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The original PlayStation startup has and always will be the best console startup of all time
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*cough cough* GameCube startup *cough cough*
Sega !!!!
Instead of getting into arguments about which ones are the best, because the ‘best’ ones are going to be most nostalgic, or consoles that people put the most time into…
…which startups were the worst?
…A tornado flew around my room before you came
excuse the mess it made
it usually doesn’t rain in
Southern California
Much like Arizona
My eyes don’t shed tears but boy they pour when…
PS1 intro takes me back to FF7
PS2 intro takes me back to Nba Street Vol 2 & GTA 3
Ooof. Now I have to start another playthrough of Final Fantasy Tactics.
Aerith lives.
I like the GameCube and Xbox OG ones myself.
“Go to bed!”
“Okay!…”
*forget to mute TV*
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It’s like I can hear it when I see the picture.
To me it’s the soft flute at the end that really makes it. It starts with a heavy, futuristic, electronic sound that could honestly come from anywhere in the world, and ends with a quiet homage to its Japanese roots. It’s such a nice touch.
[Nostalgic crossover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLq_P0K4jvA)
The PS1 is probably the best, but my personal favorite will always be the original xbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ebJZUOtL8
Brings back the silent hill game for me mostly!
We used to go to my cousins house to play PlayStation and he did NOT take care of his game disc. Those things used to be scratched to hell and back.
If it couldn’t read the disc, it would just sit on that first white Sony screen and freeze. There was always a “hold your breath” moment waiting for the transition to the black PlayStation screen.
Hadn’t thought about that in years but just had that same feeling watching this video again.
That’s beautiful <3
I know we’re talking gaming systems, but [the Windows 95 opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0&ab_channel=Ballyweg) has always been my favorite.
Always getting that feeling of dread after the startups when you had a scratchy disc.
Saturn one was way better
I remember waking up in the middle of the night well I was supposed to be asleep and when I’d go to turn the system on it would be louder then hell and wake the whole house up.
Legend Of The Dragoon memories coming back.
I never owned a PS1, and really only got into playstation with the 4. This still manages to feel nostalgic as hell. Maybe just the occasional playing at a friend’s house, or the games of that era.
que recuerdos
when i first got a playstation the only game i had was “bravo air race” which i must have put thousands of hours into.
Turn on ps1….go make a sandwich
To get a good job*
You can get a start up for the PS4 that copies the ps1, it’s pretty cool to hear that sound then launch into Wipeout Omega and realise it’s been over 25 years…
I’m biased for the PS2
Uhhh the nostalgia. Thanks for sharing.
Between scratched discs, a fucked up console and having to play in short spurts because I was constantly getting interrupted, I heard this intro SOOOOOO many times and it was always a dopamine hit, even when I was restarting a game for the 14th time trying to push past the scratches.
Yes! And it is technically amazing too!
The first part of the sound is produced live by the hardware synth/sampler chip as the BIOS starts up. It contains many different instrument voices that are mixed together and the system will modify the sound dynamically based on how long it takes to spin up the disc and read the bootloader.
Then, without missing a single sample of sound, the control of the sound-chip and the rest of the system is handed over to the bootloader on the disc and it is responsible for playing the second part while the screen (typically) fades to the PlayStation logo on a black background.
While many games never used the synth chip with it’s characteristic sound for more than these few seconds during boot, opting instead to use CD audio while actually playing the game, some went all-out on it – like FF7.
That startup screen will forever be a testimony to how very thoroughly designed the PS1 experience was.
People have even noticed that Sony managed to sneak in minor differences in BIOS firmware versions so they produce an ever so slightly different version of the first part of the sound, while different bootloaders would sometimes do variations to the second part as well. There is a whole collection of them on YouTube now, allowing you to determine what kind of PS1 was used to boot the disc.
Interestingly one specific variation even got a name! The sound that the system makes as it crashes on certain discs is called “Personified fear”. In this you can hear the longest possible first part of the sound, followed by all of the voices of the second part played on top of each other as the system crashes:
Try to listen to OPs version and then this to hear the difference
https://youtu.be/SJ92RVruaxs
I always remember that sound coming on, and I’d be scrambling to hit the volume down on the tv so I wouldn’t wake the parents. There would always be that input lag before the volume actually begins loading too.
Think I like the game cube one better.
I always love the “SEGA” at the start of Sonic (1) on genesis/megadrive.
Fun fact: The sound file for the word “SEGA” was larger than the whole game.
for me followed by this…[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaBvHqMWyxI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaBvHqMWyxI)