• cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    821·
    3 个月前

    Are we praying that the disc loads, or are we praying along with the holy sounds that were the PlayStation startup sounds?

    • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 个月前

      Or praying the space ship flies true.

      I remember there was an Easter egg but I can’t recall if it was related to no disc and then loading an audio cd or something else. You’d have a small space ship flying around and towards and away from the screen almost like a screensaver.

      It’s been almost 30 years though so I’m a little hazy on the details.

      It’s bugging me that I can’t find it online anywhere.

    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 个月前

      EDIT: I found my favorite PS1 animation helping out below! HERE it is!

      I have all of the retro consoles boot animations that people were cool enough to switch up into a Steam Deck boot animations I also have the plugin for deck tools that allows you to get a random one after each reboot. Needless to say, I never get tired of hearing the old OG Gameboy, PS1/2, GameCube, etc. boot animations and sounds. Core memories indeed!

        • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 个月前

          Here you go!

          Decky Loader

          Animation Changer (I recommend just following the install guide for Decky Loader, opening the plugins shop from the side menu, and then finding the Animation Changer plugin. I just included this link so you would know what to look for, and to see some of the dope ass animations people have been kind enough to share.)

          Happy hunting! If you don’t know, you can also install CSS themes, change the background noise and UI audio elements too! I’ve got mine with a Fallout (Blue) theme, sounds from the Pipboy for navigating the menus, and most of the retro console boot animations. :)

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      1·
      2 个月前

      THIS. 100% THIS.

      Simple rule for discs: always touch the edges, never the surfaces! It’s…it’s not that hard. I never had PSX disc read problems.

      Not throwing shade at the kids who did because of shoddy lasers or something, of course. :)

      (I did have OG Xbox disc read problems… because those crappy Thompson drives shredded discs over time)

      Seeing people hold the surfaces of discs with their snack-greased fingers would infuriate me. Same with seeing them put label-up on the dusty VCR / cable box / dvd player rather than back in the case to switch games.

      Nowadays it seems even more common because people don’t seem to know how discs work.

      On that note, It’s the same thing with RAM. Watching tech review channels where they’re just pinch-holding RAM sticks or fanning them out like playing cards makes me twitch.

  • Farid@startrek.website
    34·
    3 个月前

    This applies tenfold if you lived in a country where the are only pirated copies of games and all consoles come pre-modchipped (especially if your game was a multi-language copy with a built-in selector/launcher). I assume the modchips had shit timing, so when the chip was having a bad day I would sometimes have to restart my PS2 for 10-15 minutes straight until it loaded. Sometimes I gave up and came back later to repeat the cycle.

    Bonus memory: PS2 is supposed to play PS1 games. So when we got a PS2, on the first day I tried one of my bootleg PS1 games and it loaded fine. After that, it never loaded another PS1 game ever, showing the “please insert PS1 or PS2 disc” error.

    • yamanii@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 个月前

      Thankfully there was a magazine here that wasn’t afraid of talking about chips, which ones were good, which ones enabled ps1 games too, etc. It’s why I purposefully asked for a matrix chip for my fat ps2.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      1·
      2 个月前

      This reminds me of the story behind CD Projekt RED getting started in Poland. The only way for them to bring games to their community was basically bootlegging them, so that’s where they began.

      That’s rough. :(

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
    25·
    3 个月前

    The heavy bass effect that blew out my dad’s surround sound subwoofer amp due to me maxxing out the low frequency gain from the PS1 startup tune lives rent free in my head.

  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    3 个月前

    The worst was if it was a multi disc game and the broken disc was the last one. You’re invested, excited to see how the story ends, ready to smash Sephiroth’s face in, and it all grinds to a halt.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 个月前

      Thanks now I have ptsd, worse sound every. I hated that when it happen. Question how come we never see this happen with PS3 snd above? Did they fix something or disk just made better?

  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    3 个月前

    Nice comic.

    Used to have a copy of Wild Arms on the PSX, and there was a scratch so deep that stopped progressing past Cecilia’s intro, but man we tried.

  • GneissSchist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 个月前

    Oh, man. This brings back memories. I did this every time I loaded any game into the system. My PS1 had issues with the balls on the disc spindle that locked the disc in place. I had no idea and had so many issues with discs not loading until I discovered it. Then it became the disc equivalent of popping the cartridge out of the SNES and re-seating it until it worked. Eventually, I had to replace the balls as they fell out but as a broke college student, I just crumpled small bits of aluminum foil into similar sized balls and stuffed them in there. Worked great after that.

  • Weslee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 个月前

    Man this takes me back, I used to have a faulty LAPD: Future Cop disk, which happened to be my favourite game, me and a friend used to sit in front of the TV saying “pls pls pls pls” and cheer when it worked.