Okay so I just handed a Playstation 2, as is known by the game suggestion thread that left me with enough games to drain my back account as cost me my home if I bough all of them.
However, there is an issue. It doesn't bloody work. Specifically, the controllers don't work.
Basically, it doesn't recognise the controllers. I know the controllers themselves physically work because that light on the front comes on when I press the random 'analog' button, but the console doesn't actually register D-pad or analog stick movements whatsoever.
Thing is, I'm not sure if its the controllers that are fucked (I have one official one and one knock-off-piece of shit one that I don't trust) or if there's something wrong with the controller port of the console.
I tried opening the damn thing up but that didn't do any good cause you can't see fuck all in there because of how its guts are slotted together.
So basically, I don't know if its the console that's up the shitter or the controllers that have just packed it in. And I don't know anyone who still owns a PS2 that I can temporarily swipe a controller from to check since all my friends sold their PS2s in the second the monolithic PS3 stuck its head out into the world.
So I don't know what to do, and I guess I was looking for some kind of advice from people who generally know more about consoles than I do, since all I know how to do is play them and break them.
However, there is an issue. It doesn't bloody work. Specifically, the controllers don't work.
Basically, it doesn't recognise the controllers. I know the controllers themselves physically work because that light on the front comes on when I press the random 'analog' button, but the console doesn't actually register D-pad or analog stick movements whatsoever.
Thing is, I'm not sure if its the controllers that are fucked (I have one official one and one knock-off-piece of shit one that I don't trust) or if there's something wrong with the controller port of the console.
I tried opening the damn thing up but that didn't do any good cause you can't see fuck all in there because of how its guts are slotted together.
So basically, I don't know if its the console that's up the shitter or the controllers that have just packed it in. And I don't know anyone who still owns a PS2 that I can temporarily swipe a controller from to check since all my friends sold their PS2s in the second the monolithic PS3 stuck its head out into the world.
So I don't know what to do, and I guess I was looking for some kind of advice from people who generally know more about consoles than I do, since all I know how to do is play them and break them.
