Metropolismania

[terribledeli]

So I'm checking out the forums while the wife plays Metropolismania. I noticed this weird humming noise and figure its just the tv. Alas, its the playstation.

Assuming anyone actually owns this game, does your guys copies violently buzz like mine?

 

[Trancendental]

[quote name='terribledeli']So I'm checking out the forums while the wife plays Metropolismania. I noticed this weird humming noise and figure its just the tv. Alas, its the playstation.

Assuming anyone actually owns this game, does your guys copies violently buzz like mine?[/quote]

Are you sure she's not using the Rez vibrator

 

[FriskyTanuki]

It could be that the disc is spinning irregularly. Try the tape method:

4.4 - SCOTCH TAPE METHOD
Cost efficiency - 5/5
Convenience - 5/5
Effectiveness - 2/5

Tools you will need:
1. The problematic disc.
2. Scotch tape.

This was the trick that personally fixed all of my problem discs.

I first heard of this trick in the September 2002 issue of GamePro. In every
issue of GamePro, they have a one-page section called "Buyers Beware", which is
a Q&A section where readers write in if they're having a problem with their
games. As you might expect, a common problem in previous issues of GamePro has
been the PS2's Disc Read Error. But in this issue, a reader named "Jim M."
wrote the following letter to Buyer's Beware.

Jim's tactic involved placing scotch tape on the face of the actual discs. By
taking two 1-inch long pieces of scotch tape and putting them on opposite sides
of the CD (as close to the CD hole as possible), the PS2 suddenly has an easier
time reading discs. How is this possible, you ask? The disc is using the two
symmetric pieces of tape to balance itself on the laser, making the disc easier
to be read by the laser. According to Jim, an offset of balance on the disc
can occur when dust builds on the magnetic rubber device that holds the disc in
place. The tape fixes this.

However, this trick didn't work for me...right away. After pondering for
awhile, I took Jim's tactic one step further, and added TWO MORE strips of tape
onto the two sides of the disc that previously had no tape on them. Lo and
behold, it works! These two new strips of tape should still be 1-inch long and
should still be as close to the CD hole as possible.

I understand that these instructions may be confusing, without a diagram, so I
made a little picture that will hopefully explain it better, which can be
viewed at www.geocities.com/sonicquestcomic/ps2tapemethod.bmp

While this trick definitely worked for me, it doesn't work for everyone.
Namely, I've heard that this trick only works for CD-based media, and not
DVD-based media.

Hopefully that will help.

 

[bmulligan]

My old PS2 buzzed with almost all blue bottom discs. NH2001, Tribes, and others that escape me right now. My new slim pstwo does it too, to some extent, but it's not earth shaking. I'd say it was a balance problem, so I can see how the tape thingy would work.

 

[Zman310]

Crash, looks like you've got an extra period at the end of your link that's giving me a page not found screen when I click it. Might want to fix it.

 

[bmsdaddy]

Metropolismania does not buzz for me. Does it do it all the time? Sometimes just taking the disk out and putting it back in has taken care of noise in my PC CD-rom drive.

 

[FriskyTanuki]

[quote name='bmulligan']My old PS2 buzzed with almost all blue bottom discs. NH2001, Tribes, and others that escape me right now. My new slim pstwo does it too, to some extent, but it's not earth shaking. I'd say it was a balance problem, so I can see how the tape thingy would work.[/quote]

It was part of the original FAQ, since I just copied it and pasted it. It's fixed now, though.