r/interestingasfuck • u/smooth_vesselHPAUM • 16h ago
The last moments of a PlayStation 2 after 20 years of gaming
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u/TivoDelNato 16h ago
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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 14h ago
Please pay your last respects to /u/Delta_S4. It's their video. I'd provide a link to their post, but AutoMod removes my comment when I do.
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u/totemdog 16h ago
it makes me sad and like it shouldve been held in someone's arms for its final moments ◞ ⋏ ◟
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u/Fastlil1 16h ago
No.... it went out doing what it loved.
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u/UranusIsPissy 12h ago
Best way, I think. I've heard stories of a biker who had a heart attack on his bike. He pulled off the road just in time, then dropped dead. One of my favourite singers died suddenly on stage, too. Almost anything probably beats being bedbound for ages just waiting to die.
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u/TemurTron 14h ago
So many of our consoles have died alone and dusty in some dark closet. Some of them we still don't even know if they're dead because we haven't taken them out in years. This PS2 went out like a fucking viking.
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u/totemdog 13h ago
very valid point, now i feel a sealord's honor instead of sadness :] i wonder how my leap pad™ is ...
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u/shidderbean 14h ago
YOU CAN BRING IT BACK IT'S JUST BAD SOLDER JOINTS FROM 20 YEARS OF THERMAL EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION
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u/LordDagwood 12h ago
My Xbox 360 only needed 6 months
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u/Owobowos-Mowbius 11h ago
I remember fixing my 360 by wrapping towels around it to get it hot as fuuuuuk to re-solder the joints
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u/h8bithero 11h ago
Who knows if it WAS the original poster, BUT the first time I saw this post only a few months ago, maybe within a year, others were replying similar but the dude had already done some things to it, leading everyone to condemn the GPU itself. i swear he resoldered it but i might be making that up.
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u/sephirothFFVII 11h ago
Reballing a GPU isn't easy, been watching YouTubers fixing up graphics cards and they use a lot of equipment most folks simply won't have.
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u/ScreamSmart 9h ago
Those repair videosl would bridge individual paths on multi layered motherboards with hair like strands of copper.
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u/sephirothFFVII 7h ago
Saw one where the dude did that and used green resin to rebuild multiple layers. Very satisfying to watch but it doesn't seem like they turn a great profit for all that skilled work... Could be wrong in the higher end video card restorations though
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u/PapaMoon89 5h ago
Our first console was a SEGA Genesis, then we were gifted the Playstation 1 on Christmas of its release year. Then we got surprised by the PS 2 when my mom gave us new games for our PS 1. But they were PS2 games, so initially, we were a little disappointed and told her she accidentally got the wrong games and they wouldn't work on ours. Then she smiled and leaned behind the couch and asked "Do you guys think they would work better on this?" Lifting up a brand new in-the-box PS2! We lost our minds, best Christmas ever😎🤘
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u/pidgeottOP 16h ago
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u/sanctum9 16h ago
Pretty cool, I would have only been mildly surprised if the car appeared irl, full speed smashing through the house . Definitely some kind of transition there. Are you still in this dimension op or are you wandering around stuck in a ps2 game ?
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u/BillGoats 10h ago
are you wandering around stuck in a ps2 game ?
There's a game about that. Never played it, but the concept is pretty intriguing.
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u/ElmosBigRedSchlong 16h ago
This is how I imagine it looks like when we die.
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u/404GirlHumorNotFound 16h ago
Imagine being a epileptic and this is how you die. Flashes and a panic attack of the flashes
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u/example-of-disaster 16h ago
Our console, who art in gaming heaven,
Hallowed, be thy games,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy GPU be done,
On earth as it is in gaming heaven.
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u/sicsided 15h ago
At least you gave it an amazing send off with one of the best racers ever, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2
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u/failedopportunities 5h ago
My brothers did this a couple years ago right in the middle of a heated Tekken fight. We still argue about who would have won… Ahhh how I miss blisters on my thumbs from that game!
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u/popwhizzbang 5h ago
I bet your brother would have won
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u/failedopportunities 4h ago
Lol! Yeah, he probably would have! I’m the older and he had fair more gaming time than I did. 5 year age gap. I had to work and stuff…. Pay bills and all.. Damn sure ain’t admitting that to him though!!!
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u/peanut-britle-latte 16h ago
What's happening here?
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u/Nenad1979 16h ago
GPU dying
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u/kitanokikori 13h ago
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it was overheating and this was extremely fixable
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u/Bargadiel 15h ago
I have 5 ps2's mostly because friends kept giving me theirs, plus one I bought right before they stopped producing them. I hope I can outlast this because the ps2 Library is one of the best in gaming.
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u/USNWoodWork 16h ago
Fake news. PS2 is unstoppable. Mines been to like 14 different countries with all kinds of janky power adapter situations and she is unflappable.
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u/MeNoCanRead 16h ago
Why did you take your PlayStation to 14 different countries?
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u/DoesntMatterEh 15h ago
The ps2 is well known for it's love of travel. If you weren't taking yours on trips you were doing it a great disservice!
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u/paraworldblue 12h ago
OP's PS2 failed because it stayed in one place for too long and developed severe mental health issues.
