/vr/ - Retro Games

The fuck are we supposed to talk about, it's a ps1

It's a PSX with more RAM that can run games on the fly while you're developing them.
It also has an enviable silky matte.

>>10228178
>It also has an enviable silky matte.
That's bone. And the lettering is something called Silian Rail.

>>10228171
maybe talk about the stuff being developed using it.
any big or good game started on this thing ?

because not many well known games came as a result of it, besides devil dice and that one 3d platformer people pretend to play whos name I'm forgetting

>>10228164
Net Yaroze wasn't a thing in America and most of the board are burgers. The guy who made the terrible "chibi" sprites for Final Fantasy VII started making games for that service

>>10228185
I mean the black texture, not the lettering.

>>10228164
>>10228187
I remember it being promoted in Game Informer and I was interested for the whole paragraph until they mentioned the price. It was like $1,500 so almost nobody bought one. I also remember reading years later that the dev tools were much more limited than a real PS1 dev kit so only rudimentary games were ever made for it. I think a handful of games actually got released officially in Japan but it was largely a bust.

>>10228201
Correction: apparently it was $750 but to a high school kid in the 90s that seemed astronomical.

>>10228204
$750 in the 90s would be almost $1500 today. still very expensive, not just for a "kid"

If you were in PAL you got to play a lot of the games made for this, they were pretty fun, I still have a lot of the discs.

>>10228194
Zoom zoom

>>10228201
They had one at my high school in 1998

>>10228248
??
Deranged.

>>10228194
New

>>10228187
Devil Dice is probably the best game made with it.

>>10228164
Its talked about a lot considering so little came from it
I do have memories playing blitter boy

Does anyone remember Terra Incognita? I think that was made with Net Yaroze.
Was Guardian's Crusade made with it?

I never understood why the indies scene never made big plans on PS1.

I mean, there are 110 million PS1s, 150 million PS2s and 90 million PS3s, that's 350 million machines that can play PS1 games.

Admittedly they are no longer all used, but it will still be well above the 11 million Dreamcasts on which the guys made Pier Solar!

>>10228194

>>10228194
m8

>>10228316
most of the homebrew efforts are either focused on mass-appeal systems that defined their eras, or on niche hardware with weird features that attracts a cult following. PS1 definitely isn't the second, but as for the first, I guess it just didn't make any big impression on in people. Not that it wasn't popular or influential or anything, but can you really name something specific to PS1 that makes people love that system, as opposed to just loving the games that happen to be on it? I feel like most of the popular homebrew machines have something iconic about their hardware itself. The playstation, meanwhile, is in modern standards about as close to a "generic game playing machine" as you can get. There's just nothing really interesting about it to grab onto. I figure it's the same for the super famicom; Hugely popular but you never see people devving for it like they do other iconic hardware (mega drive probably most obvious contrast to the sufami in that regard).

>>10228280
I was kinda surprised to see a Sony game when I was looking at the Wonderswan game list

>>10228240
Yeah, they had them on the OPM demo discs. I still remember a few like Blitter Boy and Total Soccer. The whole concept seemed like the coolest shit in the world at the time.

You think programmers waste time lurking and shitposting on a board past its prime? If you're hardcore, you don't post here no more.

>>10228360
>implying programmers (losers) have anything better to do
LMAO

>>10228360
>If you're hardcore, you don't post here no more
>posts on /vr/ anyway
OK buddy RETARD
GO FUCKING DROWN IN SEWAGE!

>>10228401
>I decide what a loser is.
Sure you do, king nothing.

>>10228360
There's a few. Mostly hackers though.

>>10228404
Programmers being losers is an universal fact LMAO like 1+1 = 2.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003

>>10228435
there isn't a single FPU that would do that
a better example would be 1/10 = 0.100000001490116119384765625

>>10228187
>that one 3d platformer people pretend to play whos name I'm forgetting
Magic Castle?
https://youtu.be/YDMi7wkEdYw

>>10228459
whatever nerd

If you played it you will hear this image

>>10228332
Honestly as bad as some of the indie games on Net Yaroze were, at least those guys tried something new, granted they failed miserably, but anything is better than another Castlevania or Metroid reskin

>>10228164
I want to paint my ps1 like this, but I’m not sure how to maintain the Power, Open, and Reset text, or how to accurately redo them. Anyone have any ideas? Also I’ve never seen one in person. It looks matte, but I’d almost rather do satin because it feels nicer to the touch.

