Works with the Slim too, thank you so much man. I'm literally crying right now, my game, "Tak: Power of the Juju" works again. I spent my whole life playing PS2 games, and I'm back at it again to beat them all.
+Biohazard Hero All you gotta do is pop the lid and clean it.. or you could install Free McBoot if you have the right PS2 version, and download your games onto a memory card to play them straight from there.
Jordan Myers hahaha that suuuucks! not surprised though. I thought he was about to break the freakin' laser beam! I just got done disassembling mine for the first time in 15 years lol. Had the same game to lol. 1&2 and now they work fine! sooo oh yeah watch the whole 25 min vid by adam koralik. then watch the 8 min vid by anthony alvetro. watch em both before you start! the whole thing! in the long video he does waayyyyy too much and makes 2 mistakes and comes back later like oh yeah i fucked up. good job. i was afraid i wouldn't put the thing back right. there was huge balls of dust in there. anywayyyy, rey mysterio jr. rulez all! bye
GreenSkull Gaming lol I have 3 ps2's but all of them broke I have 2 slims and 1 fat the fat one just cant read the disc that's why im on here and amd my other 2 slims I broke them cuz I got pissed off at the game but the my 1 slim all I need is to take it apart and fix the laser and the lil black thing in the middle that spins the disc cuz I punched it then it went down smh that sucks for me and my ps3 is messed up it doesn't sucks the disc in and it keeps shutting off and freezing itsekf everythime I turn it on like it will only work for 2 minutes now I got noting but the wii but I don't play cuz it sucks now I just use it for netflix
worked first time! i wrapped a face wipe around a knife (metal) put it in and delicately wiggled it round, now playing final fantasy 8 as i type this with no problems whatsoever. thank you so much man, seriously.
Dude you are a total life saver! Just bought a used $35 game and got the disc read error. Tried your method and worked perfectly man! Thanks again man!!
man thank you so much I thought the lazer had died and I haven't played ps2 for about 12 years and even more... now I can play all my games I have for my ps2 and just remember all the beautiful times I had back in the day.. even though I have a ps4 pro with better graphics nothing can beat an old play station 2
Your welcome sandy cheeks from from spongebob with c frew dome pink flowe white jump suit silver boots white gloves lives in a dome breaths air she is brown etc
Dude, this worked like a charm! I spent half an hour trying to get my PS2 to read a certain PS1 game with no luck. Found your video and tried it, and it immediately read the disc!
I literally had a mental breakdown because I couldn’t figure it out. Thank you so much. (And yes, I still have a ps2 in 2023. I think it’s perfectly fine and no need for upgrade. Lmao. 😅)
Dude I’m playing my ps2 in 2022. Saw your method and it worked man thanks a lot. I was skeptical at first but man you saved my ps2. I did not want to open my ps2. Thanks man.
Its 2am and ive been doing research on why my game isnt working. I stumbled upon this video and i was worried about inserting a "wet" wipe into my ps2, so i tried plain napkins and nothing. i used wet naps, like the kind you get a restaurant cause it isnt as moist as like baby wipes (thats all i had) and voila! it worked! thank you! now i can satisfy my nostalgia :)
Good to have you back man, more gaming vids! I too suffered from this problem back in the day I just got tired of it, jumped ship and bought a slim... Never gave me problems.. I should of done this technique instead.
Oh. My. Goodness. YOU ARE AMAZING!!! I literally was watching the taking apart PlayStation 2 videos and was dreading it, until I came across your video.. At first I was skeptical, but I took a narrow spatula instead of a plastic knife with a wet wipe and stuffed it in my PS2, hoping for the best. IT WORKED RIGHT AFTER I DID IT!?! You sir are a genius. Thank you for this, you just saved me hours of cracking that old timer open. :)
Thanks man. This actually fixed my fat PS2 even though I used different materials but same method. I had no plastic butter knives or any wet wipes but I had a plastic fork and napkin so I wrapped the napkin around the pointy end of the fork and just started wiggling it around in there and it worked! Now I can play NFL 2K5 and GTA San Andreas again!
Amazing! I have 25+ PS1 games that wouldn't work. After watching tons of videos on how to take apart the console, clean this, tweak that, I found this video. Thank goodness! All my old favorites can be played again!! Genius!! Thanks!!
My stepfather was shaking his head when I showed him this...despite that, we tried it with a Buffalo Wild Wings plastic knife and a heavy duty furniture wipe. To his immense surprise, it read not only Star Wars Battlefront, but Gauntlet Dark Legacy as well! You have just saved us quite a lot of money, so thank you very, very much for this video! He still can't believe it.
friendsANDsuch350 I worked with a black dude at my old job and I said he looked like ice cube and he didn’t think that was racist at all. He actually said thanks and that people have said that before
I did what he did with a metal butter knife and then stood it up n the side and it worked!!!!!! Mike you made a six year old very happy thanks mayne!!!!!!
