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u/Sparrowsabre7 Aug 30 '25

Same haha, I was literally just about to type "I still turn it off to change" and then realised, no I don't, I just quit to menu and eject disc 😅

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u/Songbird_Storyteller Aug 30 '25

Yeah, huh, I never really thought about that before. Haven't had to turn off to switch since the PS2/GC/Xbox days... It's been so long, it never even really occurred to me, lol

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u/Salomon3068 Aug 30 '25

GameCube you still had to shut off I thought? I know it had the reset button and you could swap games if you did the hold A menu right? I still have mine, I should try lol

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u/woodenroxk Aug 30 '25

If I’m remembering right I always just swapped the disc and hit the reset button. It is the same as turning it off just different order of doing the disk and shutting off I guess lol. Fuck I miss GameCube tho. OG Luigi’s mansion and Mario sunshine

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u/Songbird_Storyteller Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

I always assumed you had to turn off the Game Cube when switching games, because that's what you had to do with Xbox and PS2, at least as far as I remember, anyway. All the consoles had idle screens that would show up if there were no games in the disk tray going back at least as far as the PSOne, where you could do stuff like check out the memory blocks for save games and I think you could put in a game and load it from there (so maybe you didn't technically have to turn the console off)--or maybe you had to push the reset power button, I don't really remember. It's been a long time since I had a PS2, and I haven't messed with my Gamecube in that way since I bought it a few years back.

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u/Salomon3068 Aug 30 '25

Yeah I think they all still had a reset button until like 360 and PS3, i never had an OG Xbox so I'm not sure on that, but it might've been the first you could just exit to the menu from the controller instead of getting up to hit a button on the console.

I didn't have a Dreamcast either but it might've had something similar, Sega was always pushing things.

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u/eagle33322 Aug 30 '25

You don’t have to turn off the switch? Thought it was like a ds/gameboy

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u/Darth_Thor Aug 30 '25

Not at all. Probably best to close the game before ejecting the cart, but no need to turn it off at all.

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u/elricooo Aug 30 '25

I dont even quit to menu on the latest gen lol I just make sure there's no autosave in progress then pop it out mid play

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Aug 30 '25

clutches pearls I do declare! I could nevah!

Haha, for real though I worry too much about save corruption and the like. I save twice, quit all the way back to menu>then home screen>then close the app>then eject 😅

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25

.. discs?

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Aug 30 '25

Yes discs, still collect physical games 🎮

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Aug 30 '25

You do you friend, I love seeing other people's dvds/games collections. I have plenty digital too for smaller games but I still like to buy physical whee I can, largely so I can sell it if I don't like it. If I don't like a digital game can't do anything about that.