I did this by accident when I was a kid. I never knew how I did it, my friends thought I was lying, and when I failed to recreate this, I gave up and just accepted that I must have dreamed it. Here 20 years later, I finally get to see this video and find out how I did it...but haven't had a PS1 or been in contact with those friends in 20 years lmao Update: I never thought I would be making this update...I had forgotten I shared this and had moved on, but one of my friends from back then that didn't believe me apparently saw this video and remembered from way back then...I can't believe he even remembered, but even more, I can't believe he not only found me (I don't have social media because I want to keep my personal life private), but reached out to me to apologize for not believing me. I have little hope the other four will do the same, but, well, this happened, so who knows?
I can imagine that after you deleted the file, you probably had a spasm of the hands all over the controller hoping for anything to work. And then you somehow managed to use the shoulder buttons all at the same time. Or maybe even tossed the controller and it hit the shoulder buttons perfectly. Either or, there you go; now you know.
@@stevenmackay3289 Knowing my kid self, I probably panicked and started hitting as many buttons as I could in a vain hope I could save it, not knowing it was even possible, then being surprised when it happened and not having a clue how I did it
I worked for a local video game store when the PS1 launched. When Sony sent us displays we got a few little swag items and they included a debug and diagnostic manual. I remember this was one feature but had forgot all about it until now.
This manual is 100% true. I currently have this manual. There was also a magazine that released cheat codes back in the day and one article was about this feature.
I remember accidentally Deleting a save file on Spyro after beating Gnasty Gnorc on a school night. I screamed so loud and cried bc it took me forever to beat him. My dad came in the with belt after finding me up so late. This video *literally* could’ve saved me an ass beating.
This sounds like the kind of thing a kid would tell you at school that he had learned from his older brother, but when you got home and tried it, it wouldn't work.
That was my childhood. I didn't even know that we could actually do fatalities until my brother's older friends came over and showed me. My mind was blown. To be fair, I had a few games that were second hand along with my Sega Mega Drive. So I had to figure out a lot of stuff on my own. I was also 8. We also had friends that used to copy their Commodore 64 games across to new floppy disks for us. Those were the days!! 🤣
I was also an 8 year old girl playing Mortal Kombat. When the MK movie came out on VHS a year later, we rented it from Video Ezy (Aussie video rental store) My brother was the one that told my parents that it was just "a little bit of blood" when we took the video home. And the only swear words were crap. My mum was not impressed when she found out after haha. I thought it was the best thing ever!! After that I was able to watch all the Die Hard series when they came out as long as I was with my brother or my Dad. I think they secretly just enjoyed that I loved them as much as they did! Lol
So true! Like all the "secret places" other kids said you could reach in games… somewhere, many links up that telephone chain, someone must have thought they were really funny, wasting everybody's time with a made-up easter egg 😅 But it actually *was* fun. Man, life was more interesting before the Internet was everywhere.
Game developer here. Usually with esoteric button combinations like this (Hit all the shoulder buttons on the controller at the same time) these are usually something you would see as a developer command. Like a shortcut for developers or testers to perform actions that make testing easier. They often use complicated button combinations and very specific timing (a lot like old school cheat codes) on the off chance that they need to take a dev build to a public event like a conference, or if they forget to remove it, it's unlikely that someone would trigger it by accident. I would hazard to guess the reason this feature wasnt advertised is because its not a feature, but in fact a dev command that they neglected to remove before manufacturing.
Remind me of Mario 3 for the NES let you get any item you want by pressing select on the overworld. Later carts removed the feature as it was never meant to be there in the first place.
You cant know how it was....we werent looking we were just impatient to play our new game and wanted to delete a new one but.....the mistake arrived and u delete ur favorite game
I remember being at friends house. We were playing through Baldurs gate and we were struggling. His little brother decided he wanted to play and of course we were kicked off and he got to take over. He started a new game played for a few minutes and got bored. He asked how to save so I told him how. He hovered over our save file. I told him not to save on that slot as that was our save. He looked at me, looked at the screen and back at me and without hesitation saved right over our game. Hours lost. This is a little irrelevant but your comment reminded me of that moment.
I remember DC Country 1, all my saves were deleted for no reason... I threw it against the wall and put it back on the SNES, turned it on and they were all there.
For those that don't know, data on any storage medium is never "deleted" It is simply made available by the drive to be overwritten. As long as the "deleted" data is not overwritten, you can always retrieve provided you have the tools.
@@SkullModder It is technically possible to wipe data by changing its value to another arbitrary value (like 0). However, it is not usually how its done, for the simple reason that it would be too time consuming. As example, wiping a single gigabyte would require to change a billion bytes (and thus 8 billions bits). Why bother doing that when marking the data for overwrite does the trick and allows to recover the data? This is far more useful for a game console, or really any kind of devices available to the large public
@@Reginald_Harrison The moment he opened up the memory card menu and it was most of the video in already I was disappointed already. Glad it wasn't just managing saves from one card to the other or something like that.
the beginning of the ps1 gives me goosebumps, it takes me back to those times, when having a ps1 was something exclusive, something serious, a dream come true
I wish i knew this 20 years ago. I had a serious fight with a friend of mine just because i accidentaly deleted his brave fencer musashi save file 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ade rahmat you can still finish through emulator though i suggest you to play on pc. It's better control. I finished it in PC. And FF series and Suikoden series on Phone.
It's unacceptable... Someone needs to find out who it was! And demand that he adds this to the manual and that he does a recall on all PS1 manuals in the world!
Believe me, I NEVER deleted a wrong game file on the PS1, I was too careful, especially where the Resident Evil games were concerned. But this is definitely a handy tip.
Actually did this once by accident but could never recreate the sequence on my controller and now I know why 24 years LATER. RIP LOST STREET FIGHTER SCORES.
@@Gagasng Actually a great idea. I gave my cousin that memory card a long time ago but I still have my PS1. I'll give him a call and text him this vid and let you know.👍
I did this by accident as a kid after deleting my Crash Bandicoot 3 file. I pressed all the buttons in anger without realizing the file returned. HOWEVER this only worked as long as you had the system on and did not start another game. If you shut it off then from my experience, you can no longer retrieve the file. I tried it on Jumping Flash and lost that file forever but didn't care.