This is the best! My son and I were able to get our PS2 up and running without opening the box. Way better than the $45 we'd have spent bringing it in for service!
I tried this and it’s still not working? I did exactly as you said. There was some dust up there but all clean now. Every other disc works even before I cleaned it but this particular disk won’t work and I got it brand new
2021 of September and omg im so thankful for this video. My ps2 has been healthy for most of my life until today, and it had me worried. After doing this, my ps2 has been doing great. Thank you my man!
Thanks so much for this! The idea of having to unscrew the playstation was a terrifying thought and my brother used to do fix the error for me. But a make up wipe and a butter knife was much better :D
Digimon here I come. In all honesty, though, I seriously thank you very much. This was very useful and I and my cousin had a really fun time remembering the old days when we played this game, even our other cousin who is already in college joined us and we had a fun match. Thanks to you, we can remember all those memories, and it's very wonderful. So thank you.
yo i tried this and it worked for like a few secs then game froze. I tried it again and disc read error. I then got compressed air and blew out more dust but am still getting disc read error. Im gonna open it and wipe off the lens with isopropyl alcohol. If that doesn't work i'm throwing off the roof.
I was super skeptical but this actually worked. In fact, my PS2 was also making these grinding noises when it would have trouble reading the discs. Now, it doesn't.
Thanks dude! This was actually helpful because I didn't have teh tools to open the PS2 and the way you showed was way better. I spent just like 1 minute or something!
To be honest I thought that this was the stupidest idea I've seen in a while on youtube, but I was crazy enough to try it and to my suprise it actually worked. I been trying to use my gameshark for years.
Did it the first time and it worked then I change games later in the day and did not work any more so I did the same trick again but got deeper in there and a better job and the wipe came out dirty have not had a problem again
Who is here in 2020 trying to play ps2 during quarantine cuz i am lol
me to I like to play call of duty final fronts
Guilty as charged
Thought i was alone
Me I like to play GTA san andreas
I want to play nicktoons unite
Who's trying to play ps2 in 2019?
Coz I am thank you mighty Mike
I have one and it still works
Meeeee!!!!
I’m tryna play Godzilla save the earth
mee!!
Baught one a month ago original
Works with the Slim too, thank you so much man. I'm literally crying right now, my game, "Tak: Power of the Juju" works again. I spent my whole life playing PS2 games, and I'm back at it again to beat them all.
Yea how did you do it on the slim???
+Biohazard Hero All you gotta do is pop the lid and clean it.. or you could install Free McBoot if you have the right PS2 version, and download your games onto a memory card to play them straight from there.
+Chromosome clean the lens? Just did it and it didn't work. Thanks on the info tho
Biohazard Hero Well, everything. Get inside the disk tray, clean the back of the disc, and try it then.
P
When you miss your PS2 so much you watch tutorials just so you can hear the start up on last time
my ps2 is not working and todays year is 2017😢😢😭😭
Josiel Rodriguez lol my don’t to my shit won’t read disc
PsychoMoFoGaming i have ps2 i'm playing gta sa but missions won't load and i play on usb sticks fml
Tommy Vercetti play them on your phone or ps4
Soul Glo if i have ps4 i will not play gta sa on ps2 i fixed my gta sa now missions are loaded :) on phone is boring to play
Thanks everyone for still supporting this video, glad to see there's still some PS2 users out there, I still got mine!! Get Yours!!
