Be honest, were these a good game format?

Be honest, were these a good game format?

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I thought they looked cool. I liked how small they were.

everything about them other than how fragile they were was great

Yea, It was neat.

Not really

No. Especially not for a handheld. The PSP is so fucking ungodly loud when playing them.

and slow and noisy

No, they had all the problems of optical media in a traditional console with the added downside of being a handheld platform that isn't perfectly still.

That and the games weren't any cheaper for it...

>had some space
>was just fast enough to load shit
>durable, suited for portability
it was great concept at the time, when SD cards were still expensive

not to mention if they'd use sdcards, they couldn't charge five times as much for their memory format

Remember UMB movies?

When I first got it I spent 20 minutes trying to open the plastic and take the disc out. Had no idea.

Fuck no.

Slow, loud, and most importantly, unnecessary drain on the battery to power a drive motor.

Solid state media is the only logical choice for portable devices.

Not really
>Case breaks easy
>Discs more fragile than normal discs
>Read / seek speed were pretty slow
>Noisy
>Motor takes a significant hit to the battery


Given it was nice to be able to fit more data on them for cheaper considering the state of flash memory at the time of launch, but that quickly changed after a couple years.

Plus it took up a shitload of space so the psp ended up being bigger than it needed to be.

Nah. Cute af tho

Slow loading times and excessively long seek times for random data were good?
Noise was good?
Battery drain was good?
The bulky size was good?
The excessive price considering they're just optical media was good?

UMD was shit.
Even Sony knew it was shit, even before the launched the PSP they knew it was shit, otherwise they wouldn't have added the ability to run games from memory stick...

UMD was there for antipiracy only and it failed spectacularly at that anyway.

>lets make a portable handheld with moving parts inside of it

what the fuck was sony thinking?

I bought steamboy on UMD for a dollar, new, years ago at a big lots.

>pop in sample umd
>play this

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Probably the worst.

I'm surprised the PSP even sold as much as it did with this shitty decision

At the time it was the better solution compared to very little space like the DS gave.

Do you know how expensive 1GB of flash memory was in 2004? UMDs held 1.4GB I think.

I had the UMD with the 5 family guy episodes on it

My copy of Dracula X Chronicles has a "movie" mark on the UMD case (on OP's pic, see down right and you'll see a dualshock icon, which means it's a game disc, but my DXC has a movie icon).

I think UMDs were just Sony trying to force another format, like they did before with mini-discs.
UMD never really catched on because I don't think they used them on anything other than the PSP. And then they released the PSPGo which didn't have a disc drive.

I guess for the time it was OK, but I prefer cards like on DS or Vita.

My PSP included UMB lords of dogtown

I like the concept of a DVD usable in a protective plastic casing like a floppy.

Same, I felt like such an idiot.

>not playing this
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My sister worked at a game store and didn't know what these were, so when she bought them from customers she would pop them open.

Oh yeah, they were excellent, and that's why they're still in use today.

DUDE YOU DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE TO OPEN IT UP LMAO
DUDE JUST POP THAT SHIT IN LMAO

LOOKING BACK AT ME I SEE THAT I NEVER REALLY GOT IT RIGHT

I NEVER STOPPED TO THINK OF YOU

Serves that business right for hiring females who don't know fucking shit

heres a little throwback

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I watched a few movies on umd, i didn't hate it at the time.

I fucking love this song. I don't know why it feels so old and underrated though. It's like a decade old tops.

Sonygger meme confirmed.

....
This desu. They deserve everything they hired.

I'd rather sacrifice storage space for stability, better load times, shitty pricing, and a quieter system. Which is probably a large reason the DS was a massive success in comparison.

It would have been neat a generation before its conception. By the time it came out, solid state storage became cheap enough to outdo it in every regard.

Cheap as shit.
>bbbut something something usb flash drive cost i remember from 2004 that was a single unit at retail

Protip: Carts don't use 'flash' they aren't programmable - carts are almost universally Mask rom - which is cheap as shit provided you're making a single run and at least 50,000 units.

Even today 3DS carts are OTP (one time programmable), they aren't 'flash' (a term typically reserved for NAND flash, but can also mean EEPROMs, neither of which is used for retail carts).

