
And to this you can still find ps2 for sale here.
Btw there a good chunk of games on ps2 with online working again thanks to the community.
Now we just need to make the ps2 Netflix service work again and the ps2 will basically kill modern consoles 😎
Same here for us Indians. India loves old PS consoles. We still buy Ps2s and Ps3s around here and mod them with gams.
sopa de macaco, uma delicia
@@Abdessamad889.Poor dumass that didn't grow up with a 2000s era console boohoo
Seethe in rage as you stare at the ps5's release catalogue 12 and a half games lol
@@Abdessamad889. just mod the ps2 to have 4k 60fps lol
3:08 Vibing the Crispy Screws...
that noctua fan was probably a return that was stocked back as new again. the previous owner probably did some weird cuts to the header to try to make it work for something they wanted to do, but they just returned it instead. amazon sells returns as new products all the time.
as someone who's opened up a dying PS3 to save its hard drive, there comes a point when disassembling a PlayStation where the instinct to _gore_ out of impatience kicks in
Brazil mentioned
now its time to mod a zeebo and install steam os in it
Now that's some bringus stuff to do hahahahahahha
I just wanted to say I was recently inspired by you to start doing this as a small business, buying broken old consoles and repairing/"upgrading them". I'm currently working on a Ps2 right now and your breakdown was a tremendous help to actually find information that is so scattered and to see the process before I even started. Huge thanks.
23:21 the disc dump feature is literally a lens killer
btw. hdloader is pretty old, from 2004
why does it destroy the optical lens?
@@trizmo289 the ps2 disc drive was only ever ment to read the discs not write them
dvd players were still very expensive back when the ps2 was in development so sony used the cheapest dvd drive they could make
@@trizmo289probably overheat from constant writing of data
dreamcast does have a harddrive mod, called the TerraOnion MODE, you could also use a GDEMU to replace the optical disc drive for an sd card for like 30 dollars
Here in Brazil, the PS2 is so popular that to this day, you can still find stores selling PS2 games. Here we have this thing called "popular market" where people sell everything you can imagine and in every one of these, you can easily find at least 5 people selling a bunch of PS2 games.
And thanks to that we got gaming masterpieces like Bomba Patch, GTA São Paulo, GTA Rio de Janeiro, GTA 4 for PS2 and GTA Armageddon.
As you can see, people around here loved GTA. If you had a PS2, you were obligated to have at least one GTA. I remember playing the shit out of GTA San Andreas on my PS2, so much so that I had to replace my San Andreas disk at least 5 times. Unfortunately, the disk reador of my PS2 that I had since I was a child broke and I'm too lazy to fix it. Maybe someday I will do it but today is not that day.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthyjust to add info, the quality of the disks here in Brazil for that kind of stuff were really bad (the counterfeit market was really strong on the PS1/PS2 era, going even on the xbox360 market). Is almost certain that if you try to resurface that disk, the disk itself will break hahahahahahaha
Piracy and bootlegs are the pillars of Brazilian gaming.
@@sutpecna amém irmão
Yeah Brazil is one of the few places where old stuff is still being sold. Like at one point you could get a Sega Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive in retail stores.
@@Fender178you can actually do that in some stores in brazil
Sponsor ads like yours are the reason why I still have hope for some marketing teams. They just need a Bringus
Eternally blessed by your sfx and bgm choices
“Maybe bushings… if you’re an asshole”
This made me laugh more than I should’ve
Super weird that you're doing this video when I've been doing a bunch of research lately on modding my fat ps2. I had a molded ps2 a few years ago but the movers "lost" over $2,000 of my gaming stuff. Glad to see this one getting new life.
Just reading that infuriated me. Did you get any compensation for the lost items??
@crowmw8243 Yup! I fought for over six months, and they ended up paying me a whopping $150. Turns out the "up to $10,000 in insurance" they (and most movers) offer is actually paid out as 10 cents PER POUND. So because my games, consoles, controllers, etc. didn't weigh nearly anything, they told me to fuck all the way off.
@@EmoKillsBest that's what a lawsuit is for dude
@vyor8837 In their contract, you have to do mediation first in the state that their headquarters was in, which was Florida. You also had to pay for the mediation up front, and if you won, you were reimbursed. Afterward, you could attempt a lawsuit. I talked with a lawyer about it, and they pretty much told me I was SOL because I'd spend more in airfare, hotels, and time than it would be to simply lick my wounds and move on. It hurt a lot, I lost a bunch of my childhood things, but I had just gotten married and moved my entire life from NY to OK and couldn't afford to pursue it.
Read that as meditation and was so confused why that would be in the contract@@EmoKillsBest
1:02 Those wires exploding was just comedic timing. I actually laughed out loud
Bro the modding the ps2 is so dam fun it’s verry simple compared to other consoles and the community is also amazing for these. Glad you made a video about this
modding the wii is speedrunnable but the ps2 is pretty cool.