Man I remember having that system as a kid might have been like 15 or 16 years old at that time now I am 37 years old about to turn 38 in August. Time flies when your having fun that's for sure.
I can think of 2 other possibilities: 1) Someone who worked on the PS1 told someone and word got out 2) Someone reverse-engineered the binary data and found it
It was mentioned in some magazines back in a day so some people knew some are stupid and didn't know even tho it was probably mentioned to them. Some people are such lost idiots yet they still have a "life" and survive, while some smart people end up struggling and have issues in life, not sure how the world works for these idiots but it does...
@@weirdsailorman4070 Agreed, you're completely right. Someone didn't know about a feature of a console 26 years ago, probably some of them were even kids that wouldn't care about this or couldn't have a way to know this. What a bunch of idiots they are made, completely useless in life. Btw I'm really questioning that myself, how does life works for a person that thinks insulting others in youtube for insignificant stuff is entertaining?.
Did you know how to play the copied games without a smart cartridge & without getting it chipped. I used to play all the copied games without any of them. Out of all my friend I was the only one who knew this. We didn't have the internet back then. So not many people knew about it. Did you know about it back then
Dude the excitement stepping up from super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis , you're just like listening to that PS intro like "oh wow what an age to be alive"...
I feel like I had a friend who said he accidentally deleted a save file a while back and after pressing some buttons it showed up again, but he couldn’t say which ones he pressed because he was in a panic… I always thought he was just blowing smoke up my butt like elementary schoolers would usually do on the playground… I’m sorry for doubting you Nico
in THPSi did a tailsmack coming back down from an air on a quarter pipe and it even said it in the yellow lettering , i spent days trying to make it happen again but never did. wild
>a video about a secret you actually didn't already know about >only 2:18 long >with no useless bullshit talk in it This is the positivity that we need in 2020.
Probably only works if they didn't overwrite the data with the memory card being full. This is just using my own knowledge of how computer storage works.
I knew this as a kid, if you ever played spyro or crash bandicoot youd know pressing buttons in a certain way was how heats were activated. The infi was also explained several times in magazines released back then.
We all new this 26 years ago 🤔 it was even in my memory card manual.. it clearly states that all data deleted can be restored until the blocks are overwritten..
@@scorpioassmodeusgtx1811 What do you mean? Proprietary cards? SD cards and USB flash drives are better. Something i did learn recently that i was surprised to find is that the PS2 can actually boot software off of a memory card.
It's like finding an old antique chest in someone's antique collection with a frozen lock on it. You manage to open it up with the right tools and find over $200,000 inside of it. Only then to realize later that it's Confederate money. XD
It's like someone from Napoleon times burying hundreds of aluminum coins, then their ancestors realize aluminum is worthless now (true story...aluminum used to be considered more expensive than gold, because it's almost impossible to extract from the ore without electricity)
Gold isn't worthless, the only reason why you would say that would be because of online currency has become a thing but gold will always have a value especially if in times of destruction like wars
you should travel back and then convince Sony to keep this feature in for ps2 also lol. then you'd really be a hero. Just take a phone or tablet with you to show them the clip.
@@myname7937 i dont know what the storage devices in phones are but memory cards were removable and literally only contained gamesave data. The disc held the game and if you wanted to save your progress it didnt write to the hard drive like current gen consoles your save went on the memory card and would be stored until you overwrote or updated it.
plot twist: the way he found out this trick was when he actually deleted his real saved data of his game accidentally and by raging and with all his anger he smashed every single button possible and at last he found this technique..
I wonder how many children’s hopes and video game progress were dashed because they didn’t know about this. I think I can hear their combined cry right now.
Man I rolled into this video all smug thinking I got this, I exploited the hell out of that PS1, copying games from best buy and playing them with the gameshark etc. Now all I can think is hunh that would have been good info to have 20 years ago.
Bam Bam RoddyO I've still got my PS1 😊 as well as my Sega Saturn & Nintendo 64 with all the games. Haven't played them in a while but every so often they get strung up and played for days. 😏
Imagine accidentally finding this when you where a kid, but not knowing how to repeat it. All you know is mashing every button sometimes brings game files back.
So that's how it worked. Back in the day my brother "accidentally" deleted my Crash save file. I was almost in tears and was smashing all the buttons on my controller and it somehow reappered, or at least I thought so. I guess I did that without knowing lmao
I remember a megaman game for ps1 that had a soft safe kinda thing. Basically, you could turn off the console and as long as the cd wasn't switched, you could continue where you left in the game. But if you played another game on between the progress was lost. Not sure why most games didn't have this feature
My guess is that you have to keep the console on and running on this screen for this trick to work. The save file is saved to the console RAM for cancellation. But if the console is powered off, that save file is lost for good.
@@Octolicia not only that but this only works if you deleted it through this default program; if you overwrote/deleted through the game (how most these people actually got their data deleted other then corruption) and try to reset to this screen you still won't be able to recover the data. People be dumb
Oh wow, why Sony!? Why!? Why didn't you tell us?? 😭😭😭 Sony: Let's see if they get it, lol. *26 Years Latier* Retired Senior Sony Design Staff watching this in a nursing home: Ha
I remembered I cried a lot when I just accidentally deleted my harvest moon's file. And after 10 yrs find out it could be undo , my 10 y.o kid side is screaming
Yeah, deleting a PS1 save isn't removing the file, it's just flagging the memory blocks as available, which can be reversed as long as you don't create a new save, which would overwrite the blocks
Omfg !! Bro no word of a lie one day back then I deleted my Tomb Raider files by accident and from pure panic I think I did exactly this (pressing buttons like a madman in disbelief) and it came back...it happened only that one time and I could never explain how I got back my files...thanks for solving my 20 year wtf puzzle 😅🙏🏾🇯🇲
Same Bro I Deleted My Driver 1 By Accident After This Im become Mad And Pressing All Buttons I Got Back My File I Don't Believe This Finally This Bro Solve My Mystery 😂
Damn, i remember my friend deleted my Tomb Raider when i had spent so much time getting through most of it. WISH I knew this back then!!!!!!!! I never did go back and finish that game.
