Well, I have an unmodded PS2 which is currently in 2 pieces right now. The top case is sitting right next to it and the top of the disk drive sits ontop without the screws. Anyways, I have been playing my PS2 with no issues at all and everything load's up fine. Last night, I played Ace combat 5 with no problems at all and I shut it off. Today, I booted it up, which went fine, and when I went to play a mission, the game hangs up on the loading screen with the poem. The loading image doesn't freeze, but I left it alone for 10 minutes straight a couple times and it still didn't load. Any suggestions? I can play arcade mode just fine.