Copying PS2 Discs

[bodonline]

Hi - I have a problem in that my children have a tendency to wreck discs by shoving them into the drive of our Playstation2. What Iwould like to do is to take a copy of a disc I have bought onto a DVD-r/-rw (a legitimate use I think) in case I may need to use it.

Can this be done?

[jel]

hi bodonline,

taken from a post by ammck55:We like to stick to digital video issues here at Doom9's forum--encoding, authoring, and related topics for the most part. Run a Google search on "PS2", you'll find plenty of information to work with.

unless i have misunderstood and you are asking to back-up your DVD movie discs to be playable on a PS2, i which case i suggest you start by reading the DVD backup guides (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdbackup-guides.htm)
in particular: DVD Shrink 3.1 guide (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/dvdshrink31-main.htm) would be a good place to start.

hth
j

[dani82]

@bodonline

yes, it can done, unfortunaly, all retail ps2 consoles are defective, they can't play copies*, except dvd movies (i think)

* pointless to try

[bodonline]

Thanks for your help - guess I will just need to educate the kids about shutting drawer before the disk is seated properly!

[Sirber]

@Modo

please close that thread.

[dani82]

no rules has been broken; but i agree, better to close it now, before someone tries to temp faith

[ammck55]

For as long as I've been around the Doom9 forum, we've tried to steer clear of PS2 issues; gaming forums are really a better source for this kind of info. Until there's a public shift in policy, we'll continue to do so.

Thread closed.