Need help with the parental controls for a PS2 Slim

[Sarabi]

Hello, I'm new to the forums and was wondering f anyone could help me.

I have a PS2 slim, and i have to always enter the password when I want to watch a dvd on it. I know my password and know how to reset it, but i don't want to have to enter it at all any more.

The thing is that when I go into the setup menu and go to click on the parental control setup in it it is white/gray and not blue thus not letting me change it. I have tried to look up ways to fix this via google but none of them work.

Does anyone know how to make it so that the parental control goes back to blue so that I can change the level of security from 1 to 8?

Thank you in advance.

 

[velocityg4]

It's been quite a while and I no longer own a PS2 to change it on. But as I recall when I changed parental settings was once a DVD movie was actually loaded.

I found this post that looks like what I was thinking of

Password Reset

Turn off your ps2. then turn it on and insert the dvd. when it asks you to temporarily change parental controls to whatever level say yes. It then asks you for your password-hit select, it should now say delete password. enter the password 7444. it'll ask you to create a new password-make it 0000. itll ask you to confirm-enter 0000. it then should say registration complete and will continue to dvd menu.

Change Parental Control Settings

start playing the movie. once the movie begins playing press select. you should have a bunch of icons-click on the stop icon-the movie should stop playing, bring up the icons again by pressing select and the stop button should be grey even though you r highlighting it. if it is still blue press it again. once the stop button is grey, even though you r highlighting it,

click x on the icon underneath the 7-looks like a briefcase and is called setup. hit the right directional button until you r at the custom setup screen.

hit the down directional button until you are on the parental control setting. hit the right directional button. it should ask for your password-enter 0000. press the down directional button until you are at level. press the right directional button. press up on the directional button until you reach the desired level (off is at the very top). click x.

go back to the original icon list and press play. play the movie to make sure it plays. DO NOT TURN OFF PS2. once the movie is playing, press the eject button and remove the dvd. close the tray. once the tray is closed turn off the ps2 by using the switch on the back of the ps2. Wait at least 5 seconds. turn your ps2 back on and insert the dvd. the settings should be saved and you should be able to play dvds without the annoying parental controls. I know these instructions are long, but i needed to make them as detailed as possible inorder to make sure everyone can do this correctly. I received these instructions straight from the tech support people at sony and it worked-good luck.

I spaced out the original post since it has very poor readability, it was condensed into one paragraph.

Original thread

 

[Sarabi]

It won't ask me for my password because it is grayed out. I can not click x or use the right arrow to interact with it. That is my problem.

I did try what you said, but I still had the same result. Thank you though.

 

[ryuoku]

*Lightbulb moment*

Okay, so I figured it out, as I was having the same problem as you. My light-bulb moment was when someone said their instruction manual said "not available under the resume play options".

It means you follow all the instructions that velocityg4 gave you but after you stop the movie, you push the stop icon A SECOND TIME! This will change the icon from the color blue to the color grey that was mentioned. Then continue the instructions as provided. Hopefully that helped!