Thread 716998769

you couldn't afford one carlos?

It's weird to think these had way better transfer speeds than the USB ports despite capping out at 16MB.

being nostalgic for the 6th gen is very traumatic for a small group of retards

>boomoids payed to save their games
Lmao

>>716998769 (OP)
is that a ps2 game key card?

>>716998934
Official cards capping out at 8MB for the console's entire lifespan was complete bullshit and you know it

>>716999054
why? the saves are typically 500kb-2mb in size. it would take like 5 minutes to save with usb 1.1 speed. of course it had to be fast.

>>716999384
never had an issue, i had like 3 of them and it covered all of my games.

>>716998769 (OP)
>The chad memory card
Own your saves
Can be transferred
Can be duplicated
Can be lended
Can be kept if you change consoles
>The virgin "modern" solution
Can't be lended to friends
Need to pay for cloud backup to transfer
Can't be duplicated
Weight 1Gb

>>716998769 (OP)
Spent like a week playing FFX intro over and over before I was able to buy one of these bad boys

>>716999121
the ps2 may have sold more, but that doesnt matter, because the best console that generation was the nintendo gamecube

>>716998769 (OP)
I remember as a kid I didn't have one and was always confused about why every time I played a game and turned the thing off I was back at the start the next time for 80% of my games but for a few others the saves stayed.
When I looked at the save menu I just thought it was a weird game or something.

>>716998769 (OP)
Now you pay 50+ if you want to have more than 3 games on console. At least I could swap my discs or carts out ezpz back then.

>hey man you know that 400$ gaming box?
>yeah?
>what if it spontaneously destroyed itself?
>haha that would be fucked up lol

>>716999717
I never had any problems with that

>>716999717
americans dont know what this is

>>716998769 (OP)
People don't like Memory cards? I always found them useful.
I was always going to friends houses, so they were very useful for me.

>>716998769 (OP)
took me a long time to convince my family to get one of these for my gamecube, my favorite game was sonic adventure 2 and i was sad about my progress and chao garden being reset all the time
but that was okay because it made me better at the game since i had more experience replaying all the levels, eventually i beat it in one sitting without having to rely on leaving it on overnight

>>716998769 (OP)
still have my PS1 memory cards, with all my saves from decades ago... in the same time I've lost almost all other saves across PC harddrive failures or swaps, games hiding them in every fucking hidden folder they could, and sporadic cloudsave support on steam.

This shit was the ultimate, still more reliable than anything today.

>>716999717
That stuff's awesome, the hell are you on about anon?
The real horror is not having one of those and needing to use pic related instead.

I think it would have been cool if 7th Gen consoles kept memory card functionality just as a way to bring a save file over to a friends. The one thing I liked about memory cards was the ability to bring it a friends house in case they didn't have all characters unlocked in a game but I did or easily show them a cool part of a game to get them interested.

>>717000267
>playing a shit ported version of dark souls 1 on gamesforwindows
now that was pain

>>717000076
Still the most insane bullshit ever come out of gaming industry, I don't how Microjew come out unscathed from this.

>>716998769 (OP)
It was irredeemable shit that always disconnected from your wiimote at the worst possible time.

>>717000841
Dude just play together online lmao neither of you even need to leave your house!

>>717000267
holy cancer. just let me play the game. I don't want your shit, Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, or anyone else

I remember there was a memcard shortage when the PS2 launched.

>>716999152
We also paid to own our games.

>>717001272
ENTER

>>717001272
that one kid in class that insisted on borrowing a game and gave the cd back like this

>>717000985
trillion dollar company
also Windows

>>716999714
More like shitendo gaycube. Only game worth shit was Metroid prime and re4 got ported everywhere even on my grandma's dishwasher

>>717001060
>always disconnected from your wiimote at the worst possible time.
How? Are you swinging your arms apart and yanking on the cord or some shit?

PAL / NTSC

>>717001442
Someone once did this with my Gameboy Advance.
I made them buy me a new one. They gave me some cash every week for a few years until the debt was cleared.

>>717001442
I remember giving some kid from church my DSi for literally one night
When I got it back it was covered in water, it didn't turn back on for another five years
I never lent anyone my vidya again after that

>>716999384
>get one of those colossal gamecube memory cards only third parties sell
>it's, of course, the first one to die on me, with all my PSO saves

>>717001272
>somehow still fucking works
>even triggers cool glitches sometimes while you play

They're like battle scars. Blu-ray sissies won't even leave the trenches.

>>717000841
The PS3 had this functionality at launch and you only needed USB Sticks. It's a shame people preferred the inferior 360 early on.

>>717001665
randomly crashing isnt a cool glitch
cartridges got the cool glitches a lot more

>>716998769 (OP)
>implying the memory card icons weren't pure soul

>>717001596
PAL chads got the game running a little slower that means we got more game time for our dime.
>but muh speed
yeah I bet you're doing it with speed when it comes to ladies too, don't even have time to slide it all the way and you're already done.

>>717001772
>the ones that changed icons if you tried to delete a file
SOVL

>>717000985
>buy launch 360
>years and years without issues
>finally quits on me
>my next 2 brand new 360 models last less than a year each
between that and the UI being butchered, i quit xbox for good. tried gamepass a couple years ago for $3 and the app ran like pure garbage with no way to easily sort the available games, and it kicking you back to the start of the slow-loading list if you looked at a game page and then went back

>>717001772
what game is the gun one?

>>717001516
The conectors were just unreliable, they wouldn't keep a connection and would break even if you babied the remote. I recall I bought a black 'mote & nunchuck exclusively for Dolphin, hardly even used it and even still the nunchuck would stop working randomly when playing Metroid Prime Trilogy.

>>717001060
i have never heard of someone having peripheral connection issues on a wiimote, actually. especially the nunchuk, which felt like it was a detachable component of the wiimote more than an addition

>>717001987
>The conectors were just unreliable
Mine never gave out. Still have the 2 I bought at launch.
The wiimotes themselves are battered and damaged, but the nunchuks are great. Maybe you just need some contact cleaner?

>>717001751
>crashing
Mine stopped loading level in streaming based games like GTA or Jak and Dax so I had big chunks disappearing and cars flying in the void it was cool. Meanwhile, again, on PS4 when something happens there's only a big error screen. "The software encountered blah blah we're gay and sucking dicks here's your error code : 6969911123420"

GAY

post em

>>717002201
>>717001772
>>717001919
>Have PS2
>Only owned 2 games for it
>Never knew about these icons until now
Neat!

>>717002201
Haven't used my PS2 since the beginning of COVID but I know my oldest existing save is a THPS3 file from ~2006

>>716999121
I think the Dreamcast is just happy to be included.

bitch please

>>717001060
I actually liked it, i can't stand Joy-Cons but Wiimote+Nunchuck was comfortable enough i never even thought about getting a Procontroller for the Wii. Although i DID uce GCN contrioller for Brawl IIRC.

Never had any "Disconnecting" issues either. Or drift.

>>717001987
again, i don't think i have ever heard of someone's nunchuk having issues. are you SURE you aren't being some sort of retarded meathead?

>>717002201
For some reason this memory card set every save to 1999 or 2000. Some homebrew probably fucked the dates up

>>717001272
>friend borrows GTA SA
>get it back a little scratched
>speed down the highway in a banshee
>if I use nitro the map doesn't load in properly

>>717001951
nta but iirc it is the separate ways save for RE4.

I had this and it caused the final boss of FF12 to hang.

>>717002708
I have the same problem
Either your PS2's CMOS battery is dead or it's just a matter of deleting the system settings file

Memory card stickers

>>717001343
YOU CAN'T PROVE THAT

>>716999714
delusional

>>717002201
I haven't used my PS2 in like 15 years dunno if my saves even still work. I had a 100% Completion on Gran Turismo 3 which is still probably my proudest gaming accomplishment

>>717002925
Good to know

>>717003289
The oldest save file I have is my mom’s made when I was less than 3.

