Help with my new ps2?

Question

I just got a "new" used ps2 from game stop. It will work for a movie, and for my cd, but not for my ddr game. The game is used and barely scratched, but it doesn't work for the game. I put in a badly scratched cd in the ps2 and it still played with a skip. so I don't know if it is the ps2 or the game. I don't remember my old ps2 being so picky.

Answer 1

Its probably the disc. The disc probably has the scratch on the beginning were the game starts so it can't load. Keep trying other games. Good luck and I hope I helped =)  

Answer 2

im going to give you my answer from another user's similar question, its a very common problem.

If it says disc read error, the lenses more than likely need to be cleaned. if you're brave enough, you can attempt it yourself. you can probably find instructions online. theres 2 lenses, the second one is directly under the first one and is very hard to get to. a cotton swab is too big, so just pull a little bit of cotton from it to get under there, but be careful because there are hair-thin wires attached to the top lens that break easily. but if you know what you're doing, cleaning these lenses can be done in about 15 minutes. hope this helps.