I knew about this, came across this video as I wanted to confirm what buttons did it. This works because the saves are never deleted, they are just marked as empty and can be overwritten. There is actually 16 save blocks and block 0 is the index. This is also the block that gets corrupted if you turn off power when saving and appears to delete all your saves. Also the memory card is not 1 megabyte but 1 megabit, aka 128K, so each save block is only 8k I remember reading about this in a magazine and even built a memory card reader for my Amiga so I could back up the saves. I still have them.
This " secret" was actually published in Gamer Magazine back in the 90s. But it sucked they never put it in the owners instructions for the memory card.
Another Sony employee: Yes it will make us more money. Employee who said original comment: How? ASe: Gamers will get pissed they erased all of their progress accidentally that they will wind of smashing or throwing their console breaking it that they will have no other choice to buy another one. 😳😲😂🤣
For me that Nostalgia is "It's Saturday morning I'm 9 years old and all my friends are sitting around getting ready to play rounds of Dead or Alive and Tekken.
I have to turn my sound system down before power on or else everyone outside my cave gets a bass drop and the electronic chime... or however else one would describe it.
![KSI - Thick Of It (feat. Trippie Redd) [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/At8v_Yc044Y/mqdefault.jpg)
I know a lot of secrets about older consoles too, so let me know if you want to see them 😁
Yeah please do
Do some on psp ig
Yeah do it for ps3
No u
This became one of my favourite videos of yours! (Mostly because of the ending with the PS start-up sound) Please do more!🙏
You're too late... 26 years too late...
couldnt agree more but sadly youtube no exist at the time.
You can go back when time machines invented
Or buy a ps1 lmao 😂 I still got my ps1 and N64 and play them more than ps4 or xbone🤷♂️ better games back in the day... idk what to say...
Was just gonna make the same coment, it would be nice to know 26 years ago when deleted my saved games by mistake.
lol True!
This video would have saved my friends life when he deleted my resident evil save data. May he rest in peace 😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣
What happen u left him in pieces
I beat the shit out of my lil bro for deleting my shit on purpose 😂😂😂
🤣😂🤣😂
wait what...
I did this by accident when I was a kid. I never knew how I did it, my friends thought I was lying, and when I failed to recreate this, I gave up and just accepted that I must have dreamed it. Here 20 years later, I finally get to see this video and find out how I did it...but haven't had a PS1 or been in contact with those friends in 20 years lmao
Update: I never thought I would be making this update...I had forgotten I shared this and had moved on, but one of my friends from back then that didn't believe me apparently saw this video and remembered from way back then...I can't believe he even remembered, but even more, I can't believe he not only found me (I don't have social media because I want to keep my personal life private), but reached out to me to apologize for not believing me. I have little hope the other four will do the same, but, well, this happened, so who knows?
I can imagine that after you deleted the file, you probably had a spasm of the hands all over the controller hoping for anything to work. And then you somehow managed to use the shoulder buttons all at the same time. Or maybe even tossed the controller and it hit the shoulder buttons perfectly.
Either or, there you go; now you know.
@@stevenmackay3289 Knowing my kid self, I probably panicked and started hitting as many buttons as I could in a vain hope I could save it, not knowing it was even possible, then being surprised when it happened and not having a clue how I did it
Track them down, send them this video, and say "I fucking told you so!!"
@@mintpalmer What this guy said. ^^^^
Time to use Facebook and do a 20 year old I TOLD YOU I DIDNT LIE.
I worked for a local video game store when the PS1 launched. When Sony sent us displays we got a few little swag items and they included a debug and diagnostic manual. I remember this was one feature but had forgot all about it until now.
Same.
I was working for WaldenSoftware back then (before they were bought out by Electronic Boutique)...
/sing "Memorieeeeees!"
This manual is 100% true. I currently have this manual. There was also a magazine that released cheat codes back in the day and one article was about this feature.
@@devinmalin7265 What is it called? I'd like to find a digitised copy somewhere. (don't link it, youtube shadow deletes comments with links in them)
No one:
RUclips recommendations:
- remember that save file you cried over 26 years ago?
Indeed .....
Usefull info... I needed 25 & half year ago :p
Oh I remember it. I'll never forget it. Couldn't bring myself to restart the game ever since.
Nope sorry Wasn't alive 26 years ago😂😂
My sister deleted my pokemon safe file in the early 2000s on my gameboy. Still traumatized.
I remember accidentally Deleting a save file on Spyro after beating Gnasty Gnorc on a school night. I screamed so loud and cried bc it took me forever to beat him. My dad came in the with belt after finding me up so late. This video *literally* could’ve saved me an ass beating.
Yea but then you wouldn't have the story to tell lol
This needs more likes
you had a bad father
@@mr.whimsic6902 Facts nobody should beat their children
@@samuelcarmona87 every child needs a beating once in a while lol
This sounds like the kind of thing a kid would tell you at school that he had learned from his older brother, but when you got home and tried it, it wouldn't work.
That was my childhood.
I didn't even know that we could actually do fatalities until my brother's older friends came over and showed me. My mind was blown. To be fair, I had a few games that were second hand along with my Sega Mega Drive. So I had to figure out a lot of stuff on my own. I was also 8.
We also had friends that used to copy their Commodore 64 games across to new floppy disks for us. Those were the days!! 🤣
I was also an 8 year old girl playing Mortal Kombat. When the MK movie came out on VHS a year later, we rented it from Video Ezy (Aussie video rental store) My brother was the one that told my parents that it was just "a little bit of blood" when we took the video home. And the only swear words were crap.
