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@office mare  
goes back one page: 12 different users

off topic but i like how this thread is being carried by 3 people lmfao

@Humble Oriathan  
Never played ‘em. Well, I had a SOCOM (no idea which) on my PSP for the two months that it functioned. I don’t think that was quite the same experience, though.
 
God, that thing was a piece of shit.
 
@Humble Oriathan  
Tit shots on the VCR.

@TeamBlueplant  
It’s a later game. In the first one, the first mission is recapturing a ship in Alaska and the last mission is in a desert town and is based on Blackhawk Down.

@Humble Oriathan  
i live in the long country of people who are inmune to earthquakes, wich is also an irrelevant one (since dem yankees cant grasp the concept that there is a whole continent after mexico), so it stuck out to me that we were even featured in a game
 
 
@Sapphie  
old edge lady
 
 
@ANoobis  
i remember the first mission being in a desert mountain town with a church in it, then some tunnel systems in a mountain, then a trainyard
 
last mission was in a milk processing plant somewhere snowy

@Acres  
@Sapphie  
I presume you mean reeeee-tro then! Or vintage. Both still just mean O L D though.

@TeamBlueplant  
Not in the first one. The mission sets took place in Alaska, Thailand, the Congo and Turkmenistan. I was never able to beat the first mission of the Turkmenistan set.

@Barhandar  
I believe the term is retro

@Absol95  
It all varied from game to game. There was no centralized service or servers, and each game had their own interface system.

@Barhandar  
reeeeeee

@Azure Fang  
I mean user interface while online with the PS2. Was it basically a black screen with text being displayed as the network was updating or searching for servers?

@Sapphie  
O L D

@Humble Oriathan  
I may be old, but I’m not that old

@Sapphie  
Wuuuut. How did you survive that long without online prono?
 
@TeamBlueplant  
I…don’t remember the setting actually. Why? Not a fan of Chili?

@Absol95  
If you mean the physical hardware, you can get a “butt shot” here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2_Expansion_Bay#Network_Adaptor
 
Basically, the rear had two interfaces: one that slotted into a really loose port under the expansion door on the back of a PS2, and one that was a standard IDE interface and 4-pin Molex that allowed the connection of an old IDE HDD (making the network adapter a requirement for any game, albeit few, that needed a hard drive). The “world-facing side” had two ports: one 6P2C (RJ11) for direct modem usage and one 8P8C (RJ45) for ethernet and LAN usage. As such, it was wholly incompatible with the “Slimline” PS2 and only worked with the classic “phatstation”.
 
If you mean a software interface, there was none. There was a minor change to the system’s BIOS that allowed IP configuration, but otherwise all software control was via each individual game and HDD maintenance was performed via a software tool included with the adapter (or with HD Loader if you happened to get your hands on that absolute gem of a tool).

@Humble Oriathan  
werent the first 5-7 missions of the socom 1 campaing located in chile of all places?

@Azure Fang  
Indeed so. Also, what did the online interface for the PS2 look like? Screenshots please, if you can?

@Sapphie  
The original Monster Hunter, Resident Evil: Outbreak (Left 4 Dead years before Left 4 Dead was a thing), Amplitude, Burnout 3, Champions of Norrath, Armored Core: Last Raven… there were a lot of decent online games on the PS2 (as opposed to the GameCube that had, what, 2 games?) but the “entry fee” (cost of a PS2 network adapter and, for some games, a hard drive) was pretty high.

@Humble Oriathan  
Wait, online gaming on the ps2? I didn’t even have internet until 2006 xD

@Sapphie  
Oh man, you missed out. That was hours of online fun after a long day in high school. That and THUG 1 AND 2. Good times.

@Humble Oriathan  
First time hearing of it, ngl

@Officer Hotpants  
@Sapphie  
Remember Socom 1 and 2 for the PS2? The Counterstrike of its time. Pissed off a lot of people by team killing lmao.

This takes me back to better times. Also I forgot MicroProse was still around. The logo never being ‘simplified’ like other companies throws me off every time.

@Officer Hotpants  
Mine probably does as well. I just haven’t touched the thing in 5 years. I’d rather just emulate and upscale (and uprender when it’s possible)

@Sapphie  
Meanwhile the controller my PS2 came with still works 20 years later.