Because they aren't widely available. I will say, the PS1 looks great in black though.

>>10228401
>>10228403
>please keep me company
Unstimulating faggoted failures; You're welcome.
>>10228431
Romhackers are entry-level, I'll assume you're not referring to yourself. There are far better places to have discussions, it's the entire internet and those fags are stuck here because they have nothing else.

>>10228164
I have a complete set, minus the main box, but everything else is accounted for.

>>10228164
>why is this thing never talked about here ?
It is.
Use the warosu archive.

>>10228192
>Net Yaroze wasn't a thing in America
It was, but you had to pay out the ass for it instead of getting it easymode through your university.

>>10228274
>>10228320
>>10228321
Stop samefagging you retarded gabber-music-loving nigger.

Would it be possible to dye a SCPH-1001 blue?

>>10228164
I played several yaroze games, as they often came with magazines (at least in Europe), and most of them were little games in the spirits of early arcade games like Dig Dug or Pac-Man. I had fun with various of them, but they didn't resemble the indie games of these days.

motherfuckers itt dont even know about magic castle baka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDMi7wkEdYw

>>10228574
imagine having such a fragile ego that you have to convince yourself that it’s only one person to better cope with your absolutely embarrassing display here lmao

>>10228185
it even has a watermark...

>>10228360
that image is great

>>10228360
the fuck is this

>>10228567
Did you get the Net Yaroze demo discs in the U.S, too? Because if not dropping $750 to make games that no one besides the twelve other people on the NY forum seems like a really bad investment

>>10228316
You have to mod your PS1 in order to play homebrew and while its pretty easy, most people just wont bother.
Also, the scene is completely dead. Reading the PSXdev forums there was one guy who made a complete(if bland) 2d RPG and only sold like 15 copies whereas on the Dreamcast or MD he would've sold at least a few hundred at like $60 from hardcore sega fans.

>>10228484
Well that looks horrifying

>>10228886
I think there were some demos included with magazine demo discs released in the US.

I dunno? A british anon hasn't decided to bring it up in a while?

>>10228907
My bad for assuming, then

>>10228484
I found it funny that the death sound for these enemies was the same noise used in Duke Nukem Land of the Babes when you kill the robobabes in the late game. Guess it was a stock noise from a CD.

>>10228934
I know deadlines can be tight, but I really wish more sound designers who used stock sound effects in their games would alter them at least enough that you're not smacked with that "welp there's that cheesy stock sound I've heard a hundred times before" feeling

>>10228596
I've always preferred the blue and green dev units over the Net Yaroze. Too bad the ones released to the general set-top gaming public were just a boring grey.

>>10228762
I love faggots playing guess who. Did they forget the entire purpose of the site? Fucking likely

>>10228643
I do.

>>10228164
>best thing this board has coded was a z80 processor game; half the board collaborated, game was still mediocre
>why don't we ever talk about this thing we're ill equipped to utilize?!

>>10228164
the net yazore demos that came with psmag were really good: terranigma, clone 2, pushy 2, etc...

>>10228164
Because things you didn't know about until you invaded last week don't exist?

blitter boy chads assemble!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXuSr3PdM0M

The Net Yaroze is covered in something called cerakote. A kind of ceramic paint.
It's theoretically possible to repaint an SCPH-100X with this paint, install a mod chip, and you have a DIY Net Yaroze.

>>10228596
I've personally never seen a paint job on plastic done right so I would keep it as-is if I were you.

>>10228972
The green one is just too sexy.

>>10230905
Not paint. Dye.

>another gimped Sony "dev" console

>>10228895
kek completely true with making a new dreamcast and genesis game

I loved this one, even my father played it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFuXnQ7YTWY

>>10228484
Holy shit anon I rarely get nostalgia blasts any more but I haven't seen those lil niggas since I was like 13.

What's the name of the game?

It came on some weird demo disc thing with a bunch of other shovelware. One was like a weird isometric desert island exploration game, kinda like minecraft, but you have a bird's eye view. I always wondered if anyone else played it as much as I did.

>>10231850
The game is called Clone.

