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Is my PS2 broken?

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fetuse

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I purchased the game Ico and popped it into the PS2. The opening trailer came up fine, but when it loaded into the game there was no video. The sound worked fine. When I was walking I could hear footsteps and background music. However, the screen was black. I checked on a walkthrough, and it is not supposed to be blank.

My previous PS2 (first generation) eventually lost its ability to play CD-ROM games. Now, the Ico disc is a CD-ROM, so I tested my other CD-ROM games for the PS2. All of them worked fine except for Ico. I am trying to make it work on my old PS2, but it takes me many dozens of attempts to load the game up if that is even still possible.

I should note that I swapped the Ico disk because I figured it was broken at first. So this is my 2nd attempt with the same error. Does anybody have a clue as to what is going on?
 
Are your PS2 settings stock? Is it modded? Which video cable type (composite, component) are you using?

I remember reading something about progressive scan not working for some games but have no idea whether it's relevant.
 
Did you import Ico from somewhere? It may be a PAL version when your tv is NTSC or the other way around.
 
Do you have another TV you could try the ps2 on? If it works then we know it's a setting on your tv or the tv itself. If not then it's your ps2 or the game.
 
It might just be the start of this ps2 going out the same way your other one did then. The old ps2s developed a huge issue with CDroms for some reason, and this may be the first in a line of games that start failing. Without another ps2 to be sure, I don't know what else you can do other than getting another copy of the game.
 
This one is a slim from about 2-3 years into the PS2. I was under the impression that they fixed that sort of error, but I guess not. The actual error I got on my old one was that it would take many tries to get it to read the disc. When it reads it, the game works fine. This one reads the disc 100%... just not the video. Although I guess I can see some correlation. At least the things cost as much as a PS3 game now though. Thanks for the help 🙂

The trailer no longer loads, so I will just keep resetting to see if the game will ever work :>
 
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Hmmm... I didn't think the slims had that issue either. Maybe the game is just borked and you can't see the scratch. You might be able to take it to a game stop and have them stick it in their test machine to see if it's your game or not.
 
I will probably have the answer later tonight. I will be trying my old PS2 once I get some canned air. It should only take 50-150 tries to make it work 😛 I didn't do this before because I didn't have the cables, but I figured out the power cord for the old PS2 is the same as the slim's when you take it out of the adapter *face palm*. Will post if I can get it running :>

If not I like the gamestop idea!
 
The problem was apparently my TV. The only game I couldn't play on it was Ico, but when I hooked it up to another screen it worked perfectly.

As a sidenote: GameStop does not test their used games and have no testing stations.
 
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