My mum was not impressed when she found out after haha. I thought it was the best thing ever!! After that I was able to watch all the Die Hard series when they came out as long as I was with my brother or my Dad. I think they secretly just enjoyed that I loved them as much as they did! Lol
you have a lot of time bro ^
@@rikkatheconure2395 nah just replying on my mobile while I watch RUclips on my TV xD
So true! Like all the "secret places" other kids said you could reach in games… somewhere, many links up that telephone chain, someone must have thought they were really funny, wasting everybody's time with a made-up easter egg 😅
But it actually *was* fun. Man, life was more interesting before the Internet was everywhere.
Game developer here.
Usually with esoteric button combinations like this (Hit all the shoulder buttons on the controller at the same time) these are usually something you would see as a developer command. Like a shortcut for developers or testers to perform actions that make testing easier.
They often use complicated button combinations and very specific timing (a lot like old school cheat codes) on the off chance that they need to take a dev build to a public event like a conference, or if they forget to remove it, it's unlikely that someone would trigger it by accident.
I would hazard to guess the reason this feature wasnt advertised is because its not a feature, but in fact a dev command that they neglected to remove before manufacturing.
Remind me of Mario 3 for the NES let you get any item you want by pressing select on the overworld. Later carts removed the feature as it was never meant to be there in the first place.
Wrong.
@@TheCyndicate lol uuuuuuuumm... Care to enlighten us with your professional opinion?
@@TheCyndicate are you the Terminator?
Hey there , is there any way for me to get my music into games ? I’m looking for some contacts thanx for reading
Click on delete
“Are you sure u want to delete?”
Yes
“Deletes”
Oh damn. I didn’t want to delete that
You cant know how it was....we werent looking we were just impatient to play our new game and wanted to delete a new one but.....the mistake arrived and u delete ur favorite game
Literally me with a DB raging blast 2 save
Panic does shit to you
Well it also helps when u only played certain games. Or just bought extra memory cards lol
It’s not hard to happen with people that don’t speak english. Specially a kid in 90s.
I remember being at friends house. We were playing through Baldurs gate and we were struggling. His little brother decided he wanted to play and of course we were kicked off and he got to take over. He started a new game played for a few minutes and got bored. He asked how to save so I told him how. He hovered over our save file. I told him not to save on that slot as that was our save. He looked at me, looked at the screen and back at me and without hesitation saved right over our game. Hours lost.
This is a little irrelevant but your comment reminded me of that moment.
All my Tekken characters... Gone for nothing..... Funny how it still hurts...
I feel you bro
love your channel bro
I can tell by your prof pic
Bruh
Everybody hurtsssss
The guy that discovered this probably discovered in a rage where he was pressing all the buttons for it to come back, and it actually came
lol exactly how i discovered it. i didn't realize it wasn't documented, what like 20 years ago?
I remember DC Country 1, all my saves were deleted for no reason... I threw it against the wall and put it back on the SNES, turned it on and they were all there.
Came... just like your mom!!
@@RyanREAX this comment has me dying 🤣😂
😂😂😂
For those that don't know, data on any storage medium is never "deleted"
It is simply made available by the drive to be overwritten. As long as the "deleted" data is not overwritten, you can always retrieve provided you have the tools.
They couldve written all zeros, ones or garbage data. Data can be deleted
@@Kyss007 they did not in this case
what if the datas wiped at the binary level?
@@SkullModder It is technically possible to wipe data by changing its value to another arbitrary value (like 0). However, it is not usually how its done, for the simple reason that it would be too time consuming. As example, wiping a single gigabyte would require to change a billion bytes (and thus 8 billions bits). Why bother doing that when marking the data for overwrite does the trick and allows to recover the data? This is far more useful for a game console, or really any kind of devices available to the large public
Hmm, this comment smells like Reddit
If I knew this before, my neighbor who accidentally deleted my save file would still be alive today.
@UpSideДown stop humble bragging bout having two penises. smh.
@UpSideДown it didn't work, his eye have decomposed already. Now I have to bury him again :(
@r/CursedComments @Dominic
Nice joke.
*wait.*
i dying laugh at this bro, hopefully is a joke right 😂😂
1st time it’s not just click bait of a commonly known fact I’m shocked and learned something new.
Me too
For real.
I was ready for a "The PS1 could play music CDs" video.
But the clip is under 10 minutes. He still has to learn a lot!
@@Reginald_Harrison The moment he opened up the memory card menu and it was most of the video in already I was disappointed already. Glad it wasn't just managing saves from one card to the other or something like that.
I'll be god damned...friendships could have been saved if we had known about this lol
Did you ever have to flip the console upside down to read the disk? That was kinda fun too.. my favorite game was nuclear strike.
Yeah...I feel bad now :(
@Where's Waldo??? ? I am ur Lord sheep and he has my blessings
@Where's Waldo??? ? 🌸😹Who cares if he is, it doesn’t mean he’s wrong😹🌸
God damnit, you’re right!
the beginning of the ps1 gives me goosebumps, it takes me back to those times, when having a ps1 was something exclusive, something serious, a dream come true
yeah... you were among the PS master race gamers or SEGA Genesis/Chinese Sega ripoff peasants
When I checked the mail everyday hoping for something new from Playstation underground.
I wish i knew this 20 years ago. I had a serious fight with a friend of mine just because i accidentaly deleted his brave fencer musashi save file 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love brave fencer musashi. Plus the music is bomb! The story ending kinds sucks though.
Ohmy, miss that moment so much
Good game
@ade rahmat you can still finish through emulator though i suggest you to play on pc. It's better control. I finished it in PC. And FF series and Suikoden series on Phone.
Thats why time machines in the future will come in handy
If I knew that, I wouldn't bite my big brother for removing my Final Fantasy VII and Jade Cocoon saves...
Jade cocoon 😭😭😭 remember playing it so much
Omg Jade Cocoon!!!
This comment is fuckn gold bro..
I deleted my brothers jade cocoon...I wish I knew this at the time...
Lmao I had a friend who accidentally saved over my jade cocoon file.
Whoever kept that out of the manual is the true villain of the world
heads must roll.
