GTA San Andreas problem

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 19, 2005, 10:04 pm

Ok, just recently got this one. My brothers been able to play it fine on his friends PS2, but when he brought it here it wouldn't run. Just gives the message asking to insert a Playstation or Playstation 2 format disc. Anyone know why this might be happening?

Oh yea.. my machine isn't that old, say 1 1/2 years. His friends is a lot newer.

Waran · Post by **Waran** » April 19, 2005, 10:09 pm

Do you use your PS2 as a DVD player? I've read that after prolonged DVD reading the drive can have game reading problems.

Have you tried a disk drive cleaner disk? With the little brushes on it? Might clean the lens of dust and the like

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » April 20, 2005, 12:10 am

my friend just had this problem, it is your disk drive =(

ghetto solutions include the old nes treatment of restarting your game over and over until the ps2 reads it (which should happen eventually), or leaving your ps2 on at all times. though the latter will do more bad than good in the long run.

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 20, 2005, 12:16 am

Zamtuk wrote:my friend just had this problem, it is your disk drive =(

ghetto solutions include the old nes treatment of restarting your game over and over until the ps2 reads it (which should happen eventually), or leaving your ps2 on at all times. though the latter will do more bad than good in the long run.

Anyone know if Sony will replace this? It's mostly used for DVD viewing yes. I'll try the cleaner.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » April 20, 2005, 1:14 am

dont use disc cleaners. they will hurt your player more than do any good.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » April 20, 2005, 2:27 am

I used this guide to clean my ps2, ever since its worked like its brand new

Dregor Thule · Post by **Dregor Thule** » April 21, 2005, 2:12 am

Well, turned on the ps2 today to try the repeated restart method out and the damned game loaded first try. Loaded it again later and it worked fine again. Damned flakey machine.

On a darker note, I've learned that I absolutely suck at controlling all aspects of movement and fighting in GTA games. TT

Nick · Post by **Nick** » April 21, 2005, 8:44 pm

Hmm, this is a trend it seems, both my room mates last year had PS2's. Both PS2's were about a year and a half old. Both PS2's started not reading discs.

Two other friends experienced the same problem about a year and a half in.

I would have expected them to last a bit bloody longer than that, hell, even SNES's are still working after all these years (and often their games are better, ala Mario Kart).