This PS1 Secret Feature remained hidden for 26 years... Except in Japan
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- This video takes a look at the PS1 "secret" memory card feature and whether this was so unknown over in Japan.
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• This PS1 Secret Featur...
Sony to non japanese customers: You know I love you guys so much.
Sony whispers to japanese customers: But I love you guys alot more.
Well, not anymore lol
Sadly it's not like that anymore.
Sony did uno reverse card now
@@jmtrad1906 could you or someone else explain to me why exactly is that the case?
@@andji3882 the opposite
I REALLY could’ve used this knowledge as a kid.
There's a hidden feature to go back in time with the original playstation
I forgot the button combination though
@@MadDoofer up up down down left right left right b a start
R2 R2 L1 R2 left down right up left down right up
@@OnewingedAngel69 🤣🤣🤣🤣i remember that code but idk what game it's for that's a damn shame... and that konami code!... i have 2 code for y'all... A B B A...damn it didn't work 10 tries later A B B A! YESSSS IT WORKED.... and C4A4-6767!
100%...
Will never forget the day I deleted my 100h+ BoF 4 save by accident and had to start over.
Like wtf. They should've have this in us instructions manual
Actually, it was. But only in the very first SCPH-1001 model, the type with the RCA connectors on the back. The later models like the SCPH-5001, and 9001 have Multi-AV connectors, drop the serial port, and the 9001 even dropped the expansion port a gameshark or mpeg2 vcd decoder would plug into. It was also mentioned in several 3rd party multipage memory card booklets, like InterAct's 360 block memory card with LCD and page-switch buttons.
Some versions of the gameshark rom (Specifically, GameShark PRO version 3.2) could also display and restore deleted saves, but this feature is distinctly absent from all of Datel's pro action replay line from which the gameshark code was originally licensed, as it was based upon transferring cheat codes to and from InterAct's GameShark CDX dongle. It's original intent was for a cheater with a Pro unit to distribute cheats to acquaintances in the days before internet auto-updates.
Notably, the only way to recover deleted save files from a PS2 memory card is via the linux boot kit. (Or FreeMcBoot, these days, which does not require the Network Adapter or a harddrive installed, but highly recommends it.)
Also, if I recall correctly, when I bought my first *dual-shock* psx (With Ape Escape), it didn't even have a full instruction manual, just a quick start guide. Not too long after that, the redesigned PSone was released. For the most part though, I think only us folks working on development and reverse engineering were aware of it. I probably flashed and installed a couple hundred PIC12C508 chips from 1995 to 2001...
Greetings to Herben and Xianaix, missing the good ol' days of ar3stop and caetla.
@@SLLabsKamilion I found no mention of it in the SCPH1001 manual found here: www.docs.sony.com/release/SCPH1001.pdf Are you sure?
@@CensoredGaming That is most certainly not the manual that came with my launch day PSX. My part number is 3-800-614-10(1) and does not include french. The S-video port is also depicted in this version. It appears to be a direct translation of the original Japanese manual. I also have 3-800-614-15(1) which does include french, and does not mention recovery on page 10, consistent with the PDF you linked.
Edit: Yeah, I've found at least three different revisions, the original bilingual 3-800-614-10(1), the trilingual 3-800-614-11(1), and a later trilingual revision 3-800-614-15(1). I assume that -10(1) reflects the original september release in the united states, before they started compliance for a canadian release. I can assume that content was trimmed to make room for french. It's very possible that my unit was part of the initial batch of production shipped from japan to los angeles/oakland; and subsequent shipments to wider north american markets had revised manuals.
Also found my PSP manual, which wised up and sectioned the manual into different sections specific to each language.
My PSX was purchased september 9th 1995 at Toys'r'us in sunnyvale, california. Receipt's still in the box, I would have expected the thermal transfer paper to have faded by now.
One PSX, $299, one extra controller, $29.99, Battle Arena Toshinden, $49.99. It's also the only PSX in my collection that still has a factory original CD mechanism; all of my subsequent models had problems with the plastic rails and required repair or re-lubrication.
