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.
Some PS1 and 2 just had shitty laser assemblies that had trouble reading even non scratched discs.
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
Are we praying that the disc loads, or are we praying along with the holy sounds that were the PlayStation startup sounds?
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.
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.
Why would the disk not load? I properly stored it on the middle of the uncased CD stack.
Vegeta and Pikachu don’t care
Never had a problem with my PS1. My PS2, however…
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.
