PS1 What color does the PSX memory card has?

[maxmoon]

I am trying to figure out, which color the original Sony Playstation memory card has?

This is needed, because I want to print stickers for the memory card, which should include the "original color", too, to make overlapping (and hopefully good looking) effects.

I already tried to make some photographs and pick the color with a color picker, but as you might guessed, it's still hard, because of lighting.

Does someone know the hex code of the color?

To the trolls: Save your energy to post "gray". It's not even funny.

 

[aldostools]

Try using a transparent sticker or print a sticker that covers all the face.

Even if someone tells you the exact color code; color variations of the plastic, lighting or tint+paper may result in a slightly different color.

 

[maxmoon]

Try using a transparent sticker

Thanks for the tipp! I didn't know that transparent stickers for (home) laserjet printers exist. But after a short research it looks like it is possible and it is pretty easy. I think cutting it will use up the most time.

 

[MottZilla]

Does someone know the hex code of the color?

To the trolls: Save your energy to post "gray". It's not even funny.

aldostools basically already covered it but,

Plastics don't have a "hex code". Plastics are not always identical from batch to batch. The chemical composition isn't always identical and aging in the environment can cause changes in appearance. So yes, saying the memory cards are "gray" is a valid answer. Also when printing items, getting extremely accurate colors can be difficult as well.

The memory cards have a similar gray color as the console body itself. If you've looked around then you've surely seen that both the memory cards and consoles can experience color changing to yellow and brown. It's a chemical reaction in the plastic. Not all plastic batches are the same and not all plastic has been subjected to the same environment. So you're never going to get some definitive answer.

I'd suggest if you need a color to match to, find a nice looking Playstation console to use as your target color. Although if you get a bunch of them together and look carefully you will see how they aren't all exactly the same shade.

 

[Berion]

And in addition: PSOne cards was "light grey". Not to mention plenty of official cards but with different colors, some translucent.

You will not get hex color from real life, simply because it is not physically impossible. Not only You need it in LAB spectrum but also You cannot take it because of lighting which always be different, and matrix specifications of camera which all always are different.

 

[GuilloteTesla]

Or you can look for a very good picture of the PS One and color pick it. That's the closest you will get to the actual gray colour.

 

[maxmoon]

Like I already wrote above, I will try aldostools solution and print on a transparent sticker, even if I know that there is a hex code for it, which is really close to the real color. There always is!

And in addition: PSOne cards was "light grey". Not to mention plenty of official cards but with different colors, some translucent.

But I am really curious why one does even think I am talking about the colorful translucent cards or any other card, after reading the first post? Why even mention it at all?

Or you can look for a very good picture of the PS One and color pick it. That's the closest you will get to the actual gray colour.

That's what I already wrote in the first post.

 

[Berion]

But I am really curious why one does even think I am talking about the colorful translucent cards or any other card, after reading the first post? Why even mention it at all?

Making such question is rude even for my autistic standards.

So... Maybe because this is similar topic and travelers from metacrwalers which will find Your thread could be interested? You are not center of the universe and we do not serving You information from which specified spectrum only You accepting...

 

[maxmoon]

You are not center of the universe and we do not serving You information from which specified spectrum only You accepting...

Mentioning stuff, which isn't connected to the first post of a thread or doesn't bring any value to the discussion or doesn't give anything to get a solution to the problem in the first post, is either offtopic or whataboutism.

So... Maybe because this is similar topic and travelers from metacrwalers which will find Your thread could be interested?

People who are looking for information of colorful translucent memory cards, will find this thread, but will not get any answers at all, because we don't provide any, because this thread isn't about those colors. They waste their time. Wouldn't it be better to focus on one topic and provide a solution to one problem to help people to find a solution to a specific problem?

 

[aldostools]

Mentioning stuff, which isn't connected to the first post of a thread or doesn't bring any value to the discussion or doesn't give anything to get a solution to the problem in the first post, is either offtopic or whataboutism.



People who are looking for information of colorful translucent memory cards, will find this thread, but will not get any answers at all, because we don't provide any, because this thread isn't about those colors. They waste their time. Wouldn't it be better to focus on one topic and provide a solution to one problem to help people to find a solution to a specific problem?

