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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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akilshohen
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Lmao! If I was near my pc I would show I posted that last Saturday. I just couldn't find the song from ooc on youtube.
I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
Edit: It seems that it actually reads data from the memory cards to show the towers.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
Edit: It seems that it actually reads data from the memory cards to show the towers.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
If that's true, then that is incredible!!
I tried it for myself. First, I hadn't any towers. I put in a game, resetted the console after the game started and a tower was added. I inserted three more games, resetted and three more towers showed up.
Holy shit! That is fucking awesome. Almost thread-title changingly so!
Zomba13
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I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
A NEW CHALLENGER APPEARS!
I did not know that and that really is mind blowing. I love cool little touches like that. I guess I never noticed because I used to unplug the PS2 a lot.
FlutterPuffs
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I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
From what I've heard, it's up to the data in your memory card.
I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
What the actual fuck, It's true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBK6hi7JGiI
Shit, I don't have my PS2 atm to check how many towers I have.
Meccanical
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I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
wat
I knew the PS2 boot up changed over time but I never realized it was simply amount of games & time played. I think Kutaragi even said it would change at one point. I always assumed it was something random like time based or something determined by the game in the system though.
No, I had two memory cards in the console and no towers showed up when I tested it. The towers only appeared when I started some games, one tower for each game.
Edit: Actually, maybe it has something to do with the MC.
I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
Holy shitballs
Willkiller
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Thread title change imminent?
ThatObviousUser
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Or that the GameCube and Famicom startup music are the same?
There's always one. =P
I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
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I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
HOLY SHIT
thats Mind explosion status
Talladega Knight
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i knew of this as well and i've never even owned a ps2
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Correctomundo
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Just hooked up my PS2 slim to check it out. It's been unplugged for the last few months, but the memory cards were still in. When it started up, there were a bunch of towers of varying height. Pretty cool. When I removed the cards, there were no towers at start-up.
So I can at least confirm that all you need is the memory cards inserted at start-up for the slim model.
So I can at least confirm that all you need is the memory cards inserted at start-up for the slim model.
Jake Tower
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I think most of you know the PS2 Startup animation.
Did you notice these white towers, some higher than the others? That's not just nice useless eye-candy.
The towers represent games. The more games you play on the PS2, the more towers are added. The longer you play a game, the higher the tower gets.
Sometimes, it erases all towers. I think it happens when you unplug the console.
This wins the thread.
Yeah, I'm currently testing at which point the towers get erased and/or start up again. It happened to me that I got the towers erased again even though I didn't unplug the console. Combine this with the thing Correctomundo and some other people over the internet say and it seems that the Memory Card really plays a role.
I just don't know why I don't get the "tower data" from the Memory Cards. Other manufactor? Or it's because I deleted the PS2 configuration file? I know that I had the towers for a long time and then they disappeared.
Nonetheless, the tower thing is still real. I just want to know what causes the erasing of the "towers" and why my PS2 don't read the data for the towers anymore. I bet it has something to do with the config file.
RoninChaos
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My mind is more blown by the fact that SWV is still around.
Talladega Knight
Member
how about this one then: i like the way you can change the way the sparkly dots flow in the original wave theme background on the ps3. swing your dual shock left, the dots flow left, swing it right, the dots flow right.
The ps2 one is awesome ! =D
Good to see a non-nintendo mind blowing fact to balance a little xD
Z-button start-up music ?
do you mean the Z-button start-up musics ?
I guess it was not so common knowledge as you think =P
Good to see a non-nintendo mind blowing fact to balance a little xD
Z-button start-up music ?
do you mean the Z-button start-up musics ?
I guess it was not so common knowledge as you think =P
Haint
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this is nothing at all but wanted to share it, check out the weird realistic background in mario 64
I used to stare at those N64 renders as a kid and dream of playing games that looked like that. 16 years later and the closest we've come is Kameo and Banjo.
They also often had different animations when you went into the deletion dialogue. I did that on every single one just to see what it was.
Yeah, those were great. I remember the icon of Ridge Racer V being a chibi version of Reiko Nagase and if you were about to delete the save file she cried.
this is nothing at all but wanted to share it, check out the weird realistic background in mario 64
It looks like just concept art of Hazy Mazy Cave.
Tekken Tag Tournament had a little Ling Xiayou. If you tried to delete the save, she'd cry.
Version 3.0
Member
Yeah, I knew that, too. Pretty sure Sony told us about that themselves, back around launch.
yeah i know, it just looks uber realistic. like if there was concept art of mario in mario galaxy it wouldnt be realistic, it would be mario-cartoony with aliasing and all that/.
lol, thinking back this seems to have been a popular one. DMC1 also had a chibi Trish who would cry if you threatened to delete her.
HA HA That's awesome.
It's these small touches that I appreciate in games. I actually check the memory icon for all my games just to see which developers put care and attention into all aspects of their game.