I read a tech support story about an old man who kept bringing his PC into a shop because it wouldn't start, but every time they tested it at the shop, it started up no problem. It wasn't until the tech went to the guy's house and found out he was plugging in a USB floppy drive that he was using for an archival project before he turned it on that they figured out the problem. Windows prioritizes booting from floppy drives over anything else since that was common in the old days, quick change to some bios settings and he was good to go. Lesson is, if someone says they're having weird tech issues, believe them, especially with old tech. Even knowing that though, I don't think I would have suspected the memory card messing with the controller.
@@ConnorsGameRoom it’s one of those things that actually make sense once you actually know what’s going on, but prior to that it’s a complete mind-f**ck
I modded thousands of these back in the day and I found it funny that you started the video showing Tekken 2 because that was the first game I burned when I was testing everything out.
He talked about Will It Blend like he was a father describing an obscure 80's TV show. I was so confused until I realized: WILL IT BLEND IS ALMOST 19 YEARS OLD
@@tyjuarez thanks! The refresh rate actually changes depending on what system/game you’re playing. Also, “properly’ filming CRT’s involves a ton of other stuff I don’t really bother to do 😂
That memory card you showed us at the beginning looked really fake, even though it had the logos. Also I had a generic memory card and controller, which messed up my fist PS1 and my friend's PS1. We returned the PS1 and got a new one. I didn't use third party stuff afterwards.
Yep, the memory cards are maybe sharing some lines with the controllers, so a Memory Card short-circuiting something in the controllers makes total sense. Third party memory cards are a scourge, rarely worth the cost. A MemCardPro would solve the problem forever. :D
I just have a bunch of spare memory cards for a bunch of systems to swap out. And honestly this is the first failure I’ve actually witnessed first hand.
I remember that kind of memory cards quite well in thailand like, you buy Ps1 with mod chip + 2 memory card + 2 controller + 10 games but lower cost than Sony shop them self try very hard tosale original Ps1 to you.. is too good to be true, FYi . it will last about a month depend on sunlight condition in your room (yes, UV light kill eeprom under black plastic blob )
@@koojaba5911 Yeah, pretty much how it worked here too. Pirated games and mod chips were being sold out in the open. Third party accessories, like I said, worked reasonably well for the most part, but are not meant to last years/decades.
Had a buddy who's Dad taught English in Thailand, every school holidays he would come back with a suitcase filled with "silver" PS1 games from Thai marketplaces. It was awesome. I still have a couple he gave me, but the quality varied of course, I remember Fighting force would lock up a few levels in, but once randomly worked so I could play the whole thing lol.
If you accidentally delete your data on your memory card at the PlayStation 1 memory card screen and if you press start and select it'll come right back
What I experienced was that the max Memory 32MB memory card became corrupted and never could work again and lost all my save files on it. Used it on my ps2 for my games. That's the worst I experienced with a memory card.
This happened to me a couple of months after I got my PS. I thought I'd save some money on a third party memory card but that turned out to be a bad decision. Back then I assumed that Sony put some kind of feature in the PS1 that would detect and disable unofficial peripherals.
Yeah, not something I’d care to bother in this case, but if it was something crucial, I guess you could desolder the old eprom, if it hasn’t shat its pants already.
20ish years ago I had an "Interact" brand card that would do the same thing. Odly enough, This issue started after I got to the end of spryro the dragon. You mentioned that your friend was playing that game wehn this happened. I wonder if our experiences are related.
Your PS1 is still in great working order. At this point, you had to have recapped it. I can see you're tech savvy, so it's clear that you know how to maintain it. Thankfully, PS1 is one of the consoles you can replace the laser assembly on when it dies, because there are options to buy online. My only question is, for the sake of preserving your original games, have you considered an ODE mod?
