but it STILL would collect dust on the top! is that when you put it back in its side again?? good point !!!!!!!!!11

No, because there actually is no point unless you wanna save room. It does more harm than help.

Mine is upside down, I like it to scratch the discs to hell when it drops them, yep, I do'es'.

And the fact that it damages the disk is more then enough reason to NEVER USE THE STAND.

My playstation 2 broke when it fell off the vertical stand.I am never going to put it on it's side.I learned my lesson.

ya, i had mine on the side, but i dont like it that way, cause it's such a hassle trying to put the cd's in.

Take my advice and don't have it on it's side.

I have it on its side.

It can't read some of the Disks if I have it horizontal though.

It cant I never knew that.

Sum thimes it wont read wdisks when it is the normal way so i just stand it up and after it loads to the menu screen i set it back down and it works, so that is the on;y time i stand it on its side.

Whenever my PS2 would start giving me trouble with reading DVDs/Some Games, it was just a simple matter of dust collecting on the laser lens. You just have to open up the PS2 and clean the laser lense off with a cotton swab with rubbing alcohol on it. It is a common PS2 problem.

Man last night I was having my cousin spend the night he brought his ps2 over and it wouldnt read any disk that wasnt pruple.

My games started working since I turned it on its side... Don't know why.

It probably knocked the disc read settings back into place.

i keep mine on its ass and when i put in a new disk i have to flip it on its side then back on its ass to get it to read the disk cause its broken

that probaly really sucks then

I heard that if you do have it standing up that you are supposed to flip the little PS2 symbol on the disc tray to the proper angle otherwise it will not read all discs correctly. Probably just a rumour but something to try none the less.

My friend has his standing up, and now his Vice City(only game he really plays) dosent work, could that be the reason?

Or just buy a wet laser lens cleaner. They work well.

I heard that the old ps2's can only read the blue disks cause my cousin has the old like when it came out and another one that his sister got cause she always hogs the video game systems. And the new one can read all of the disks.