I'll get some high resolution photos of the manual; waiting on a replacement phone since my old blu R2 plus's battery started bulging. G9 Pro's 48mpix should be just as good as a flatbed scanner, I hope.
@@SLLabsKamilion It clearly says that it's a manual for the original US version (SCPH-10001) and all of the manuals and photos that are appearing of SCPH-10001 look the same, with the French text and everything. www.google.com/search?q=scph-%221001%22+manual&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjXoJvylbvtAhUJyaQKHVfNACkQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=scph-%221001%22+manual&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDFAAWABgq6QQaABwAHgAgAEAiAEAkgEAmAEAqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=DcLNX5fmL4mSkwXXmoPIAg&bih=610&biw=1280&client=firefox-b-d And so this definitely a "US SCPH-1001 manual", but perhaps there were different versions of the original US version's manual. Any chance you can upload a pic or even better, link to a full copy?
@@SLLabsKamilion Just seen your edit. That's interesting how they had so many revisions of the manual for the original US model. And so it seems like SCPH-10001 3-800-614-10(1) would just be for very early batches shipped out or even just the very first batch. And yes, maybe it was due to them wanting to make room for the other languages.
That's messed up, how they left it out of the instruction manual. No wonder it wasn't a secret in Japan, they were told so by Sony directly lol.
It kind of doesn't surprise me Sony is a hell of a lot more secretive than they let on. They hide things for the dumbest reasons.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu This is also back in the era with huge disparities of translations, release dates, etc. They got the consoles and games years earlier, tons of translations were very shoddy, and even games being made more difficult in the west to counter the rental market. Essentially the console manufactorers American / European divisions were very disconnected from the one in Japan. So I assume this is a result of all of these reasons.
@@odinsplaygrounds Which games were made more difficult?
@@ArilandoArilando iirc OG Resident Evil had the auto-aim removed, so you had to manually aim with tank controls.
@@ArilandoArilando There's a bunch and I don't know any official list (wish there were). But a few coming to mind: Devil May Cry 3, Dynamite Headdy, Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden 3, Streets of Rage 3, MGS1, MGS2, Contra Hard Corps, Silhouette Mirage, Resident Evil 1-3, Panzer Dragoon, etc etc.
ok, I think it's time to start looking into features that are made public knowledge in one region, but are secrets in others.
There is alot of game secrets that the japanese know and westerns don't. Some months ago i was browsing a japanese wiki about Digimon World and the whole thing had more stuff than all guides from gamefaqs combined. I even mentioned some stuff to some guy that seemed to have deep knowledge about the game mechanics, speedrun, and hacking/patching the game and some stuff was really new to him.
Wasn't the European version broken?
I didn't even know there was an PC version of that game until I translated it and searched it on Google.
@@lunaticberserker5869 I think there is at least 2+ european versions and the german one is a bug mess. The american version has less bugs than the european ones, and the japanese has even less since they patched a few bugs later in the versions called "best for family" an equivalent to the "greatest hits" game releases in US. The PC version is Korean only but i heard that some fans were trying to translate and fix it to be compatible with modern systems while some other people were trying to make a full remake.
Hardly a Japanese thing they had those guides in English on the internet when it came out
@@RyuFireheart I played the game a lot, and US version I had had bugs like jukebox and weird messages when training...etc
I did not know there was many version of the game, and I haven't tested the german version yet, but I have the PC version of the game and works on 7x64 computer. they music synch horribly, and one thing I have noticed they changed was the signs, they were translated.
@@lunaticberserker5869 And the digimons got shadow on PC version
People who have been hurt by accidentally deleting their save files 26 years ago upon seeing this video:
You... What...?
Why Japanese companies feel no need to explain shit to Western customers is a mystery to me. "Here's a crucial bit of Other M that focuses on Samus' childhood. We've never put this in a game before, so we're assuming you read the manga we never translated and made available outside of Japan." "recovering deleted save data? Why tell them about that?" And now I have to Google the FF9 sidequest
this would have mean my perfect lap on grand valley that a friend of mine deleted was still there. im crying again
"Glasscock" Lol, poor guy must've gotten so much crap in school.
