Hello I am interested in playing the original RE 1, 2 & 3 and Silent Hill and was wondering if they should be fine for my age? Could anyone point to any website with content Warning? Thank you in advance

seriously. this was about two years ago, i joined reddit and the ps2 sub, got banned on my first post, no recall, fair play. im still subbed for info, but every fucking post i scroll past on my feed from r/ps2 is like a photo of a fucking memory card or dual shock with the title "is this legit?" or "i got my brothers ps2 from mums house, but will it scratch my discs? photo of a normal ps2" or best game of all time *lists jak and daxter, ratchet and clank, or sly cooper*

im convinced noone posting in that sub is over 20.
avg 15 yr olds who are into this really cool "retro" thing that grandad played. LOL

so the question is, is there a proffered nice large ps2 sub where its not like sifting through human excrement?

It is common in our neighbourhood for people to leave out unwanted items for others to pick up.

I've never seen a complete PSX game though. Just a single one. Nothing else.

I stood there a while, shouted "Hello?" - but by all by all indications it was left and abandoned.

NTSC, Complete in box.

What the title says. I bought the console when I as 17 years old, almost 18, after saving my parents weekly allowance for 5-6 months.

For the first time after many years as a computer gamer, I experienced real fighting games, real driving games... and also musical games, among many other more famous games. It was a life changing experience, because also the 5th gen was the first with orchestral music, voice actors, 3D exploration, etc.

And of course, I played several great platformers: Abe's Oddyssey and Heard of Darkness in the pure 2D department, Tomba and Klonoa in the 2.D subgenre and Croc, Spyro and Gex as my 3D choices.

Busy with all that stuff, I never got a chance of playing second tier platformers, many of them Disney/Dreamworks/Pixar licensed. I liked the Hercules demo, but not enough to play the whole game. And I remember trying A Bug's Life and wanting to stop playing after some seconds due to the general clunkiness. Nobody I knew paid attention to these little titles, aimed at kids.

Fast forward 10 years and the Youtube era comes. I start checking gameplays of PSX games I never owned. And in pretty much every mediocre Disney platformer, 90% of the comments were the "my childhood" types.

And not only that, but people started seriously recommending those games to full grown adults. Games that we, at 18-22 years old, would have never touched if we had just a single Gran Turismo trophy to win, Spyro gem to collect or Silent Hill baby ghost to club.

So after many years like this, I decided to express this feeling of confusion, hoping to find more people in the same situation. Anyone else? ; )

…for protection.

Every ps1 game I've tried to play has been too difficult or overwhelming for me. Metal Gear Solid? I keep dying every single time anything happens and cannot make a single bit of progress. Gran Turismo 2? I have to get deep into the game to understand what I'm supposed to choose. Are PlayStation games just not my style, or am I doing something wrong? I want something that I don't need to spend a billion hours on to even begin to have fun

Anyways I know this is a little off topic but it still pretains to the psx. I was thinking about trying to code a program that would display the text of the Bible and scroll it on my psx. Way to hard and not worth messing with.

Then it dawned on me. The psx is a Danm fine CD player. So I plan to order the entire Bible on CD and play it back through my psx. Becoming the only person I know of who used a psx to read the Bible.

It might sound stupid but I'm looking for the oldest gaming system I could possibly use to read/listen to the Bible.

It's just the idea of using a computer/console for something that it was really not intended to do that is fun for me. And nobody would ever use a psx to read the Bible.

Like the title says. Alot of good psx games. But i think i will always say that Tomba 2 is my favorite

What would be the value of here games?

This will probably get me crucified but I don't think I'm a fan of Silent Hill 1, or the series. I do think the games are works of art, especially Silent Hill 2 (original and remake) but I don't enjoy actually playing them. I have played a good portion of Silent Hill 4 when I rented it from Blockbuster as a teen, and I recently played Silent Hill 1 for PlayStation 1 up until the end of the nightmare version of the school, but I won't be finishing the game. Silent Hill does a good job of building atmosphere, but in every game Ive played in the series exploration feels tedious. It feels boring and monotonous just trying to find your way around, solving cryptic puzzles to progress and beating enemies with a pipe. I tried to not use a guide, but I feel like im just wondering around aimlessly not knowing what to do. The combat is annoying as well and not fun, where you get jumped by 3 little demon childs and die, and have to restart your progress. Also, the atmosphere In Silent Hill is depressing, and I wouldnt reccomend it to people with mental health issues. The best way I can describe it is it gives me the same meloncholy feeling you get on a cloudy day that lingers even after playing it for some time. I never feel this way after playing games in the Resident Evil or Clock Tower series. I gues thats the difference between psychological horror and survival horror. I dont mean to offend anyone, but I want to give my honest opinion and see if anyone feels the same.

I feel like Silent Hill fans would understand best the things I pointed out, and tell me why they like those things, and so I could get a better perspective on why I dont enjoy those things.

At the moment I’ve used them and I was only able to play one level of Crash Bandicoot. After that, the console goes back to the PlayStation (PAL) menu and the game doesn’t load. I’d like to know if this could be an issue with the discs, because I’ve already tried cleaning and calibrating the laser, and it’s still not working properly.

My console is a 7002 model, and I even replaced the laser to test it. These are my first games, so I don’t have any other discs or original ones to compare with.

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Update: thanks for your recommendations. At the moment I haven’t tried with other discs yet, but to explain my case better: I burn at a maximum speed of x4. I tried setting the laser at around 600 ohms, but I’m currently keeping it between 750–800 ohms to preserve the laser’s lifespan.

The ATIP information of my discs is:
Disc ID: 97m26s66f
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corp.
Start Time of Lead-In: 97m26s66f
Last Possible Start Time of Lead-Out: 79m59s71f

I can’t properly play my games on either my old laser or the new one. Sometimes they load, but not fully — I get a black screen, or the game cuts during cinematics or in the first level and then stops working.

When I try a different disc or an original one, I’ll update again.

-Solved-

The problem was the laser disk, this cds works fine on my ps1 today.
I sprayed a little silicone lubricant on the drive gears and the motor (I didn’t have any WD-40), and it worked. Just to be safe, I also gently ran a cotton swab over the lens.

Okay, I love the Midgar parts of the game. They rock.

But. Once you leave the city, the game kinda turns into a generic RPG, where you visit generic towns and villages and dungeons, most of which totally lack the Midgar feel.

Most of those other locations feel like they have nothing to do with Midgar, or the main story. The various places on the map do not really feel connected to each other, is what I mean. EVen when there is some story item that seemingly links them and makes them relevant.

Nor do all the characters in the game feel connected to each other or the story. Too many of them feel like unnecessary additions to the party, in fact. Which is something I've never felt in other FF games on all platforms.

Personally I feel VIII and IX, and the PS2 era FF games, made better job with world creation than FF7.

Sure, Midgar is the best location ever in FF games. Sure, Cloud and Tifa and Barret are the most memorable FF heroes. Sure, Sephiroth is the best bad guy ever. But apart from that, FF7 is kinda weak product, with some of the worst dungeons ever seen in FF games.

Feel free to disagree.

I currently looking a good PS1 console that is clean, tested and works. Should I buy off a PS1 console from Ebay? Is it worth it to buy off from Ebay? Should I buy the cheaper ones because i’m about to buy a PS1 console and looking for PS1 that are cleaned, tested and works fine.

It's sure banged up but I was surprised to find this was one of the three controllers brought to me at work by a quirky new acquaintance of mine. If I'm not mistaken the original Dual Analog Controller is quite rare as it didn't sell well and was soon replaced by the immortal Dual Shock. I'll be looking to restore this and hang onto it as an obscure conversation piece.