The Death Of Ps2 Players?

After clean install I successfully updated.

Visions and Scars of Abyssea don't light up as being registered now on the screen previous to character select. How do I get them back?

I BELIEVE that you need RoZ, CoP and WoG installed and registered for all of the the Abyssea expansions to work. To have all add on scenarios (all 6) working you need to have all disc based expansions :\

Ok so, good news here to all you PS2 users who have a ps2 unable to read discs anymore. I've taken mine apart and located the problem. Basically, the laser eye that reads the discs is on a track, and it slides back and forth via a threaded pin to the right side of it, and the laser eye has a small white plastic piece that lays on top of threaded pin, and has 2 small plastic pieces underneath it that fit in the threads on the pin. Unfortunately after years of use, these small plastic pins have worn down considerably, and even remnants of them are stuck in the threads of the pin(cleaned out with a knife easily). What you need to do to fix this, is pop the 6 caps underneath your ps2, remove those 6 long screws, then flip over your ps2, lift off the top piece, which will still be attached to the main console with a small strip for power to the LED buttons(there will be a void sticker you have to remove in order to do this, i highly doubt your machine is still under warranty :P). Once you remove the top, and lay it next to the ps2, there are 4 tiny screws holding the cover to the CD compartment, you need a small eyeglass screwdriver, or i used a sharp knife, to remove these. Once that's off, and your ps2 is all opened up, turn it on, and open the cd tray with the button on the detached top piece, then turn the ps2 back off, you will then see the laser eye, and the plastic piece on the threaded pin/screw thing. I basically lightly squeezed these together, and cleaned out the bits of plastic stuck in the screw. Now just test if it worked by placing a cd in the tray, putting the cd compartment cover in place, and just holding it down with ur hand, turn the ps2 on and close the cd tray. If it reads, success! if not, open it back up, and re-attempt to get that plastic piece to connect better with the screw. Good luck! i'm currently reinstalling the game, and my console is reading the disk again just fine.

Well I think us PS2 users that have been waiting for a better solution are gonna have to bite the bullet. This is what SE emailed me after I asked them if they were still looking for a solution or if the re-install was their final answer.

Dear Customer,

Regarding your request for technical support. Please find your answer below.

We do apologize for the inconvenience but currently the current resolution to the issue you are receiving is to uninstall and reinstall the game. Further instructions can be located at: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/polnews/news20166.shtml. If there will be other resolutions to the issue, we will post them on our official website: http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/

Thank you for contacting the SQUARE ENIX Support Center.


/sigh... Adios my dear macros and markers...

...I hate joo SE!! -_-

i did the clean install...now my better halfs ps2 doesn't have expansions...macros....landmarks....

thank god SE is so customer oriented im sure they'll have this up and running for us soon....
can someone put a troll face under this post plz? kkthnx

I had zero problems once connected to do download for last update took 4 1/2 hours.Good luck to the rest of PS2 users having problems.Glad I have loaded on PC in case of any problems that may arise with my PS2.

Used to use old PS2 myself for the game, would not read disks.

Another solution to the PS2 not reading disks/DVD that I did myself and worked countless times is re-applying lubrification to the metal bars that the laser eye slides back and forth on. WD-40, vaseline, or any industrial lubricant works. I'd have to do it every 3 months or so but it would even read DVDs again lol.

Hope that helps.

Well i caved in, and decided to do clean install, downloading now,its installing atm, but idk if the install includes heros of abysea, but im sure it does

so i caved and decided i'd have to delete all my ***and do a complete reinstall, only to find out that while my ps2 still will read most discs it won't read the blue installer pol viewer disc....now what?

you need the hdd utility disk?! sigh...i deleted everything and am tring to reinstall but its not working, if thats why then im screwed