>>717003396
zoomshit

>here's your controller bro
It was cool for 10 seconds then you actually started using it

>boomers had to pay to cheat
lmao!

>>717003550
>pirates your cheat codes

>>717003653
What now huh fucker!?

>>717003432
Of course, here’s another childhood memory card of shovelware licensed kids games saves.

>>717002829
That seems like something that would seriously be bad for the lasers and disk drive mechanisms. That extra weight would cause issues and definitely make them fail faster

>>717003550
>zoomers don't even get the option to cheat, just to pay

>>717001745
Fair, I forgot about that despite having used that function before. I remember playing through FF8 a decade ago and my 3rd disc not functioning at some point. I had to get my hands on the PS3 memory card adapter, transfer my save to the PS3, then transfer that save to a USB sp I could convert it and continue my playthrough on an emulator.

>>716998769 (OP)
Memory cards are useful for transferring save data with a friend.
I never would have unlocked everything in melee with data sharing w/ my school friends. We beat that thing together.

>>716999714
lol
I saw this as someone who grew up exclusively with a gamecube

>>717003704
I was thankfully never european

>>717003936
Action Replay was a lot better

>>717003936
>wanna beat the game?
kek

>rubbing your lips on it

kino of the hi- oh wait it's supposed to be anti nostalgia, old bad o algo

>>717001442
kind of unrelated but a family friend's kid wanted to try suikoden 2 when visiting and he named the main character something stupid like "poopoohead", wouldn't ever let him borrow the game.

>>717004025
but gameshark looked cooler

>>717003550
>pay
we had libraries and the internet, nobody had to pay for shit and the kids who bought this shit from the book fair were mocked for doing so

Unironically better than the system we have now.

You had 100% control of your save files. You can back them up however you want instead of being forced to pay for cloud storage (ironically Microsoft is the only one that offers it for free) or doing bulk backups of the entire system to one dedicated drive.

Didn't need to sign to your profile, install and download 90 gigs of a game to continue playing at a friend's house. Put in disc. Put in card.

I'm not sure where "the issue" lies.

>>717004191
Function > form.

>>717004281
When you're a kid and want infinite health, ammo, and to see girls in the sims naked only to be disappointed it didn't matter

>>717004353
Did to me. I had some shitty cheat code devices (Gamegenie, Game shark, etc).
Action Reply is the best.

>>717003805
>near the end of the school year
>class party, one friend brings melee
>we take turns playing, losers swap out
>SUDDENLY A SILHOUETTE APPEARS
>wtf this game has MORE characters
>whole room cheers when it's fucking mewtwo
>i won that match so it's me fighting him
>panic and tilt and it takes forever
>this just makes the hype more intense
>win
>room absolutely erupts
>everyone is terrible playing as mewtwo but still super cool
>then G+W pops up
>"who?"
>couple other people lose against him and then the guy who brought it wins against him
>get the 'that's every character!' message and we feel like we just crested a mountain together
peak memories

>>717000985
>unscathed
idk about that, it cost them quite a lot of money and reputation

Fellas how hard is it to set up freemcboot
I got some backups I wanna play.

>>717004210
Because you had multiple cards.

It was fine for the era but now when several magnitudes larger is itself considered painfully outdated you can store every single save on a single device.

Hence why these things have supplanted memory cards. Even a by-today's-standards "dinky" 16GB will absolutely annihilate the storage of even a Memory Card 1019.

>>717004236
Fuck this controller, lmao.

>>717000076
this NES probably STILL works

>>717004649
i always liked it but i also had the misfortune of owning some of the worst 3rd party n64 controllers ever made

>>716999121
Xbox was the best though, even today if you look for a modded Xbox they're still holding their value. It definitely had the best third party support, best exclusives. I guess the PS2 was the best DVD player though, which is why it sold so much. Honorable mention to the GameCube too, great exclusives, it just wasn't as moddable as the Xbox

>>717004564
Man I need to get one of those memory card devices for my ps2 so I don't have to abuse the laser any more.

>no clue how mahjong works
>play for ten hours for booby pics

>>717004920
Use a hard drive, loading games from the memory card and usb slot is too slow

>>717000076
it's funny, our 360s failed so much, yet we kept buying them because they were much better than the Piss3 lmao, which didn't fail as often because people rarely played them

>>717004873
I have a modded Xbox, I fucking love that thing

>>717004651
A shame the Nintendium supply ran out after the DSphat. Some would argue for the DSphat due the hinges, but my personal experience was that the Phat was durable as fuck for a clam-shell design..

>>717005049
He may have a PS2 slim.

Also I thought memory card loading was actually pretty comparable to HDD loading.

>>717005063
It's been almost 20 years now, you lost the end of that gen and the next 2 you can let it go

>>717004651
With those old NES systems you mostly just have to replace the pin connectors if they have issues. Ancient consoles without disk drives will basically last forever. You can still find 50 year old Atari systems that still function properly.

>>717005180
yeah it's fine, nothing can take away the fun moments I had with my 360, no matter how many vgchartz figures I see, I'll still remember playing Halo 3 co-op with my sister, all the while snoys were having "fun" """playing"""" their end of gen movie games like heavy rain lmao, enjoy your victory

>>717003550
>discover really useful exploit in a relatively obscure game
>post it on gamewinners under email address
>find it sometime later on PC Gamer's cheat database on the included disc
>feel kinda proud that day

>>717002201
[Spoiler]I only have a PS3 now[/spoiler]

>>717001272
I once fixed a GH: Metallica disk for PS2 by rubbing toothpaste on it to buff out the scratches and it actually worked

>>716999121
>MUH NUMBEEEEEEEEEEEEEERS
>MUH CONSOLE WAAAAAAAARS
Swim in a vat of muriatic acid you twat.

>>717004564
It's easy for that to be the replacement when the official cards are out of print and out of stock.

>>717004210
Games also load slow as shit off the disk. Early tendies shitposted hard about how fast their blurfest games loaded on the 17mb carts versus how slow the wobbly polygons of the psx loaded off the disc. You're rose colored glasses-ing too much.

MPEG-2 encoded cutscenes

>>717005883
What even were the point of these,Some desperate attempt to stop used game sales? Multiplayer games live or die by player count so doing anything that limits player population is a dumb idea

I didn't know what formating meant back then.
I learned it the hard way.
Fuck me.

>>716998769 (OP)
This thing was hardly ever usable, since it needed SIX AA BATTERIES, at least my parents never wanted to feed the damn thing.

>>717006275
>Some desperate attempt to stop used game sales?
yes. tradeins used to be a big deal for kids

>>716998769 (OP)
Nah, fuck you
My ps3 died and all my data it's stuck on that shitty encrypted HDD

>>717001987
This is the first I've heard of this, never had any connection issues, but sounds like a pain in the ass if your controller has issues like you said.

>>716999121
I stopped trusting PS2 sales figures the day Sony claimed they were still selling millions of them over a decade after they stopped manufacturing them.

using a flat head screwdriver to force the heatsink clip over the hooks on Socket A/462/370. One slight slip and you'll stab your motherboard.

Nightmare mode: ones that are just a flat piece of metal don't even have a notch to hold the screwdriver tip.

>>717006903
To be fair, the idea that Sony had a few warehouses full of unsold PS2s that took over a decade to completely empty isn't that far-fetched.

>>717007715
also
SADDAM HUSSEIN'S PS2 SUPERCOMPUTER

>>717006691
It was like playing with a controller with a broken battery and a game that pauses when it detects all controllers are disconnected.
>>717002661
I'm pretty sure, again, that set I got for Metroid Prime just sat on my desk most of the time.
>>717002095
I don't have any games that I want to play where I need a wiimote+nunchuck for the time being, I'll try the contact cleaner if I ever use them again.
>>717002659
I thought the nunchuck was actually pretty comfortable, I don't think they had tight enough tolerances to drift kek.

