I've had my PS2 since November of '01. I admit straight away that it's not my primary system this generation, but it gets its fair share of play time. I've never had a single problem with my PS2 before, but now it's starting to have issues.
In the past few days it's frozen up on me during gameplay three or four times. At first it was only doing it when I played THAW, but now it's done it during Sly Cooper as well. I've noticed that it only does it during cinema scenes or transitional periods (namely while riding the bus in THAW).
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this before it becomes worse? I've recently bought a number of games for my PS2 that I'd like to finally be able to play (MGS3 and Kingdom Hearts chief among them), and I don't want to have to keep playing parts over due to freeze ups like I did with THAW.
As much as I like the new slim PS2, I can't afford to drop $150 right now, especially on a system I already have. Someone suggested I try cleaning my PS2's lense. Would this help? I have an old CD lens cleaner, a CD with a series of brushes on the underside that I used to use to clean my CD player. Would that help, or do you think it would make things worse?
Any help anyone can give me will be appreciated. Thank you!