>It's like a decade old tops

12 years old

I bought vice city stories on a UMD, the fucking load times on cutscenes was atrocious

The point I was making was that the ROM that they use for the games was absolutely not cheap as shit back in 2004. If it really were that cheap then Sony would have went that way too. Would make it smaller, no moving parts, better battery, etc. They went with disks because they were cheaper and offered more storage space to put games on.

Close enough. It's not from the 70s is what I'm saying. Yet it feels even more obscure.

AND WHEN THE ANSWER THAT YOU WANT
IS IN THE QUESTION THAT YOU STATE

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WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE?

WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE?

Spider-Man 2, of course.
It was on every advertisement for the UMDs.

>Universal Media Disc
>Proprietary format that is only used by the PSP

I think even celebrities fell for that meme.

The only good thing about this is god of war 1 demo

>UMB
>Universal Media Bisque

I had psp and never owned any umd

>Universal Media Disc
I always thought they meant universal as in it could store movies and games and more. but then that's just any disc.

>universal media disc
How were they universal?? Anyways, I thought UMDs were neat back in the day.

>Do you know how expensive 1GB of flash memory was in 2004?
And Sony's Memory Stick Pro Duos were even more expensive than that.

Sony always puts out proprietary bullshit formats for data storage and they're always retardedly expensive because Sony products are the only products that fucking use those formats.

PSPs were great. I can watch I, Robot anywhere I go.

If they were good we would still be using them.

It's as simple as that.

I'm glad this picture exists.

Fuck no.

>tfw finding random UMD movies like Cannibal the Musical at garage sales
Any rare UMD's out there? I've been wanting to start a collection

I forgot about my secret love for Petey Pablo music

>That kid who opened up a UMD to put the disc inside a GameCube and realize it doesn't work so he tried to glue the UMD back

What's was his name ?

I didn't have that but I remember a friend of mine used to make fully-detailed paper PSP's in middle school with every little button drawn on it and a UMD slot.
I miss doing stupid creative shit like that.

Pros:
>was cheaper than flash storage

Cons:
>fragile
>slow load times
>relatively large
>loud
>made the PSP larger by requiring a large disc drive

Nah, they weren't great. I didn't really care at the time though, loading times where just a reality of gaming back then and I was about 10-14 years old so the rest of the shit didn't matter to me so long as I got some good games.

My nigga.

>tfw can only hold 32GB storage in my PSP because the storage system is fucking retarded
Otherwise I love my PSP

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No they weren't good. Sure they let you store more at a lower cost, but reading was slow and they made lots of noise.
At least later games let you pre-install a bunch of data to reduce load times slightly.

If they used blu Ray technology with these eventually, how much could they have held storage wise?

>The "Mini Blu-ray Disc" (also, "Mini-BD" and "Mini Blu-ray") is a compact 8 cm (~3 in)-diameter variant of the Blu-ray Disc that can store 7.8 GB of data in its single layer configuration, or 15.6 GB on a dual layer disc.
it'd beat the hell out of vita cartridges

I remember this one kid who wanted to sell me a Mario Kart game for the gamecube, I gave him five dollars, he opened the case and showed it to me, then he looked at it and said "oh sorry, this is the PSP version of the game, I'll come back tomorrow with the gamecube version of the game" and being the smart kid I was, I told him that he showed me the game so I knew he was lying, and then he told me it had a virus and that it would break my gamecube, and then I called him out on his bullshit again because my dad is a technician and he taught me about how viruses work, he did give me my money back though

like your dick faggot

This tbqfwyl (to be quite frank with you lad)

Ive got Advent Children on UMD

It wasn't. It did more harm than good.
And I say it as someone that liked them and collected a good chunk of PSP physical games before hacking it.

Faggottop trying to force a meme

>they couldn't charge five times as much for their memory format
But they did anyway with the memory sticks.

remember me?
the future of storage

...

>slow-ass loading times compared to MS
>plastic cases were prone to cracking
>SHHHHH CHHHHHHHH SSSSHHHH

This. Thank fuck for CFW.

muh nigga

>tfw minidisc never survived
>tfw plenty of media featured in scifi
>tfw no modern version of it

Why have I not seen this before!?

No, they were loud as fuck, you couldn't make custom ones, too gimmicky.