>>716999601
>>The virgin "modern" solution
>Can't be lended to friends
save files are stored locally on your computer
>Need to pay for cloud backup to transfer
steam does for free if you didn't pirate it (you can just save it to free cloud service or put it in another drive)
>Can't be duplicated
you can
>Weight 1Gb
in what universe

>>717007715
When's the last time you walked into a store and saw brand new PS2s for sale? I doubt Sony is selling them in secret via ebay auctions under pseudonyms or something. Right when they're about to be dethroned as highest selling console all the sudden Sony remembers they sold millions more than they previously claimed and just forgot to mention it in the last 10 years? I don't buy it.

>>717003550
>he didn't go to an internet café to copy all the cheats or copy it from a friend who already did that
shiggy

>>717008020
>I thought the nunchuck was actually pretty comfortable, I don't think they had tight enough tolerances to drift kek.
Yeah, i mostly meant it as potshot to the Joy-Cons having that issue when the Nunchuck doesn't.

>>717001614
I let someone play my DS for less than a minute. I told him specifically not to accidentally depress the cartridge because it will pop out and mess up the game. Less than 5 seconds after I said that, WHILE HE WAS RESPONDING TO IT, he pressed the cartridge in, and it popped out. All my SM64 DS save data was corrupted.

And long before that, I'd seen how the average normgroid treats their discs.

>>717002829
I've never heard of disc skins until now.

>>717000985
They didn't, despite what Xbots will have you believe. Snoys may cope about the PS3 costing $599 at launch and having basically no games until 2008/2009, but the RROD debacle and the Kinect later on basically killed all momentum Microsoft had going into the 7th gen.

I am summoning fellow ancient boomers to this thread

>>717009036
I still remember being no older than 4 and my mom talking to my uncle over the phone while he tried helping her hook up my Genesis.

>>716999121
Why didn't Xbox make a second revision to compete with the Playstation 2 as a media-player?

>>717004873
Isn't the fact that Xboxes were constructed like shit and keep dying due to capacitor failure something that drives up their value? You know, the supply part of supply and demand?

>>717009670
Why are you acting like the xbox wasn't a superior media player already?

>>716999121
Since consoles are said to be sold at a lost, I wonder how this translated into actual earnings. Tie that in with the fact that the Xbox had Xbox live, which was likely a substantial revenue stream.

>>716999714
lmao

>>717009670
Microsoft was literally losing money with every OG Xbox sold and the 360 was just around the corner so they probably decided not to bother

>>717009819
You had to buy a remote to get the bitch to work

>>717000079
They were just rough to get into their sockets when reaching behind the TV. Not that the red, yellow, and white AV-cables where much better, since you couldn't see the colours.

>>716999717
Supposedly the image wasn't perfect, but I don't remember having problems with these. Looked fine on CRT.

>>717000076
Apparently they got fucked over by their chip-makers. Tough luck.

>>717001615
Fuuuuuuuck

>>717009747
No.

It is a fact that PS2 were constructed like shit and kept dying. That's why there was a class action lawsuit. The xbox was notoriously solid as a rock. The capacitor issue is massively overblown. First, it was not specifically an xbox issue. It was a universal issue that plagued the entire electronics industry. Second, the result of this capacitor failure was not the destruction of the console. The capacitor that would fail was used as battery backup. All that happened was if you unplugged your console from the wall it would forget the date and time.

>>717005038
Damn... I kinda want that. Let me guess, it's fucking expensive as hell?

>>716999152
Memory cards came with the console retard.

>>716999714
Sure buddy. The Gamecube had 3 good games:
- Metroid Prime
- REmake
- RE4

Thats it. Twin Snakes is dogshit. Smash is for retards. F-Zero is ok but nobody played it. Its the worst Nintendo console by a mile. Your parents should be retroactively charged with child abuse.

>>717005883
This shit fucking sucked and still sucks balls.
Such a piece of shit thing when you go thrifting decade old games where it doesn't even matter for the publishers, but still locks some small useful feature.

>>717009819
Because you needed a little extra plug to play DVDs on it.
Ofcourse my XboX was chipped and needed none of that, but we're talking about the general masses.

>>717010098
Weird, I've had XboX'es die on me, but never a gaystation.

>>717010549
I had 3 PS2 because they kept breaking. My launch xbox still works to this day despite the fact the cooling fan failed. Turns out it doesn't even need the cooling fan and Microsoft just put it in there as a precaution. Even the hard drive is still fine. I modded my xbox to use as a htpc and I'm not exaggerating when I say that thing ran 24/7 for years on end and it still fucking works. But it doesn't keep the time if you unplug it from the wall because of the capacitor issue.

>>717009036
Man, that's definitely a place to give a point to nintendo. RF connections such anyway, but at least using the NES and SNES with that hookup was dead simple. Just hook it in, hook antenna or cable behind it, no bullshit no fuss, just change to channel 3 or 4 and you'll autoswap from TV to game by turning the console on.

>>717011287
>just change to channel 3 or 4
You had to manually tune analog TVs back in the day of the NES. The channels were just swapping between your manually set tunings. So what it actually was was pick a channel you weren't already using, turn on the NES, and then start turning the tuning knob until you got picture and sound.

>>717009950
Like three years ago I found out that there are three types of scart and for decades I was gaming with the shittiest one. Thanks Obama.

>>717010316
My ps2 didn't.

>>716999121
Gen 6 was the last good console generation

>>717000076
>Woah, that red ring problem seems pretty serious
>I'll buy this 3rd party fan attachment to help prevent it! Nothing could go wrong!

>>717012598
holy shit i just remembered gaming holes

>>717000985
XBONE and SEX are the scathing.
And the PS3 did catch up even if it was at the end because 360 could barely play GTA V

>>717012598
what went wrong?
t. was too busy laughing to pay attention

>>717000076
>my launch 360 lasted 6 years
>friend is gigantic Snoy
>his launch PS3 gets YLOD after 18 months
>he stops shit talking 360 hardware failures after

It was what we had at the time. Kids today wouldn't understand the struggle.

>>717000076
What was the cause of this again? Chips cooking themselves or something?

>>717012978
Shitty solder that also acted as thermal compound or whatever

>>717012978
Bad solder was sold to pretty much everyone. It's responsible for the RROD, the Fat PS3 YLOD, and caused an entire generation of NVIDIA GPU's in Macbook Pros to die prematurely. Essentially they desoldered themselves from the board after repeated heatcycles.

>>717012936
The GBC screen is quite easy to get enough light.
The GBA one on the other hand, you needed a nuclear powered lamp.

>>717012936
>Make the screen even worse with the GBA Fat
>Finally fix this with the GOAT SP

>>717012804
Because of chinkium wiring and chinkium parts a lot of these coolers just set on fire and melted your xbox power input pins. Because they pulled voltage from the main input.
The later ones just used USB.
I remember seeing some guy pull one of these apart on youtube like 15 years ago and laugh at how bad they are.

>>717000076
>Open xbox
>Put new paste
>Put back together
>System works again
It's really that simple.
Don't put your system on cloth material and make sure it is able to breath.

>>717013349
SP was fucking heavensent.

>>717012936
[screams internally]

>>717012936
>squinting really hard in the car waiting for that moment of relief when the flash of an orange street light came in
The SP was the best thing I ever saved up money for as a kid

>>717001772
I miss those icons :(

>>717006326
Dude, same. Fuckin Alien Trilogy had a format option in the menu and I clicked it to see what it does. Lost FF7 and 100% RE1 and 2 saves, among others. Fuck the asshole that put it there for no reason.