Doubt it, i bet people would be jealous they weren't the younger brother to Chad Thundercock
Yeah fire back with flexing how, "He's hard as glass"
I'll refer you a channel called EpicLloyd. To his Dis Raps for Hire season 2, episode 1 titled "Glasscock". Have a listen. Enjoy.
@@SoraIndigo Yu Narukami/Souji/Soji Seta reference right?
@@trewallace2379 Chad Thundercock goes back farther than people calling Yu Chad
*Man... the PS1.*
*So many DAMN GOOD memories.*
You're too old
Oh shoot my dyslexia I read that as *"GOD DAMN memories"*
🤣🤣🥴
@@slyceth 25 year olds grew up with PS1...
@@slyceth I've good memories of the ps1 as well... and the sega genesis so I must be ancient lol. Heck I remember a time when I watched movies using LASERDISCS
I feel like the ps1 had better games total than any of the new Playstations
Both the save restore and FF9 sidequest was known in the UK, at least in my part of the country. I found the FF9 quest by myself by pure accident when I exited out of Memoria to heal after the Maralith fight. I then noticed some chests I opened previously were unopened so went exploring and found the quest when I got to Lindlblum.
The Memory Card save game restore was also known. It was printed in the cheat section of some magazines too. I remember showing a friend after his younger brother accidentally deleted his WWF Warzone save.
This video reminds me of the days of the "Video Replies" feature RUclips had. I kinda miss it, even if it was full of awful shit. Not that I wish to imply at all that this video is awful shit. This video's great and interesting.
Oh I miss that feature. It encouraged response videos and allowed for more exposure.
Remember star rating ?
Same
Bring back video responses!
@Unstoppable Plays! there's a simpsons episode where this guy said he gave homer a 5 star rating on youtube..... this episode is not timeless, sadly lol
@@dedpxl _> "It encouraged response videos"_
It's not like people make response videos today still. Just search "response" and you'll likely find a bunch.
I actually already knew about this thanks to a PSM (100% Independent Playstation Magazine) from a 1998 Issue.
Wow like 3 years into its life cycle that's impressive. I probably did see this written somewhere and just totally forgot about it.
I still have all my PSM mags stored in a closet. Would be cool to find the exact issue where this was printed on.
Yeah, that must be where I know it from too.
Same here, I recall reading about this in a gaming magazine in the 90s (probably was GamePro).
I recall this feature, though not where i learned it from.
This is why me, as a bilingual, search everything 2 times, one in my language and one in English.
I sold this as a service, saved data recovery to lots of people in my town back in the day, this is all I did.
For real?
considering you have to do the combination RIGHT when the file was deleted, you are either the flash or a DIRTY LIAR!
"Secret sidequest in FF9" The one with the Nero family? That's hardly a secret, people just weren't paying attention.
In Japan, they sell books about games like how to play, guides, everything. When I say books, I don't mean like 50 pages thin ones, I mean thick books that have like 500+ pages. I saw this one for animal crossing new horizons once and it was so biiiig.
i hate animal crossing
Prima Guides
If you need a guide that big, you should probably try getting better at playing games instead lmao
@@enzoqueijao Or you need to play harder games?
@@DanteAtropos Hell no, that'd be like if they taught quantum physics to fifth graders
Japanese were probably like: "'gaijin kidos too dumb to press 4 buttons at the same time".
Is gaijin translated into gay person?
@@timehasstoppedandthefunbeg4467 Yeah
@@timehasstoppedandthefunbeg4467 Translates to outsider
@@timehasstoppedandthefunbeg4467 It means white people
@@gamingforpizza5142 it's anyone that's not Japanese
Hmm interesting, what else are the Japanese holding out on us?
If we're talking Sony/PlayStation (or probably Nintendo too let's be real)
you could probably fill a olympic size pool with the secrets they hold.
Lots of games that could surely be hella fun to play but you can't unless you know how to read moonrunes
Super Robots maybe!
