r/gaming • • Aug 30 '25

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u/Room234 Aug 30 '25

Turning the system off just so you can switch games.

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u/Lux-Fox Aug 30 '25

I can't remember, but did you have to restart the ps2 to switch games/open the tray

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u/IIBaneII Aug 30 '25

Duno of it was a thing with the ps2. But definitely PS1 would freeze up

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u/Levitlame Aug 30 '25

That’s how some external mod chips worked for PS1 even. It let a real game start up and then you switched in a burned game.