>>717013679
When you have no idea how much money is worth as a kid this is a great feeling.
>sliding it in
>sound of it rolling a little then dropping right into a pile of coins
>sound of the game adding a credit
>putting $5 into the coin machine and getting what seems like 100 quarters

>>717012664
HOLE TECHNOLOGY
man that takes me back, have I really been here this long?
https://youtu.be/qi7pn0sGA3c

>>717009036
You could stab someone with the edges of that thing. Pretty sure I cut my hand once.

>Insert disk 1
>Insert disk 2
>Insert disk 3
>Insert disk 4
>Insert disk 5
>Insert disk 1

>>717015972
Feels good man.

>>717011529
Maybe in Europe, but in the US each channel number corresponded to a given frequency, which is why US TV stations are primarily identified by their channel number. It was common to have a TV that could tune to several dozen channels even though there were only 5-6 channels in your area.

>>717015972
when it's time to change disks you know your jRPG shit just got real

>15 FPS
>Fog everywhere
I still had a lot of fun and honestly having the N64 as my first 3D console means I'm perfectly happy running modern games at 1080p 60FPS on medium settings. My PC can handle more but I don't care

CD based anti-piracy

These kinda sucked though, I guess you could find passwords that let you skip to certain levels etc. But I often didn't have a pencil and paper handy, or would lose the note

>>717015972
>enter CD key
>CD key was on the sticker keeping the box shut
>perfectly aligned with where you cut it
>no key inside
I've never seen any other game with the CD key placed on the outside and I have a feeling it was just the store I got it from because why would they do that with halo 1

>>717016680
I remember using that to test Sega Saturn emulation for the first time.
This was the early 2010s and I was using an integrated laptop from the 2000s so it ran like molasses.

>>717002201
PCSX2 saves from the past few years
not pictured is a 60 hour FFX save

>>717011529
Yeah, you turned the dial to VHF channel 3 or 4. What are you playing at here?

>>717015972
Just have a computer with the drive on easy reach

>>716998769 (OP)
using them was sometimes annoying, but just thinking about how good it would feel to dig out my old ps2 and look at the save icons in the bios makes me quite nostalgic. Wish I hadn't sold my collection at once point

>>716999714
Melee pedo spotted

>>716999714
Revisionist history. It was always known as a ToyCube.

brown n bloom
every character being a bald space marine (the women were hot tho)
on-disc dlc
wagglan/kinect
games for windows live
absurd load times pre-SSD and after cartridges fell out of fashion

>>716999121
>Petite purple japanese girl DESTROYED by BBC (Big Black Console) . mp4

>>717008206
Not to defend the trillions of Sony ps2s sold, but the ps2 is still sold, I can't say if officially, in third world countries like several Latin American and Pacific countries.

2000s were literally decade of 9/11, Jew Zionist Israel wars, China outsourcing, financial crashes, fed bubbles, butt tattoos, SUVs, blingshit 50 Cent, McMansions, Walmart, McDonald's yet people ignore this.

>>716999121
>Only console gen with 4 excellent options
Nah, 6th gen was tight.

>>716999121
Owned all of them. OG Xbox was the best.

>>717024487
Kids don't care about any of that shit and every decade has horrible things happen during it

>>717015972
>Installing Diablo 2
>Instert install disk 2
>Click OK
>Slow drive hasn't loaded disk yet
>Prompt appears again
>Click OK
>Same thing
>Start spam clicking OK
>Finally the disk reads
>Click hits OK
>Cancel installation button appears in place of OK
>Still spam clicking and cancel installation

>>717024487
>DUDE stop living in the past, don't you know we're living in the greatest period in human history?

>>717025305
Go wear your trucker hat and fight for Israel in Iraq if you want to relive le 00s

>>717024487
true, 9/11 was the end after that it was over

When mine got full I just copied everything to the USB stick I had plugged in.

>>716998769 (OP)
Try this lil' gray nigga
>play some civ2
>save the game
>it takes 80% of the save slots
Thankfully my parents bought two cards

>>717013576
>do this because M$ repair jobs suck dicks
>works for a few months
>something else breaks
>lmao warranty voided no refunds

>>717026478
>play SimTheme Park
>build glorious park, holy shit best game ever
>okay boys wrap it up I want to watch some news
>try to save
>it needs 5 slots
>we only got 3
We never played it again.

>>717009036
>Pin bends

>>717009036
pshhhhhhhhssshhhhoooohhhhshhhhheeeeeeoooooshhhhhssssshhhhsssbeepbop hell yeah

>>717026827
Memory unlocked. Not the one I like to remember.

>>717026827
getting my own computer in my room was like a dream come true, no more sharing a pc or tv with someone else
a few years later we got broadband and i was in heaven

>>716999121
>>716999714
If you didn't have both your parents didn't love you

>>717009670
>media-player
lol zoomy. forgot about Xbox One already?! Never heard about the original xbox DVD dongle?
games is what sells video games. imagine having a console withour resident evil and square enix games.

>>716999714
Posts like this are genuinely adorable

>>717010549
>>717009747
No, only the first rendition of the original Xbox had the capacitor issues, and you can fix it super easy so it doesn't fail.
You just look up what capacitor it is, open up the box, rip the capacitor out and your good.
The capacitor is just to keep the internal clock on while the Xbox is off, so it doesn't hurt anything to rip it out, it just won't keep time anymore.
And if it has failed, there is a decent chance that you can just clean the board of the acid and it will work again. I've saved a few "broken" Xboxes that I bought for cheep this way.

>>717028271
>$70 for a GBA
We had no idea how good we had it.

>>717028271
I almost forgot the PS1 was still getting games well into the mid 2000s.

>>717026025
I hated when my dad did that...

>>717025145
Cute :D

>>717028271
Imagine having a console without Azurik Rise of Perathia and Blinx: the Time Sweeper...

>>717026025
Wait, what's so bad about defragmenting hard drives again? I know it's bad for SSDs, but for hard drives it's okay, right?

>>717028387
>$15 for greatest hits
>$50 for kingdom hearts
>gba for $70
>$200 for consoles

>>717028737
It's bad that you have to do it.

I have zero nostalgia for old devices. I play a lot of old games, though, but all on a relatively modern PC with a good processor and an RTX3090. The input lag problem has been more or less solved with current solutions, and the only thing I really regret is that there isn't a display technology that's really good for video games (including OLED).
The other day I was watching a video on YouTube and the collector was commenting on how the maintenance process becomes increasingly common for those who have several old consoles, and he simply decided to get rid of 75% of all his consoles, otherwise he will start a cycle where he will just try to keep them working, with no time for anything else but maintenance.

>>717028737
It just takes a long time and you can't use the pc for anything else while that's happening.

>>717006326
every kid had that moment in their life when they learned the hard way what "format" means

For me it was working on my first computer, I did format c: in DOS and bricked it forever

>>716998769 (OP)
I think I had three of these laying around as a kid but I don't think I ever filled any of them to capacity

>>717028857
>he other day I was watching a video on YouTube and the collector was commenting on how the maintenance process becomes increasingly common for those who have several old consoles, and he simply decided to get rid of 75% of all his consoles, otherwise he will start a cycle where he will just try to keep them working, with no time for anything else but maintenance
What the fuck are you talking about? This has to be bait.

>>717006024
the data on a CD is not stored on the surface, it's burned into a membrane in between the surface layer and the back of the CD. Scratching the surface will not effect the data on the disc, however it might cause the data to become unreadable by obstructing the view of the laser which has to read the data through the transparent outer layer on the disc. Theoretically, sanding the disc down or grinding it could enhance readability, but it could also likewise introduce new scratches and grooves, making the disc harder to read. There was truth behind the toothpaste meme.

>>717006446
Worst part is that it demanded alkaline batteries. Rechargeable nickel cadmium batteries weren't allowed because reasons. And somehow the scope knew.

>>717011529
Boomer here, I have manually tuned a black & white TV to watch children's shows in my lifetime. I am that old.

