How does the PS2 handle multi-disc PS1 games?

PixyJunket · 10-05-04, 01:42 PM

Does anybody know how the PS2 handles PS1 games that require you to switch discs? I never actually thought about this myself.. but the system usually resets when you press eject. I ask this because I'm translating the puzzles to a hidden game on Namco Museum 3, and one of the levels requires you to press the open button and close the lid for the treasure to appear.

I'm assuming that when the PS1 "expects" the door to be open, the PS2 will allow ejection without resetting itself.. but that doesn't make total sense because the old PS1 Boot Discs still require a flip-top lid..

Eelkram · 10-05-04, 02:18 PM

I believe it allows you to switch discs without resetting. I've done it with ff9, among other ps1 games, on my ps2.

Superboy · 10-05-04, 04:37 PM

I've done it before with my PS1 games. It's a software reset, that's why.

PixyJunket · 10-05-04, 06:23 PM

Hopefully this trick will work on a PS2. Guess I'll know when I get my game back.

wildcatlh · 10-05-04, 06:38 PM

Having re-played through FF8, FF9, and Chrono Cross on a PS2, I can tell you that there's no probelm changing discs.

10-05-04, 01:42 PM	#1
PixyJunket DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 22,542	How does the PS2 handle multi-disc PS1 games? Does anybody know how the PS2 handles PS1 games that require you to switch discs? I never actually thought about this myself.. but the system usually resets when you press eject. I ask this because I'm translating the puzzles to a hidden game on Namco Museum 3, and one of the levels requires you to press the open button and close the lid for the treasure to appear. I'm assuming that when the PS1 "expects" the door to be open, the PS2 will allow ejection without resetting itself.. but that doesn't make total sense because the old PS1 Boot Discs still require a flip-top lid.. __________________ Xbox 360: PixyJunket360 \| Wii Code: 6412 9669 8014 0667 (PM if you add me) "When it comes to XBLA games, $5 might as well be $5,000 to some folks." - FusionX ★ Download PixyJunket - Dark Sparkles HERE! ★ More songs and news HERE!

10-05-04, 04:37 PM	#3
Superboy DVD Talk Platinum Edition Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: So Cal Posts: 3,841	I've done it before with my PS1 games. It's a software reset, that's why. __________________ "We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it illegal" - Renton, Trainspotting

10-05-04, 06:23 PM	#4
PixyJunket DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 22,542	Hopefully this trick will work on a PS2. Guess I'll know when I get my game back. __________________ Xbox 360: PixyJunket360 \| Wii Code: 6412 9669 8014 0667 (PM if you add me) "When it comes to XBLA games, $5 might as well be $5,000 to some folks." - FusionX ★ Download PixyJunket - Dark Sparkles HERE! ★ More songs and news HERE!

10-05-04, 06:38 PM	#5
wildcatlh DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Work. Or commuting. Certainly not at home. Posts: 16,458	Having re-played through FF8, FF9, and Chrono Cross on a PS2, I can tell you that there's no probelm changing discs. __________________ "An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine

10-05-04, 02:18 PM	#2
Eelkram Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 92	I believe it allows you to switch discs without resetting. I've done it with ff9, among other ps1 games, on my ps2.