Calm down the tone... this is an open forum where people post their opinions. Some posts can be useful for you others may be useful for others. Others are simply off topics like this discussion.

 

[GuilloteTesla]

That's what I already wrote in the first post.

I didn't say to take a picture of a real PS One, but to Google the official Sony catalog product picture. Just like this one:

Unless you find an immaculated, never used, factory and hermetically sealed console, you may still face color degradation because of the plastic aging (as you were already told). And if you still get that non-exising console, taking a picture of it will introduce tone difference in the color because of the ambient light, reflecting light, the angle of the camera, the lens used, the filters that are inside of it, the CCD of the device, the camera's firmware used for signal processing. And even after that, there is one more factor: your eyes, which can not distinguish all the shades of a single color.

 

[maxmoon]

Calm down the tone... this is an open forum where people post their opinions. Some posts can be useful for you others may be useful for others. Others are simply off topics like this discussion.

And this is exactly the problem I mentioned in the last post and ask the question if it wouldn't be better to stop with all this offtopic, because it doesn't lead to a solution to the main problem or gives any value to it?

In a German forum I started a discussion about why people changed over the time in forums, like:

• Seeing something as a personal attack, even if they haven't been mentioned in a discussion
• Posting their opinion to every topic, even if it wasn't asked for
• Offtopic or even trying to sabotage the thread
• Whataboutism and more

And this isn't normal at all! There was a time where people answered questions, if they knew the answer and not because they had an opinion on everything and must publish this opinion everywhere.

And I even claimed that asking the causer, why they do something like this and if it wouldn't be better if they don't do it, would lead the causer to see it as another attack.

I really want to know why people get aggressively triggered if questions like this are asked?

 

[Berion]

I really want to know why people get aggressively triggered if questions like this are asked?

I'm crawling through forums since ~2004 and no, nothing has changed expect there is now less knowledgeable people.
Your problem is with definitions and short sight seen, not to mention problem of been an asshole. So, good luck..

 

[maxmoon]

I'm crawling through forums since ~2004 and no, nothing has changed expect there is now less knowledgeable people.
Your problem is with definitions and short sight seen, not to mention problem of been an asshole. So, good luck..

Can you explain the part about "definitions and short sight seeing"? Just claiming stuff without arguments are imputations.

Calling me an a**hole and saying that nothing changed since 2004 only shows, that you might be one of those people who cause the issues we have since then.

And you proved another theory of mine:

And I even claimed that asking the causer, why they do something like this and if it wouldn't be better if they don't do it, would lead the causer to see it as another attack.

Objective discussions aren't possible. But this could even be a problem of the platform and not only single persons, because if there is a specific behavior on a platform, which isn't regulated by rules and authorities (admins, moderators) all people are behaving like this.

 

[Peppe90]

MC annihilator has a background with the ps1 MC.

 

[maxmoon]

MC annihilator has a background with the ps1 MC.

Good call! I will look into it.

 

[Berion]

Can you explain the part about "definitions and short sight seeing"? (...) Objective discussions aren't possible.

Possible but You are not interested in any. You already claimed that this was offtopic beating the dead horse, so it is waste of time for me, and with such attitude, for You too. Besides thing which You quoted, there was other informations in my post which You ignored because wasn't fit to Your hypothesis.

But this could even be a problem of the platform and not only single persons, because if there is a specific behavior on a platform, which isn't regulated by rules and authorities (admins, moderators) all people are behaving like this.

We don't need rules for everything, there are many none written like example to not insult the others. Yet I'm still human and You've irritated me by this post, so I've crossed the line. I'm sorry for that, but next time think about Yourself and what You are writing.

 

[puddii]

If I saw the way you talked to people, I wouldn't bother helping you.

It's gray.

 

[maxmoon]

Your problem is with definitions and short sight seen, not to mention problem of been an asshole. So, good luck..

Someone literally insulted me...

If I saw the way you talked to people, I wouldn't bother helping you.

... but people see the bad guy in me.

This is a pretty good example how screwed up this forum is or the people who are on this platform, because I already had this weird concept in another thread with another person who is losing touch with reality and doesn't accept facts.

I recommend to visit a doctor.