yo I just did this but it didn't work but I went further and then my wipe got stuck in there im hurt
Denzel Monfort I have 1 ps1 and 2 ps2 :D i need 3 ps3's and 4 ps4 lololo
Jordan Myers hahaha that suuuucks! not surprised though. I thought he was about to break the freakin' laser beam! I just got done disassembling mine for the first time in 15 years lol. Had the same game to lol. 1&2 and now they work fine! sooo oh yeah watch the whole 25 min vid by adam koralik. then watch the 8 min vid by anthony alvetro. watch em both before you start! the whole thing! in the long video he does waayyyyy too much and makes 2 mistakes and comes back later like oh yeah i fucked up. good job. i was afraid i wouldn't put the thing back right. there was huge balls of dust in there. anywayyyy, rey mysterio jr. rulez all! bye
GreenSkull Gaming lol I have 3 ps2's but all of them broke I have 2 slims and 1 fat the fat one just cant read the disc that's why im on here and amd my other 2 slims I broke them cuz I got pissed off at the game but the my 1 slim all I need is to take it apart and fix the laser and the lil black thing in the middle that spins the disc cuz I punched it then it went down smh that sucks for me and my ps3 is messed up it doesn't sucks the disc in and it keeps shutting off and freezing itsekf everythime I turn it on like it will only work for 2 minutes now I got noting but the wii but I don't play cuz it sucks now I just use it for netflix
Jordan Myers That sucks man just go to someone that fixes ps3's and give him ur ps3 and he'll fix it
When he threw the disk i was like damn
Lol I was the same I make sure people don't play with mine
mack polk i flinched
lol im black so this is awkward MightyGoliath
I was like one of the best titles for the PS2, then he tossed it, lol
YOOO SAME WTF
who has a ps2 in 2018? 🙄 Me👋
The Pro Programmer me but my system broke thursday 😔
@@Ghostwolf4004 a moment of silence for our old PS2, he survived 17 years, wasn't that enough for us, we should have forgiven him before his death.
I have my ps 2 when i was a 5yr old
Yeah I had
Me, but none of my games work 😅☹
EDIT: Who has PS2 in 2022?
I have
Me
Me Also
I have 4, 2 Slims and 2 OGs. 1 OG having the disc reading error XD
I have one in 2020
Worked like a charm!! I've had my PS2 since 2001 and was devastated when it kept getting the disc read error. Your solution worked great! Thank you!!
worked first time! i wrapped a face wipe around a knife (metal) put it in and delicately wiggled it round, now playing final fantasy 8 as i type this with no problems whatsoever. thank you so much man, seriously.
Dude you are a total life saver! Just bought a used $35 game and got the disc read error. Tried your method and worked perfectly man! Thanks again man!!
about to try myself!!! luck mode, activate!
@@TravisL.Desmadreson Did it work?
@@scottparker9078 No luck. I ended up buying another console, ps2 slim. Cheers.
14 years ago....and its still blessing folks. Did this a year ago...back to clean again!
I really hope it works i wanna play midnight club
did it work?
wet noodle forreals did it work ???
Videos About Stuff FUCKIN LOVE THAT GAME
Videos About Stuff Which midnight club?
Midnight Club 3!!!!!💰🔥💯🏆😈❤️👍🏼
man thank you so much I thought the lazer had died and I haven't played ps2 for about 12 years and even more... now I can play all my games I have for my ps2 and just remember all the beautiful times I had back in the day.. even though I have a ps4 pro with better graphics nothing can beat an old play station 2
Γιώργος Δ I agree. Better games for a Simpler time.
@@TREVORVADERdante!!!
Thank you franklin (GTA V)
Your welcome sandy cheeks from from spongebob with c frew dome pink flowe white jump suit silver boots white gloves lives in a dome breaths air she is brown etc
Christ
Thank you so much I can finally play crash
Yeah me too, thank god for this man!
ikr!
Nashelly Duran I love Crash Team Racing
I can't pay battlefront ;-;
;-;
Dude, this worked like a charm! I spent half an hour trying to get my PS2 to read a certain PS1 game with no luck. Found your video and tried it, and it immediately read the disc!
How coincidental. I just bought GoW 2 and the first thing that popped up was Disc Read Error. Thanks! I'm gunna try this method!
I literally had a mental breakdown because I couldn’t figure it out. Thank you so much. (And yes, I still have a ps2 in 2023. I think it’s perfectly fine and no need for upgrade. Lmao. 😅)
Literally here for Simpsons hit and run, the good times :P
Omg yes
Same😂😂😂
Yeah!
Same
Mighty Mike, wherever you are, I'm digging your vibes, man.
WTF is ur pfp😭😭
From Mike to Mike I love you big dog appreciate you 12 years later
2021, and this came in super handy! the PS2 never dies!!! thanks Mic
9 years later and you help me out thanks so much man
Wow... I can't believe such a simple trick works so well, thanks!!
Thank you from the future bro. 12 years later just saved this os2 I copped at the flea market!
Here in 2020 and it worked 😍😍 now i can play the sims. Thank youuuu
Dude I’m playing my ps2 in 2022. Saw your method and it worked man thanks a lot. I was skeptical at first but man you saved my ps2. I did not want to open my ps2. Thanks man.
Its 2am and ive been doing research on why my game isnt working. I stumbled upon this video and i was worried about inserting a "wet" wipe into my ps2, so i tried plain napkins and nothing. i used wet naps, like the kind you get a restaurant cause it isnt as moist as like baby wipes (thats all i had) and voila! it worked! thank you! now i can satisfy my nostalgia :)
Just found my PS2 over the weekend, and it would only read a few games. This worked! Thank you!
