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[@jrob0021]

What happens when you put a foreign ps4 in your disc?

[@305-RTV]

A error message consisting of a PS4 game disc silhouette with a question mark in the middle.

[@nevaax]

bro swapped the word disc and ps4

[@jrob0021]

@@nevaaxno I didn’t

[@Dreamssecondchannel]

My cousin has a ps4 slim from 2016 and when i dont update it it fully bugs and wont turn off I really want to see it on a newer slim and see what happens

[@ihavenoclue9756]

​​@@jrob0021you did in fact 😂 we're all human.

[@Heymrk]

I saw an article a few years ago about a woman who sued Microsoft because her son's Xbox wouldn't play the WiiU version of Breath of the Wild she'd gotten him for Christmas. It got dismissed pretty quickly and I'm surprised she even got a lawyer in the first place.

[@timelymirror7826]

is that true

[@Heymrk]

@@timelymirror7826 yes

[@IDKTECHSPERTS]

Lol

[@JmKrokY]

Bruh

[@me6057]

Easy money lol

[@nemile_]

1:26 Bro bought that from the dark web 💀

[@OfficialKaiVerse]

ikr

[@Rablaxsanta]

FR

[@FrostyTheIV]

1:35 Bro really had The Big Chungus PS4 game.

[@TheOneSpin]

@@FrostyTheIVFr💀

[@FrostyTheIV]

@@TheOneSpin Wild

[@arutezza]

the thing with the screw turning the disk drive is really genius, im suprised that hasnt been standardized

[@nanopone]

it's very common, but usually it's a pin hole that you stick a paperclip into

[@SpeedyGwen]

am actually surprised that there isnt the standard function of just holding the eject disc button for making it constantly try to spew out everything that might be inside like every single cd and dvd player do and even some game consoles...

[@Calvados656]

I've taken apart my ps4 slim multiple times and somehow never noticed that was even there.

[@aftershock68]

@@Calvados656 it even existed on the original ps4, you could get to it through the vent on the side

[@jm036]

@@SpeedyGwen L pfp

[@FlintG]

Kind of a bummer they did not let ps3 games be compatible on the ps4. Really would have been great if they did let us play it on that system.

[@phlhoran12396]

Sony are far too greedy simply.

[@NessRandom1]

they have completely different architectures, there's a reason that only a few ps3 games have been ported to other platforms

[@phlhoran12396]

@@NessRandom1 Don't try to tell me that you genuinely don't think they could have made ps3 disc based games compatible with the Ps4 if they really wanted to?

[@toastyjacks]

@@phlhoran12396 Not without redesigning the PS4 entirely, the PS3 used a type of CPU that is unique and hadn't been used in any hardware before (or since). Consoles are designed similar to computers where all CPU cores are the same size whereas the PS3 had one big processor coupled with dozens of tiny processors around it. Not only did this make the PS3 a nightmare to develop for during its lifetime, it made it impossible for them to incorporate compatibility with the PS4 (although they did initially attempt it). Nowadays we have the processing power to emulate PS3 games but back when PS4 launched, the only devices capable of it had high-end desktop processors. This means that the only way they could've enabled PS3 compatibility would be if they shipped PS3 hardware within the PS4 itself and ran using PS3 firmware. At that point the console would've cost significantly more and Sony at the time was targeting a price-tag lower than the Xbox One as they thought Microsoft would ride the success from the 360 so needed a compelling offering.

[@jamesmcmackin8773]

The PS5 definitely has the power to emulate PS3 games but the base model PS4 would likely struggle with it. It takes a decent PC to emulate PS3 games due to some issues with the PS3, including using single-thread processing at a high clock speed, rather than quad-core which was contemporary at the time. Sony had a hard time with a lot of third-party devs because of the learning curve of these issues.@@phlhoran12396

[@JoSephGD]

Here's a funny thing: certain 360 games (oftentimes, earlier games in the system's library) have a similar message to what all OG Xbox games would do. This stopped being done later in the system's life, probably because the 360 was struggling in disc space compared to the PS3.

