For the PS2 Gamer...

My friend Harold thinks I’m stupid for buying original games for outrageous prices, when I can just download and burn it on my own. He doesn’t understand. He wants to get everything for free. He doesn’t seem to believe in an honest way.But I can’t really judge him on that, because he’s only acting out according to his belief.

Anyway, I found a couple of games on Sulit(.)com that I really wanted, and so I contacted the seller. He was selling four games plus a PS2 Memory Card for 1,600. He was willing to go down to about 1,400 for the entire set but that’s just too steep for me. I actually wanted the four minus the memory card, but as the saying goes; we can’t have it all. So I just decided to buy the Gran Turismo and the Onimusha: War Lords. We agreed on the price of 800. I’m getting the games this Saturday. Harold can rip on me all he wants about buying original, but I can rest assured that these will last me a long time.

Let me tell you a bit about pirated PS2 games based on my experience; They may be alright now, but after a while, say a few years, sometimes months, they start to break. The game will have lags, and sometimes the system can’t read them anymore. This sucks, especially if one of your favorite games is a pirated copy.

And when you’re buying pirated games, there is no testing, and there is no warranty. It’s a gamble. You buy it, you try it at home, it doesn’t work, BOOM! you were just screwed out of 50/80 pesos, depending on the store. I got burned this way more than once. The store did have a warranty. I go back and try to exchange it for hopefully a functioning game, but alas, I was totally screwed out of my 80 pesos.

But if you don’t have the money for original games, I know a place where you can get cheap pirated games with 60-40 chance of it working. Marikina Riverbanks Mall. Harold gets his games from there. I even bought a couple of games there myself. I can help you out if it doesn’t work. I know how to make them work for your system. If you’re going to buy a PS2 system, I suggest you get a PS2 FAT. It’s the original model. It has its own cooling system, whereas the PS2 SLIM has not. Plus a FAT is easier to modify than a SLIM.

My system is a PS2 FAT. It’s Japanese. How can you tell? When the confirm button is the O Button. It’s American if the confirm button is X.

Why am I telling you all of this? the Era of the PlayStation2 is over. it is now the Era of wireless controllers and wifi capable Consoles, like the PS2’s successor, the PlayStation3.

I just wanted to share my knowledge about video games. I hope that somehow I helped. Cheers Reader!