What other format does the PS1 use? (hint, PS1 is a CD only machine as DVD's were created a year after it launched - so obviously they were cd format.)
I get that, I was really only saying I have read in various places that the lasers in both the ps1 and ps2 had trouble reading discs of the same colour...I could have sworn I read that the disc colour itself is what caused the trouble (reflectiveness) with the laser. A quick google search on this turns up multiple threads. p.s. I could be totally wrong...
i know that ! i said comparing the colors and ps1 also plays VCDs on certain models and modified consoles if you are trying to troll me you are failing worse then a 5 year old with ABCD etc
VCD is still a CD... with video on it... I dont get your point, the PS1 only reads CD's. The PS1 could have 300 different colour discs, but they will all be CD. You very clearly said "do you think the blue ps1 discs were cd format ?" It doesnt matter what colour it is, the PS1 only reads CD's - by the process of only having 1 option, yes, they are CD format. I do not have to troll you, your original post makes no sense and your follow up makes even less. Good work.
Do not live in NTSC land, do not have any NTSC discs. But what does that have to do with anything I have said? ....Seriously? your ABCD post was better than this one and even that was terrible (protip, 5 year olds can do ABCD no problem - which means you just told me im failing worse than someone not failing..... Nice one).
blue ps1 discs are not normal in terms of quantity. stacks of them, you're lucky to find any. Nothing directly. It'd just be for research purposes.
Your run on sentences completely lacking punctuation and capitalization just make me skim over them. And it looks like you're making superfluous posts to pad your post count or you're too lazy to simply edit what you've already posted. One is a rules violation and the other is just going to win you disfavor. Triple question makes makes anything invalid.
That's fine man, I wasn't trying to correct you only adding to what you said. Also, Playstation could use VCDs only thing is you needed this model: Also was there an adaptor for VCD like Saturn? I know the serial port was on the playstation to a certain model... I'm not 100% I'm not a Playstation beast lol
Indeed no official/licensed VCD adapter was released (and probably not even manufactured). All VCD adapters out there occupy both the Serial and Parallel port. These ports were in all PS1 fat models prior to SCPH-9XXX. There was only 1 PS1 model officially compatible with VCD (SCPH-5502 IIRC) and was only released in Korea.
wasn't their also a modchip that allowed VCD's to run, sure it was in the PSone (little one), i know it definitely had a built in action replay and movie viewer (for some psx games with .str movies) and im sure it played VCD's too but maybe im wrong it was about 13 years ago
This is definitely true from first hand experience. I happened to have 2 PS2 games that were blue discs, and as my first PS2's laser was crapping out, these games became the first to have major disc read errors. 4x4 Evo was one of em'... Forget the other. They really do require a pristine laser.
The color of the discs doesn't really have to do with how well they can be read. The laser can't see what color it is. It's all about how well the surface works as a lens for the laser and then how well the reflective layer, reflects. PS2 CD-ROM games were blue tinted on the bottom. This didn't make them harder to read. They have this reputation because alot of PS2's had optical drives that failed. I would bet the reason people had trouble reading CDs more often could be related to DVD having better error correction. Either way, I can assure you lasers can't see colors. Now if someone has a reason why the coloring of the bottom would affect how the surface works as a lens or interferes with the reflective layer do share. But I don't think that Sony would be so stupid as to do something to the discs that would introduce reading issues. The had that covered with optical assemblies built to fail. And personally I've never seen any PS1 official discs with bottom layers any other color than black. But then again I didn't buy every single PS1 game.
Just a side note : The color of any CD or DVD or any media of the type it is just a DYE added during production, the fact that a blue CD or silver DVD working or not on your ps2 has nothing to do with the color it was the media type. I myself have four (4) different PS1 games that are blue on the bottom (one is a game shark so it doesn't count) the others are two official demo discs and one game, they are harder to find but by no means are valued more then a standard color ps1 disc. Also the color of the disc's bottom would not effect the "laser" of the PlayStation anymore then a grey or gold cartridge would effect the N64.