Localizations and physical releases, mostly
Mecha
I used that trick many times, all my friends knew it, all my city knew it, all my country here in Brazil knew it. It was a very common thing around '97~'99 . Cheers.
Brazil has the largest population of japanese people outside Japan, i guess the portuguese-japanese translations are not so difficult to get there
ah, back in the old days when information wasn't shared so easily so things like went undiscovered. It really wasn't until the PS2 era the internet starting taking off and we were connected with other countries, wasn't that long ago.
Wow, my mind is blown! I wonder what other forgotten and obscure features will be unearthed next year
Lol. Imagine all the anguish this might have prevented. Someone didn't have enough coffee when they were localizing the PS1 manual for foreign buyers.
The memory card feature was mentioned in gaming mags back in the day. It was probably on the internet as well, but I lot of English language sites that were around back them are gone now.
I knew it at the time psx was all the rage, circa 1998 oO
There is also a way to sort of defrag the memory carts without formatting them, but I forgot the button combo to bring that up. It kept game saves from going corrupt, as they so often do on PS1 memory carts
Huh
That'll be neat to know
People really didn't know about that in west?
I remember even trolling my friends deleting their saves.
Some did, but not very common as it wasnt in the manuals. I just happen to figure it out mad at my little brother for constantly deleting my game saves. The internet was not a very common thing back then in American homes.
@@Celician83 well late 90s and early 2000s isnt like today
@treos2 bruh
@@dansmith1661 yea i remember this, i remember finding this out messing with the controls after finding out the secret menu on the sega channel during the intro when i had it still.
That's hilarious lol
The FF9 side quest that was "discovered" in 2013 was in the Brady Games strategy guide...
...in 1999.
No it wasn't. Also the BradyGames guide is famous for its poor quality, as it left out so many details and relied on telling people to go on the PlayOnline website to find everything. The guide was marketed as being "enhanced by PlayOnline" but it just basically defeated a big part of the reason for having a physical guide. And the sidequest wasn't mentioned at all - either in the guide or on the PlayOnline website.
@@CensoredGaming Yes it was. It was on the very back page before the advertising.
@@CensoredGaming I guess an argument could be made that it was "rediscovered" or even "discovered for the masses" in 2013 because of how bad the strategy guide was and how bad PlayOnline services were. It was niche for anybody who had access to both the guide and the paid service, but it was there.
I could have used this back when I accidentally deleted my friend's Final Fantasy VIII save.
Japanese: discovers something more than twenty years ago.
Westerners, discovering it recently: "Guys, look what I just found out for the very first time."
Japanese: * facepalm *
Japanese: Hey I've seen this one before!
U. S. What do you mean it's brand new?
“I’ll never forgive the Japanese!”
This is a JoJo reference 🤣
Oh my god
Then again, they do make some nifty consoles!
Can we get a link to that last Japanese website about all the various PS accessories? I’d be interested in learning more about the various devices we didn’t get here in the west.
1:30 This side quest was also in the US strategy guide too. It amazes me that people keep saying it was "undiscovered" for so long. :/
I bought a lot Gaming Magazines back then. This Trick was mentioned a few Times in the Tips&Cheats Section
Yep, this info definitely made it over to the US, because I remember doing it, but I could understand it being obscure or forgotten.
Okay, no lie, I actually knew about this as a kid! I have no idea where he learned it, but a friend showed this to me, though I had forgotten the exact button combo over the years
I wish i knew that as a kid. Seriously what the hell Sony? Why wasn't that in the manual?
Why would Sony not mention this as a feature? That doesn't make any sense to just not tell Westerners about it.
Probably a developer tool that was considered unreliable?
Because all your base are belong to us. Localization wasn't that much of a concern (can argue it still ain't these days) back then.
I would not be surprised if no one of note ever looked at the translated material.
they think of the Westerners as dumb, I wouldn't be surprised if they thought it was too complicated and people would complain about not being able to do it, so they just didn't tell anyone about it
hmmm ... i think it's more sony america/europe's lazy translaton. Westerners are famous for terrible at translating things. They cut things that they don't like, change things that they don't like. The reasons are ridiculous for 99% of the case.
too complicated. people who call up sony asking dumb questions because they don't understand it.
