[Gossamer]

A friend and I were playing Guitar Hero 2 yesterday, which is the first game we've bought for my roommate's aging PS2 in ages. My other roommate was sitting at his desk when he knocked over my Keystation 49e directly onto the guitar cable, making the PS2 fall from about 4 feet directly onto the floor. The image stayed on the screen, but it froze.
I shut it off and found that the disk tray cover had snapped off and the tray came out about 1 cm. We plugged everything back in but after the 'Playstation 2' text disappear, nothing happened. I put in another game and it actually loaded, but it claimed the controller had been unplugged and I had to hit a button to continue. No matter what I pushed, it wouldn't acknowledge that I'd pressed a button. Upon plugging a controller in, the red light on the controller wouldn't turn on, but pushing the button would cause it to come on.
We tried GH2 in our neighbor's PS2 and it didn't work there either, I think i just might have something to do with the big scratch/smudge on the bottom. Any way to clean that?
And any idea what's wrong with the PS2? Can I buy a PS2 for parts off of eBay and just swap out the controller plugin part or is more complicated?
We just blew a bunch of money on GH2 and another controller, we don't want to lose it all now...

[Dark Helmet]

Ouch that doesn't sound good.

The PS2's are pretty cheap now with the new slim ones at about $120 or go to a game shop and see if they sell any old used PS2's for about $50.

[Gossamer]

We might have to do that. Busted PS2s are going for $30 or so on eBay, so it might make sense to go with a known working one anyway.
This PS2 was one of the first, so it had problems playing the blue/purple discs and it required me ripping it apart and adjusting the lens every once in a while to prevent games from freezing and stuff...so it's not like it was in the best shape anyway. It's just ironic that 1 week after dropping $120 (even though my roommate got like $72 for like half his old games) on new stuff for it that it gets destroyed. Two weeks ago we would have laughed and probably tossed it out the window.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by Gossamer 

My other roommate was sitting at his desk when he knocked over my Keystation 49e directly onto the guitar cable, making the PS2 fall from about 4 feet directly onto the floor.

Sounds like a case for your other roommate's liability insurance.

[Railroader]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

Sounds like a case for your other roommate's liability insurance.

The deductible will probably be much higher than the cost of a completely new unit.

He he... I said "unit".

[vmarks]

HAve you opened the covers to even see what's broken?

I think I'd open it up to see what was really damaged, and whether or not you need to replace a part or can solder jumper wires to fix broken traces.

[Jawbone54]

Why isn't anyone lamenting the ending of a perfectly good Guitar Hero II game?

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by vmarks 

HAve you opened the covers to even see what's broken?

I think I'd open it up to see what was really damaged, and whether or not you need to replace a part or can solder jumper wires to fix broken traces.

Yeah, I popped the cover off and I can't see any physical damage immediately. I haven't pulled the heat sink off though, so I haven't taken a good look at the motherboard itself. I'd like to steal my neighbor's PS2 again sometime and switch the controller plugin modules and see if that fixes it.