Why wont guitar hero world tour work in my ps2 its for the ps2 and doesnt work but if i put guitar hero 3 in it works fine! Whats wrong?

We had the same problem, except we didn't have any other guitar hero disc to compare with. Have a 70000 series PS2 slim. It was very frustrating as other PS2 games, loaded right up. So you think, "Must be bad disc" Wrong!! We carefully cleaned the laser and it works!! Get a Q-tip, put the smallest amount of alcohol on it and slightly touch the laser with it for like a nano-second. Then use a another dry q-tip and VERY gently wipe the laser lense off. If you have purified or distilled water, it wouldn't hurt to perform the same operation as above to insure there is no alcohol residue on the lense.

Ok here is the deal as far as we are concerned with this issue. We purchased the full bundle of this game with the drums etc and as with others the game would not load in our ps2. Ours is the slim line black not that that should matter really as the game is sold to work for the playstation 2..... There is nothing in the advertising or system specifications etc stating that ours would not be compatible.... Geeezzzz it's a playstation 2 ffs..... Ours is the 70002 model. As with others we assumed because we have so many other older and new ps2 games that work perfectly every time as well as DVD movies and music CD's we felt that the problem would be with the new GHWT disk. Because it was for Christmas and I was not looking forward to having 3 very disappointed boys we drove for over 1 hour to our local electronics dealer to buy another GHWT disk believing this would probably fix the problem, after all we could return it once the faulty disk was replaced if that was in fact the problem. Second disk didn't work either. I decided to take the two disks next door to my neighbours who had a ps2 newer than our own.... Didn't work in their one either. Looked online for hours scouring the net for forums like this to see if others were having this problem and a possible fix. Tried everything suggested but still the game would refuse to load.... (We have just about every other guitar hero released and they all work). Very frustrated I contacted the online store we purchased the bundle from and they said nothing could be done until the middle of Jan... Very pissed off at that I wrote to them stating that the game was not compatible with our ps2 and requested a GRA (goods return authorization) number utilizing the 7 day right of return policy in New Zealand for online purchases. (6 days used up already resolving, "wasting time" on this issue). They were very quick to respond stating that they would courier out another disk for us to try. It arrived this morning..... with high hopes I put the disk in, but it was not to be, still would not work. I then called up the dealer who gave me the disk to try (gave us a full refund on btw) and asked if they had any new ps2 consoles and they said they had 2 left. I got them to hold one and said I would purchase it on the condition that we could try it with our game at the shop..... Fortunately I know the manager there and he was happy to oblige.... The new version was the 90002 and the game loaded up no problem at all..... So our problem has been solved by doing exactly what I think sony would like us all to do, by buying a new unit. It's almost like random built in, or should I say forced redundancy here in our case. Looks like Anonymous below and I have fallen for it, but I will still try chtrich nicely laid out instructions below and see if I can get our 70002 unit to play it as well..... Thanks for that. Well this kind of problem seems to be happening more often now days where we the consumer are expected to do the quality control and also trouble shoot and find solutions for these people who sit back, pay for no quality control and roll in the money...... It only took me the best part of a full week now.... every day hammering away at the issue. It is a shame they don't pay us an hourly rate to fault find for them....... hehehe Good luck to all who have yet to resolve this issue.... Cheers.

i have the 77003 model and loads fine but sometimes the game frezzers and crashes

Same problem here.... Because ours was the bundle with all of the controllers we thought it was simply a case of a faulty game disk. Because our console works fine with 30+ other ps2 game titles that we would get another GH-4 game disk to try. It still did not work. To eliminate our console as being the problem even though I doubted it would be we tried it in other friends ps2 consoles and it would still not work (both brand new GH-4 disks. After many hours of searching forums and other technical support it would appear that the only way this problem has been solved were those who suspected their console and purchased a new one. Perhaps some built in redundancy software in the new GH-4 game disk or the anti-copy protection software in the new game has made it too sensitive on the older consoles (ours is the slimline and is 2 years old now) This problem appears to be widespread and I certainly hope that people take the makers to task. Because this game did not work we as parents who wanted our child to have a nice Christmas are now left to spend hours and hours on end trying to solve this issue. It's simply not on and is happening far to often these days with allot of hardware and software. There is no quality control being invested in by companies producing and selling software and hardware, they are simply relying on the consumer to do the quality control for them. Most of us probably cannot be bothered or simply accept the typical response from retailers saying such things as "It must be your console, you will need to get it repaired or buy a new one" Surely this is a perfect opportunity to sell more stuff right? I for one am sick of this and others should be too. For us now the only fix is to buy a new PS2, and I am sure there will be people saying things like, well it's only $$ this much now so stop complaining, but anyone who thinks that way is missing the point, and it goes further than that. What about the implications of a throw away mentality eh? Bottom line is Sony, and the game makers have either really screwed up or are looking for us all to just throw away and buy new. Sorry about the ramble but I am really really annoyed with this issue.

I found this answer at http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081029133245AAkGd64 Per Walmart - If you read the fine print on the back of your Guitar Hero World Tour Box you will see this: "Licensed for play on Playstation systems with the NTSC U/C designation only. See inside for details." Apparently that is a chip that only the newer 90000 models ps2's have. Without it you're game will not work. Seems that some PS2 models are obsolete for playing this game.

We bought Rockband for our son for Christmas for his ps2 slim. It gave a disc error. After a little research online, we found this to be a common problem. We took it back and bought GHWT. Same thing happened. With all of the problems and no real answers except to buy a new system or replace the laser, maybe someone should consider a class action lawsuit against the companies. Maybe then they would do something about the problem. There are too many disappointed kids out there because of this issue.

I bought the Guitar Hero World Tour with guitar in a sealed box. I also bought 3 more Guitar Hero games bundled (without guitar). The guitar works. The 3 other games work. The World Tour game is not readable by my system.

It could be a simple case of the actual disc being scratched. Don't think that "if it's scratched a tiny bit it will still work". This is not the case, the size of the scratch is not important, it's WHERE the scratch is. If the data used to load the CD is where the scratch is, then it wont work. However, it could be that you are trying to play a regional version that your PS2 is not able to play. for example, European PS2's use PAL, USA use NTSC, and Asia use JAP (it should say what version the disc is on the CD case, and you can find out what your PS2 is by looking in the configuration screen (when u turn it on without a game in it). Test it by trying to play the same disc on another PS2 (a friends perhaps), if it works, u know the problem is with YOUR PS2, if it doesnt, then you know the roblem is with the disc itself (in which case, the people you bought it off should refund you).

It's because Sony are a bunch of thieves, and want to make us spend yet more of our hard-earned money buying their latest versions of the consoles in order to play these games, instead of simply making them compatible with the older version. I've had the same problem; World Tour won't play on my ps2 (The older, chunky one) but it seems to play ok on my friend's newer, slim ps2. Guiter Heros 1, 2, 3, Aerosmith and Rock of the 80s all work perfectly, it's just World Tour and 5 that simply refuse to work. If only Sony were considerate enough to actually tell us this in the first place...