While we're all here, when did the term "killer app" die? I feel like it was just gone one day but I can't pin down when exactly.

>>717012936
I can't believe it took them so long to include backlighting.

>>717030034
Did you ask your grandchild to solve the captcha for you, old man?

>>716999121
This is the console generation I'm the biggest idort for, I genuinely like all four of them and can understand why someone would make the case for any of them being better than the other I still think PS2 is the best though

>>717030085
Only outside of Japan. They had a backlit Game Boy model in the late 90s.

>>716998769 (OP)
Thanks OP.

>>717000076
Litterally just happened to me 2 months ago, Im sorry fucking mad.

>>717003653
>Go to a cyber cafe
>Find folded piece of paper next to the computer I chose
>Check inside
>Entire list of Vice City cheats
>7 years old me fw

>>717009036
I'll go even ancient-er. Remember antenna screw-on VHF inputs? You had to wedge those little forks under the antenna screws to get the Atari 2600 or NES signal on a pre cable-ready television (no coaxial inputs yet).

>>717030604
>friend gives me a paper of a bunch of GTA VC cheats
>crazy stuff like walking into every building, turning into the hulk, plasma gun
>try every single one of them dozens of times trying to get them to work
fuck you Josh

>>717030698
My brother actually had one of these. I think we used it to play Monopoly like twice. What other games even used this?

>>717031124
Crash Bash, & Crash Team Racing

>>717031124
Street Fighter EX3

>>717031098
Josh you piece of shit kek
I bet he later told 'you didn't do it right'

>I've got a ton of quarters, I'll be in the arcade all day!

>"Ah, shell shock!"

>FUCK!

What were they thinking?

>>717002829
What the hell are those? I went through most of the optical media era and have never seen anything like that.

>>717030923
i had one of these babies and a really trash little tv.

>>717031497
I never confronted him about it but he did jump off a bike and land on the road directly on his knees a month later so I guess he got punished for it

>>717031803
>had the one with hdmi port on it
>couldnt use the hdmi port since we didnt have any tvs with hdmi

>>717014004
jesus that's evil

>>717031124
Sports games, Twisted Metal

>>717013576
>someone says something is simple
>but that person also mixes up breathe and breath
hmm

>>717031803
>RRoD repaired 360 broke because my Dad pulled the A/V cord out too hard and ripped out the connector

>>716998769 (OP)
>>717002528
i remember specifically putting the memory card sticker on mine, despite not wanting to actually do it, and coloring it flat black as to make it at least subtly distinguishable from other memory cards because my dipshit friend kept trying to get ours mixed up so he could format all my saves and pretend he didn't do it, and he was dogshit at acting like i didn't notice this. that kid was a fucking piece of shit

>>717033985
zoomers have never cleaned the ball by putting it in your mouth and gargling it around

>>717026025
I did this on purpose as a kid just to look at the colors.

>>717034370
Based

>technology has been available for over a decade prior and standard for most basic laptops
>"that'll be $79.99 plus tip"

>>717002201
I got a memcard pro recently so each virtual memory card has just a single save on it

>>717001745
You could copy save data to a USB drive on the 360 as well.

>>717034540
i barely found this out but you can attach that wifi router to the back of the xbox, theres holes where the pegs on the router attaches to

>>717001665
>try to play game but the CD has some scratches
>wait a minute the music sounds kinda weird is it the CD?
>nope that how the music is supposed to sound
Thanks Drakengard

>>717001060
Literally nobody had this problem.

>>717001440
These things never actually worked.
>CLEAN UP ANY CD/DVD (okay, we'll give it cleaning, at the very least)
>GETS RID OF SCRATCHES
>NO MORE SKIPPING ON YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA
>THREE EASY PAYMENTS OF $29.99
>2 TO 4 WEEK DELIVERY TIME

What a fucking scam

>>717037221
mine worked

>>716999714
I preferred the Xbox and Dreamcast. A nice selection all around.
>PSO.
>Halo I and II.
>Fable.
>Soul Reaver.
>Slave Zero.
>Mechassault I and II.
>Blinx.
>Quake III.
>Morrowind.

>>716999601
>too stupid to open file explorer

>>716999384
Get one of those pieces of shit and you'll see why

>>717010316
>buying memory cards
>lol stupid boomer
>buying a gorillion hard drives because modern games are 600GB
>omg based

>>717000841
360 had memory cards for people who bought the cheaper model

>>717010098
>It is a fact that PS2 were constructed like shit and kept dying.
yeah, people forget that prior to the 360, the PS2 had the highest failure rate of any console ever.

>>717040119
You think the amount sold 155 million werent actually to new customers, but instead replacements?

>>717040582
Who said that?

>>717030058
When "app" became used for programs that weren't "killer".

>>717036371
I kind of wish these never went away, by the end of the first half of the seventh gen it was becoming clear 512 MB of RAM wasn't enough for everything, and at least you weren't buying the "pro" version of a console to get hardware improvements.

>>717001319
Same! people claim this is fake for some reason but we went months without a memory card playing MGS2 and GTA3 over and over from the start

>>717028271
No wonder the PS2 sold loads; one glance in any catalogue and the PS2 section was games games games games games and more games, AND a DVD player.
Any other section in these catalogues looked as pitiable as this one. I mean look at that Xbox selection-- just terrible at a glance.
But I had a PS2 and a GameCube and I preferred the GameCube because it had really fucking good first-party titles at the time, at least imo. And it just felt like games for gamers. And I paid £60 for one brand new in like 2004 from Toys R Us and it came with like 8 games bundled with it...
PS2 was the pizza and BlockBuster on a Friday night machine while your friend sleeps over and you stay up to watch fake tits at 11pm on EuroTrash via the CRT TV you snuck into your room.
That's why I like the PS2.

>>717041007
>>this was considered acceptable video quality up until the late 2000s
And it was acceptable.
Perfectly acceptable.
VHS was also accepted until the late 00s.

>>717041720
>No wonder the PS2 sold loads; one glance in >any catalogue and the PS2 section was games games games games games and more games, AND a DVD player.
if only Playstation hadn't died moving to the US.

>passes the controller
>get this
wat do

>>717007651
this was a pain but it was worth it

>>717042489
Enjoy it, crabgrass.

>>717042489
I'd be as happy as a clam

>>717042489
I actually liked the Microcon controller for the Gamecube. The D-pad was easier to use with the Game Boy Player.

>>717042489
Real gamers shop at Macy's
https://www.macys.com/shop/product/nbcp-wireless-controller-for-pcpc-controller-enhanced-wireless-controller-for-windows-pc-android-steam?ID=20639738&pla_country=US&CAGPSPN=pla&gQT=1

>>716998769 (OP)
I yearn for the day when these will be a thing of the past

>>717042489
>The connector
What was the fucking point

>>717024487
>playing COD4 on Xbox Live whilst waiting for TNA Impact and The Ultimate Fighter on Spike wearing an AFFLICTION tee with tap out shorts whilst your friend sat next to you shows you his grainy screen recording of 'Linkin Park - In The End COD4 kill compilation' on his Sony Walkman
Yep *schluuuuuurp* The good ol' days.

>>717043471
It's so you can hook the controller to a PS/2 port on an old PC.

>call it.
>Channel 3 or channel 4, you have to call it.

>>717043606
It was really worth making it a pain to use the xbox for the 3 people who even thought of using it with their PC?

You got a PSP? Ahhhhh niiiiice bro!

That'll be $99.99 please.

>>717000841
>I think it would have been cool if 7th Gen consoles kept memory card functionality just as a way to bring a save file over to a friends.
- The 360 and PS3 let you load saves and profiles with a USB stick. The former had memory cards before being phased out.
- Wii Remotes have internal memory for loading profiles or controller configurations (loading your Mii in Wii Sports, controller presets in Brawl, etc.).

