Are we praying that the disc loads, or are we praying along with the holy sounds that were the PlayStation startup sounds?
100Praying the disc loads. That second screen only shows if it's successful.
123Praying the burned import disc boots up, probably.
50Yes
33Or 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.
10Or praying the space ship flies true.
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Little of both. This is where you might encounter a boot error, between the white and black screens. But I never saw one that I didn't forcibly make happen when modding. At least not with PlayStation's. Xbox red rings were common as fuck, and they would also occur during the startup logo sequence.
2Scratched CDs lived or died between those screens.
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🙏Thoughts and prayers 🙏
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I will never forget the boot up sound of the ps1 lol. That shit is a core memory
54EDIT: 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!
7That was borderline orgasmic. I hadn't heard that intro in a very long time
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Vegeta and Pikachu don't care
44You alerted me to details I didn’t see. Thanks.
27Spiderman on top of the TV changes position too. :)
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As kids, we never had to worry, because pre-PS1, we were already bombarded with lessons on proper disc handling from our boomer parents when we learned how to play their vinyl/CDs. Kids who just threw their discs everywhere, stepped on jewel cases, and used the top of their console to rest drinks on are the ones that had to pray their games worked. I'm looking at a wall of 30 year old playstation games that are pristine.
41Some PS1 and 2 just had shitty laser assemblies that had trouble reading even non scratched discs.
15You know, I remember that. My PS1 never had an issue, but I know a few people who did.
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My PS2 would randomly decide not to read the disc sometimes. IIRC, we were pretty careful with both the disks and console.
From what i remember, the issue was the laser was either dirty or otherwise shotty and sometimes wouldn't read the disc
5I remember opening my PS2 to clean like a quarter inch of dust off the laser. And then losing money when trading it in to GameStop because the seal was broke
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Rentals and used games had no such guarantee.
2THIS. 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.
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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.
38Thankfully 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.
6This 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. :(
1As kids we didn't realize it could be any other way, so we didn't suffer. Much... :)
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"You can't hear a picture"
The picture:
37Permanently Deleted
9How did i get chills listening a gif?
6I remember the square as two triangles that slid together? Am I miss remembering?
4Yeah, it seems like a weird recreation
Edit: Actually, it appears to have been color compressed.
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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.
29The 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.
28I knew on your first sentence you were talking about FF7. Had to borrow a friend’s third disk.
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"Praise The Omnissiah! The Machine Spirit lives!"
25I'm glad we have finally gotten to a technological point where games just go right to the god damn menu the moment you power on the machine (or at least, good ones without an hour of unskippable logos and disclaimers), since that was what I had originally, you know, back before the CD era and everything was solid state. You'd pop in an NES, Master System, SNES or Genesis cart in, power it on and BAM! the game is already going.
Not that I am not nostalgic for the PS1, PS2, Dreamcast and GameCube startup sequences.
21Am currently playing Hades, start the game, the game load, BAM, the menu screen. Such respect toward player's time.
In AAA games and a lot of indies, everyone involved/slightly involved want to show you their shiny logo, no skipping.
18Sadly the logos need to be there as part of their funding contracts most of the time
9Lol I don't miss that at all either! Starting up a game was some buffet-pick of:
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NVIDIA - the way it's meant to be played.
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ATI
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HAVOK engine.
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F-Mod
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BINK video
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EA GAMES - (challenge everything)
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Ubisoft purple tunnel video clip
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"This game might cause seizures BTW ask ur doctor idk."
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"Graffiti is art but it's a crime we didn't make you do it." (JSRF lol)
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NOW LOADING. . . . . . . . .
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FINALLY. Start menu.
And I remember clicking around and hitting ESC or the controller buttons in vain just out of sheer wishfulness. XD
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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.
19God, Wild Arms was so good. I miss 1+2. 3 to a lesser degree.
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Meanwhile, this sound is gut-wrenching:
17Thanks 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?
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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.
9LAPD: Future Cop
Oh man, I had a demo of this game, this brings back memories.
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Cut scene skips a frame
9Oh, 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.
9I know why engiseers do what they do. I had to perform my own rituals to appease the machine spirit to run my favorite game on ps2.
7At the end of my playstation 1's lifecycle, i had to give the disc a pre spin and sometimes turning it upside down helped too
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Never had a problem with my PS1. My PS2, however...
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It should be upside down.
5My first ps1 needed to be upside down to play, ahh, the good ol' days. Where you needed the console oriented a certain way, but at least games were a full experience and a flat price.
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I can hear this meme so hard. Even the spool down and spool up of the CD drive in this situation is burned in forever. It’s been more than 20 years but it feels like yesterday
5For me it's the "Seeegaaaa" and then a small prayer hoping that the Sonic cartridge is properly inserted.
5This reminds me of my X-BOX for real. Absolutely amazing console. (I still miss those "Duke" controllers).
But the most common disc reader was terrible. Over time games would just stop reading. Halo: Combat Evolved, I kid-you-not, would start to load...and then load BACKWARDS, usually (but not always!) resulting in "Problems reading disc."
Me and my co-op friend would be cheering it on like it was going for a touchdown LOL.
Crimson Skies too, I remember. I took great care of my discs but I guess the drive would just scuff them up over time.
4Gotta flip it upside down.
3I think that's even more so a problem these days for people getting into retro consoles because many of these discs are more than 30 years old, the disc drives too are getting up there in age. Many of them are starting to fail or become unreliable from dust and wearing out with age since the laser assembly is rather fragile.
It's one of the reasons why ODE and SD loader mods have become popular lately, as well as Homebrew game loaders on the newer consoles which can support them (PS2, PS3, Wii, Wii U).
3Sony Computer “Entretcher”???
1adults today will never understand either, apparently.
- PC gamer
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