PlayStation 2 Not Playing Certain Games? Try This

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So this is what was happening to us.

Our PlayStation 2 would play most every game we had, new released ones, very scratched ones and so on, EXCEPT Midnight club 3 Dub Remix, not the old one or a brand new one we bought. The games would however play in my brothers PS2. Hmmmmm!!

So I got Sony on the phone and they were just as stumped by this. So they told me I could send our machine in and they would keep the shell of ours, but replace all the parts with new ones and address the issue we were having as well for $45.00 + tax. Not to bad actually for basically getting a new system, since they do not make the thick PS2 anymore.


However For the machine just not only to be playing one game it didn't hardly seem worth it to pay that money right? Well that one game is our sons favorite, of course with music and voices turned off, he is only 3 almost 4 and doesn't really need to be hearing all of that, just likes the racing.

Here is what we did and It Works:

Took the shell of the PS2 (top cover) the screws are hidden by the little tabs on your system, get them all. Then you should be able to pull it apart, the top part. CAREFULLY !

Take as lint free of a cloth as you can find and gently wipe of the lens very gently. (the very thin looking plastic thing, that's an orange or yellowish color)

Then take the computer air can or your lips and blow the dust outwards on the side that doesn't have the lens. Put it back together and it should work, I know ours does now, plays both the Midnight Club games.
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