[@jrob0021]

I have a copy of Call of Duty 2 - I bet it has the functionality you’re referring to. I’ll try it next time I do a video like this!

[@atrmediaofficial]

Jesus Christ Loves You All Repent Before Its To Late And Draw Near To Him ✝️😊🙏🙌

[@RoadBlocks2]

​@@atrmediaofficialnobody asked

[@RIBBINUWUGACHALIECUTEWHOLESOME]

​@@RoadBlocks2true

[@skxllzrblx]

​@@atrmediaofficialno need to comment that on a video that's about consoles

[@ExoCade]

Could you imagine back in the day paying for a guy to tell you hey yeah you need to do this in Tarzan to win. I just struggled like the rest of us

[@jrob0021]

Ikr lol

[@MarkL_64]

The disappointment when a son tells his dad he rang the other side of the world for Tarzan tips and not some xxx call instead.

[@malachipaul5078]

Man I really love your videos. Makes me wanna learn how to properly refurbish consoles

[@jrob0021]

Funny you say that because this video is the exact opposite of refurbishing a console 😂

[@thatETTYT]

@@jrob0021 You risked his PS4 for this video, the disconnecting the drive could (unlikely) damage the motherborad. and if you were downloading a game or app, it could corrupt the Operating System. good video tho, liked it.

[@monstereng43]

95 cents a minute and then they have you on hold for as long as possible and keep you on the phone as long as they can lmao the good old days

[@Louts]

Fun fact there is a Xbox 360 splash screen for some 360 games. I believe one is Halo 3 if I'm not mistaken

[@jrob0021]

Ohh I’ll have to try that

[@stijncaris6445]

Yeah its also for gta iv

[@paulnicolas172]

Did you honestly even think there was a even remote chance it would play other console games ? 😂

[@carl_player3539]

I think i remember a clone console called the X station it basically 2 consoles in one, you could switch to xbox mode and into playstation mode and it accepts both ps4 and xbox one game. and i thought it was the coolest thing ever

[@user-uo8ny1kj4c]

today that would be a godsend honestly. Probably would also be beneficial to emulation and have alot of useful information for people making emulators for the ps3 or xbox 360

[@InsanityPrevails]

Love watching Jacob's experiments So many of them are just "I'm gonna test this cause.. Why not, let's just see what happens" 😂

[@DynaDan07]

I just can’t believe it won’t play Big Chongus. Truly absurd come on Sony

[@d-tech3190]

The PS4's Blu-Ray drive is physically incapable of reading CDs since it doesn't have an infrared laser diode. That's the reason it won't recognize PS1 discs.

[@tezcanaslan2877]

And it cant play audio CD’s

[@phlhoran12396]

​@tezcanaslan2877 Well yes because they are CDS too.

[@rayturner7855]

All ps4 can play ps1 games

[@d-tech3190]

@@rayturner7855 Downloaded from the store (or image files if modded with GoldHEN) - but they can't play physical PS1 CDs.

[@GamesInAMood]

​@@rayturner7855 No, they can't.

[@cydragon2.099]

this is the Niche that got me onto this channel glad to still see it around

[@PowerSynopsis]

On this episode of "Unsupervised Five Year Old" we couldn't find the cookies, but we shoved absolutely everything else into Dad's PS4.

[@phlhoran12396]

I'll never get this time spent back again! 😮 Like he could have got electrocuted. WTF is happening to people?

[@TheRoCkHaRdOrDiE]

lmfao out of all of them the halo disc somehow gives you the most advanced response

[@nolingnnakadimension]

The grand return of the foreign disc series.

[@walnzell9328]

The fact the PS4 can tell when you try to play PS3 games or use PS3 controllers is incredibly sad. It's Sony saying, "Yeah we know what you want, but screw you."

