I know a lot of secrets about older consoles too, so let me know if you want to see them 😁

This video would have saved my friends life when he deleted my resident evil save data. May he rest in peace 😭

You're too late... 26 years too late...

I did this by accident when I was a kid. I never knew how I did it, my friends thought I was lying, and when I failed to recreate this, I gave up and just accepted that I must have dreamed it. Here 20 years later, I finally get to see this video and find out how I did it...but haven't had a PS1 or been in contact with those friends in 20 years lmao Update: I never thought I would be making this update...I had forgotten I shared this and had moved on, but one of my friends from back then that didn't believe me apparently saw this video and remembered from way back then...I can't believe he even remembered, but even more, I can't believe he not only found me (I don't have social media because I want to keep my personal life private), but reached out to me to apologize for not believing me. I have little hope the other four will do the same, but, well, this happened, so who knows?

I worked for a local video game store when the PS1 launched. When Sony sent us displays we got a few little swag items and they included a debug and diagnostic manual. I remember this was one feature but had forgot all about it until now.

If I knew this before, my neighbor who accidentally deleted my save file would still be alive today.

No one: KZfaq recommendations: - remember that save file you cried over 26 years ago?

I remember accidentally Deleting a save file on Spyro after beating Gnasty Gnorc on a school night. I screamed so loud and cried bc it took me forever to beat him. My dad came in the with belt after finding me up so late. This video *literally* could’ve saved me an ass beating.

Game developer here. Usually with esoteric button combinations like this (Hit all the shoulder buttons on the controller at the same time) these are usually something you would see as a developer command. Like a shortcut for developers or testers to perform actions that make testing easier. They often use complicated button combinations and very specific timing (a lot like old school cheat codes) on the off chance that they need to take a dev build to a public event like a conference, or if they forget to remove it, it's unlikely that someone would trigger it by accident. I would hazard to guess the reason this feature wasnt advertised is because its not a feature, but in fact a dev command that they neglected to remove before manufacturing.

1st time it’s not just click bait of a commonly known fact I’m shocked and learned something new.

If I knew that, I wouldn't bite my big brother for removing my Final Fantasy VII and Jade Cocoon saves...

All my Tekken characters... Gone for nothing..... Funny how it still hurts...

For those that don't know, data on any storage medium is never "deleted" It is simply made available by the drive to be overwritten. As long as the "deleted" data is not overwritten, you can always retrieve provided you have the tools.

The guy that discovered this probably discovered in a rage where he was pressing all the buttons for it to come back, and it actually came

I'll be god damned...friendships could have been saved if we had known about this lol

This sounds like the kind of thing a kid would tell you at school that he had learned from his older brother, but when you got home and tried it, it wouldn't work.

the beginning of the ps1 gives me goosebumps, it takes me back to those times, when having a ps1 was something exclusive, something serious, a dream come true

Actually did this once by accident but could never recreate the sequence on my controller and now I know why 24 years LATER. RIP LOST STREET FIGHTER SCORES.

Click on delete “Are you sure u want to delete?” Yes “Deletes” Oh damn. I didn’t want to delete that

This is like showing up with a firetruck 20 something years after the fire....

Believe me, I NEVER deleted a wrong game file on the PS1, I was too careful, especially where the Resident Evil games were concerned. But this is definitely a handy tip.

2:01 That's the most satisfying sound ever made in the world.

I wish i knew this 20 years ago. I had a serious fight with a friend of mine just because i accidentaly deleted his brave fencer musashi save file 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

PS5 is coming John : Let's do a PS1 nostalgic video.

I did this by accident as a kid after deleting my Crash Bandicoot 3 file. I pressed all the buttons in anger without realizing the file returned. HOWEVER this only worked as long as you had the system on and did not start another game. If you shut it off then from my experience, you can no longer retrieve the file. I tried it on Jumping Flash and lost that file forever but didn't care.

Wonder how one could possibly discover this: by just pressing all the controller buttons, angry for deleting the wrong game file.

Whoever kept that out of the manual is the true villain of the world

ps1 devs team: "We should remove this recovery feature in the next generation, nobody is using it anyway" guy who wrote the manual: "hmmmmmm"

That old logon screen and music was amazing. So much better than today.

Me: "Whatever he's gonna say I already know everything about the PS1." Also me: "Oh my God... :O"

This could have saved so much tears back in the day...

I love how he has to explain what memory cards are for the younger people lol

Man I remember having that system as a kid might have been like 15 or 16 years old at that time now I am 37 years old about to turn 38 in August. Time flies when your having fun that's for sure.

The internet ruined me. I clicked this expecting a smart ass meme, instead I got actual advice.

Did anyone else get chills when the PlayStation sound played at the end? 23 years since I touched a PS1 and I still love that sound!

PS1: "And if it wasn't for meddling social media my secrets would still be safe!"

Dude the excitement stepping up from super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis , you're just like listening to that PS intro like "oh wow what an age to be alive"...

OH MY GOD, this is bringing me back to the day i deleted my ff7 save by mistake

I wish I knew this when I was a kid ..

When I travel back in time, ill be a gaming hero.

You know they had this tip in a few Playstation magazines back in the 90s

2:00 that sound, that magnificent sound.

To my siblings: Sorry for every time i yelled at you whenever you accidentally deleted my save files 26 years ago💔💔

I feel like I had a friend who said he accidentally deleted a save file a while back and after pressing some buttons it showed up again, but he couldn’t say which ones he pressed because he was in a panic… I always thought he was just blowing smoke up my butt like elementary schoolers would usually do on the playground… I’m sorry for doubting you Nico

I knew this as a kid, if you ever played spyro or crash bandicoot youd know pressing buttons in a certain way was how heats were activated. The infi was also explained several times in magazines released back then.

