Hey /v/men, hows it goin
I live in Japan and have decided to buy a Japanese PS2 to play a bunch of games I missed out on as a nintendo kid
My question is, what model of PS2 is the best? Is there anything I should be careful of when buying a used PS2?
>>315366387
I'm countin on you guys, i need the help
Should i go to vr?
>>315367037
>/vr/
Read the rules there.
The best PS2 model is Phat.
What's the purpose of buying exactly a Japanese PS2?
>>315368953
I live in Japan, so games are more accessible. Also I need to practice my japanese
The phat model is the original? Why is that best?
>>315369082
>I live in Japan
makes sense.
Yes, original. There were some games incompatible with the Slim model. Moreover, there's HDD is original, that lets you load games from it.
>>315369562
>there's HDD in original
fixed
Slim PS2 is the best
. Quiet
. Light
. Reliable
Fat PS2 disc tray wears out and the disc reader fails to read discs.
>>315371483
Can't Slim scratch your discs?
>>315369562
>>315371326
What games are incompatible with the Phat version?
Also I'm sorry, but whas an HDD?
>>315372240
No there is not a flaw with the slim system that will cause disc scratching.
>>315372613
PS3 fat laser disc reader fails to read blue disc PS2 games.
HDD is an external disc memory for the PS2 fat. One PS2 game that needs the HDD is Final Fantasy 11. Sony has shut down the Final fantasy 11 servers making the game unplayable.
>>315372613
> Also I'm sorry, but whas an HDD?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_games_incompatible_with_PlayStation_2
HDD means Hard Disk Drive. You can load your games from it with HD loader.
Man, you guys have been great help, thanks!
>>315366387
>I live in Japan
Pretty jealous, to be honest.
>>315374159
You should be, the food is great and the girls are consistantly attractive
>>315375628
I'd like to visit someday, if not just because it'll help progress my Japanese. Moving there permanently would probably be pretty nice too, though it sounds like it's hard to do that.
>bought a slim silver PS2
>want to mod it for all those gaems
>feel way too stupid to do Free McBoot
Guess I'll just buy used games, I guess.
>>315376131
just buy a freemcboot card form ebay for $10