We've been bamboozled
It's unacceptable... Someone needs to find out who it was! And demand that he adds this to the manual and that he does a recall on all PS1 manuals in the world!
Did anybody read to see if it was in the manual because I sure as hell ain't
@@High.on.Life_DnB um Sony
Believe me, I NEVER deleted a wrong game file on the PS1, I was too careful, especially where the Resident Evil games were concerned. But this is definitely a handy tip.
Actually did this once by accident but could never recreate the sequence on my controller and now I know why 24 years LATER. RIP LOST STREET FIGHTER SCORES.
Happened to me too. Was confused kid as how the fuck that deleted save game was still there. Never figured that one out xD
THATS terrible! Think how different your life would have been if you kept those scores!
Try it now. Who knows you’ll get the file back
@@presidentuwu3206 yeah . It was all downhill from there. Straight to the bottle at age 13.
@@Gagasng Actually a great idea. I gave my cousin that memory card a long time ago but I still have my PS1. I'll give him a call and text him this vid and let you know.👍
ps1 devs team: "We should remove this recovery feature in the next generation, nobody is using it anyway"
guy who wrote the manual: "hmmmmmm"
Hahaha that's so true
That's a PSX not a ps1
@@MinutemanOutdoors NO
@@wow_tilin en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)
@@MinutemanOutdoors "The PlayStation[a] (abbreviated as PS, commonly known as the >>PS1
This is like showing up with a firetruck 20 something years after the fire....
or showing up after your child 25 yo
Better late then never.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse I guess it's better to be never in this case
Bwahaha
Good one
I did this by accident as a kid after deleting my Crash Bandicoot 3 file. I pressed all the buttons in anger without realizing the file returned. HOWEVER this only worked as long as you had the system on and did not start another game. If you shut it off then from my experience, you can no longer retrieve the file. I tried it on Jumping Flash and lost that file forever but didn't care.
This could have saved so much tears back in the day...
No kidding.😭
It is 🥺🥺🥺🥺
seriously I accidentally deleted my first run through of metal gear...... 😂
friendships
Or could have saved allot suicide's
I like how “Nobody knew this” immediately switched to “Not many”. Guess I was just as special then as I am now.
Right?! I thought everyone knew this back then 😄
He got 4.1 mio viewers in 3 weeks, he shits on your stomach so much is he interested what you think about how many people know about that
Calm down American Eagle, no need to let us know you're defending your man crush. Sounding like a girlfriend waltzin in here.
Gotta do what you gotta do to get those views
😂😂 I felt the same.
The internet ruined me. I clicked this expecting a smart ass meme, instead I got actual advice.
Same
Same
Lol
@@amaturearcadia You have broken the sacred chain bro
Bruh me 2 i thought he was goina use it as a paper weight like all sony products .
Man I remember having that system as a kid might have been like 15 or 16 years old at that time now I am 37 years old about to turn 38 in August. Time flies when your having fun that's for sure.
I wish I knew this when I was a kid ..
@Sakura桜Hikari光莉
That's okay man you can just click your heels three times and start all over again 🙃
Youre all childs
@@yaziranthony2828 btw it would be children not childs
Tgats what I thought
ohhhhh so THAT'S what the open button was for!
Wonder how one could possibly discover this: by just pressing all the controller buttons, angry for deleting the wrong game file.
Lol yeah
I think that’s how I worked it out.
I can think of 2 other possibilities: 1) Someone who worked on the PS1 told someone and word got out 2) Someone reverse-engineered the binary data and found it
It was mentioned in some magazines back in a day so some people knew some are stupid and didn't know even tho it was probably mentioned to them. Some people are such lost idiots yet they still have a "life" and survive, while some smart people end up struggling and have issues in life, not sure how the world works for these idiots but it does...
@@weirdsailorman4070 Agreed, you're completely right. Someone didn't know about a feature of a console 26 years ago, probably some of them were even kids that wouldn't care about this or couldn't have a way to know this.
What a bunch of idiots they are made, completely useless in life.
Btw I'm really questioning that myself, how does life works for a person that thinks insulting others in youtube for insignificant stuff is entertaining?.
PS5 is coming
John : Let's do a PS1 nostalgic video.
lol
Perfect timing really.
I played soooo many hours on my PS1, backthen when it came out 🤗
PlayStation rocks 🤘👹
Alot of awesome PS1 games, but Tekken were my favorite 🤘
Ahhh the old classic startup
@@Saurotar remind me YOU-GI-OH wan on ps1?
You know they had this tip in a few Playstation magazines back in the 90s
OH MY GOD, this is bringing me back to the day i deleted my ff7 save by mistake
F7? Final 7 or Fantasy 7?
@@jblasutavario9549 My bad buddy, ff7 ;)
@@ClownDubstep That's fine. Just RIP your save file ⚰ May it live forever in digital heaven along with your level 99 team and maxed out materia 🙏
I must now locate my old memory cards to see what I can recover.
I too lost an FF7 save, such that i never bothered to do it all again.
Oh I hear ya i cried when I did the same
Me: "Whatever he's gonna say I already know everything about the PS1."
Also me: "Oh my God... :O"
Did you know how to play the copied games without a smart cartridge & without getting it chipped.
I used to play all the copied games without any of them.
Out of all my friend I was the only one who knew this.
We didn't have the internet back then.
So not many people knew about it.
Did you know about it back then
@@scottrocks1993 How?
@@scottrocks1993 Tell how if this is true.
@@scottrocks1993 the cd swap trick. Swap in original cd on security check sequences and copied cd on pre loading sequences?
@@aristojose5754 That's too obvious but i wouldn't be surprised if he was talking about that.
"Hopefully you found this useful."
A bit late for that. Definitely entertaining tho.
it's not that RUclips didn't exist back in the days!
Bit tooooooooooooooooooo Late
@@psycho636 it’s existed since 2005... this was posted in 2020...
Well I still have a PS1 and play it from time to time if I didn't already know about this I would've found it very useful.
Dude the excitement stepping up from super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis , you're just like listening to that PS intro like "oh wow what an age to be alive"...