>>717043471
So the console doesn't get pulled along and dropped if someone trips on the controller cord or pulls on it too hard.

>>717043937
the battery capacity was worse honestly.

>>717043891
Yeah, breakaway cables are good design either way. Much better to disconnect the controller than drag the console out of the entertainment center if someone steps on the wire like a jackass.

>>717000203
Rent free. I use scart all the time

when i was a kid i thought the save file was attached to the specific game disc. so when i would rent a game that they had multiple copies of i would always hope to get the disc that had my save file on it from the last time i rented it
>it always did
man i was lucky

>>716998769 (OP)
>buy one of the third party memory cards that were double or triple the size
>save files randomly corrupted at any moment

>>717003805
This. An older cousin bought us a copy of San Andreas back when it was still new and copied his story complete save over to our memory card so we could mess around on the complete map

>>716998769 (OP)
>I got 3DS in 2011
>few days later, Nintendo cut the price
>3 years later they release NEW 3ds

I have 3ds, NEW 3ds and Vita, It's been a while but I'm still mad

>>717044950
Gave my 3DS to my sis and got the white n3DS, very happy with my purchase. Also got the vita but recently had to format the mem card because of psn bullshit.

How difficult is it to make a PS2 region free?

>nostalgia thread
>immediately turns into post 7th gen zoomer morons consolewarring over which flavor of dogshit tastes better

Please permanently ban anyone born after 1990 already.

>>717001472
This is why I get so annoyed whenI'm dealing with Microsoft products. Every solution is linked to 404 dead pages

>>716999121
I owned them all besides the ps2. I missed out on so much shit but still felt like I had access to infinite cool exclusives. That is pretty much unthinkable now where even owning the most popular systems gives you access to like 4 games.

>>716998769 (OP)
Factually everything wrong with modern gaming stems from Xbox

>>717036371
>>717040981
The Switch has desperately needed an expansion pak for its entire existence. It's wild people still defend them when ScarVio was a sideshow at launch.

>>717041007
It's not like people had the top of the line CRTs in all house holds

>>717045171

I really need a XL.
The 3DS is now too small for my hands.

>>717046008
Switch's problem isn't RAM (though extra RAM is always nice), it's the CPU. That CPU is pathetically slow.

>>717000841
The 360 had memory cards and all the consoles could move to usb, but 360 and ps3 tied saves to a profile

>>717044192
just scarted my pants

>>716999714
dude the ps2 had it all before either nitnedo or microsoft

they did the camera first and their titles would always be there, if the gamecube had a game and the xbox didn,t then the ps2 did, and if the xbox had a game that the gam,ecube didnt, the ps2 had it

>>717046128
I had an XL at one point but honestly it just felt too big, the n is the perfect size for me.

the pause button is on the fucking console itself

>turn on ff4
>save vanished for no reason
even 30 years ago cart batteries dropped saves whenever the fuck they wanted to

>>717001602
Cool.

>>717000267
>some games that ran on this DRM are still unplayable because they never got an update
>you have to resort to fan made workarounds
rip

>>717046638
I once randomly lost a save file in Link to the Past by just trying to turn off the console. The cartridge might have been a bit crooked, which must have caused some odd behavior when the power switch was in that half-position, since I distinctly recall there being some buzz (as though the console was turning on and off rapidly).

>>717046638
>even 30 years ago cart batteries dropped saves whenever the fuck they wanted to
never happened to me once, i have Stunt Race FX, Kirby Super Star, and FIFA 96, and their saves are still there and working
admittedly, i had to change the batter on my copy of SimCity, but that one too only failed 2-3 years ago, so i'd still say it never happened to me once back then

>>717036371
i prefer a $40 upgrade over a whole new 'pro' console

>>717047048
It's just one of those things that's an inevitability, and sometimes you might get unlucky.
Like I know disc rot is a thing, but I haven't had any CD succumb to it just yet, but I know it's bound to happen at some point.

Not old but

>>717047195
>Like I know disc rot is a thing, but I haven't had any CD succumb to it just yet
same, i have tens of PS1 games and a bit less PS2 ones(but also a lot of PS2 demos from magazines), and i have no single one with disc rot

>>717043891
you know what makes it even worse? PS/2 was not hotswap compatible. meaning you had to reboot your computer to get it to recognize that controller.

>>717047263
I bought the biggest they had and put it behind me, cost nearly half the price of the handheld but fuck it

>>716999717
>shart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gUyMLyAMU

Always hated keygens, it felt like playing russian roulette. But man, those tunes were soulful

>>717047539
What was so bad about them again? Sometimes they had adware Trojans right? I think the risk you took on getting Bonzi Buddy installed against your will or whatever outweighed the free.

>>717047405
I still have PS/2 on my PC, just never thought of using it for an xbox hueg controller

>>717047675
Viruses, adware trojans, the whole lot. It depended on the keygen and where you acquired it.

>>717047195
i recall reading a scientific article on disc rot and the study showed that rot had more to do with the initial disc manufacturing process than to do with overall age.

small manufacturing imperfections such as oxygen bubbles, gases, and dust particulates being trapped under the label during pressing in most if not all cases will produce rot. however this is something you might only find in the poorest manufacturing conditions.

what this means is disc rot is actually an overstated conspiracy. while it's guaranteed every disc will eventually decompose, the "when" for that is not as close as one would have you believe. not every disc that is old is going to succumb to inevitable rot just because it's old.

>>716998769 (OP)
>boot up vidya made for dos or win95/98 on your pristine wangblows xp
>hardcore visual glitches half the time
>have to fuck around with compatibility settings
>fullscreen exclusive 800*600 at most
>will crash and rape all your desktop icons if you look at it funny
Can't say I'd trade that over dosbox or a virtual machine.

>>717048290
Sure, it's how you store your discs that is going to contribute to how fast the rot kicks in, and while I take care of my discs, there isn't any guarantee that some freak accident won't occur one day and renders those discs dead.

>>716999121
As someone who owned all 4 consoles. Xbox won. Ps2 was number 2 and sega was number 3.
PS2 was crazy because people wanted to come over to your house to see all the hubbub. But Halo was the Killer App. No one even came close.

>>717048619
>No one even came close.
Final Fantasy X sold comparable numbers

>>717048619
Halo was "the" killer app in that it was the only Xbox exclusive people cared about, or have ever cared about really

>>717048619
Xbox won among a single demographic, PS2 won among everyone.

>>717048619
>Halo was the Killer App
Correct, it revived the N64's Goldeneye era - with both games, when they were hot every single weekend was centered around all the neighborhood kids all going to one house to play 4 player deathmatches until late into the night. No other console I've owned led to that kind of mass community building where it was understood that every weekend, this is what everyone gets together to do.

>>717048960
This also applies to the Gamecube desu

>>717049210
Can't argue with that, it did have some damn good games though

>>717000076
I got one of these, just had to send it back and they sent me a new one, though I had to wait a couple weeks.

>>717004651
NES also has problems reading games

>>717005063
no they just weren't poorly designed like the xbox lmao

>>717044950
At least you got 20 games for it

>>717010316
No they didn't. You got one controller, a shitty composite cable, and a power cable. That's it.

>>717051041
>YLOD
lol
>>717000076
I have an elite one that still works great, I have it hooked up to my CRT

>>717051163
>YLOD
something that happened to less than 10% of fat ps3s and wasn't because of shit tier design lmao
meanwhile 50% of 360s got the rrod
aka, you're fucking stupid

>>716999384
I have a friend of mine that had a 3rd party PS2 memory card where you had to use the disc that came with the memory card to access the save data on it and to use the memory card you had to put the disc in first and then you had to eject the disc and put in the game disc you want to play.

