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This looks more like FFVII.css? There wasn't really a unifying UI on the PS1 anyway except for the BIOS The cursor here seems inspired by it: https://www.yout

This looks more like FFVII.css? There wasn't really a unifying UI on the PS1 anyway except for the BIOS The cursor here seems inspired by it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0

Narishma 4y ago
Even the BIOS had different UIs depending on the model.
- thomond 4y ago
  My favourite is the UI used by emulators today, it's so ugly: https://fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/images/epsxe-memory-card4-th.png https://fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/images/epsxe-memory-card4-t...
  - doubled112 4y ago
    Makes sense that it is the UI used by one of the PlayStation BIOSes. I really liked the visualizations built in as a kid. It was my CD player for years.
    - jermaustin1 4y ago
      Same, the PS had a better CD player than windows did. Hell, I don't think I had a CD-ROM in my PC when we first got a PS, but that might just be my memory failing after 30 years.
    - nebula8804 4y ago
      The PSX "Sound Scope" was introduced a bit after halfway through the lifespan of the PSX models SCPH-7000 and up.
    - jamal-kumar 4y ago
      I seem to remember being able to pop in playstation CDs into CD players and it'd play the game music
      - space_ghost 4y ago
        Many PS1 games stored their soundtrack as normal CD audio tracks on the same disk. The first track would contain the game data, additional tracks were music.
        doubled112 4y ago
        This was a fun trick, but may $DEITY have mercy on your eardrums if your volume was up, headphones were on, and you accidentally played the data track.
        JohnBooty 4y ago
        This was super common in early games but was almost unheard of by approximately midway through the PS1 lifecycle. I think the biggest reason was the desire to cram more data onto the disk. Uncompressed redbook CD audio fills up your whole disc... fast. It's also hard (impossible? I think?) to do seamless looping playback with CD audio if you're just streaming redbook because the laser has to seek back to the beginning of the track. This is a common issue in games where the background music for a level might be e.g. 1:30 of looping music. Lastly, storing naked redbook audio on the discs may have been been seen as affecting game CD soundtrack sales, which were often a pretty big deal in Japan.
  - Narishma 4y ago
    Emulators just run the BIOS ROM you give them. You'll get different UIs depending on which BIOS version you have.
  - addandsubtract 4y ago
    This is the UI I had in my original PS1. Never knew they updated it for the PSone.
    - thomond 4y ago
      It looks like something someone threw together with placeholder images in a day. The one I remember was alot more boring though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0 (I had an EU PS1 bought ~1997)
      - matheusmoreira 4y ago
        This is the interface my console had. Much nicer than the blueish one in my opinion.
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matheusmoreira 4y ago
The containers are definitely FF7 text boxes. The progress bars are MGS health bars. So comfy.

Narishma 4y ago

Even the BIOS had different UIs depending on the model.

thomond 4y ago
My favourite is the UI used by emulators today, it's so ugly: https://fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/images/epsxe-memory-card4-th.png https://fantasyanime.com/emuhelp/images/epsxe-memory-card4-t...
- doubled112 4y ago
  Makes sense that it is the UI used by one of the PlayStation BIOSes. I really liked the visualizations built in as a kid. It was my CD player for years.
  - jermaustin1 4y ago
    Same, the PS had a better CD player than windows did. Hell, I don't think I had a CD-ROM in my PC when we first got a PS, but that might just be my memory failing after 30 years.
  - nebula8804 4y ago
    The PSX "Sound Scope" was introduced a bit after halfway through the lifespan of the PSX models SCPH-7000 and up.
  - jamal-kumar 4y ago
    I seem to remember being able to pop in playstation CDs into CD players and it'd play the game music
    - space_ghost 4y ago
      Many PS1 games stored their soundtrack as normal CD audio tracks on the same disk. The first track would contain the game data, additional tracks were music.
      - doubled112 4y ago
        This was a fun trick, but may $DEITY have mercy on your eardrums if your volume was up, headphones were on, and you accidentally played the data track.
      - JohnBooty 4y ago
        This was super common in early games but was almost unheard of by approximately midway through the PS1 lifecycle. I think the biggest reason was the desire to cram more data onto the disk. Uncompressed redbook CD audio fills up your whole disc... fast. It's also hard (impossible? I think?) to do seamless looping playback with CD audio if you're just streaming redbook because the laser has to seek back to the beginning of the track. This is a common issue in games where the background music for a level might be e.g. 1:30 of looping music. Lastly, storing naked redbook audio on the discs may have been been seen as affecting game CD soundtrack sales, which were often a pretty big deal in Japan.
- Narishma 4y ago
  Emulators just run the BIOS ROM you give them. You'll get different UIs depending on which BIOS version you have.
- addandsubtract 4y ago
  This is the UI I had in my original PS1. Never knew they updated it for the PSone.
  - thomond 4y ago
    It looks like something someone threw together with placeholder images in a day. The one I remember was alot more boring though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jZ0DxwRm-0 (I had an EU PS1 bought ~1997)
    - matheusmoreira 4y ago
      This is the interface my console had. Much nicer than the blueish one in my opinion.

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matheusmoreira 4y ago

The containers are definitely FF7 text boxes. The progress bars are MGS health bars. So comfy.