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u/USNWoodWork 16h ago
I brought it with me on the aircraft carrier and it would sit in my locker below all my other shit and then I’d bring it with me whenever I’d get a hotel room in port. That machine is nigh indestructible. I’d certify it as military grade. Mine still has the paper “high value” chit I had to put on it in my barracks room.
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u/th3h4ck3r 15h ago
I’d certify it as military grade.
Fun fact, when it came out in Japan, it was classified as export restricted due to the CPU being so powerful at physics-related calculations it was theorized it could guide missiles.
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u/TurmUrk 15h ago
I mean I did play a lot of ace combat 5 and armored core 3 on my ps2, that baby guided millions of missiles for me
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u/BigBootyBasilisk 14h ago
Rumor has it the operator who got Osama was actually wearing four PS2s over standard plates
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u/scottasin12343 16h ago
and mine's laser wore out after 3 years... not every machine or generation was built the same way. The first gen PS2s had a lot of issues.
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u/smooth_vesselHPAUM 16h ago edited 14h ago
For context, the video shows the GPU memory (VRAM) or some sort of data bus in the video card failing.
You notice how it's losing track of what to render in certain blocks of the screen and certain polygons, but the gameplay and audio is still smooth, and it didn't actually crash until the end there?
I'm guessing that's when it got so bad that the rest of the machine lost some vital bit of feedback and stopped to wait for it.
Edit: the video was uploaded by u/Delta_s4. It wasn't me who recorded this for all confused by how I wrote it.
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u/_ThatD0ct0r_ 16h ago
Makes me wonder if some PCB wizard could replace the failed chip on the board
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u/fivelone 16h ago
Definitely fixable. May be easy may not. Usually pretty simple for a tech.
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u/ztaylor16 15h ago
I’m sure somebody somewhere could. Everything is fixable, it just depends if it’s worth the cost
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u/maciej0s123 15h ago
I wonder if it could be as simple as a failing capacitor
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u/isuckatpiano 15h ago
It’s a failing ram chip on the motherboard. I’ve replaced these in GPU’s but not in a PlayStation so idk
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u/esushi 15h ago
This is all lies. What's the point of lying about this?
This is a PS2 that has been circuitbent and someone is twisting a dial to make the screen look interesting.
Something like this: https://www.instagram.com/reels/C2aS_lStycT/
You're also making it sound like this was your experience but it has been posted to Reddit many times before
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u/_adanedhel_ 15h ago
What's the point of lying about this?
“The illusion of being an interesting person”
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u/AFlyingNun 14h ago
How to be an Interesting Person: A Guide
Option A) Develop a personality
Option B) Make shit the fuck up about how interesting you are and hope people don't notice
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u/IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns 10h ago
As a professional astronaut and lion tamer, I find the idea of people making shit up on the internet abhorent!
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u/27298throwaway 15h ago
Your post is a much more succinctly-worded version of my own thought, which is "why is he filming this? What are the odds he'd be filming a random driving game, an old game no one would ever film, and so stably, and right as it dies."
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u/stonekeep 14h ago
I don't think that recording part is that weird though. The artifacts might have started happening a bit earlier, so someone might have paused the game, grabbed a phone/camera and started recording, then they got progressively worse. That part is plausible.
(Of course we already know that's not the case, I'm just saying that it's not unrealistic like it is in many other random videos.)
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u/Synaps4 15h ago edited 11h ago
The entirity of reddit popular is lies now. Lies and ragebait. Sometimes both. Only the small subs are worth anything. Im actively picking up small forums again.
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u/cBEiN 15h ago
What made you think to record this? Like, do you always record yourself playing video games?
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u/ElectricDance 15h ago
Its not his recording. This has been around the internet for awhile. You can see where the polygons are failing in the beggining of the video.
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u/SimisFul 15h ago
It's not OP's video but you can see some slight artifacting right when they unpause the game. Makes me think whoever recorded it noticed them and thought the PS2 was nearing EOL so they recorded it. Probably didn't expect such an intense death though lol
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u/anteatertrashbin 15h ago
i’m guessing this was happening relatively consistently and they recorded it. perhaps when the GPU got hot, it would fail consistently.
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u/Cloudscrash325 16h ago
Meanwhile someone is holding a heat gun over the board off camera just cooking the thing.
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u/smoothjazz_fvckface 15h ago
Last time I turned mine on, it sounded like a leaf blower before I even put in the disc (purchased in 2001). I just said, 'its ok pal, maybe we try again soon'. I can't bare to watch it die. If I convince myself it could still work, it's like all those memories are there waiting.
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u/Slammer956 15h ago
It’s just dumb plastic and totally not symbolic for decades of happy memories and amazing experiences. Just plastic
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u/loqi0238 16h ago
I listen to robot music with my robot ears, and play robot video games with my robot eyes.
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u/CaptianBlackLung 15h ago
One time I took a hero dose of mushrooms. And this is exactly how it looked. Like paneling was failing and I could see the simulation behind it. Which looked like I was looking out of a massive bay window into space.
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u/thebigdustin 15h ago
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"I'm afraid. I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it..."
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u/MrNukki 15h ago
It hurts to see a PS2 die a slow and painful death. Is this some video card issue?
My slim PS2 is luckily still alive and working well, almost 21 years old at this point. Not saying all PS2s last this long but man these things were sturdy and dependable.
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u/get-off-of-my-lawn 16h ago
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“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do…”
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u/mrselfdestruct2016 14h ago
Better to burn out than to fade away