Playstation Startup Sound Explained

This is a short breakdown of the original Sony Playstation’s iconic startup sound. There is a quick addendum to this video showing the audio samples being played in a software synthesizer: The original composition and sound samples were created by Takafumi Fujisawa. NOTE: The audio samples for the BIOS are easy to extract from the BIOS file using a program called “PSound“: I cannot legally provide them for download. Also, please note that viewing this video is not an entitlement to free tech support. 0:00 Introduction 0:18 Mentioning how the BIOS is extracted 0:29 Overview of the BIOS 1:07 Introduction to the startup sound 1:28 The audio samples 2:55 Technical details of the audio 3:16 PSound 3:26 Conclusion