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

I know that most, if not all Dreamcast games have a CD track with either a generic "Don't play this in a CD player" message in it or a custom message delivered by characters from the game. (Skies of Arcadia did this, I think.) I only know of one PS1 game that did something similar, and that of course was Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with Alucard delivering the famous "As you can see, this is a PlayStation Black disc" message. I'm actually pretty surprised that Xbox games did something similar with a short DVD video telling you "Hey! This is an Xbox game, not a movie!" Would've been nice if PS2 games did that too, but since the PS2 didn't require you to buy a remote with a dongle to unlock DVD playback, they probably figured that wasn't necessary as most of us used our PS2 as our main DVD player.

[@buzzard3983]

i think it did happend in the SEGA CD.

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

@@buzzard3983 No, it didn't. Many SEGA CD titles used Redbook Audio for their entire soundtrack, so they'd be playable as audio CDs anyway. The ones that didn't were usually FMV games that used the disc for video.

[@LeonSheeter]

Mortal Kombat Trilogy for Ps1 ... could have it's entire sound track played back in any CD player ... like it was a standard Audio CD

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

@@LeonSheeter That's a bit off-topic, but yes. In fact, several PS1 titles stored their soundtrack in Redbook format. Rayman did this in addition to sequenced music, (think MIDI but with instruments supplied by the game rather than built into the console), for seamless looping tracks. Some PS1 games also used XA or "eXtended Architecture" audio which was basically a compressed form of audio that allowed games to have more CD quality music than uncompressed Redbook audio could at the cost of not being able to play the soundtrack in a CD player. (You can still convert XA audio to another format like MP3 easily though.) And it wasn't just audio either, XA also allowed encoded video for FMVs in games and allowed general computer data to be streamed in addition to music if you were creative enough, and a few PS1 games could stream music and game data without needing a loading screen. I think The Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver was one of those games.

[@wisteela]

I did not know about the original Xbox games have DVD video on them like that. Great idea. And that with how you can get the disc out is brilliant.

[@erniesdeck7550]

Great video very reminiscent of the old days when you did the whole what happens if I put this game in this console thing yeah that's how long I've been watching you. Definitely good times to see you doing that again

[@TwoDpads]

There are splash screens for Xbox 360 games. It depends on the disk though. some will have it others won't.

[@timelymirror7826]

isn't for pre 2009 games

[@mikofox9798]

Now you made me want to stick my 360 disc's in my ps4.

[@RenKovcs4]

Back in day you could call for help on games but today you know the game better than support

[@homewynn8132]

You can long press eject button to force ejecting a disc. I not sure if it works on slim model or not. But I accidentally discover this function on my OG PS4 because of the sensitive capacitive eject button.

[@jrob0021]

Oh interesting, I had no idea. I’ll try that out

[@SirBee1]

Hey Jacob, I’m planning to buy a Wii. Do you think it’s still worth it in 2023? I’m afraid when it finally breaks my data is gone forever, but all I wanna play on it is Wii Sports and other physical games.

[@DavidQuessy]

Seeing ur profile avatar on there reminded me of that awesome rubber ducky game they had on ps3. Haven't thought of that game In yrs but it was addicting!

[@ZiadHamwi99]

Love your uploads man. It's awesome to see you revisit your classic experiments in new videos!

[@jrob0021]

Next experiment - I throw my ps5 off a roof and see if it survives!

[@local_waver]

@@jrob0021 please do I'm genuinely curious

[@ZiadHamwi99]

@@jrob0021 Haha, perhaps it’ll start playing Xbox games.

[@IDKTECHSPERTS]

@jrob0021 yes best exp

[@Group-935]

I remember just being a goofball, I put my copy of Darkwatch for the Xbox(awesome game) in my PS5. I saw it show up as a DVD. Makes sense. Didn't think much of it, but, just because; why not. I booted it up, and when it showed that Xbox splash screen, I got so hyped, that I would be able to play my game on a PS5! Only to see it show up that wall of text. I was a bit disappointed, but... Honestly? What did I expected.