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! IT FINALLY WORKED FOR ME!
chance on your video by accident... have a ps2 with disc error... tried your method and it totally worked!!! thanks a million...
Its the cheapiest way to do it
LMAO ...that was some funny shit
This destroyed my gta san andreas disc
Does it not work?
Good to have you back man, more gaming vids! I too suffered from this problem back in the day I just got tired of it, jumped ship and bought a slim... Never gave me problems.. I should of done this technique instead.
If you still on that account reply to this lol
you solution did not work, but thank you for trying to help
Oh. My. Goodness. YOU ARE AMAZING!!! I literally was watching the taking apart PlayStation 2 videos and was dreading it, until I came across your video.. At first I was skeptical, but I took a narrow spatula instead of a plastic knife with a wet wipe and stuffed it in my PS2, hoping for the best. IT WORKED RIGHT AFTER I DID IT!?! You sir are a genius. Thank you for this, you just saved me hours of cracking that old timer open. :)
Thanks man. This actually fixed my fat PS2 even though I used different materials but same method. I had no plastic butter knives or any wet wipes but I had a plastic fork and napkin so I wrapped the napkin around the pointy end of the fork and just started wiggling it around in there and it worked! Now I can play NFL 2K5 and GTA San Andreas again!
Amazing! I have 25+ PS1 games that wouldn't work. After watching tons of videos on how to take apart the console, clean this, tweak that, I found this video. Thank goodness! All my old favorites can be played again!! Genius!! Thanks!!
2020 still have my ps2. You the man.
Crazy Man its 2021 and you saved my life man thanks Big Dogg
Who came here because their Vice City game isn't working as it always says error
NinjaDuck 1251 me
NinjaDuck 1251 ME!!!!!!!!!
Dino SAVAGE I now have it for 360. I got a original Xbox copy and it works on 360. Pretty much completed the story already 😂
NinjaDuck 1251 I come by gta sa
NinjaDuck 1251 I came because of my god of war
love when people dont get to the point and just ramble and ramble so u have to scan the whole video just to get the answer you need
Thank you so much Mighty Mike! I can finally play my PS2 again.
11 year old video saved my PS2! God bless you good sir!
Thanks dude it worked after first try!!!😀😀😀
Busted out my PS2 to get me through Corona lockdown. This got my games to work seconds after cleaning thanks man! Do it gently
"Cheapiest"...Love this man haha!
mako
@@gumoi am ded. Mako is ded. Rip
you are AN ABSOLUTE . LEGEND . been tryna make my blue disc THEME PARK WORLD work and you fixed it love bro
dam bro this shit saved a nigga respect to u the ps2 guru
My stepfather was shaking his head when I showed him this...despite that, we tried it with a Buffalo Wild Wings plastic knife and a heavy duty furniture wipe. To his immense surprise, it read not only Star Wars Battlefront, but Gauntlet Dark Legacy as well! You have just saved us quite a lot of money, so thank you very, very much for this video! He still can't believe it.
you sound like ice cube
Racist
+friendsANDsuch That's not racist.
+friendsANDsuch dumbass
he dose
friendsANDsuch350 I worked with a black dude at my old job and I said he looked like ice cube and he didn’t think that was racist at all. He actually said thanks and that people have said that before
It worked, thank you!!! I was just about to order a cleaning kit and you saved me money
"Swish it up in there" lmfaoo
I did what he did with a metal butter knife and then stood it up n the side and it worked!!!!!! Mike you made a six year old very happy thanks mayne!!!!!!
I'm from 2018 so I'm from the feature
Same here
Same
OdalTheAstro well i’m from 2019 so ha
2019
You're from the past now...sorry
2022 represent!
So after this trick, it DID read eventually but it took some time. Might need a few more cleaning passes...
"It's the easiest, cheapiest" XD
Lol
This is the best! My son and I were able to get our PS2 up and running without opening the box. Way better than the $45 we'd have spent bringing it in for service!
That's how gamers do yo, we are not mechanics so thank you
It took about 5 mins to load the game but after that it actually worked! Thank you, I can now play San Andreas again!
OMG YOU ARE A GENIUS Thanks so much!
I was about to buy a new PS2 until I decided to check youtube. Thanks, man! You saved me a lot of money for gas and a new PS2.
I tried this and it’s still not working? I did exactly as you said. There was some dust up there but all clean now. Every other disc works even before I cleaned it but this particular disk won’t work and I got it brand new
Your laser’s probably not dirty, but dead then.
