At the gates of the arrival of the long-awaited PlayStation 5 , there are still users who continue to enjoy the PlayStation 2 , considered one of the best-selling consoles in history, so far, with a total of 155 million sales since the year 2000.
In addition, with around 4,000 titles, it is also ranked as the one with the most games, while the best-selling title was ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’, and some of its most popular and interesting accessories the DJ table, the guitar and the microphone.
If you are still using it, precisely seven years after the last game designed for this console was released (something that happened in 2013), especially if you haven’t turned it on for a long time, you may have forgotten about it. parental control password.
Remember that what is known as parental control , known in the PlayStation world under the name of parental control , consists of a useful security measure to prevent minors from accessing certain inappropriate functions of the console, in addition to viewing restricted DVDs.
So if we do not remember the password we chose the first time we configure it (most likely we do not even remember it, especially if we bought the console when it went on sale in 2000), it is possible that in Let’s panic at first.
And then we ask ourselves what we can do about it. Luckily, the console manufacturer (Sony) thought of misfortunes like this. And the solution is to change the password, or to disable it completely. We explain the steps to follow.
Resetting the password of our PlayStation 2
It is very likely that the PS2 will ask us to change the parental controls when we insert a restricted DVD movie. If so, we must press the Select button. By clicking on this button we are starting the password reset function, so the console will ask us to enter the password to continue.
We must enter the password 7444 , and then select OK . Now, next, the system offers us the possibility of entering a new password . The ideal is to enter a password that we can easily remember, simply so that the same thing does not happen to us again.
Finally, the PlayStation 2 will confirm that the password has been changed, and will direct us to the original menu of the DVD in question.