This feature wasn't hidden for that long. As a matter of fact, it was known to those of us who played around with different things back in the 9p's and early 2000's. The following guide has the information, and was published on GameFAQs back in 2003.
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/916392-playstation/faqs/16132
Once the game has loaded and is playing, open the disc and put in a music cd. It will play the cd music while you play the game, up until it needs to read the disc again.
I played Spice Girls Spice while playing Tomb Raider II.
If I knew about this back when I was a kid, I would've not been so frustrated when I accidentally deleted the save file for Digimon Card Battle and I would've have to waste a week of my time trying to collect cards and get back to the final dungeon!
This is why as a bilingual speaker myself, I've always searched things in both Chinese and English. Because some content only exists in one language.
oh hello there
cool story bro
This wasnt secret at all, i knew it back then and im in south america. Im quite sure i saw it on some magazine or something, i tried it once and it worked but then never had to use it.
Honestly I just eventually accidentally figured this out. I also remember playing Japanese games just by using a little spring to keep the disc tray button down.
The best thing about Final Fantasy 9 is official Eiko art - images1.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/thumb/f/fc/Eiko_Carol_character.jpg/263px-Eiko_Carol_character.jpg
If you look closely you won't be able to unsee it.
@@HasekuraIsuna It probably is, but even so, it is kind of amazing that it got past their review process and in the final product.
Really? I used this feature so many times. Someone on my local rent store teach me this.
Even with minor things like this Japan still manages to be a very excluding country. WHY???
moon runes are hard to read
and those who read them seem to have a hard time with other types of runes
PlayStation magazine posted this in the 90s.. info was there.. you just had to read up and find it.
I gotta look at that ff9 sidequest....nvm it was a sidequest I did accidentally when I was younger lol
It's the Nero family quest.
You know looking back I realized that I never really deleted any of my saves on my PS1 lol
wel damn.. I think i came from Japan then.
Because i ALREADY knew that "secret" memory card "Feature" back when the ps1 was new, back when "renting" games was still a thing back in the 90ties!
Anyone els?
yeah iy never knew 🤷♂️
I don't believe you, unless you have OCD which caused you to mash all the shoulder buttons repeatedly in a memory card menu for no apparent reason. maybe next you will guess the lottery numbers on your first try.
Maybe he did it by accident or read it somewhere but I never knew of this and smashed every button like crazy back then, could had saved a few data files that were erased by mistake...
Brand new ps1 no few years sometimes in the 90's i figured it out too. After an accidental deletion of a file.
Ninetyties
I knew about this, pretty sure I read it in PSM magazine back in the day.
A lot of kids who were poor and only had the save menu to play with discovered this a looooong time ago
by deleting saves of games they didn't have??
@@nao3588 😂😂😂
That was a secret? I knew about that years ago back on late 90s
delete probably disallocates the save and this feature simply rebuilds allocation table
That see through blue memory card funny enough hit me hard with nostalgia. Carried that thing everywhere, even jumped in a pool with it once by forgetting about it and the thing still worked. I spent that whole day freaking out though waiting for it too dry before testing to see if it worked 😊
Imagine having memory cards lol.
I got my first memory card years after we got a ps2 xD
@@awacsrazgriz967 same here, I remember getting sims busting out and I couldn't even play it without a memory card, was devastated that day haha
@@awacsrazgriz967 well I had one for the ps1 but my mom liked to sell and rebuy shit all the time so when I finally got that blue memory you bet your ass I didn't let it go lol, wish I knew where it was now but some asshole broke into my house stealing my ps2 and my whole collection of games on Christmas day
I just imagine how someone deleted his savefiles and then smashing the controller full of anger... hitting the required buttons by accident... and then the deleted files pop up again... IT'S A MIRACLE!!!!