Definitely was a pain in the ass to use, and if you lose/break the disc, the memory card becomes useless. Only positive side with the memory card was when using the disc to use it, you can compress save file sizes down to smaller sizes which was cool for it's time.

>>717051108
Anyone got that webm of the kids attaching C4 to the side of their 360

>>717051295
>less than 10% of fat ps3s
Nearly all of the PS2 back compat PS3's are dead or going to die anon
The 360 fixed their issues with revisions just the same as PS3 did

I think the xbox 360 was when they figured out how profitable planned obsolescence was

>>717051108
That shit actually made it worse

>>717051454
>Nearly all of the PS2 back compat PS3's are dead or going to die anon
you're literally fucking retarded
every single 360 is dead or going to die
god you're an imbecile

>>717036371
What does it do?

>>717005590
Uhhhh, retard, it literally says do not blow on the back of the cart. You just broke your game, bud.

>>717051454
>Nearly all of the PS2 back compat PS3's are dead or going to die anon
meanwhile 50% of 360s died within a year lmao

>>717051523
Nope, problem was fixed with the Jasper models

>>717051593
yes, the old models before the revisions
I always see Sony fanboys get really defensive about this shit
Both 7th gen consoles had shitty hardware problems

>>717005590
>>717051542
I've been blowing in cartridges my whole life and I got old carts that work just fine, it's a psyop that you shouldn't blow in them

>>717012936
i blame my need for glasses on this piece of trash

>>717051606
no it wasn't
also
you can't compare only launch ps3s to the entire generation of 360s you fucking mongoloid
you see why everybody thinks you're a fucking retard?
it's actually fucking pathetic how you slob microsoft dick

>>717001513
The only thing most people used their PS2 for was playing movies. Which means I guess Sony has been doing the same thing for 25 years

>>717051665
>yes, the old models before the revisions
ahh yess, lets compare launch ps3s to the 360s with revisions you fucking retarded faggot
>Both 7th gen consoles had shitty hardware problems
and 360s was far, far, far, far, far worse
and caused by dogshit design, unlike ps3
get your head out of your ass retard

>>717051750
>no it wasn't
yes it was, why you have to keep up your fanboy facade?

>>717051835
>and caused by dogshit design, unlike ps3
This is huge fucking bait right here
Both consoles were dogshit design
>muh power of the cell
LMAO

>>717000267
I remember having to pirate my own CD version of fallout 3 because it was a windows for live version instead of steam...

>>717051843
>why you have to keep up your fanboy facade?
cool projecting. you're literally denying reality you're such a microsoft fanboy
keep sucking down that microsoft cock you little retard

>>716999714
DA NINTENDO *breathes heavily* SHITKYUUBE

>>717051931
you defending the original xbox design makes you an actual fucking retard

>>717051958
I'm literally an Idort, I have more consoles than you have even played
Stop being a cunt and wake up to reality anon

>>717052023
>you defending the original xbox design
Where did I say that?
We just making stuff up now?

>>717052036
It doesn't surprise me than a corporate cock swallowing faggot like you buys and plays every single single console.
Doesn't make you right, but it does make you a retard. Congrats retard

>>717000076
>360 red ring'd on me
>PS3 yellow light'd on me
>Wii stopped reading discs on me

Awful generation for build quality. Every now and then I think of setting one up, but I've got a sneaking suspicion they're borked.

>warns you of an incoming cell phone call before the phone rings
I kinda miss that unintended feature

>>717052091
in every single fucking post you retard lmao
fucking pajeet learn english

>>717052126
Dude, I have heard phone conversations of neighbors somehow

>>717052103
>>717052160
Man, people really are getting dumber on here

>>717017131

is that an outrun 2 save?

.

>>717052036
Pretty sure you're arguing with AI there.

>>717013085
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0UMG3iVYZ a lot of factors that boil down to 2 companies that fucked up. Notice the cpu's never die but the gpu's do.

>>717013576
Anything pre slim is literally on deaths door because of how bad the chips themselves were assembled with bad material that exacerbated stress problems. Repasting doesn't fix bad heating and cooling cycles.


The true tl;dr is 90nm chips are just garbage and any product using them is liable to die, even 1st release wii's are going to die at some point, though there heating isn't as bad. There are reports of gpu failures that are starting to crop up.

>>717052239
Why would I care about that hellhole
Learn to actually read what I said anon, stop being an angry Sony fanboy

>>717052229
yeah
this was before I knew about the PC version

>>717052317
I didn't think of that, you're probably right

>>717052349
>stop being an angry Sony fanboy
im literally not a sony fanboy I don't even own a sony console you absolute fucking esl retard
learn english kumar

degaussing your monitor

>>717052487
Man you crazy, that was fun.

>>716998769 (OP)
SECUROM

>>717052487
I can't remember if this made a sound or not

>>717052487
Degaussing is satisfying as fuck

>>716999121
80% of the ps2 sales were because it played dvds and everyone that is older than 20 should know this

>>717052603
Depends on the set
But most of them did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHDZSAtnzo0

>>717052597
It was baby's first DRM.
Now picrel is the real shit, still the worst that ever existed, even Denuvo has nothing on it.

>>717047104
When i was a kid we still played with marbles and iron marbles (a "dank") were considered god tier, and old analog mice were always a source of free iron marbles

>>717004236
>in my family we immediately figured you were supposed to hold it a bit tilted to the right when holding the middle analog stick
>somehow this escaped millions of americans that kept holding the controller straight or trying to move the stick with the thumb while holding the d-pad stick like a bunch of retards

you really can't fix stupid

>>717052919
>>717004649
>>717004236
Why are people so retarded?
I figured this out straight away, I also don't get why people had problems with shooters when it literally is the same as modern controls

>>717053039
same but reversed

>>717052487
Man my CRT monitor constantly made a high pitched whine inaudible to adults

>>717052312
>all the flavor vanishes before it touches your tongue
impressive, honestly.

>>717053118
>same but reversed
Nope, you use the DPAD to move and analogue stick to aim

>>717053383
but normal I aim with right analog, reversed that way

>>717006543
classic thanks for posting

>>717053516
I mean most games had c buttons used to move, I don't recall any games that use "left position" because you sacrifice buttons

>>717053516
Yes I know, I'm telling you you didn't have to do that
You have your left hand on the DPAD prong and Right hand on the middle prong to aim
Almost all shooters on the console allowed you to do that

>>717053623
You don't sacrifice anything, A and B are next to your thumb

>>717053039
N64 was my first console. I was purposely raised wrong, as a joke.

>>717039224
Pretty sure I got my first computer virus because I asked on the gametrailers.com forums for a tool to remove the Spore DRM and reset the install counter.

>>717039224
this fueled my desire to pirate.
I lawfully bought a copy, ran into PC trouble, had to reformat my desktop and then I couldn't fucking use the game anymore.

Fuck you EA

>>717044556
Fuck that game. Wasted one of my weekend rentals on this shit game.

>KINO nostalgia
fixed

>>717033303
I'm sorry you're retarded and can't fix your own shit.

>>716999714
they were all good, tendie

>>717005120
i have a friend who lost his dsi in a reclining couch for about half a decade. it was as chewed up as you expected, but it still somehow worked, so nintendium definitely didn't run out by then

>>717054535
Correct
I recently played through NGB and it's great
>>717054443
This, being able to do basic repairs is a necessity

>>716999601
You can transfer files

Hehe....remember when our parents use to put these on our NES back in the day? I rarely saw it off my NES growing up.

>>717026025
>...49%...50%...50%...50%...51%
>Drive contents changed. Restarting...

I wonder if people who were born in the smartphone or god forbid the AI era will even have anything to be nostalgic for. Also all the true gaymers are gonna have impossibly long backlogs.

>>717034540
I had one for the original Xbox and it was fucking terrible. The reception was shit and it didn't even support WPA properly so you either had to use no encryption or shitty ass WEP.