[@Mayoman1109]

man i watched you like forever ago scince you used that lofi-ey music sending good vibes

[@gigalo21]

im pretty sure there are some early 2000s tvs with built in dvd drives that play some dvds i remember putting san andreas into it and it being frozen on the intro, and then a bob the builder game.

[@EnatorZ]

Awesome content! I love that you experiment with this stuff so we don't have to!

[@lachlannapier5934]

this is bringing me back to some of your early vids. 👌🤙

[@corytheginger5102]

lol when he pulled the hard drive, it reminded me of when mine slowly died in my ps4 slim lol 😂. Another time was when I had an external hdd for my slim, and when it started going, while in game it reminded me of the old days of when you’d take a disk out of a console while playing haha,

[@eross5420]

You should try calling that hotline "hints and tips" to see if they are still doing that and how the experience goes 😂

[@kevinhowe6307]

I just got a homebrew'd PS3 slim this morning and loving it so far!

[@jrob0021]

Nice!

[@brendonali1288]

Loool 🤣💯

[@brendonali1288]

PS3 hen 4.90 ? Mr Mario

[@ValentijnTheGamer]

There is actually a splash screen for Xbox 360 games, but I only tried it on PC so idk if it works on PS4.

[@KazeJay777]

7:02 I think its cool in some roundabout way it knew what was going on, but it just comes up with a completely opposite error message 😂

[@RedNarrowBird]

At 3:26 it does come with a stand BUT its EXTREMELY SMALL and I actually bought a ps5 slim (not digital) but i would assume its about the same, anyways, i had the same thought so i searched through the box (even though it doesnt tell you) but there is a VERY TINY stand inside it

[@ICEknightnine]

There was that one time I called a Bethesda technical assistance because I was being attacked by the NCR and didn't know I was wearing Brotherhood Of Steel power armor.

[@richardcranium5393]

If you change the settings you could probably use that wired controller, you can change from Bluetooth to wired

[@pedroasif6844]

What's the name of that wired PS3 controller you have? It looks really cool with its Xbox-like triggers.

[@emperorshark888]

The error for the disc drive being unplugged mid game is fascinating considering that it just installs the game to the hard drive anyways you'd think the disc drive would only be for the initial check and it wouldn't bother checking again after boot.

[@thatETTYT]

I'm guessing some data is still (on some games) streamed from the blu-ray, (e. g. Sounds, certain textures, etc) and is (maybe) constantly cheaking the disk for a licence, like if the disk was hot-swapped, (Even if that's not really possible) all just guesses

[@Claasic]

legendary thank you Jacob

[@lordplebius483]

The fact that it didn't immediately crash when you pulled the hard drive. I wonder if this could be used in some sort of an exploit.

[@yourussianfriend5115]

i expected that result. similar to pcs, without the hard drive the system cant access data that is not on system MEMORY, so theoretically if we have enough Ram we can load the whole os on ram and dont have to use the hard disk, since hard disks are designed to store data permanently, but ram can't as soon as the system loses power.

[@Basement_Bro]

Had a ps4 slim for about 8 years or so, just upgraded to ps5 a few days ago. Never had a singular issue with the slim, loved the console. Loading times just sucked

[@grasshoper4904]

Big chungus.... What a classic🤣🤣🤣

[@chriswilson6405]

Back in 2018, Microsoft installed a 4K UHD disc driver in the XB1 S it was supposed to play both Blu-ray and 4K UHD Blu-ray movies, but I'm surprised how the PS4 Slim doesn't play 4K UHD Blu-ray discs because both consoles were released the same year I can't believe it only plays Blu-ray movies

[@lindenhoch8396]

Your Big Chungus disc must be scratched. Runs fine on my slim, so.

