Recent content by Marty_Debiru

I'm a bit confussed. I already have another PHAT PS3 with an SSD and it works flawless. Or you mean its not compatible WITH PS2 games? Regarding the BD, its in there and the blue ray reader works fine, its the PS2 reader who has issues. So it should be fine?

I have been checkling the market for a drive, I need specifically the ps2 compatbiel drive right? Also I heard they need to be married to the console when installed? At this point Im considering to just install an SSD and custom firmware and play the PS2 games straight from the internal storage...

This sound plausible. Yes the laser they installed was some aftermarket china brand. As they told me it's impossible to find new sony ones. Actually I had to sent the console 2 times to the shop, as the first laser worked for 30 minutes.

I'm guessing the shop did a correct job, as its one of the best in the city and like I said it reads perfectly fine some PS2 discs (they boot up inmediatelly). This is why I'm at a lost.

I have a big collection of japanese PS2 games and decided to buy a NTCS-J PS3 CECHA backwards compatible to play them. When it arrived it clearly had some problem with the reader, as it could not reas PS2 discs. It did worked fine with PS3 and PS1 discs. I sent it to my local console shop to...

Hello, I have been a huge fan of Play Station for a long time. When I was living in Japan I decided to start my collection and bought several consoles and hundred of games, mainly PS2. I have a few technicall question that once my account is fully appoven I will post.