Recent content by pebito

Thanks man! Yeah, indeed mine is a silver not an aqua. I have no idea how should I polish those rather deep scratches on its surface - considering the PS2 logo is kind of printed on it so I assume if I start scrubbing I would easily remove that so I am scratching my head here... In the meantime...

I had some time today to disassemble the unit. No suprises here: filth was everywhere. I cleaned up everything as much as I could, assembled it back again, the system turns on so it's a success. I put some new thermal pads here and there (not on the EE though, however I cleaned that up as well)...

Oh, I thought this one was the aqua. I guess it's just a silver then? I've got no intentions on using burnt media so I don't really mind if that does not work. As long as I can run backups from the hard drive, I'm cool.

Dear fellow members! A few days back I come across a Marketplace ad and I thought I'd smack down on this offer. 22 bucks for a used PS2 aqua is really not that much. Yeah, it's not in its full glory, has scratches and the controller is quite busted. I think this poor thing has served several...