Thanks for this. After 16 years my ps2 only just started to get the disk read error. it works now
I feel like I'm the only person this didn't work for. Hehe :(
stanley NELSON you're not
Ikr
ikr
ikr
Ikr
2021 of September and omg im so thankful for this video. My ps2 has been healthy for most of my life until today, and it had me worried. After doing this, my ps2 has been doing great. Thank you my man!
Who’s playing ps2 in may 2021
Me
Thanks so much for this! The idea of having to unscrew the playstation was a terrifying thought and my brother used to do fix the error for me. But a make up wipe and a butter knife was much better :D
damn, it didn't work for me. I gotta replace the whole laser
Same
1 week from Thanksgiving. 11/16/2021! Decided to play the old games and this helped soo much. Still have the PS1 and PSP still running. 😁
OH MY GOD THANK U SO MUCH !! YOUR AMAZING!!
You just saved christmas, MYT MIC. Now I can play SSX 3.
2017 and I just used this on my 3 old ps2 consoles, thank you 😊
Digimon here I come.
In all honesty, though, I seriously thank you very much. This was very useful and I and my cousin had a really fun time remembering the old days when we played this game, even our other cousin who is already in college joined us and we had a fun match. Thanks to you, we can remember all those memories, and it's very wonderful. So thank you.
yo i tried this and it worked for like a few secs then game froze. I tried it again and disc read error. I then got compressed air and blew out more dust but am still getting disc read error. Im gonna open it and wipe off the lens with isopropyl alcohol. If that doesn't work i'm throwing off the roof.
JOEKURR what ended up happening
Unbothered 6 He threw it off the roof
prod. dangerroom lmao
2023 and this worked a treat! Thank you
PS2 fat is better, all the little kids has slim. Thank god I got a fat PS2
fat ps2 is a ps2 the slim ps2 is called a ps3 (also i have both and i have gta 5 :D)
***** i've never seen a slim ps2 i only have a fat ps2 and a ps3
I had a fat PS2 but it broke and when we went to the store they only had a slim PS2.
(I have a PS3 now)
Ur fat
***** i have a ps2 fat in fully working condition with 20+ games that all work and I'm willing to sell for $100 :D
I was super skeptical but this actually worked. In fact, my PS2 was also making these grinding noises when it would have trouble reading the discs. Now, it doesn't.
2020 still using my ps2
Damn 10 years bruh
Thanks dude! This was actually helpful because I didn't have teh tools to open the PS2 and the way you showed was way better. I spent just like 1 minute or something!
Mane now I can play guitar hero
this is amazing! made a 15 year old ps2 work! so grateful!!!
Thanks man i can finnaly play burnout revenge
random dude LOVE THAT GAME
@@youggieski7229 Same here!
To be honest I thought that this was the stupidest idea I've seen in a while on youtube, but I was crazy enough to try it and to my suprise it actually worked. I been trying to use my gameshark for years.
Will a plastic fork or spoon work?
XxPro GamerxX which end?
Will it work i am afraid doing this
XxPro GamerxX
I am afraid willit work with a normal one
Nice question... LolXD
Brooooooo this fix it. Ps2 would not play the black disc games for some reason and now it plays them thanks bro.
Wait really I couldn’t get mine to work so imma try this
Did it the first time and it worked then I change games later in the day and did not work any more so I did the same trick again but got deeper in there and a better job and the wipe came out dirty have not had a problem again
Is that a KFC knife
I see what you did there is cause he's black and black people like kfc
MIGHTY motto like ma neighbrothers
The wet wipe is probably from there too. xD
MIGHTY motto black ppl like popeyes lol
Didnt know I was ever gonna need anything like this again, but thanks man!
Worked after 2 tries! LOVE!!!!
Didn't wrk 😕
Bruh I’ve been pissed af my console wouldn’t read games I haven’t used it in years. And holy shit your technique worked!!! Thank you bruddah
i have like 3 gta sanandreas games because how much this happened
Same here
Thanks man, it worked and now i can play half life. THANK YOU MIGHTY MIKE!!!
My cusan has a ps2
Thankyou so much. I can finally play GTA SAN ADREAS again!!! I had the format disc problem and it works now
Just slide it up in dur! Lol
Tyler Christen that’s what she said
Who has ps 2 in 2021
He’s legend
2019
2020 AND WORKING IM 12 AMD CAME TO THIS BRO AND THIS THE ONLY ONE I CAN FIND TO WORK ALSO WORKS ON THE SLIM BRU THX MIGHTY MIKE
Also my damn disk drive stuff smelling good now too🤣
Dude Ur talking too much , just go to the point! And thanks tho
Totally worked. Used a wipe with rubbing alcohol. Tysm!