>>717002201
03 zoomer btw

Nee neer neeeerr wooooooo bap bap buzzaap tsh doldoddoldol wehaw wehaw

YOU GOT MAIL

>>717054859
No. My parents never did this, and I'm grateful. This looks like hell.

>>717052753
I ended up pirating Chaos Theory for the PC the minute it was cracked just to spite Ubishit.

>>717044338
That's fucking hilarious

>>717009036
I'll do you one better, or should I say "worst". Hated playing on the atari.

>>717054859
>only 4 digits

I'd have that thing solved in a hour

>>717032384
I had the ranma game, it fucking sucked.

I never had a sega console but I liked watching the commercials for this and the concept of it.

>>717053039
lol no it wasn’t you couldn’t even free aim and walk

I got more hours in temple than I do breathing

>>717056601
>lol no it wasn’t you couldn’t even free aim and walk
Start up golden eye with 1.2 and put your left hand on the DPAD

>>717054859
A hacksaw would cut that off easily.

>>717015972
>hours in, almost finishing
>installation fails
>do it again
>good no error this time
>dad needs to use the pc
>cancels the installation because the pc is unusable otherwise
fuck that

>>717056951
How TF am I gonna hit the RB, the face buttons the road and the stick am I Bruce banner?

>>717057125
>RB
L does that
A and B are easily pressed next to your thumb, unless you have tiny hands I guess

>Aw shiieet, my OG Xbox can rip CDs to the hard drive to listen to in other games? Hell yeah!
>One month of ripping a single disc later
Why the fuck was this so slow?

>>717009845
OG Xbox was a money loser, but that was mainly on the deal MS had with Nvidia to manufacture the custom GPU for it. Eventually Microsoft got tired of dealing with them and paying royalties, and they fast tracked development of the 360, and killed OG Xbox by 2006.

>>717012978
Bad GPUs. People will say it was a cooling issue, but they upgraded the cooler 3 times and that didn't fix it. Replacing the GPU fixed it so well, they switched back to the original cooler and had no problems.

>>717037502
>Dreamcast
>Slave Zero.

>>717030137
Same. I don't really care for the Xbox but I get why someone would and like the other three. It was a great time for vidya, maybe only the 16 bit era can compare

>>717057724
The prime gaming era was basically 90-05

From 05-10 was already downhill


2010-2015 only made things pretty


2015-2020 literally changed nothing


Nothing has changed 2020-2025 nothing

>>716999121
Draemcastbros... They laughing at us ||again||

>>717001919
some had an icon for corrupt data too iirc
or maybe it was just a generic corrupt data icon, but I do remember having at least 1 fucked up save and seething as a kid
also luckily my brother had a separate memory card so we wouldn't accidentally delete each others progress

>>717057969
I'd say from 85

>>717034046
>kept trying to get ours mixed up so he could format all my saves and pretend he didn't
for what purpose

>>717057969
So much happened from 90-05 compared to 10-25 it’s like comparing a 5 page tutorial how to write in English to the god damned odyssey

>>717058010
>||again||

>>717001442
I know it's not the same but I hated when someone borrowed a gameboy game and gave it back looking like this.

>>717057969
>>717058026
>>717058087
1987 (launch of the PC Engine in Japan, kicking off the 16 bit era, while NES was hitting its stride in America) to 2005 is the golden age.

Starting around 06 to about 2019 things got steadily worse with flickering moments of goodness. 2020 onward is just a full on collapse.

>>717047539
THIS
IS
EPIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdprbBOMT8

>>717058064
vmu's are the women of gaming
they're crazy expensive to buy and maintain

>>717058313
They were quite affordable but required constant upkeep (battery purchases) to maintain.

>>717058064
I’m getting one of those VMU pros

>>717001472
Discs were the worst type of storage media and I'm glad they had a relatively short reign as the dominate product. Cartridges of all types have always been more reliable in the long term compared to discs. I used to buy used games all the time, and I can remember if being a 50/50 shot that anything I bought on disc was gonna suddenly not work at some point in the game. At least on 360 you could install the full game to the drive so that it would run fine if you could at least boot. I had to do that with Fable 2 and GTA5. Also saying this makes me realize GTA5 was a 360 era game. Holy hell.

>>717001272
This shit worked wonders. You could use any smooth toothpaste too, but you'd need significantly more elbow grease. This and a rag would buff out most any scratches. Only way I was able to finish Kingdom Hearts after my siblings scraped it to hell.

>>717058040
evil selfish fatherless bastard piece of shit tries to provoke negative reactions for attention just to practice his ability to feign innocence and play the act of the little confused ignorant christian good boy part because there's never been a father figure in his life to beat the fucking shit out of him and insult him to teach him not to act or pretend like a little bitch and to mature an actual, real personality who can posses the ability to recognize the difference between right and wrong.

that's why he grew up to be a crackhead.

>>717058489
Anon, what do you think PS5 uses?

>>717057969
05-10 was still good but definitely in a silver/bronze age sense. The 10s were...thank God for handhelds, I guess.

>>717058250
I like some aspects of the 20s more than the 10s. I like some recent horror games more and there's been some very good indies. AAA is in absolute fucking freefall though, not that it already wasn't since the 10s.

>>716998769 (OP)
>Kingdom Hearts 2 finally arrives in the mail
>refuses to save on my 32 GB third-party memory card
>had to scour pawnships until I find an official 8 GB memory card
In all fairness, the third-party card would corrupt a few older saves. I transferred my treasured ones (FFX, Ratchet & Clank) onto the brand-name one for safekeeping.

>>717001615
This hurt my soul to read

>>717058531
I haven't bought a physical disc in a decade. Everything is cartdridge/SD or installed directly to a drive for me and I prefer it that way. Much easier to dump stuff and copy. I hated having no other option but discs back then.

>>717058087
its the same in most industries, the start of a new industry is when people are the most enthusiastic and trying new things. After a while a few companies dominant and basically all innovation from then on ends up in the hands of the few of those handful of "survivor" companies.

>>717026478
>>717026827
>Play Sim City 2 for Sega Saturn
>takes up the entire internal memory
>the bigger your city, the longer it takes to load

>>717013679
FUCKING MICROTRANSACTIONS!

>>717013594
>>717013349
>>717013770
>oops, no headphone audio for you goys!

>>717059216
It's also way worse than the OG in every way

>>717006220
>MPEG-2 encoded cutscenes
Were fine?

Now, cinepak, that was a codec....

>>717059216
Literally the SP's only flaw.

>>717059428
>washed out colours
>worse ergonomics
>worse battery life
nah

>>717058961
It’s like ford vs Ferrari. Muscle cars go wheeee then the oil crisis hits. Now ford sells trucks and Ferrari costs 3 million. But they raced? For what? Now it’s all Japanese imports.


Ninty vs Sega. Turned into software devs. Now dominated by MS. Want NV GPU? Sell me your soul. Want affordable GPU? Wait till you die. MS stock goes up 200x.

>>717055131
I appreciate all the people using WEP back in the day for providing me free wifi.

>>717059506
You could barely see the colors on the original GBA for how dark that screen was, the SP's clickier buttons were better and the clamshell design made it even more portable, and fuck you if you actually miss replacing AA batteries all the time.

>>717051528
N64 came with 4MB of RAM. That upgraded you to 8MB. I know Majora's Mask and DK64 needed it.

>>717025145
The old Diablo battlechest with 5 CDs (with Diablo 1) was awesome.

>>717059689
the og lasts me about 2 weeks and i could play it out in the sun when i still waited for the bus

>>717059786
And I could play my SP at night when I was supposed to be asleep, like every kid wanted to. I will say this much about the colors though - the screen did pale in comparison to the Micro. Fuck almost everything about its form function and lack of OG Game Boy support but that screen was fucking incredible for the hardware.

>>717037502
>not Sonic Adventure
Really?