@@random_kid-gj2bw I’ve never seen it how do they even do it is it a sd card thing or is it something else
@@Velikannit’s been super long since I did it (10 years) but, from what I remember all you do is put files (the exploit) on an SD card, go to your mail and run the letter bomb hack. You just open that mail and it starts to run it. You don’t even need an SD card you can change the DNS settings to start the exploit. There where a few more things you needed to do but, I remember 14 year old me not having any issues. I think you had to grab the MAC address of your wii for the hack as well. Easily doable within 5 or so minutes.
The 2.5" drive caddy is just supposed to hold it so that it doesn't droop, and put stress on the connectors, there's no other need for it. It doesn't need to *mount* anything, just keep it from hanging there. Though you CAN mount it to the adapter itself, which becomes all the actual mounting you need.
I find this so amusing since Star Wars Battlefront 2 was the exact first game my og xbox had inside it when I got it. My mom got it from a yardsale and it was all I played offline for years.
Ngl the absurdly common overlap between furry and jank tech enthusiast will always be hilarious to me
Those screws were absurdly crispy wow, great montage!
Bringus is the only guy who Can make sponsors fun
This is the first sponsored spot I’ve ever fully watched *AND LAUGHED*. Mind blowing.
I just discovered this channel and I absolutely love it
i'v ran into this problem many times, where the CD or DvD dont read. its a give away on how its making that sound when loading, it's skipping on the track. all you got to do is shim the laser track up and add some grease to the track. there is also pots on the laser you can adjust if it still dont read there marked with a C for cd and D for dvd.
I'm from Brazil, and I can say, THIS CONSOLE IS ETERNAL HERE.
Even nowadays it's pretty common to visit someone and the person have this on their living room, we spend lots of hours playing classic games (at least it's classic here), like Naruto games, Crash, Obscure and any other game with split screen. When someone doesn't understand a thing about video game they ask "Você tem play?", can be translated as "Do you have a 'play'?".
PS2 still lives.
13:23
Bringus: suffers when removing ps2 according to iFixIt
Macho Nacho: need help?
Can i get an explanation of the inside joke?
@@KuraV12 Macho Nacho mods consoles, also he guides how to open said consoles when needed
@@dhoome1234ify yeah i know that, i thought that there’s some joke that he screwed up the fan connector once or something and that there’s an inside joke about macho nacho and removing the fan in the ps2
Love how when the drive gets old it stops reading some discs, plus you can guesstimate how much more life you got
5:36 best ad ive ever seen in my entire life, im saving up for the chair ASAP
The blue discs require faster spin speeds, which if your disc drive is dying, it won't read.
The later discs that are dvd's require a slower spin speed that's why SWBF read.
Some early launch PS2s had issues reading blue/black CDs, either due to a calibration issue, or the holding mechanism wasn't holding the blue/black CD tight enough (if I remember correctly the blue/black CDs was a bit thinner than standard DVDs/CDs).
I can confirm you can still find modded MATRIX PS2s BRAND NEEEEWWW in Brazil, its our little darling
I remember when my mom bought me a PS1 from Americanas (is like a variety store for non Brazilian fellows) already modded and me as a kid didn't even know that the games I bought on the "3 for 5 bucks" aren't official. This where the days
@@juniorbarranqueiro SO TRUE!!! I remember the first time I saw a game running it was my uncle playing God of War on the living room tv. Great times
Fun fact: Sony made an official Linux installation cd for PS2
the video is on for 3 minutes and already 40 comments. thats real love
Just found your channel and I'm binging some videos now. Love the sound effects, especially from Half-Life/Counter Strike 😁
2:56 bro wanted us to try it
6:53 I love that this is the little clip you get when you mouse over the video in the recommended list. "ooh a video about modding the PS2, let's see wha-.................."
LETS GOOO PS2 CONTENT (it's a great feeling when your fav youtuber uploads another great video!)
22:43 the ps2 actually just sucks at reading CDs because the discs are lighter than DVDs, believe it or not slapping 2 pieces of tape on it fixes the weight. Worked for my Unreal Tournament :P
The blue/black PS2 CDs was thinner usually causing the disc clamp to not hold the disc tight enough and would just spin in the holder when the drive motor would go to spin the disc. There's things you can do to make the blue/black discs thicker where the clamp holds onto the disc, or you can modify the clamp.
There was also a calibration issue on a some early PS2s, where the laser wasn't at the correct distance from the CD and the focusing eye couldn't adjust enough to bring the CD laser into focus (but was just fine for DVDs). There is a white cog at the top of the drive you can adjust, but adjusting it can lead to issues, as you have to adjust it to where both the DVD and CD laser can both be focused (it doesn't help that both lasers use a single focusing eye). So you have to choose a happy middle ground for both to work.
Sounds so complicated
WE DID IT BOYSSSSSSS, WE MADE BRINGUS MENTION ABOUT BRAZILLLLLL!!
1:20 what the hell happened here did he actually throw up lmao
It did sound much more convincing than most imitations I’ve heard. Probably because it wasn’t just the sound of his voice.
I'm pretty sure yeha
The PS2 can also do up to 1080i, tho not many games natively support it (the only one i know that does is Gran Turismo 4) but you can force it on any game with the Graphics Synthesizer Mode Selector tool.
