[Help] PS2 blue/purple discs

Soluzar basically hit it on the nose. I work at a game store that does system repairs and I know from experiance that this is a classic sign of a PS2 singing it's final swan song. Sometimes a new lense/realignment can fix it however it also might not. If you do fix it though, it'll probably only last you a year or so before the same thing happens. If you choose to fix it again at that point, then the fix will only last about half as long as the first. So in the end you might be able to squeeze some more time out of it, however it's on it's way out and it's all just a matter of time unfortunatly.

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That fix is more for the mounting hooks that keeps the disc on the tray because they do tend to ware over time, not a fix for DREs caused by lasers.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

That issue was due to that the CDs whether it be a blue disc or a PS1 game were lighter then the DVD drive was originally designed for. Therefore DVDs work fine because they weigh more then a CD. The fix for the problem that you had would have been to take two equal lenghts of scotch tape around 1inch each and place them on opposite sides but equal distance from the center of the disc on the label side. This would give the problimatic disc enough weight to not come off the spinner whilest spinning. This is one reason why they changed the drive to a snap drive in the slim PS2 to fix this issue and because they're smaller.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Just be warned however that putting ANY tray loaded console vertically will increase the likeliness of circular disc scratches to like 70%. As weird as it may sound, after loading the console try putting the system upside-down. It should give you the same performance increase as putting the system on it's side, however you won't be risking your discs as near as much as if you were to put it vertically.

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