I feel like I had a friend who said he accidentally deleted a save file a while back and after pressing some buttons it showed up again, but he couldn’t say which ones he pressed because he was in a panic… I always thought he was just blowing smoke up my butt like elementary schoolers would usually do on the playground…
I’m sorry for doubting you Nico
in THPSi did a tailsmack coming back down from an air on a quarter pipe and it even said it in the yellow lettering , i spent days trying to make it happen again but never did. wild
#nicowasntlying
🤣 🤣 🤣
Nico was ahead of his time
Maybe next time cousin
>a video about a secret you actually didn't already know about
>only 2:18 long
>with no useless bullshit talk in it
This is the positivity that we need in 2020.
Preach
It's like the Lock Picking Lawyer for PlayStation tricks.
To my siblings:
Sorry for every time i yelled at you whenever you accidentally deleted my save files 26 years ago💔💔
😂😂
“Accidentally”
Probably only works if they didn't overwrite the data with the memory card being full. This is just using my own knowledge of how computer storage works.
@@andrewtamin 😂😂👍
cool
That old logon screen and music was amazing. So much better than today.
I'm sending this info to my past self. Man so many memories.
You mean, “so many deleted memories”? 😂😂😂
Remember Writing cheats down on a piece of paper.... I miss those simpler times
Oh man looking though a magazine hunting for codes.
Yeah I still got ps1 but i think laser reader died, or how is called.
@@stefancarking1337 then bring it to a Console Repairman.
You can also buy a PS1 Disc Drive online and give it to him to replace the broken one.
It's a bit too late to know now
Right
Never too late! Time to get my ps1 out the closet
yeah no shit
It is too late not played a ps1 since 2001
God dammit, Ray!
Did anyone else get chills when the PlayStation sound played at the end? 23 years since I touched a PS1 and I still love that sound!
Damn I felt the same way. Didn’t expect it n when I heard the sound I froze but enjoyed hearing it.
Sends me straight back to easier times.
@@Isaac-st8jh definitely easier times but yeah, the goosebumps were real!
Reminds me of the anticipation building before I got to hear the FF7 theme 😆
ahh... those sleepless nights, playing until sunrise... I miss those old days
I knew this as a kid, if you ever played spyro or crash bandicoot youd know pressing buttons in a certain way was how heats were activated. The infi was also explained several times in magazines released back then.
Hey kids there goes our time crying over deleted data in vain.
Revisited this comment after a month! Thnx for the likes people!
ONG bro lmfaoooo
I got like about 1 million face palms that are about 26 years overdue.......
Lmao
Ditto🤦
Ditto
🤦♂️
It hurts😫
2:01 That's the most satisfying sound ever made in the world.
wonder if i can get my pc to load up like that
And the nervous wait to see if it change screen
I strongly associate that sound with Crash Bandicoot.
for me the sound of excitement😊
This sound reminds me of all the final fantasy games and legend of dragoon. Oh and driver of course. Man...
We all new this 26 years ago 🤔 it was even in my memory card manual.. it clearly states that all data deleted can be restored until the blocks are overwritten..
I love how he has to explain what memory cards are for the younger people lol
we're getting old lol
How young must you be to not know what a memory card is for a vgc? Like four? He also shows you how to put them in and how to leave likes on RUclips.
@@scorpioassmodeusgtx1811 What do you mean? Proprietary cards? SD cards and USB flash drives are better.
Something i did learn recently that i was surprised to find is that the PS2 can actually boot software off of a memory card.
trash can and?
@@scorpioassmodeusgtx1811 no its not lol. That's just extra space for digital games etc.
My issue was my brothers deleting my saved files. Luckily If you smash the L1 and L2 button over their face it prevents this from happening again!
never forget when my brother deleted my budokai tenkaichi 3 save with everything unlocked
😂
Thats what I came to post about.
Do they know how many ass whooping that could have been prevented if we knew about this hack lol
@@tartaruganinjas bro that game had a million characters to unlock too😭😭😭
@@PlanetaryDrey yeah man, i never tryed again after that, at least he still feel bad about that kakaka
Bruh this would have saved me so many hours not having to have replayed almost all of msg1
If u just want the unlocks u could beat the game in a few hours tops lol
@@FATMAN162x yeah its only like a 2 hour game if you know where to go and how to beat the bosses.
I love metal solid gear 1
I didn't know they made a game about MSG. Nice. 😂😂
A MSG game? Michael Schenker must be proud.
WOW, I will go back in time to 1997 and use this feature like crazy...thanks man!
Me: yeah everybody knows how to access the memory card.
You: PS1 Data Recovery
Me: 😳🤯
Lol my precise reaction
Exactly
Sorry not new but not well known for sure.
Actually why did he explained how to access so slowly, it was kinda annoying
people new of this from the start
Ppl who lost hours of gameplay back in the day, watching this video be like: 👁️👄👁️
Ikr 😂
Bruh I’m 16 and this was my first console the fuckin memories
@@edy2982 rich boiii
Now they don't even care about playing games with kids and family
@@edy2982 bruh noone cares but me at 8:58am
It's like finding gold just to find out it's worthless now.
It's like finding an old antique chest in someone's antique collection with a frozen lock on it. You manage to open it up with the right tools and find over $200,000 inside of it. Only then to realize later that it's Confederate money. XD
It's like someone from Napoleon times burying hundreds of aluminum coins, then their ancestors realize aluminum is worthless now (true story...aluminum used to be considered more expensive than gold, because it's almost impossible to extract from the ore without electricity)
Not to me, I owned a ps1 very recently and I'm a klutz
Gold isn't worthless, the only reason why you would say that would be because of online currency has become a thing but gold will always have a value especially if in times of destruction like wars
pretty much
that PS loading music/sound... gives me chills.
When I travel back in time, ill be a gaming hero.
When I travel back in time I wanna b elvis presley
@@Sammy10100 One of my heroes. Acceptable.
Haha
you should travel back and then convince Sony to keep this feature in for ps2 also lol. then you'd really be a hero. Just take a phone or tablet with you to show them the clip.
