Back when optical disks were more common mediums for video games
Wasn’t there a GameCube game that did shit like that? Like if your sanity meter got too low the game would mess with you?
Edit: Found it
That game was great! Scared the shit out of me and always wanted to play more.
That’s cool af
freecupholder.exe
This actually happened to me once when I was a kid playing SimCity (I don’t remember if it was 2000 or 3000); The machine, a new but possessed Windows 98 machine, blue screened and ejected the 52x drive without spinning down the CD. So when the tray came out the disc flew across the room like a Lilliputian UFO.
Old school bugs were just objectively better. Software turning mundane everyday items to death threats is the type of action i need in my life.
Imagine if the antagonist in your game messed with the game menu and save files…
The Guardians of the Galaxy game did that, at least a little bit. The game seemingly ends, credits are rolling and then they slowly start to glitch out and some of the names are replaced with the name of the antagonist.
Then the credits crash out and a second bossfight starts. You can kinda see it coming, but it was still pretty cool for them to do that.
Sounds a bit like one of the scarecrow sequences in Batman Arkham Asylum where the game ‘crashes’
;_;
I, too, am a fan of undertale
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Tbh it would be absolutely fantastic if a game pulled this off today.
“Did…did this game just burn itself to a DVD-R before wiping itself from my drive? Where did it even get a DVD-R from??? Wait a sec, my PC didn’t even have a DVD drive before today! Why is there a charge to PCRepairGuy on my credit card?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?”
This is a mobile game, how did a CD even fit into my phone?!??!
It has always been right beside the printer. Have you never noticed it so far?
Weird, I print PDFs from CD on my phone daily.
Well, what if you play an unlosable game, like sandbox simulator?
You can still softlock preventing progress in many, unless you’re in a fully free mode
I have cds that would fit in that small a space, they were a thing to give out like business cards and were the same foot print, just cd thick
My dream game to develop is real actual “war shooter.” You get the classic CoD-like intro of proving your worth in a training range or whatever, a nice little tutorial. Then you get briefed on your mission, and deployed to action. All missions are PvP. You set your loadout, the mission starts, and you get hit. This is where the game begins. Depending on what you get shot with, and where, you get extracted from the mission, and medically discharged. You get sent home, have to live your life with permanent disabilities, find a job, go to your appointments, the whole thing. If you don’t die. If you die outright, the game just uninstalls, and permabans you. Anyone playing gets one life, one shot at the game.
Roy II
Reminds me of goldsrc / Half Life 1 allowing server hosts to send console commands to eject the disc drives on clients to scare them.
I don’t need that kind of disrespect from software.
Sometimes the game would just quit. But I remember that being more of a thing when floppies were around and playing a game in DOS using a CD was stressing the system. Or that cheap 5 in 1 floppy game package that had some bad code.
Shit. My Xbox still does that.
Dang. I haven’t had a console since NES and am bummed to hear that is a thing with a closed system at this point in time. NES only did that as it aged and we didn’t blow the right way 😅
Sounds like Kojima missed his opportunity. Maybe he couldn’t find the command that do this?
Given that the PS1 didn’t have a powered drive tray and the lid release was fully mechanical, he’d have to develop telekinesis first.
Huh? Metal Gear main franchise has been on every PS ever, and only PS1 is fully mechanical.
And the PS2 slim.
Based on my limited understanding, Sony didn’t make the drive ejection controls available to game developers. Maybe clever hackers could do it nowadays since the PS2 in particular has had its system architecture analyzed down to the molecular level. It’s probably not a good idea to tie the progress if your program execution to it, though, because of the above. Hardware revisions could change at any time.
