It ran a lot of my nostalgia games like ‘God of War’, ‘Metal Gear Solid 2’, and ‘Fatal Frame 2’ really well. I knew PS2 emulation had its problems back when I tried it in the past, but now, PCSX2 was surprisingly stable. While the console did still work on TVs, I needed an RCA input for it to work on my desktop. Does this still work? Plugged it in, and it did! Can I plug it into my monitor? Nope, RCA only.
My discovery of my old PS2 then led me down a rabbit hole. Later, as the console market grew in Nepal, more and more games became available with mod chips helping run ‘fake’ Maha Boudha disks, and my library of PS2 games grew as well. The old hardware brought back memories of playing Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy X (the two games we owned) on an incompatible old TV that worked only through a VCR passthrough and displayed only in black and white. While arcades were all the rave while I was a young nerd, the PlayStation 2 was one of the first gaming consoles that I had at home. Dusty, obsolete, and forgotten today, the console had been one of my first introductions to home gaming.
Scavenging through my storeroom last week, I came across my old PlayStation 2 (PS2) console.