It’s weird for me to know that people didn’t know this. I learned this once as a kid when mashing buttons randomly looking for secrets... (I was a poor kid, you do what you can to stay entertained.).
I always assumed it was common knowledge as a kid, so I never spoke about it from fear of being called an idiot by the other kids.
This was in an issue of EGM I swear.
The hidden naked mario in gamecube is more amazing
I wonder if it was not included the US and EU manuals because it was not widely used or acknowledged in the PS1's launch window in japan as there was a whole 10 months before the US, EU launches. They most likely removed the information from the manual during localisation to simplify it for western audiences. The other theory is that it was forgotten during localisation as to the English translators, it may have not made sense in the sentence it was in and chosen not to include it. Truth is, we may never know
I learned this from old print magazine called Tips and Tricks
How this was found
First hardcore pro gamer raging by mashing all the buttons while he had a deleted file
Oh nice. Appreciate the uploads
I knew this back in 1999, can't remember how but I mean maybe from an old games magazine.
I don't remember where I heard the delete recovery trick, but I know I heard it a long time ago. It's not undiscovered at all.
There was a mention of this in a 1998 or 1999 issue of Tips n Tricks magazine as a response to a letter from a reader
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LMFAO the is no secret I've known about this for 25 years found it in a old tips and trick mag from 25 years ago
I'm from Sweden, and I think I remember this. However, it's possible that it's a fake memory. Not sure if I've read it on some Swedish forum. I can't seem to find any by searching for it.
Have you tried Danish.
I am kidding of course.
Yeah, but, if you leave the memcard manager, it's gone permanently.
(I've seen the video as aforementioned and it was a good memory jogger)
Honestly i didn't know that card thing was a secret, we knew about it but never really used it
Nice to have a video in some form from you.
I swear I read about this from the internets some ten years ago. Could be a site that no longer exists. Like Gamewinners - YES, DID CHECK - GAMEWINNERS MENTIONS THIS (Wayback Machine is the only way to see it nowadays).
And sometimes when I read guides I feel like some obvious thing is treated like its a big secret - such as a thing with GT3 being that if it auto-loads from Memory Card Slot 1, you can later continue from a save that's in a Memory Card Slot 2 by going to the Main Menu and selecting Load Game and then going from there.
I remember I somehow recorded gameplay footage from the tv to a vhs tape as a kid, and could never replicate it
I knew about the R1,R2L1,L2, when I had my PSX. it was written in a PS magazine back than, that you could restore data. I tried it once and I'm sure that it worked. But iirc, you didn't have to press the shoulderbuttons multiple time. you only needed to press them for a bit
Awesome Video
it's a bit too later. I already almost had a stroke by accidentally deleting my Gran Turismo saves back in the time
It seems that it removes the index/flag of the file showing without deleting the entire data but leaves it just fine until something else is written on it... almost like Windows FAT manages that.
I am surprised no gaming magazine mentioned this. It appears some people did not do their homework.
I remember this trick when I was young , I liked to look at the manuals tinker with the system and open things up so I remember this back in the 90s though
The problem with looking on the internet for proof is that the internet wasn't widely used in the mid-90's. Trust me, the information about this was out there, you just had to read actual physical gaming magazines.
yeah damn right. "I googled it and nothing came up therefore it has never been discovered" come on...
But the magazines and guides were so expensive when you were a kid. And the publishers got wise and shipped them in sealed up so you couldn't just read in the store.
dedpxl I mean if you can’t find something on today’s internet it has to be pretty unknown.
It was in Japan.
The memory card trick? I remember reading that in GamePro back in the day.
maybe it's just me, but I never had a reason to delete saves in the first place.
there was rarely a game I would never want to go back to.
and it's a memory card. it's not expensive or difficult to get another one.
the biggest problem I had was the disc being too scratched to play the fmv so i couldn't progress, until i realised you can just pop the cover and close it again and it skips the cutscene.
I would like to add that European people had this disvovered time ago, it was mentioned in a magazine if i remember correctly, I at least remember to stumble on this by accident as a kid when i accidentally deleted my ff9 savefile, but for more info there's the comment section on original video showing this trick, there's a discussion there about European remembering it.