I'm sending this info to my past self. Man so many memories.

I got like about 1 million face palms that are about 26 years overdue.......

"Hopefully you found this useful." A bit late for that. Definitely entertaining tho.

2:00, man definitely knows what we wanna hear when we watch videos about the PS1

I like how “Nobody knew this” immediately switched to “Not many”. Guess I was just as special then as I am now.

Me: yeah everybody knows how to access the memory card. You: PS1 Data Recovery Me: 😳🤯

Bruh this would have saved me so many hours not having to have replayed almost all of msg1

My neighbor taught me this decades ago. He actually had some weird, possibly rare, gamer magazine which was full of tips and stuff

Ppl who lost hours of gameplay back in the day, watching this video be like: 👁️👄👁️

My issue was my brothers deleting my saved files. Luckily If you smash the L1 and L2 button over their face it prevents this from happening again!

"Crash 1, Crash 2" I see you're a man of culture.

I thought this was gonna be, "you can remove the game and play a music CD as well". But no, actual good info. Thank you.

The fact you have to explain what a memory card is just shows that 20 years has passed.

I was ready to say "I already knew this!" But I didn't. Didn't know this at all.

Developer: “nobody will ever know that I coded this extra feature!”

It wasn't in the user guide, but a quick trip on the internet taught me this in 1998. This was not a secret by any means.

It's like finding gold just to find out it's worthless now.

Imagine all that fist-fights and sibling-wars that could be avoided if we know this trick decades ago

>a video about a secret you actually didn't already know about >only 2:18 long >with no useless bullshit talk in it This is the positivity that we need in 2020.

We all new this 26 years ago 🤔 it was even in my memory card manual.. it clearly states that all data deleted can be restored until the blocks are overwritten..

Imagine accidentaly losing your save file then finding this 20 years later.

Title: hidden secret for 26 years Thumbnail: how to open the ps1

sony just assumed 'anyone who accidentally deletes a save is just gonna spam the R and L buttons out of rage'

Probably some secret feature made by the manufacturer to recover user's important data for money. Not the first one in history, and definitely not the last one. Secret features like this one are still in use to this day. For example, did you know that when your Flash pen drive gets "corrupted" and either locks in a read-only mode or doesn't respond at all, the manufacturer can bring it back to life with just a single click in their special proprietary software? There's a special secret handshake with the controller chip on every USB pen drive (as well as an SD card) that allows to send service commands to it, unlock it, and recover all the data, and after that it's no longer corrupted (or at least not much more than the manufacturers). You can use it again ad it is as good as new.

I wonder how many children’s hopes and video game progress were dashed because they didn’t know about this. I think I can hear their combined cry right now.

I have an extreme urge to buy a PS1 all of a sudden. Oh the good ole' days.

Been so long since I heard the sound of the PlayStation one coming on. I almost shed a tear. It was so beautiful.

This makes sense cuz in the computer World deleting something doesn't actually delete it it just allocates it to be overwritten

Imagine accidentally finding this when you where a kid, but not knowing how to repeat it. All you know is mashing every button sometimes brings game files back.

Omfg !! Bro no word of a lie one day back then I deleted my Tomb Raider files by accident and from pure panic I think I did exactly this (pressing buttons like a madman in disbelief) and it came back...it happened only that one time and I could never explain how I got back my files...thanks for solving my 20 year wtf puzzle 😅🙏🏾🇯🇲

Thanx. After the release of PS5 finally I can afford a PS1.

that PS loading music/sound... gives me chills.

It's a bit too late to know now

This video is 100yrs too late for us *cryinginlostsavedata

So that's how it worked. Back in the day my brother "accidentally" deleted my Crash save file. I was almost in tears and was smashing all the buttons on my controller and it somehow reappered, or at least I thought so. I guess I did that without knowing lmao

that sound is awesome 2:00

This should've saved a whole lot of relationships if we knew this from the start

Hey kids there goes our time crying over deleted data in vain. Revisited this comment after a month! Thnx for the likes people!

Anyone ever left their ps1 on for a couple days because they didn't have a memory card?

I think most people in the 90s knows about this just that the internet in that era is just starting to take off and not everyone has access to it hence why it was never got spread around that much.

The sound of ps1 booting up is nostalgia level 10 for a split second in time I’m 7 again about to play th1 or tomb raider

I feel very honored right now, me and my brother discovered this when we were kids!

2:00 sound of a LEGEND that never gets old

oh man, back in my day, that sound when you first power on your PS1 was something from the future X D

This could've prevented my big brother beating me up when I accidentally deleted his gran turismo save file.

Noone: Sony: let's make a secret combination noone will discover in 26 years

Epic video that actually isn’t clickbait, It isn’t unnecessarily long He has an epic last name!!!

Damn I still remember I lost all my Gran Turismo data back then. I had to start from scratch!

"You really don't need to know, until you need to know" - Jerry Seinfeld

Me: *sees title* Me: Yeah right. *watches video* Me: Holy shit.

Who needs a memory card when you had your PlayStation running for 3 months straight.

WOW, I will go back in time to 1997 and use this feature like crazy...thanks man!

The sound of that PS1 firing up brought back amazing memories

Dam when he turned that bad boy on, I instantly remembered all the endless nights on crash, twisted metal, metal gear solid, tony hawk, man the good old days 👌.

Oh wow, why Sony!? Why!? Why didn't you tell us?? 😭😭😭 Sony: Let's see if they get it, lol. *26 Years Latier* Retired Senior Sony Design Staff watching this in a nursing home: Ha