• cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    521·
    7 months ago

    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
      4·
      7 months ago

      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.

  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    7 months ago

    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·
      7 months ago

      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
    13·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    7 months ago

    I 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.

  • GneissSchist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    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
    4·
    7 months ago

    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.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    I 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).