Someone just gave me a PS2 and a PS3

[Natsuyasumi]

A friend of mine just casually asked if I wanted a PS2 the other day and I was flabbergasted but managed to give a modest “Yeah I’ll take that off your hands.”

Apparently the entire time I’ve known her she has had her old PS2 just hanging out in storage. I can’t believe she never mentioned it before!

Then when she showed up to drop
it off, she said she found her old PS3 in the same box and gave me that too!

She didn’t have any games to give me, but I’m still super stoked. I already modded the PS3 to play backup ISO files and am looking into doing the same for the PS2. Might also look around for cheap physical copies at thrift stores around town. Definitely not shopping for anything online, retro game prices are insane.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Mod them and put every game they have on them, especially the PS2.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Awesome! That's exactly how I got my PS3 as well.

Love it lots ^^!

 

[secreto7]

Aww what a good friend
Now invite her to play

 

[violetvioletviolet]

The fat PS2 is wonderful to hack, all sorts of fun stuff, depending on how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole.

You have the basic, get a magic memory card to load backups. You can buy a FreeMCBoot memory card for like 10 USD or if you want to just start and end with an SD card, get a MemCard Pro 2, they have a SD card and allow for launching of games straight from it, though they are more pricey at 50 USD

You have get the HDD attachment and swap out the IDE interface for a SATA interface so you can have a huge Solid State Drive with all the games you could ever want.

You have that crazy translation project for the PSBBN that GitHub User CosmicScale that feels like making a modern PS2 OS at this point.

(Link to more about PSBBN)

Have fun!

 

[sneakyguts]

thats awesome overclock the ps3 and get a free mcboot for ps2

 

[nobitakun]

The fat PS2 is wonderful to hack, all sorts of fun stuff, depending on how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole.

You have the basic, get a magic memory card to load backups. You can buy a FreeMCBoot memory card for like 10 USD or if you want to just start and end with an SD card, get a MemCard Pro 2, they have a SD card and allow for launching of games straight from it, though they are more pricey at 50 USD

You have get the HDD attachment and swap out the IDE interface for a SATA interface so you can have a huge Solid State Drive with all the games you could ever want.

You have that crazy translation project for the PSBBN that GitHub User CosmicScale that feels like making a modern PS2 OS at this point.

(Link to more about PSBBN)

Have fun!

No no, don't get a MemCard Pro 2, that's an overpriced stuff from 8bitdo. Get better the PsxMemCard Gen2, its chinese counterpart, which is a SD2PSX, and it only costs around 20€.

For PS3, get a SSD as soon as you can, it does not matter it's only 250-500GB, it's better to have SSD than HDD I assure you.

 

[Numubunde]

Now that's a friend.