EDIT: FF9 side quest was well-known in Europe too, i still have the guide from that time mentioning it.
Media gets tailored both geographically and linguistically. You notice it a lot if you travel or are multilingual. Hell, it even happens within the same country. I've regularly seen wildly different messaging in English and French here in Canada from both corporations and political actors. While modern mass media has helped increase access between countries that share a language, language barriers can still be pretty strong (especially with wildly different languages like English and Japanese).
I'm pretty sure this was discovered years ago, back in the early 2000's. It probably just wasn't really put out there since youtube wasn't that huge yet and PS1 weren't being used as much anymore.
Like most discoveries, it doesn't really matter it was originally discovered if there is no documentation or shared understanding of the discovery. If someone discovers Atlantis tomorrow but doesn't tell anyone about it he may as well have not found it.
@@Doombacon Dude, they say it in the video itself. This wasn't a secret in Japan, and there are numerous people in the comments that learned this from the internet over a decade ago. Most of those sites are probably gone now. Just because someone noticed something lately, doesn't mean it wasn't known.
@@SladeX2000 Right, what I'm saying is that even though some people knew about it in the english speaking world, there was never a general understanding formed or documentation created to help create that understanding in the future for people. Since the discovery was never shared with the general populous it may as well have never been discovered since it needed to be discovered again to create understanding.
Thanks for info. This was something new and unknown for the majority of PS One gamers
I had so many corrupted memory cards back in the day wonder if that could have brought back many saves.
A lot of stuff is always lost in translation in all kinds of media
Lmao "john glasscock"
I'm guessing the the reason why that side quest in FF9 wasn't discovered was because the strategy guide that was released for the game was incomplete. I think it was Brady games. Back then, strat guides told you everything about a game, and since there was no updates or DLC, you could bet that it would remain that way. However, for that particular game and guide, Brady games decided to make the guide require people to also be apart of a pay content portion of the guide that was on their website "Play Online". So if you were reading the guide, you would get a little info, but then you would get to a bubble that would say something like, "Do you want to know more, Go on PlayOnline!" It made the guide worthless and it was apparent that it was a cheap cash grab by the guide company. Either way, I bet the side quest was listed there, but it wasn't in the guide.
How many people here remember how you can change the game colour on your game boy before the game loads by inputing on the dpad and a&b buttons cuz that was fun
I accidentally discovered that when I got a secret code book that covered a ton of systems, including the GBC. There was 0 mentions of it in Nintendo’s own documentation for the GBC and the GBA (since it also worked with the GBA, but had slightly different palette choices than the GBC probably due to it having more colors than the GBC). I wasn’t looking for it (I was just looking through the GBC section to see if there was anything that my games that I own had any secrets and/or codes that I never knew about.)
@@Blood-PawWerewolf true
It was an amazing little bonus for the portable devices
THAT'S WHY CRASH LOOKED TOO SMOOTH ON THE COVER ART
I actually found this in a playstation cheat book that I bought at a scholastic book day in elementary. It was listed under P for Playstation lol. You cannot recover lost data if you turn your playstation off after deleting the save. It only applies if it is deleting the file AS YOU ARE DELETING IT BEFORE IT SHRINKS INTO OBLIVION. Honestly I thought it was stupid and almost akin to playing Russian Roulette with your save files, that's probably why no one talked about that in the west.
This doesn't work on PS2 btw, I just tried it lol
Ah I was thinking the same thing
It was well known in my school at least. one french magazine (dont remember the name) talked about it. Good video tho ^^
I can confirm this was in the original manual. I did this alot as a kid.
Didn't know this at all, even here in IT/EU this wasn't written anywhere! Luckily enough I never deleted a save accidentally, but it would have been nice to know this anyway, just for safety. Thanks for telling us this wonderful feature even if 26y later!
I knew about the save recovery but i remember I was told that you won't be able to recover either after a minute or when you leave the memory card screen, something like that. I don't even remember where i learned it, its been over a decade.