Some PS2 functionality at last!
Jan. 20th, 2010 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxinthestarsSome friends might be familiar with my misadventures of getting a PS2 ready to play DDR (and hopefully other games like Castlevania: Lament of Innocence). First we had to get the PS2, then I set it up at the parsonage, then the TV there didn't work, so Sis gave me one that did (tuner broken, but great for just a PS2), then it turned out my old dance pad didn't work, so I tried to get a nice new one, but I had a bad shopping experience and ended up with a crummy new one (at least they only charged shipping for it because of the mess), then we, er, didn't actually go the parsonage very much.
So the latest chapter is, I brought the PS2 home and swapped it in for the DVD player Mom and Dad had, which has compatibility and temperament issues. (It wouldn't play my Criterion Collection DVD of Kurosawa's Spider-Web Castle --- oh, sorry, "Throne of Blood" -_-; --- but that might be just as well because Mom thinks there might still be a DVD inside when I unplugged it because they couldn't get it to give one back. Suddenly the simple mechanical clamshell door on the slim PS2 seems like a selling point... 0_o;;
There are only a few problems with this. Firstly, the living room isn't always accessible because Dad is watching Match Game '77 in there or something. Secondly, the TV is, er... Well, it's at least 15 years old and has seen better days. I tested it with some of my games and the PS2 was working fine, but anything you need to *read* on that TV is pretty dicey. I couldn't tell how many hearts I had in Symphony of the Night. Worse yet, it rendered the atmospheric visuals of Lament so badly as to render it pretty much unplayable. Thirdly due to the room layout, it needed a DVD remote and a controller extension (the latter for DDR especially), but those were no big deal.
We went to visit Sis today, I stopped by the video game store, and got the remote, extension---and my own copy of the more beginner-friendly DDR X (We got that for Sis for Christmas and she's played it on visits, making it look very appealing, plus I'm the losing-averse type and beginner-friendliness was a big selling point).
So I got it home tonight---and played me some DDR! Functionality at last! Not perfect, a lot of the text is difficult to read (so the whole "information" menu I've just written off; the dialogue in Dance Master mode will probably be a wash, but, er, it kind of was even when you could read it...), but the important parts are easily seen. And it's a blast! Sure, I made a C and then a string of Bs on level one songs (I mentioned beginner friendly = selling point, right?), but even at that I worked up a little sweat and most importantly, it was FUN! ^___^
Mom wanted to play it too, so hopefully tomorrow we can peel Dad away from Match Game so I can show her the cool toy. I even turned off the annoying announcer already; turning off the jumps seems to be song-by-song, tho; I'll have to show her how to do that...
It was so fun, I'm even using my special "fun" facepic. ^___^
So the latest chapter is, I brought the PS2 home and swapped it in for the DVD player Mom and Dad had, which has compatibility and temperament issues. (It wouldn't play my Criterion Collection DVD of Kurosawa's Spider-Web Castle --- oh, sorry, "Throne of Blood" -_-; --- but that might be just as well because Mom thinks there might still be a DVD inside when I unplugged it because they couldn't get it to give one back. Suddenly the simple mechanical clamshell door on the slim PS2 seems like a selling point... 0_o;;
There are only a few problems with this. Firstly, the living room isn't always accessible because Dad is watching Match Game '77 in there or something. Secondly, the TV is, er... Well, it's at least 15 years old and has seen better days. I tested it with some of my games and the PS2 was working fine, but anything you need to *read* on that TV is pretty dicey. I couldn't tell how many hearts I had in Symphony of the Night. Worse yet, it rendered the atmospheric visuals of Lament so badly as to render it pretty much unplayable. Thirdly due to the room layout, it needed a DVD remote and a controller extension (the latter for DDR especially), but those were no big deal.
We went to visit Sis today, I stopped by the video game store, and got the remote, extension---and my own copy of the more beginner-friendly DDR X (We got that for Sis for Christmas and she's played it on visits, making it look very appealing, plus I'm the losing-averse type and beginner-friendliness was a big selling point).
So I got it home tonight---and played me some DDR! Functionality at last! Not perfect, a lot of the text is difficult to read (so the whole "information" menu I've just written off; the dialogue in Dance Master mode will probably be a wash, but, er, it kind of was even when you could read it...), but the important parts are easily seen. And it's a blast! Sure, I made a C and then a string of Bs on level one songs (I mentioned beginner friendly = selling point, right?), but even at that I worked up a little sweat and most importantly, it was FUN! ^___^
Mom wanted to play it too, so hopefully tomorrow we can peel Dad away from Match Game so I can show her the cool toy. I even turned off the annoying announcer already; turning off the jumps seems to be song-by-song, tho; I'll have to show her how to do that...
It was so fun, I'm even using my special "fun" facepic. ^___^
