Hot Swapping - Gaming

Gaming

Hot swapping capability was more recognized among older generation video game systems. Although today many different systems can interchange games and multimedia (i.e. Blu-ray discs) without powering down the system, this was not often the case with early-generation systems. For example, Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2 could eject a game disc with the system powered on. However similar systems of the time, such as the Nintendo Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo 64, would freeze up and could potentially become corrupt if the game cartridge was removed with the power on; therefore manufacturers specifically warned against such practices in the owner's manual. It was supposedly the aforementioned reason Stop 'N' Swop was taken out of the Banjo-Kazooie series.