They are useless, get a computer and you can do so much more. And for those prices you can get a pretty damn good start on building one heck of a computer.
Are there emulators yet for the PS2? If there are, for $1000.oo you can get a pretty decent computer and still play PS2 games. And it will probably run better on your computer.
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