That is upscaled 1080i and not native, but it does look fairly good if you use an aftermarket scaler with deinterlacing software.
There are four games in total that can use the high res mode.
0:54 bro that video broke my heart...
1:33
“I don’t know much about the PS2, but I know that there is a big ‘ol IDE hard drive right up in here”
*Proceeds to play the audio from a Miniscribe SCSI hard drive from the 90’s*
Why is the sponsor transition so smooth 😭😭 5:22
Watch those wrist rockets
PS2 was such a golden era
every single episode I watch the sponsorship part just seems to get smoother and smoother
16:08 The missing screw belongs right over the power connector
Pretending to be an animal mentioned 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
the spring launch at 4:32 fucking killed me lmao
Yesterday, my mom mailed me an old fat PS2 she found in her basement. I have never owned one, either. Today, this popped up in my feed and literally every one of your mods is on my list of "todo" mods - plus a few others. Thanks for posting this vid for inspiration!
P.S. something tells me you already figured this out (or knew the entire time, you clever, clever dude....), but I am pretty sure that spring in the hdd/network adapter bit is for grounding between the boards.
0:07 BRAZIL MENTIONED
Come to Brazil pls
23:00 That sound is the laser struggling to live.
Absolutely epic modding as always! The way you transformed that old PS2 fat into a modern gaming beast is just mind-blowing. 🤯 The custom paint job and the LED lights are the cherries on top. It's like watching a phoenix rise from the ashes of retro gaming consoles. Keep up the great work, and can't wait to see what you'll bring back to life next! 🔥🎮 #BringusStudiosMagic
Great video mate as always, keep it up ;)
Batarong
Hey you didn't have to touch the DVD drive at all, just remove the controller port and the screws near the rear IO and you can easily pull the PS2 guts out. It's a nicely put together console that's very easy to work on. From there removing the power supply board screws and lifting it from its pins will give you easy access to the fan power connector. Also with the latest PS2 software we're loading games off of exfat storage, managing all their data on a PC and doing it right through windows explorer.
The main branch of OPL still doesn't support exFat on an internal HDD/SSD (it does for USB), so far only GrimDoomers OPL fork supports exFat for the HDD/SSD. And that fork is well out of date in comparison to the main branch of OPL. GrimDoomers OPL has compatibility issues with some games, if any game that used mode 7 or mode 8 to work (which was removed from OPL) won't usually work on GrimDoomers version of OPL.
14:50 PORTAL MUSIIIIIIIIC!!!!!!!!!!!
Do yoi know what song this is specifically? I've been looking for a minute and I can't find it. I should know. Fake portal fan I am, smh
im sure another keyboard warrier already said, but it didnt boot from the hardrive, it booted from the USB, it was meant for firmware as well as some peripherals
with the network adapter you could run games from a shared folder from your pc, iv set up a raspberry pie as a host and have all my games on it, it's a faster way to load games then off the HD and you can have as much storage as you would want for games and cover art.
Also I think the ports were only 10/100 so gigabit speeds ain't happening for anybody expecting it.
Loading games from network is only slightly faster than loading them from a HDD (probably due to HDD having seek times), BUT there is virtually no difference between loading from network and loading from an SSD. There's a few videos showing the loading speeds of the different methods of loading the games.
I have two non-working PS2s from eBay disassembled right now and this video is extremely relatable. Gotta be the worst console I have ever worked on.
23:40 Sometimes the PS2 can read one type of disk and it just refuse to read the other type or even ake those sounds
There was a common issue with some PS2s where they had trouble reading the blue and black disks. Not 100% sure of the reason.
But I know I was severely disappointed as a kid who just rented a PS2 game for the weekend only to not be able to play it :(
PS2 JUMPSCARE 😨
The sound you made when that spring popped off had me dying. Same sound i make when i drop a tiny screw that i'm never going to find again.
24:00 when it makes those noises, you do indeed weigh down the lid, have to do that on my Slim models
You and Zach Freedman at VoidStar would make a great team
16:15 "You hear the fan? My laptop fan actually started lmao
If I was you at that moment:
“How did you turn on my fan?
I don't know if that was music or what but that intro felt like something what Disney would create :D
Hey Bringus, just watched the latest LinusTechTips video titled "I dont want to clean this." It features a pool cleaning robot, which Linus mentions the specs at 7:38. Quad core ARM 1.8GHz, 4GB RAM. Think you could do something with that?
Nice intro, the sarcasm in his voice
9:23 Bringus brought a human into his studio. End of an era.
Damn….
I heard the spy decloking sfx and legit got anxious
Day 2 of asking for subscribers to be called the bringlers.
Bringles?
@@mamaluigimusic yes. We are his bringles. The bringlers
I would love to be called a bringler
Bringleberries
No
You should try cleaning the laser lens and lubricate the rails that lens assembly sits on with some molytone grease. Grease the gears on the loading mechanism while you're at it
0:32
Sounds like the fnaf 6 intro
If you missed out on the modded PS2 scene...
HDLoader was basically a MigSwitch for an HDD without screwing over the next person to buy the game used.