Racing games are one of my favourite types of games. Of them, the Gran Turismo series is one of my favourites. Now, our Playstation 2 is a slimline one. This is all fine and dandy. It takes up less space, uses less electricity, looks nicer and the laser is easier to clean. Great.
Until I want to play Gran Turismo 4.
At first, I thought I was unlucky in buying 3 different copies of Gran Turismo 4 which did not work. But I was kind of suspicious as it was 3 different copies, after all. So I called Sony's helpline in the manual, and they said they'd replace the PS2, but they wanted me to check them on another Playstation 2 and another copy of Gran Turismo 4 just in case.
So, I dragged my friend The Git round with his fat PS2. I set it up, and hey presto! Gran Turismo 4 worked on his PS2. Another copy of GT4 which didn't work on my slim, worked on his fat.
Needless to say, I am not impressed. From what I can garner from my roams around the Internet since, slimline PS2s have major difficulties in reading data from dual-layered DVDs (i.e. ones with lots of data). This means that games like Gran Turismo 4 are completely out of reach for us people who bought the slimline thinking they were getting a better console than the fat one and who can't afford to go out and randomly buy a fat PS2.
Sony have been no help since my console is out of warranty.
How do I get my slimline PS2 to run Gran Turismo 4?
Answers on a postcard please.
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