@@IsaacG8 All of the power supply caps on all my ps1 systems (and I have a few of them) are still in good condition. When you have as much old tech as I have, recapping all of them is a very slow process and the ps1 definitely isn’t on top of the list. I did replace the laser on one of them I think. They are also modded, and I very often play burned copies of my own games, so I don’t really feel the need an ODE/other ps1 game loaders. They’re honestly all kinda pricey, and I don’t need them. Most of my other systems (GC/PS2/handhelds etc.) are modded to load roms from usb/sd card, just because it’s cheap and/or simple.
if it was some kind of short then it'd blow a fuse on the motherboard, I had a controller do that when I had it open. a repair guy fixed it and I didn't mess with it again.
It's not just off brand cards that drove me mad it's the Sony ones too I never beat final fantasy 7 I've reached disc 3, 3 times and the my memory cards would always give up the ghost. You have know idea how disappointing that could be wanting to know what happens next after putting so much time into game.
Ugh, yikes, that’s like a legitimate fear I have when playing games on older systems, even newer ones. Had a ps4 with a random HDD error, which required me to reinstall the firmware as I was in the middle of RE2 playthrough. Thankfully I haven’t progressed that far.
PSX Value pack was a godsend over here, Console 2 controllers and a MEMORY CARD! Also Side note, I had a 1st edition with the I/O port on the rear and the Alternate button markings, grieves me to this day I ever got rid of that thing, But a PS2 was a PS2
Yep, these ones are also the versions with the I/O port. You can actually find them still quite cheap, probably one of the easiest systems to still get, as well as the PS2
euro cases on ps1 games always look weird to me as an American lol cool and i think something like this happend to me sometime around late 1999 - early 2000 and i think it perm broke the ps1 as even after it was removed the controllers never worked lucky i got the ps1 from gamestop and i had a warranty
US cases on ps1 games always looks weird to me as a gamer from Europe lol... I mean you had the bathroom equipment SNES, a Mega Drive with a biblical name and a Dreamcast swirl of orange/red!
@@SproutyPottedPlant ill agree the euro snes looks better. tho i think genesis rolls of the tongue better then mega drive plus the added bonus of making the bible thump-er 90s moms mad XD.
Neki moj drugar mi je je imao third party karticu koja mu je cuvala progress samo dok je konzola bila upaljena znaci da nije nikako mogla da cuva posle gasenja konzole. A sto se tice teskih slucajeva ja sam imao dzojstik koji je mogao da mi "zaledi" ps1 i da disable-je memory card port na ps2 xD
Really sketchy 3rd party 1MB Memory Cards for PS1 are often only 256/512k in size. I had one of these and it would overwrite previous saves after a certain point
@@mer2329 There wasn’t anything really important on that card. It’s very likely the eprom itself was the culprit. Why ruin a second working memory card?
*"GENERERIC"* Or "AfterMarket" MemoryCards Can Be "Wonky". *DiablO* Taught Me That. (Mine Would Only Saved to The "NameBrand" PlayStationCard I Had...Yet EveryBody Else's "Generic" PS-1 MemoryCards Saved *"DiablO"* Files Just Fine.🤷) The "ViewtifulJoe2" Demo Almost Deleted My *DiablO* Save Files! (I Had a HDD in My PS2, So I Backed-Up My *DiablO* Card...Due to O.C.D.)
@@schvabek Dude, c’mon. It’s clear as day that you said point not twenty. There’s two syllables and no plosive in twenty. It’s ok though, just didn’t make sense.
I read a tech support story about an old man who kept bringing his PC into a shop because it wouldn't start, but every time they tested it at the shop, it started up no problem. It wasn't until the tech went to the guy's house and found out he was plugging in a USB floppy drive that he was using for an archival project before he turned it on that they figured out the problem. Windows prioritizes booting from floppy drives over anything else since that was common in the old days, quick change to some bios settings and he was good to go.
Lesson is, if someone says they're having weird tech issues, believe them, especially with old tech. Even knowing that though, I don't think I would have suspected the memory card messing with the controller.
@@ConnorsGameRoom it’s one of those things that actually make sense once you actually know what’s going on, but prior to that it’s a complete mind-f**ck
It's not Windows (or any OS) that prioritize (or control) device boot order, it's the BIOS that does that.