[@JoseMedina-hs9st]

Like for an example, if you put a Dreamcast game on your car. CD player. It will say that this is a Sega Dreamcast game. And if you put a PlayStation game on your car CD player, it will play the soundtrack of The Game.

[@mikofox9798]

Now I want to put a PS disc in my mom's Buick disc slot.

[@HippoEatTortoise]

Can it read dvd games? Like you put it into a dvd player (or Xbox 360) and can play with that remote.

[@technicallyme]

The twist in the middle of the medium is rough. Didn't see that coming

[@ketchup30]

hey jacob! what do i do if my xbox 360 starts melting?

[@TheSmilePerson]

7:44 i made the same mistake u did with my ps5. I put a mini disc inside and it never came out. Even when trying to manually eject it. After many months i finally saw the disc peep out. After that i immediately took out my tweezers and took out the disk.

[@jakobdoesathing]

A little bit ago, i fixed my friends ps4, because one of his siblings put a penny in his disk drive. Was a weird repair.

[@henryriesner6595]

on the assassin's creed for xbox one game, I felt like while it wouldn't work, it would kinda make sense

[@Ilko226]

i used a ps4 slim for 4 years straight and it works flawlessly

[@midnightblue3285]

What about the ps 4 pro ? is it work ?

[@infinitex1724]

I never knew I had a PS4 slim until now.

[@Sheeshmaster12321]

The reason the ps4/ grand trismo didt crash when you unpluged the hard drive/ disk drive is because it was running of the ram thats why when you tried to open a new screen it crashed

[@Caseoh_official]

Imagine When he put the dollar bill in there it said im not a vending machine

[@Throbingkcoc]

Despite having a PS5 I kept both my slim and PS4 pro. I guess I'm either old or just stubborn but I prefer to play games on their original hardware.

[@jimmyjimjims7483]

That’s how I feel about my favorite older games, I prefer to play Majoras Mask on my N64 and I much prefer GTA San Andreas on my fat ps2, same with GTA IV on the old fat ps3. I just don’t like emulation and the point of me playing those old games is to take me back for a bit so I like to play them on their original hardware (limitations and all)

[@Midnight_cat23]

You are stubborn lol I sold my og ps4 slim for an Xbox series s then sold that as I traded it for free and wasn't really a good idea but at least I got £150 for the series s when I sold it cause I was barely using it😅

[@Throbingkcoc]

​@@Midnight_cat23I'm also a collector so I tend to keep all my retro consoles. I still have my Atari 2600 which was my first console lol.

[@Midnight_cat23]

@@Throbingkcoc ah I see, I guess the older the console you're most likely to keep it. I started with a ds then the other consoles after that but only started seriously gaming in 2019 😅

[@valval347]

Should I call this the CrossStation? (cross platform on ps4)

[@ragingtauros9669]

ps1 game in a cd player or portable dvd player does the soundtracks for certain games

[@zedoctor_]

Took me back to 2019 with Big Chungus.

[@EmilianogaelLeIjacerbantez]

The what happens when you put a foreign disc videos are the videos that i watched before 😀

[@randaladams7827]

some xbox 360 games do have actual video on the dvds, guitar hero 3 being one of them.

[@AlfieDoesAviationOffical]

The legendary series may return 🤔

[@callamhandford6165]

I’m just saying this I’ve always owned a ps4 slim and still do to this day and I haven’t even upgraded and it runs perfectly fine yes I’m saying this without without watching but I can certainly say the slim is not weird 😂

[@aryansardessai3512]

1:51 new Zealand crying in corner

[@FireflameGames]

I didnt know anybody else used the duck profile picture on ps4... ive only seen like 5 people use it other than me in the last 3 years

[@chairgaming22]

I have put a borat disc in my ps4 slim and IT WORKED!

[@PhirePhlame]

I think the splash screen video on Xbox & 360 discs is genius bc it sells other DVD readers a dummy by saying "I'm just a DVD-Video disc, here's my DVD-Video track, and as far as you know there's nothing else on here."

