• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    741 year ago

    Remember the time when Sony invented rootkits to make their drm stronger? Pepridge farm remembers.

    • DrMango
      link
      English
      401 year ago

      Remember when Sony made you use a proprietary mini SD card for your handheld instead of just allowing the format that was already in place and widely adopted?

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          81 year ago

          Pretty sure the Vita was just entirely abandoned, it would have been a powerhouse even as it was if Sony hadnt done so

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          41 year ago

          Do not despair. Vita is one of the greatest home brew consoles ever. I love my hacked vita.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        151 year ago

        Remember when Sony stopped us all from having easy access to high density compact disc storage by slapping obnoxiously large fees onto blueray decoding licensing that they still maintain today? Or how about that whole… betamax… actually I’ll just leave that one to history.

      • @pirat
        link
        English
        51 year ago

        I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a mini SD card. To me it seems that consumer electronics went from regular SD straight to micro SD, skipping the mini SD step. What was it used for? Phones?

        • GreatAlbatross
          link
          fedilink
          English
          41 year ago

          Pretty much.

          A very small set of phones used SD, then MMC (thinner), then mini-SD.

          Once micro SD arrived, that was pretty much it.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        41 year ago

        Was that the memorystick pro duo, which actually beat even many early UHS-I SD cards at write and read speeds?

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            41 year ago

            Interesting, from what I can find online even though it’s unique to the vita it’s still just the memorystick pro duo protocol under the hood, with a DRM system similar to the one Sony uses for their modern CFExpress Type A cards.

      • Something Burger 🍔
        link
        fedilink
        English
        4
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Ironically, it was adopted by everyone except Sony, which had Memory Stick, yet didn’t use it for the Vita.

        Well, at least, the Vita cards were big enough to download all the great Vita exclusives such as… uh…

      • @RaoulDook
        link
        English
        11 year ago

        No but I remember the old school playstation memory cards that plugged into the front of the console that were required to save your games on. I still have one with PS2 saves for GTA San Andreas and Gran Turismo 3 & 4 and stuff