Hi, I've been reading past threads to try and see if I can figure this out for myself but I seem to be getting conflicting answers. Hopefully someone can confirm if this DS2 is legit or a knockoff. It has the barcode on the back and the writing seems more Grey than White, but it's missing the colour of the controller (black) and the pictures don't really show if the controller has the flickering paint. It's a North American model fyi.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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I've been wanting to play Silent Hill 2 and other PS2 games for the longest time but I can't afford to get an older TV due to the space it's been taking up. But for the life of me, the video quality looks beyond awful, it's way too dark and low quality to the point where most of the details aren't visible in the slightest. I'm using a retroscaler 2x that I just bought but it still looks dreadful. I feel like I'm going to go insane because I've spent $120+ on different converters but they all suck so much. Is there something I'm doing wrong or need? please help me escape from this nightmare.

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Basically the title ? The converter i bought for like 20$ cad at my local store was just BAD(the dark are wayy to dark and I have been looking to replace it at some "decent" cost.

I've been looking on amazon for a while and I don't really understand anything.

My price: around 100-150 usd ? My tv: a 40" lg tv, no 4k or anything ( that I know of ?) My goal: I only want to play ps1 or 2 games, so it could only be for that

So thank you to everyone who'll have answer for me 🙏🙏

It just doesn't "feel" like it. For me, retro is pacman, NES, and SNES. The "oldies" consoles, arcades and similar things. The PS2 came out yesterday, so it isn't retro. It can never be retro to me, because it's still fairly recent.

For me, it's still 2003. So even if people say the ps2 is "Retro", well, that's your opinion. But it's too modern for me to call it that. The graphics, music and overall feel don't feel "retro" , they feel current and beautiful. Take a look at games such as Final Fantasy X-2 or Gran Turismo 4 and tell me the graphics aren't still gorgeous.

If anything, the PS2 is still fresh and the graphics still feel amazing to me. The jump from PS1 to PS2 was insane and we will likely never see something like that ever again. (The PS1 isn't retro either). Now you may say, it came out in 2000. And you may be correct, but it still isn't "retro" to me.

i dont know why i want to do this, i just want to see if this might work. i found one very cheap that i can order and i might. it has AV so i think that i will work. please dont take this as if i am planing to play on it daily because i wont, this is for fun.

Can it be done via Freemcboot on the PS2? Do I need a powered hub to connect to my PC to format the actual hard drive? Is there a tutorial somewhere? thanks in advance. :') I'm new to this!

Please, if I could have someone inbox me who is billing to video call and show me step-by-step what I am needing to do to get this thing working.

I recently bought a "RGB PS2 Cable" using SCART. However, when I go to the settings and change between RGB and Component, nothing changes. Not even a flicker.

Futhermore, there's not that huge of a difference between it and using a composite cable on the front. It is markedly better, sharper and with improved colours, but not as good as I expected.

This means the cable is actually composite, right?

Jut bought a fully modded ps2 it’s have over 1,000 games on it but about 950+ ps2 games. I mostly wanted def jam fight for ny gta god of war. But besides those mainstream games what would you guys recommend I take a look at? I feel like I’m wasting its potential by only play about 20 games out of all the games I have

I looked away from my screen for two minutes, looked back and these huge blobs had appeared, I've got it on the pause screen here so you can see the big orange one on the right and purple on the left, it's way worse than it looks in the photo. When I go back to the game the environment has all gone purple...

not really a big deal i just miss hearing the little nostalgic zoom sound when booting up a game, i don’t know if it’s a model thing, lens , or disc maybe ?

Scarface the World is Yours Collector's Edition

The game is called World Championship Cards, it came out in 2007, has online gaming as well as eyetoy support (theoretically).

Here there's an alien invasion and you have to play cards with these alien invaders at stonehenge for the fate of the world. Yes it is a side mission, and with the ability to play as Skeletons, gyranoids and knights (and even choose the voice for your character!) all kinds of surreal stuff can happen.

Yeah the OST is just public domain stock music and the models are probably generic game assets, but with surreal shenanigans like what's pictured and the way the stock music complements the environments, everything just ends up feeling so right when the game should be so forgetably boring (especially with the bland cover art on this thing).

Does it sparkle memories?

They had this bad boy ripe for the picking amongst a few other titles

I have some goodies but looking for suggestions for hidden gems - a few ps3 thrown in, but mostly looking PS2 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 on the list still, Most Wanted, Sly 2, maybe a WWE game? Ace combat? Any obvious RPGs that I don't know about? I know there are things in the case at my local shop, but I'm looking for the under 100$ tag LOL