[@R3M.02]

Bro my dad got me a PS5 slim digital for Christmas. It’s so much better than my old PS4.

[@zackattack3569]

I think it would be neat to see a Japanese version of a PS4 game or some other country PS4 game in the US made PS4

[@1br0.]

7:37 a brand new ps4 slim making that noise is very weird, I guess the ps4 eats GameCube games

[@alfiehellyeah]

12:54 what was bro gonna say before dollar lmao

[@SamuraiTacos1]

i always say the next console they will add credit card reader lol 😂

[@user-un3iw9ch7h]

What, is ps4 slim not backward compatible? I played ps1 games on my old ps4

[@Bendaboioffical]

I got news for you! I’m happy to say, they in fact made a sequel of Big chungus called “new super Big Chungus featuring Dante from the devil may cry series” made for the ps5 and ps4. They are making a remaster of big chungus for the ps5

[@Alexminecrafter1]

i know its not related to the video but on my ps4 when i played minecraft when the game crashed the ps4 just gave up and showed a black screen but every 5 seconds it switched to grey screen with black > symbols in the top left of the screen even though this happened nearly a year ago i still getting nightmares from that.

[@back43gamer65]

I own a ps4 slim 😅 nice vids❤ and if console took bills people will open the console and take it

[@EmmanuelMolina-yi5kb]

1:28 What does big chunk of superglue this? 1:28

[@chasinggamer]

this is COOL and i think you should make more vids

[@Cortex_Crew_Gaming]

7:18 I tried this before. But i didn't give up after the first try. I eventually got it to work after plugging and unplugging it many times.

[@ToastieStrudel]

The PS3 controller not working with the PS4 is really ironic when you remember that you can use a PS4 controller on the PS3

[@scopeadope]

Same with dual sense on PS4 not Dualshock 4 on PS5.

[@marvindesanta]

When a Content Creator runs out of content 😂😂😂😂

[@thatETTYT]

I see your a newcommer, scoll to his older vids, he did this alot.

[@marvindesanta]

@@thatETTYT and the people want to see this?

[@Jader47]

I have the exact same Playstation 4 Slim With No Game Inserted And I have a Third-party controller

[@hurricaneliam69420]

I broke my desk drive putting in a game. Cube sized disk into it

[@eta9997]

I remember when his entire channel was putting foreign discs in consoles

[@BetterCaIIPaul]

The slim front design looks like a Dodge SRT

[@overnexus.]

As a ps4 owner this hurt to watch 💀😭

[@markedmanmist]

"Cannot use PS3 Controller for PS4" Interesting, yet PS4 controllers sorta work for the PS3

[@thatETTYT]

I though it still works but only wired?? maybe I was wroung. also, the PS3 works with any genaric controller. (thats not made for Xbox

[@CJ_animations444]

Ok so, its not safe to put ps1 games in modern consoles because THEY USE CD's NOT DVD"S a cd's metal/recording layer is on the outside of the disc and while putting it in a dvd reader will most likely just scratch off that layer, BUT over time it will damage the dvd player.

[@Essu_]

The PS4 can't read CDs in any capacity so that's why it didn't do anything for the PS1.

[@britneedavis1888]

What happens if you put a Xbox disc and a PlayStation for slim Nothing will happen it will appear, but it’s not supported

[@Danielvr123]

Are my Xbox series X I can use Xbox one games and on the store for game pass. There’s some games that are for the Xbox 360.

[@gamerdude4200]

The reason why when he unplugged the disk drive and it ran bc it was running on ram thats why when he clicked the crack it frose bc it was not loaded into ram same thing happens if you load minecraft on a USB drive and yank it out on pc

[@herpmcderp5707]

the PS1 disc probably doenst read because of the way PS1 discs are burned, the DRM and all that jazz.

[@bridgett_playz]

i missed ur foreign discs videos

[@shto4782]

That big chungus game is pretty cool