It's like a sign for crack heads: PLEASE BREAK THIS WINDOW!
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TURN THE FUCKING PS LOGO
Does the Sony rotate too?
Technically it rotates around the sun permanently
no :(
There are still people to this day that dont know the emblem rotates.
I've had a PS2 since I was like 10 years old. I had no idea.
I'm 43 and it's news to me.
I've owned 3 or 4 PS2s. Had no clue, and I was one of those annoying assholes that refused to stand the thing up, because "it might wear out faster." I also refused to play movies in any of my PSs (1-4). I had dedicated DVD and Blu-ray players for that.
Gran Turismo 3 was/is one hell of a game.
GT3 was the first game I had on ps2, I miss it. Jak and Daxter, GTA3/VC/SA, Jet Moto 3, all the Crash Bandicoots, Soul Caliber 3, Max Payne, Tony Hawk PS 3... So many excellent games. And backwards compatibility.
Well TIL. I never had a ps2 tho, so makes sense I wouldn't know
My first Avalon came with a 120v house outlet, and I ended up putting in an inexpensive dash monitor, always kept Tekken tag in the car to squash any and all disagreements.
Imagine the fucking skipping, lol.
HDD mod and now-a-days a SSD mod.
Lol, it has to be BAD. My ps2 is so unreliable these days, even while not in a moving vehicle. I usually have to open+close the disc tray a dozen or so times before it finally reads the disc.
Do you think it’s like music and playing stuff live…? It loads stuff into memory, not reading straight from the disc all the time.
Depends entirely on the game
They discovered that smudging the disk for SpongeBob Battle for Bikini Bottom made some speed running glitches easier to trigger because every time the pause menu opened it reloaded the menu music. The smudged disk increased latency and just enough to make it human controllable for a clipping glitch.
If you had a skip issue you could be loading in corrupted data into memory and crash the game. Also triggers on level changes and cut scenes.
Even if it loads into memory it can still skip if you have a long bumpy section of road the same way anti skip cd music drives would skip on long bumpy roads. These things skipped even without the added road movement.
Skipping and lag are two different things, but I guess you can combine them.
A game just stops loading if it encounters an issue, it doesn’t skip. Sometimes it’s more a processing issue than the disc, that’s where lag comes in. Games don’t skip like music does where it plays the same section multiple times till it loads past.
Idk back on one of the dragonball ps2 games I remember they had little interactive loading screens and I figured out if I popped open the disk reader (the slim one had the flip up drive if I remember correctly) it'd let you stay on the loading screen "game" indefinitely, they even sometimes had fun recognition like by default it'd spawn green sibamen, after a point it'd change to spawning red, I don't see how you'd ever come across that in normal gameplay and because it never took that long to load in normally, but someone thought about it and added that little fun touch.
Anyway when I closes the disk reader the game would finish loading.
Yes, I know that. The skipping is the disk's data reading and that causes issues. Are you being overly pedantic to be funny or just to be an ass?
I’ve just never heard of someone ever refering to a game as skipping, it was weird, why the hostility?
Where I grew up it was a common way of saying the game was fucking up. I assume because we all grew up with cds skipping and just transferred the verb to playstation games because of the disk. As an example is a thread from 2016 that talks about their ps2 games skipping:
https://www.techist.com/forums/threads/disc-skipping-on-ps2.277841/
Video games existed long before disc based music, so you’re attributing the words the wrong way. Games have always lagged, skipping is something different, and not the correct term, since it’s used for music. But yes of course people can use it to communicate still. But it’s gonna create issues since it’s just not the right word.
If anything we should be saying music lags, but that’s not a correct term either. Yes it makes sense, sort of, but yeah. There’s better ways to communicate the right meaning.
and not the correct term
I mean, it literally is the correct term depending on where you are but you do you. Music cds skip as in they repeat a section over and over if you smudge or scratch them. I don't know what to tell you if you haven't seen it. Maybe listen to us older folks who were actually there?
lol, you’re the one saying that game skipping came AFTER music, clearly I’m older than you. Sounds like you were just using the wrong word and didn’t know, now you do.
Maybe listen to us older folks who were actually there?
It’s absolutely strange that you want to claim you’re right, when I JUST finished explaining that music skipping came well after game lagging. Does reality just not exist to you or something?
Like drinking tea during the Space Shuttle launch.
Average Pimp My Ride mod.
I've just started rewatching from season one, and it is the go-to, look how cool this shit is.... 7" drop-down monitors and an embedded PS2!
That model of PS2 scratched the shit out of disks when the laser lens got a little dusty.
Does it have PlayStation Auto?
Of course. You don't get a map, but you get a big Crazy Taxi arrow.
A couple years ago locally I saw an ad for a Subaru with a Wii for a head unit
Did the OG PS2 have anti skip technology?
My brother put the slim in his car briefly, it had a totally different disk mechanism though.
Unlikely. It’s made for a living room which doesn’t move not a car.
It actually didn't need it because it loads data to the ps2's ram which isn't as sensitive to shaking. I'm sure load times probably might suffer though. But I also had a slim in my car, and though I really only used it while stopped, I did occasionally play a movie on a road trip without an issue.
Anti-skip technology in CDs is just having a small amount of RAM as a buffer, so same thing.
As long as you use it with a heads up display so you can still see the road
*AR display
Mad Mike is on Lemmy??
Is that who did this? Mad Mike must have good taste.
He was the guy on pimp my ride who put tv monitors in mud flaps so yeah this screams mad mike
ah the elden ring rug: you now have a Honda accord, Mikelia is her name I think
Your neighborhood car prowler will love it.
Wouldn't work because you can't open the lid to do the fix to the little gear inside to fix the laser alignment (that old PS2s would need)