>>10231874
Thank you anon, I found a cool youtube video with all the games on. Can't believe I used to get so much fun out of these simple games as a kid. I need a dopamine reset.

>>10228360
And yet here you are, making a post more homosexual than OP's

>>10228164
>The only official PS1 model that's region free
>Costs like a donated kidney in second hand prices
Pretty fuckin gay but thankfully we got freepsxboot and tonyhax

>>10234064
>thankfully we got freepsxboot and tonyhax
Or you could just use a modchip, unless your a faggot that's afraid of soldering.

>>10228332
>I never understood why the indies scene never made big plans on PS1.
It basically comes down to ease of development. There are modern dev kits for the megadrive and dreamcast that allow you to make decent 2D games without too much hassle. The other consoles like the SNES and PS1 are more difficult to work with and so it's not so easy to make an "easy mode" dev kit.
And finally you can sell games on certain platforms much more readily than others. You can get cartridges and MIL-CDs made without too much difficulty, but AFAIK no one has gone to the effort of trying to manufacture a spec compliant PS1 disc so any game sold would have to come with a big "WARNING: Must have working mod chip!" which customers will not read and then leave angry reviews.

>>10234064
Did you know you can own more than one PlayStation console?

>>10228886
>>10228907
>I don't know because I'm a child talking out of my ass but I think
Pretty much the opposite of thinking kiddo

>>10234354
Prove it.
Prove that not one single demo disc ever released in the USA included a Net Yaroze demo.

I know you won't. I know that you are the same shitposting troll that never backs up his claims.

There were over sixty magazine demo discs released in the USA, so you have a lot of research to do.

https://www.giantbomb.com/playstation-underground/3015-993/

>playabe Yaroze games

>>10228484
This shit terrified me as a pre-teen.

It was so shit bros, I miss it so much.

>>10233603
Not the same anon and you don't need a dopamine reset, just a healthier and better lifestyle. Remember not everything ages well, especially if you play them alone.

pyschon 2

>>10228309
yes of course, i never played it much but as a kid i used to steal all the OPM magazines because i couldnt get games that often i'd play the shit out of the demos and the net yaroze games that came with it, terra incognita was one of the best

>>10228194

I've seen here that PlayStation was such a huge success because its inexpensive and well-documented development hardware was available rather early-on. When trying to read about old dev kits, I can't seem to find shit apart from grainy photographs and basic descriptions/model numbers.
Any information floating around on the more rare and obscure dev hardware? I'm talking about stuff like the DTL-H505 devkit, as well as the ISA/PCI based dev cards. Especially the DTL-H505, serials indicate that there were hundreds produced, but there's next-to-no information about it online

>>10234410
>p-p-prove my claim wrong
That's not the way it works kiddo. As for proving anything, my only claim is you're a child talking out of its ass. You proved that all on your own with your unhinged rant.

>>10228194
You should leave.

>>10228484
jfc i hated this

My parents still have a bunch of demo disks, I remember my dad used to play the shit out of Bouncer 2. Also Blitter Boy was surprisingly fun

>>10236761
anon, this thread is for some spooky, shitty net yaroze games that literally nobody played

>>10229331
typical burgerbrain can't appreciate true British gaming achievements like zniggy. stay in your containment country fat boy

It just made no sense to program games for this thing. Nobody would be able to play them. If you were going to buy one of these, you could buy a cheap pc and make pc games much more conveniently. plus you could actually sell them when you were done. if you wanted to sell psx games, you needed a real psx devkit. Who the fuck wants to make psx games merely as a hobby project?

>>10239262
>Nobody would be able to play them.
Nobody except
>yourself
>friends
>family
>other yaroze owners
>people with modded playstations
>people who bought the demo discs that included them
>potential employers if you were looking for a job in the game industry

>Who the fuck wants to make psx games merely as a hobby project?
Teenagers with big dreams.

>>10239479
Zoomers only know the ps1 as the little icon on they cellphone, dont kid yourself.

>>10239515
Who said the first thing about zoomers? Fucking obsessed, I swear.

The teenagers in question would have been core-age Millennials.

>>10239636
>millenials
>teenagers

>>10240152
he meant teenagers when the net yaroze was relevant you fucking idiot.

>>10230793
with less RAM

>>10240308
Net Yaroze only has 2MB of ram, the same amount as a retail unit.