Back when optical disks were more common mediums for video games

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And the PS2 slim.

    Based on my limited understanding, Sony didn’t make the drive ejection controls available to game developers. Maybe clever hackers could do it nowadays since the PS2 in particular has had its system architecture analyzed down to the molecular level. It’s probably not a good idea to tie the progress if your program execution to it, though, because of the above. Hardware revisions could change at any time.