I mean it was common sense in the 90s that your BIOS would boot directly to your A: drive. Nathan Lineback even satirized it.
I modded thousands of these back in the day and I found it funny that you started the video showing Tekken 2 because that was the first game I burned when I was testing everything out.
I’d say Tekken 3 was infinitely more popular here where I am, but Tekken 2 still kicks ass
The man was losing it and got dissed for it nonstop😂
Nah he’s good ❤️😂
He talked about Will It Blend like he was a father describing an obscure 80's TV show. I was so confused until I realized: WILL IT BLEND IS ALMOST 19 YEARS OLD
@@ENNEN420 just let that sink in man 😂
Will It Blend! Yes! Memory card smoke... don't breathe this!
God, that's a blast from the past. Watched those videos all the time as a kid. An amazing channel, and one that I'll always love.
@@MrMegaManFan hey, glad people remembered 😁
Will It Blend worked so good because it's a highly engineered, 1500 watt machine.
PAL PS1 cases look so weird, because America just used standard CD-ROM jewel cases like music CDs used.
I don’t know, I really like the thicker PS1 cases 🤷♂️
They needed to be thick, manuals were thick multi language, sometimes up to 6 languages.
recent cleaned out my parents shed to find a ps1 without any controllers, I should give it a clean someday
@@BrainDamageIV absolutely man! 🤟
beautiful monitor, would love to see what it looks like with the camera locked to a 1/50 shutter speed so it's synced.
@@tyjuarez thanks! The refresh rate actually changes depending on what system/game you’re playing. Also, “properly’ filming CRT’s involves a ton of other stuff I don’t really bother to do 😂
That memory card you showed us at the beginning looked really fake, even though it had the logos. Also I had a generic memory card and controller, which messed up my fist PS1 and my friend's PS1. We returned the PS1 and got a new one. I didn't use third party stuff afterwards.
Nope, the first one is original and complete in box.
Yep, the memory cards are maybe sharing some lines with the controllers, so a Memory Card short-circuiting something in the controllers makes total sense.
Third party memory cards are a scourge, rarely worth the cost.
A MemCardPro would solve the problem forever. :D
I just have a bunch of spare memory cards for a bunch of systems to swap out. And honestly this is the first failure I’ve actually witnessed first hand.
I remember that kind of memory cards quite well in thailand like, you buy Ps1 with mod chip + 2 memory card + 2 controller + 10 games but lower cost than Sony shop them self try very hard tosale original Ps1 to you.. is too good to be true, FYi . it will last about a month depend on sunlight condition in your room (yes, UV light kill eeprom under black plastic blob )
@@koojaba5911 Yeah, pretty much how it worked here too. Pirated games and mod chips were being sold out in the open. Third party accessories, like I said, worked reasonably well for the most part, but are not meant to last years/decades.
Had a buddy who's Dad taught English in Thailand, every school holidays he would come back with a suitcase filled with "silver" PS1 games from Thai marketplaces. It was awesome. I still have a couple he gave me, but the quality varied of course, I remember Fighting force would lock up a few levels in, but once randomly worked so I could play the whole thing lol.
Loved it! Just ignore the haters.
@@NaoPb thanks man ❤️
First time I've ever heard of being gaslighted by a memory card, but you made it pay! That was awesome!
@@dans8287 haha, glad you enjoyed that man! 😂❤️
I'll give you a good one I discovered by accident Certain PS1 Gameshark codes will erase a PS1 memory card.
Oh man, it must’ve sucked to find that out 😂
The will it blend reference made me so happy and feel old at the same time
Yeah, I felt even older after actually looking up when it came out on YT
@schvabek now I checked it 💀 on the bright side the guy is still alive and well
If you accidentally delete your data on your memory card at the PlayStation 1 memory card screen and if you press start and select it'll come right back
@@mushra50 As a kid I don’t think I’ve ever messed with the memory card menu, it just looked scary as heck lol
I'm guessing the blob is the controller chip and it might be the problem so it is pretty much dead on repairs.