@@dagameplayer If I took a phone or tablet with me I’d be the HERO OF HEROES!
2:00 that sound, that magnificent sound.
They should have never got rid of it
They are so stupid for not keeping this through all PS generations
@@Apathesis0 True. It should have been their sound.
New notification sound unlocked!
Good memories
The fact you have to explain what a memory card is just shows that 20 years has passed.
memory cards are still in phones and computers tho, aren't they? you just don't tutch them anymore. or am I actually too young?
@@myname7937 i dont know what the storage devices in phones are but memory cards were removable and literally only contained gamesave data. The disc held the game and if you wanted to save your progress it didnt write to the hard drive like current gen consoles your save went on the memory card and would be stored until you overwrote or updated it.
@@couldntmixapotnoodle phones use micro SD cards so yes, he is correct. It is a newer form of a memory card.
It's kinda sad lol
Thats some boomer shit
It wasn't in the user guide, but a quick trip on the internet taught me this in 1998. This was not a secret by any means.
Imagine accidentaly losing your save file then finding this 20 years later.
I just did. Meh
I dont think many ppl had to "imagine this"..
Thats exactly what just happened to me
I am just trying to remember if I did, it's best if I didn't.
Was probably crash team racing
@Untrepid One I always wonder how these people type the word that means the opposite of tight.
"Crash 1, Crash 2"
I see you're a man of culture.
@@davidbravo6239 old joke,
but still funny as heck! 😂
Don't forget about spyro the dragon.
Who said that?
Out of all the PlayStation games I've played. Crash was one of the games I never liked.
Spyro 2 is also awesome
plot twist: the way he found out this trick was when he actually deleted his real saved data of his game accidentally and by raging and with all his anger he smashed every single button possible and at last he found this technique..
Hunit
True
ok, funny, but this is not a plot twist.
Exactly how I learned when I was 5 😂
@@iagobroxado you must be a blast at parties
This makes sense cuz in the computer World deleting something doesn't actually delete it it just allocates it to be overwritten
PS1: "And if it wasn't for meddling social media my secrets would still be safe!"
Damn you meddling boomers! XD
@@Bangcat i suggest you stop calling the older gen boomers coz your time will come and you can only stop it if you die early...
@@AkunoKen best comment so far
I have an extreme urge to buy a PS1 all of a sudden.
Oh the good ole' days.
I think a ps2 plays ps1 games better than a ps1.
@Ninja Crackpot thats illegal though and not the same as playing on a crt with controller
Yeah. PS1 was great. Until PS2 came out
@@VailxD not illegal if you own the game
@Ninja Crackpot it’s not the same
Anyone ever left their ps1 on for a couple days because they didn't have a memory card?
I remember we had to finish a game cos we had an overnight rental 🤣🤣
1000%
I did this one summer..I mean for an entire summer
Yup I remember those days lol
all the time!
When you're pissed about losing your progress and randomly smash buttons in retaliation.
I wonder how many children’s hopes and video game progress were dashed because they didn’t know about this. I think I can hear their combined cry right now.
My cry...it's somewhere amongst them 😫
The store my dad bought ps1 from told him about this and he told me so me and my friend's knew about this secret, when i was a kid
It’s as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror...
Yeah not many.. we already knew this
I can
I was ready to say "I already knew this!"
But I didn't. Didn't know this at all.
Same here, I was mad cocky at first. Then I was humbled. lol
I'm with you on that
Man I rolled into this video all smug thinking I got this, I exploited the hell out of that PS1, copying games from best buy and playing them with the gameshark etc. Now all I can think is hunh that would have been good info to have 20 years ago.
Bam Bam RoddyO I've still got my PS1 😊 as well as my Sega Saturn & Nintendo 64 with all the games. Haven't played them in a while but every so often they get strung up and played for days. 😏
Imagine all that fist-fights and sibling-wars that could be avoided if we know this trick decades ago
Probably why they left it out
If only they had this option on GameCube cuz my brother constantly deleted my data 😩🤦♀️
I knew it back in the day! I'm from Italy! We learn it in a gaming magazine when me and friends were youg! Good times! Thanks for sharing this!
Epic video that actually isn’t clickbait,
It isn’t unnecessarily long
He has an epic last name!!!
But I remember gaming magazines posting this code all the time in their cheats and secrets section. This is just clickbait. =/
Developer: “nobody will ever know that I coded this extra feature!”
sony just assumed 'anyone who accidentally deletes a save is just gonna spam the R and L buttons out of rage'
I accidently did lol
oh man, back in my day, that sound when you first power on your PS1 was something from the future X D
Title: hidden secret for 26 years
Thumbnail: how to open the ps1
That's like anti click bait.
@@brono8012
😂😂😂🤣🤣😭😭😭🤣😂🤣🤣😂😭😭🤣😂🤣😭😂😭😂
Imagine accidentally finding this when you where a kid, but not knowing how to repeat it. All you know is mashing every button sometimes brings game files back.
I mean if you accidently deleted your treasured save file, you would probably do that out of rage.
I can just imagine all the people who deleted their save files long ago crying right now and wishing they knew this sooner.
I am one. Very butthurt.
Yeah this hurt a lot I did an Avgn style fuck when I've seen this video yo.
@Mario Salinas me it's my little brother that deleted my final fantasy 7 file on disc 4 too I definitely did the Avgn style fuck that day yo.
Mr Glasspenis thank you for the nostalgia blast of the startup, menu screen and memory card screen. You’ve earned yourself a sub, good sir!
Been so long since I heard the sound of the PlayStation one coming on. I almost shed a tear. It was so beautiful.
That fucking NOSTALGIA
Ditto bro.
Honestly that was the highlight of this video.
Also can bring back nightmares of the cd not reading and starting over and over😑..lol..but.its a beautiful sound. I want it for my ring tone
They need to bring it back!
This video is 100yrs too late for us
*cryinginlostsavedata
This should've saved a whole lot of relationships if we knew this from the start
I was in my mid teens back then, so my relationship with my palm stayed strong.
