That's the first i've heard of older PS2 games not working on the Slimline-
I didn't say anything about older ones. They're actually relatively new. Several of the activision budget games and a few others. But they're not even old games, so there's no real excuse. It came as a surprise to me too, but a friend of mine was complaining that she can't play Jak and Daxter or Ty the Tasmanian Tiger or one of those cutesy platformers because she has a slimline PS2 now. I thought she was mistaken, but she gave me the link to the page on Sony's site which lists which PS1 and PS2 games will not work on the new slimline PS2's.