I'm quite a newbie when it comes to tech stuff like this, so yeah I have a few questions:

1. My friend recently got a few realllllly old games. They work for the PSX, but not for the PSOne. What he did was put this funny disc in, then put the game in, and it worked. Is this illegal or something?

2. My PSOne loads things really slowly. I was playing Final Fantasy 8, and there's this part where it ALWAYS freezes and the disc just stops running. It does this with other games too, except I have to wait 20 seconds after each battle. What's going on?

Alright, thanks. It does look pretty beat up, a family member gave it to me before he left for university. Strange thing is it played some games perfectly though. Anyways, I have a couple more questions in response to your post:

1. How do I tell if the discs are copies or not?

2. I've heard that playing PSX/One games on PS2 will cause it to malfunction or something. Is this true?

Thanks for your time.