@@MalfunctioningAndroid Right or left?
@@EddieGooch I’m a righty, but not above experimentation.
Haha lol, rpg save game goes brrr, also i dont think ever read this trick in any games magazine back in the day 🤔
Loool my guy, I feel you🤣🤣🤣
My neighbor taught me this decades ago. He actually had some weird, possibly rare, gamer magazine which was full of tips and stuff
So that's how it worked. Back in the day my brother "accidentally" deleted my Crash save file. I was almost in tears and was smashing all the buttons on my controller and it somehow reappered, or at least I thought so. I guess I did that without knowing lmao
@Cristiano dos Santos Gomes I wholeheartedly agree to this.
Same here same game my brother deleted it but got it back somehow
I can imagen if it happened again you would be button mashing knowing that worked last time to bring files back to life.
@@spacehead.locboi392 my sister did too. so I deleted her save file and she broke the disk in frustration.
@@spacehead.locboi392 Imagine knowing how to, when we were younger
Who remember keeping the cd running cuz you ain’t have a memory card
Lol yeah kept Resident Evil on for like 3 days straight.
Or games like Siphon Filter, iirc, that had NO mid-level save, and had some SERIOUSLY large levels.
I remember not being able to save
I remember a megaman game for ps1 that had a soft safe kinda thing. Basically, you could turn off the console and as long as the cd wasn't switched, you could continue where you left in the game. But if you played another game on between the progress was lost. Not sure why most games didn't have this feature
Resident evil 1, Christmas night with a friend until 6am. Then we had to go bed, but left it in pause ⏸ 👏👏👌
This could've prevented my big brother beating me up when I accidentally deleted his gran turismo save file.
Haha had the exact same thing. Only it was the brother of my best friend who deleted MY 83% completed GT2 file. Will never forget :D
My guess is that you have to keep the console on and running on this screen for this trick to work. The save file is saved to the console RAM for cancellation. But if the console is powered off, that save file is lost for good.
Dude! Same!!!
Literally for this reason I had "backup" memory cards xD
Hi, big brother here
@@Octolicia not only that but this only works if you deleted it through this default program; if you overwrote/deleted through the game (how most these people actually got their data deleted other then corruption) and try to reset to this screen you still won't be able to recover the data. People be dumb
Ahhhh shit. Wish i knew this in 1997 when I accidentally deleted my 100+ hr FF7 save lol.
I feel very honored right now, me and my brother discovered this when we were kids!
And you never told us??? How dare you... You should feel ashamed!
@@will9828 my mom said not to talk to strangers!
cool story
me too! It was on accident though lol
Was thinking about how some mad button masher would had to have figured it out by now haha
Oh wow, why Sony!? Why!? Why didn't you tell us?? 😭😭😭
Sony: Let's see if they get it, lol.
*26 Years Latier*
Retired Senior Sony Design Staff watching this in a nursing home: Ha
This needs more likes
@@Cpt_Frisky yes
This made me make funny noise.
they speak japanese
According to sony the "X" button is actually the "cross" button
I remembered I cried a lot when I just accidentally deleted my harvest moon's file. And after 10 yrs find out it could be undo , my 10 y.o kid side is screaming
Same for a FFVII file... still crying...
According to the video, it can only be undone if the disc tray was open when it was deleted
* playing ps5*
Its time to go back....
Whoa.
Yeah, deleting a PS1 save isn't removing the file, it's just flagging the memory blocks as available, which can be reversed as long as you don't create a new save, which would overwrite the blocks
You KNOW it’s incredible when MrMario is astonished
@@mspeter97 That's literally how all storage works
@@mspeter97 Wooow a real doctor Hahahahaha
@@BeersAndBeatsPDX Realy!! GTF Outa here!!!! (Eddy Murphy Style) 😂😂😂
Omfg !! Bro no word of a lie one day back then I deleted my Tomb Raider files by accident and from pure panic I think I did exactly this (pressing buttons like a madman in disbelief) and it came back...it happened only that one time and I could never explain how I got back my files...thanks for solving my 20 year wtf puzzle 😅🙏🏾🇯🇲
Same Bro I Deleted My Driver 1 By Accident After This Im become Mad And Pressing All Buttons I Got Back My File I Don't Believe This Finally This Bro Solve My Mystery 😂
Lol that was funny
Damn, i remember my friend deleted my Tomb Raider when i had spent so much time getting through most of it. WISH I knew this back then!!!!!!!! I never did go back and finish that game.
@@goose72000 🤣
But why did you panic?
I knew about this, came across this video as I wanted to confirm what buttons did it.
This works because the saves are never deleted, they are just marked as empty and can be overwritten.
There is actually 16 save blocks and block 0 is the index. This is also the block that gets corrupted if you turn off power when saving and appears to delete all your saves.
Also the memory card is not 1 megabyte but 1 megabit, aka 128K, so each save block is only 8k
I remember reading about this in a magazine and even built a memory card reader for my Amiga so I could back up the saves. I still have them.
This " secret" was actually published in Gamer Magazine back in the 90s. But it sucked they never put it in the owners instructions for the memory card.
Noone:
Sony: let's make a secret combination noone will discover in 26 years
Another Sony employee: Yes it will make us more money. Employee who said original comment: How? ASe: Gamers will get pissed they erased all of their progress accidentally that they will wind of smashing or throwing their console breaking it that they will have no other choice to buy another one. 😳😲😂🤣
*No one
@@Spoderman5000 😂
Who is Noone?
*Someone
The sound of ps1 booting up is nostalgia level 10 for a split second in time I’m 7 again about to play th1 or tomb raider
For me that Nostalgia is "It's Saturday morning I'm 9 years old and all my friends are sitting around getting ready to play rounds of Dead or Alive and Tekken.
I have to turn my sound system down before power on or else everyone outside my cave gets a bass drop and the electronic chime... or however else one would describe it.
Me tooo😣
Damn I still remember I lost all my Gran Turismo data back then. I had to start from scratch!