Unless you have like some REALLY important save files, these things are not really worth repairing imo
What I experienced was that the max Memory 32MB memory card became corrupted and never could work again and lost all my save files on it. Used it on my ps2 for my games. That's the worst I experienced with a memory card.
yap longer, people love story, one of the wisdoms my father gave me.
@@LeonTichy glad you liked it man
lmfaoo this guy really went allout will it blend mode on us, legendary
This happened to me a couple of months after I got my PS. I thought I'd save some money on a third party memory card but that turned out to be a bad decision. Back then I assumed that Sony put some kind of feature in the PS1 that would detect and disable unofficial peripherals.
Nah, as far as I can tell, it happens with original ones too. This one is actually quite old, 20+ years old, so it’s not that I blame her
wow and peace be upon you sir from me and zamzam water
Thanks man! ❤️🤟
Yeah this happened to me in my youth. Also had a jumper pack for Dreamcast that corrupted vmu saves.
Damn, hope you didn’t have anything too too important on them
@schvabek I can't remember it was years ago. I do have Crash Team Racing funny complete. I think that save it still lingering around.
My card stopped responding and it had very similar construction - so at least I have managed to retrieve my old savegames with EEPROM programmer.
Yeah, not something I’d care to bother in this case, but if it was something crucial, I guess you could desolder the old eprom, if it hasn’t shat its pants already.
It's that time of the week!!
@@pureblackbishop heck yeah man! Get your beverage ready
@schvabek 😎all set
winter break ??? 😎😎😎😎
20ish years ago I had an "Interact" brand card that would do the same thing. Odly enough, This issue started after I got to the end of spryro the dragon. You mentioned that your friend was playing that game wehn this happened. I wonder if our experiences are related.
Your PS1 is still in great working order. At this point, you had to have recapped it. I can see you're tech savvy, so it's clear that you know how to maintain it. Thankfully, PS1 is one of the consoles you can replace the laser assembly on when it dies, because there are options to buy online.
My only question is, for the sake of preserving your original games, have you considered an ODE mod?
@@IsaacG8 All of the power supply caps on all my ps1 systems (and I have a few of them) are still in good condition. When you have as much old tech as I have, recapping all of them is a very slow process and the ps1 definitely isn’t on top of the list. I did replace the laser on one of them I think. They are also modded, and I very often play burned copies of my own games, so I don’t really feel the need an ODE/other ps1 game loaders. They’re honestly all kinda pricey, and I don’t need them. Most of my other systems (GC/PS2/handhelds etc.) are modded to load roms from usb/sd card, just because it’s cheap and/or simple.
if it was some kind of short then it'd blow a fuse on the motherboard, I had a controller do that when I had it open. a repair guy fixed it and I didn't mess with it again.
It's not just off brand cards that drove me mad it's the Sony ones too I never beat final fantasy 7 I've reached disc 3, 3 times and the my memory cards would always give up the ghost. You have know idea how disappointing that could be wanting to know what happens next after putting so much time into game.
Ugh, yikes, that’s like a legitimate fear I have when playing games on older systems, even newer ones. Had a ps4 with a random HDD error, which required me to reinstall the firmware as I was in the middle of RE2 playthrough. Thankfully I haven’t progressed that far.
PSX Value pack was a godsend over here, Console 2 controllers and a MEMORY CARD! Also Side note, I had a 1st edition with the I/O port on the rear and the Alternate button markings, grieves me to this day I ever got rid of that thing, But a PS2 was a PS2
Yep, these ones are also the versions with the I/O port. You can actually find them still quite cheap, probably one of the easiest systems to still get, as well as the PS2
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"I said a hip hop, the hippie to the hippie, to the hip, hip hop, and you don't stop!" 😄
@@thethriftyfawn Is that you doing a happy dance? 😁😂
@@schvabek Yup! And implying that YOU don't stop uploading to youtube, because you're AWESOME!
"The rockin to the bang bang boogie say up jump the boogie to the rythm of the boogie the beat"
@XeroCool420 👏👏👏 ICONIC.
STARS
That gave me the chills as a kid.
old games are simple and fun, modern ones uh not so fun, rage, competitive nerds and stuff.
Not sure I agree with you, I really like some of the newer titles, as well as remakes.
@schvabek ik not all but most of mordern one especially multiplayer ones are
euro cases on ps1 games always look weird to me as an American lol cool and i think something like this happend to me sometime around late 1999 - early 2000 and i think it perm broke the ps1 as even after it was removed the controllers never worked lucky i got the ps1 from gamestop and i had a warranty
@@thegodgen Yeah, but hey, they’re not that different. PS2 games, those I like quite a bit better over in the States.
US cases on ps1 games always looks weird to me as a gamer from Europe lol... I mean you had the bathroom equipment SNES, a Mega Drive with a biblical name and a Dreamcast swirl of orange/red!
@@SproutyPottedPlant ill agree the euro snes looks better. tho i think genesis rolls of the tongue better then mega drive plus the added bonus of making the bible thump-er 90s moms mad XD.
Neki moj drugar mi je je imao third party karticu koja mu je cuvala progress samo dok je konzola bila upaljena znaci da nije nikako mogla da cuva posle gasenja konzole. A sto se tice teskih slucajeva ja sam imao dzojstik koji je mogao da mi "zaledi" ps1 i da disable-je memory card port na ps2 xD
Lol, odlično 😂 Evo, sad znaš i zašto, taj cijeli memorijski/kontroler modul je na istom vodu, pa te totalno može sjebat
Probaly the original ps controllers would have worked...
@@EricM-112 nope, tried that too. PS2 controllers are also fully backwards compatible
Really sketchy 3rd party 1MB Memory Cards for PS1 are often only 256/512k in size. I had one of these and it would overwrite previous saves after a certain point
Haha, that sucks man! This one didn’t state its eprom size on the actual thing, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually was lower capacity.
your such a waste of time and toke way to long just to say the memory card doesn't let controllers work holy
Warned you buddy 😂
why not try and move the memory module over to a different mem card? this way your friend might be able to keep their saves
@@mer2329 There wasn’t anything really important on that card. It’s very likely the eprom itself was the culprit. Why ruin a second working memory card?
*"GENERERIC"* Or "AfterMarket" MemoryCards Can Be "Wonky".
*DiablO* Taught Me That.
(Mine Would Only Saved to The "NameBrand" PlayStationCard I Had...Yet EveryBody Else's "Generic" PS-1 MemoryCards Saved *"DiablO"* Files Just Fine.🤷)
The "ViewtifulJoe2" Demo Almost Deleted My *DiablO* Save Files!
(I Had a HDD in My PS2, So I Backed-Up My *DiablO* Card...Due to O.C.D.)
This turned out to be my problem too!
Hopefully you figured out what the issue was
2:02 “this is a GameCube memory card with 1.8 megs of space for example”….huh?
I’ve said one twenty eight megs
@@schvabek Dude, c’mon. It’s clear as day that you said point not twenty. There’s two syllables and no plosive in twenty. It’s ok though, just didn’t make sense.
@@FunningRast why would I say one point eight?
Oh yeah, you can also turn on auto captions, they also say 128 megs, so you must’ve misheard that
Mogli ste testirati onaj 7805 regulator, i zamjeniti onih par malih kondenzatora, stvar bi možda proradila.
@@themrworf1701 a možda i ne bi 😂 zamjenska kartica ista takva košta 5 eura.
Some Hired Comment Robots 😂
@detirei Not sure what you mean.
@@schvabek ok I Thing that the youtube UI glitched
@detireiagain, couldn’t really understand what you meant. Cheers man! 🤟
Time for new vid,ps, is that real!?
@@WinOneq oh yeah! 😂
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